Osman Durrani has prepared the following quiz as a "warming-up
exercise" for his CUTG presentation "Faust on Celluloid" in Maynooth on
9 September (see http://www.cutg.ac.uk/03prog.htm#DurraniAbstract).
Answers to <[log in to unmask]>.
Faust/Faustus Quiz
1. What do these three men have in common: St Joseph, Faust, Judas?
2. Which Faust believed he was Premier of Newfoundland?
3. Which Faust ends with the words "Henry, you make me vomit"?
4. Only two Faust movies have ever won an Oscar. One was Szabo's
Mephisto. Name the other.
5. Which director's Faust movies were turned into shoe soles?
6. Which is the odd one out: George Spigott, Fred Bonia-Coombs, Jabez
Stone, Mr Five?
7. Which Faust was allegedly stolen from an inmate of a lunatic asylum?
8. Which Princess (who later became Queen of England) was not allowed
to see a famous production of Faust at the theatre for fear that it
would damage her morals?
9. Which actress was forbidden by her mother to play the part of
Gretchen?
10. Which Faust is said to have recorded radio broadcasts during
intervals in the performance - allegedly hiring an ambulance with
flashing lights to get him to and from the theatre and the recording
studio?
11. Which director's highly successful Faust was forced to end when he
was accused of supporting terrorism?
12. In which version of Faust does one of the Archangels lament the
decline of Britain's influence in the world?
13. Which actor who played the part of Valentin in a famous Faust movie
went on to direct a Faust movie of his own?
14. Which was the first German Faust play to be performed by human
actors on stage in German? When and where was it first seen?
15. Which Faust has eight acts and runs to around 720 pages in a
recently published edition?
16. Which Irish Faust ends up playing cards with Mephistopheles?
17. Which Irish Faust is badly burned by an underground fire?
18. Which Faust might have been a great success if only he had been
called "Knaust"?
19. Which famous Faust's failure was the greatest disappointment of its
author's career?
20. Who made the first British Faust film (and in which year)?
21. Who made the first German Faust film (and in which year)?
22. Which Faust ends up copulating with a wooden doll?
23. Which Faust has five plots and six epilogues?
24. Which Faust recited Faust to the crew of a U-Boot?
25. Which Faust was liquidised by Eldridge Pope in Dorchester?
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