Poetic Licence

All of these questions are related to today’s date, May 25th.

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One

What was the first X-rated film to win the Academy Award for best picture?

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Two

He did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,
The poor dead woman whom he loved,
And murdered in her bed.

The above lines are the opening verse of an 1897 poem which was published under the pseudonym C.3.3. What is the poem, and who wrote it?

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Three

The author who created the character Jason Bourne in a 1980 novel was born in 1927. Who was this author?

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Four

An actor, born in 1939, links the roles of John Profumo in 1989, Mithrandir (2001), and Leigh Teabing (2006). What actor?

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Five

…; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor, a comic opera, debuted in London in 1878. What has been omitted from the beginning of the opera’s title?

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Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.

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