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The Georges Bizet Quiz - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 9 times
- The average score is 8 of 20
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Job of the heroine's final lover | Bullfighter | 100%
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| Bizet was born in this French city in 1838 | Paris | 88%
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| Country where Bizet's most famous opera, Carmen, is set | Spain | 75%
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| Despite the above's initially lukewarm reception, this composer (author of the Symphonie fantastique) praised it | Hector Berlioz | 63%
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| Bizet's mother Aimée played this instrument | Piano | 50%
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| Bizet's age at death (accepted margin of error 2 years) | 36 | 38%
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| Childhood friend of Bizet, composer of Samson and Delilah | Camille Saint-Saëns | 38%
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| Bizet served in the National Guard during this war | Franco-Prussian War | 38%
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| This German philosopher claimed to know Carmen by heart | Friedrich Nietzsche | 38%
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| Bizet died of this only three months after Carmen's premiere, convinced of the opera's failure | Heart attack | 38%
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| Orientalist opera set on the Sri Lankan coast | The Pearl Fishers | 38%
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| Bizet's only legitimate child, a physician and businessman | Jacques Bizet | 25%
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| Alphonse Daudet's play to which Bizet wrote incidental music, nowadays often played separately in the form of two suites | L'Arlésienne | 25%
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| The above inspired several characters in this author's novel In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | 25%
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| He temporarily left Paris after the establishment of this political entity | Paris Commune | 25%
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| Carmen is said to have anticipated this post-Romantic operatic movement, Italian for "realism" | Verismo | 25%
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| This composer, Bizet's mentor, accused Bizet of plagiarism after Carmen's premiere | Charles Gounod | 13%
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| One act opéra comique about a slave-girl in Cairo | Djamileh | 13%
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| Bizet's wife, a French salonnière | Geneviève Halévy | 13%
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| Bizet's illegitimate son, press director of Le Temps and an Officer of the Legion of Honour | Jean Reiter | 13%
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