Statistics for The Georges Bizet Quiz

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This quiz has been taken 7 times
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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Job of the heroine's final lover	Bullfighter	100%
Bizet was born in this French city in 1838	Paris	83%
Country where Bizet's most famous opera, Carmen, is set	Spain	83%
Despite the above's initially lukewarm reception, this composer (author of the Symphonie fantastique) praised it	Hector Berlioz	67%
Bizet's mother Aimée played this instrument	Piano	67%
Childhood friend of Bizet, composer of Samson and Delilah	Camille Saint-Saëns	50%
This German philosopher claimed to know Carmen by heart	Friedrich Nietzsche	50%
Orientalist opera set on the Sri Lankan coast	The Pearl Fishers	50%
Bizet's age at death (accepted margin of error 2 years)	36	33%
Bizet served in the National Guard during this war	Franco-Prussian War	33%
Bizet died of this only three months after Carmen's premiere, convinced of the opera's failure	Heart attack	33%
Alphonse Daudet's play to which Bizet wrote incidental music, nowadays often played separately in the form of two suites	L'Arlésienne	33%
The above inspired several characters in this author's novel In Search of Lost Time	Marcel Proust	33%
He temporarily left Paris after the establishment of this political entity	Paris Commune	33%
Carmen is said to have anticipated this post-Romantic operatic movement, Italian for "realism"	Verismo	33%
This composer, Bizet's mentor, accused Bizet of plagiarism after Carmen's premiere	Charles Gounod	17%
One act opéra comique about a slave-girl in Cairo	Djamileh	17%
Bizet's wife, a French salonnière	Geneviève Halévy	17%
Bizet's only legitimate child, a physician and businessman	Jacques Bizet	17%
Bizet's illegitimate son, press director of Le Temps and an Officer of the Legion of Honour	Jean Reiter	17%