Just coffee. Black - like my soul Quiz

Answer: Bob Dylan

"One more cup of coffee" is from the album "Desire", released in 1976. "Mozambique" and "Hurricane" are on the same album.
The song talks about a gypsy girl and the man who loves her but has to leave her. Allegedly, Bob Dylan was inspired for this song one summer in Provence, France when he witnessed the annual gathering of Romani people celebrating their patron saint, Saint Sarah the Egyptian.

Answer: The Sea, the Sea

Irish born Iris Murdoch is one of the finest writers of her generation. There is a subtle philosophical basis in her writing as she was greatly influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre, Wittgenstein and Plato.
"The Sea, the Sea" is the story of a self-centered playwright and director while he writes his memoirs. The title alludes to the triumphant shout in Xenophon's "Descent of the Myriads" when in 410 BC, after fighting for the Persian king, the mercenaries saw the shores of the Black Sea and realized they were saved from death.

Answer: Jeff Bezos of Amazon

Out of the four companies, only Amazon has its headquarters in Seattle.
Jeff Bezos, with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering from Princeton, saw as early as 1994 the opportunity in combining mail orders and internet. Books seemed like a good choice since an actual mail order catalogue of books whould be too enormous to mail.
Twenty years later, Amazon is shipping a vast variety of goods all over the world.

Answer: Godot

Godot is a character in the "Ace Attorney: Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations" game of the series. He is a prosecutor, constantly drinking coffee in his courtroom. He is also an arch-enemy of attorney Phoenix Wright.
He is tanned, with white hair and an electronic visor. His visual appearance is based on Rutger Hauer's role in "Blade Runner" (replica Roy Batty) and his character on the eponymous character from Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot".

Answer: Casablanca

The dialogue between Ilsa Lund and senor Ferrari (Ingrid Bergman and Sydney Greenstreet) takes place when Ilsa and her husband Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) inquire about the papers that will allow them to escape to America. Ferrari informs them that Rick (Humphrey Bogart) has the papers and that he is the only one who can help them.
If you want the rest of the story, all you have to do is watch the movie one more time.

Answer: Isak Dinesen (Karen von Blixen)

Isak Dinesen is the pen name of Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke, the Danish author best known for her book "Out of Africa". The book became an Academy Award winning movie with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. It is an account of her life in Kenya where she and her Swedish husband Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke established a coffee plantation which failed. Blixen returned to Denmark and lived as a writer.

Answer: Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk (born in Istanbul in 1952) is Turkey's most famous writer and the 2006 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature. He is also a political activist in issues relating to freedom of speech and has been put on trial in Turkey for speaking on the 1915 Armenian Genocide.

His book "My Name is Red" is the story of a very religious miniaturist in the Ottoman Empire in 1591. His work has influences from Kafka, Nabokov, Proust and Jorge Louis Borges.

Answer: The Usual Suspects

Everything was fresh and witty about "The Usual Suspects". The director, the young Bryan Singer, the plot, full of intrigue and surprises and the performances; an excellent Kevin Spacey received an Oscar for his role as Verbal Kint, the ingenious twist at the end! A brilliant piece of cinematography that owes its title to a line from "Casablanca".
Captain Renault: "Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects".

Answer: Englishman in New York

"Englishman in New York" is by English songwriter and singer Sting from his 1987 album " ...Nothing like the sun". It is based on the eccentric model, writer and raconteur, Quentin Crisp, who moved from London to the Bowery in Manhattan at the age of 73.
Quentin Crisp, a gay man, was a gifted narrator (raconteur) and at dinner parties, on television and on the stage he described how difficult it was to be gay in homophobic England in the 1920s to 1960s. Sting became fascinated by his story and wrote the song.

Answer: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord

Talleyrand (1754-1838) was the eldest son of very old, noble families on both sides. He became known as a very clever, versatile and shrewd diplomat who held office during the French Revolution, under Napoleon, under the Bourbons and under king Louis-Philippe! A controversial figure in European history, Talleyrand is considered both a traitor and the first trully "European" politician.