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1. He was an actor who was known for his dalliance with a pretty woman. Who also starred in the title role of the 1985 movie "King David"?
2. Playing monarchs in 1950's movies seemed to attract an actor of, at the time, almost unique appearance. Who played King Solomon in the 1959 epic "Solomon and Sheba"?
3. Few were better at Biblical epics than Cecil B DeMille and his 1956 movie "The Ten Commandments" was no exception. Which actor, noted for a role in another quasi-Biblical tale, played Moses?
4. According to whichever critic you read it was either "a novel, reverent and important film" or "a big windy bore". Which actor, of European extraction, played Jesus in "The Greatest Story Ever Told"?
5. The Biblical story of Samson and Delilah was one surely just ripe for Hollywood to exploit. The first outing on the silver screen was in 1922, but which famed beauty of Austrian origin starred as the femme fatale in 1949?
6. Rita Hayworth was one of the great Hollywood beauties of her day. In 1953, she starred in the lead role of a movie based on one of the Bible's dancing women. Who was that woman?
7. He was the thief that the people of Jerusalem demanded Pilate release rather than Jesus. Who played Barrabas in a 1961 movie of the same name?
8. In 1963, Stewart Granger starred in a movie that (loosely) told a Biblical tale of morality and huge destruction. What was it called?
9. Which 2004 movie, based on Biblical accounts, was a huge commercial success, yet prompted waves of controversy over the way that story was told?
10. First it was a stage show, but then it became a movie. Which film told the 'story' of Christ in song?
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