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Who were Punch and Judy shows first meant for?
Answer: Adults
Why: Mr Punch's wife was not always Judy: in the early shows she was called Joan.
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Who composed the puppet ballet Petrushka?
Answer: Igor Stravinsky
Why: Petrushka premiered in Paris in 1911, staged by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with Vaslav Nijinsky dancing the puppet.
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Which puppet part does a bunraku beginner control?
Answer: Feet
Why: Bunraku apprentices must log a full decade manipulating the feet and another on the left hand before they ever touch a puppet's head.
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What 1965 musical film has a marionette show about a goatherd?
Answer: The Sound of Music
Why: In 2007 Salzburg's own marionette theatre premiered a marionette version of The Sound of Music.
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Who is the 'professor' in a Punch and Judy show?
Answer: The puppeteer
Why: Mr Punch's squawk comes from a swazzle, a small device the professor holds in his mouth during the show.
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Who voices the characters in a bunraku play?
Answer: One chanter
Why: Before performing, the chanter lifts the script and bows to it, a promise to follow the text faithfully.
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