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Tests your arts knowledge with these questions from the Observer’s critics
In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, what question does Michael Palin’s character, Sir Galahad the Pure, get wrong?
What is your name?
What is your favourite colour?
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
What does 21-time Oscar-nominated actor Meryl Streep do to keep grounded?
Her own tax returns
Her own gardening
Her own ironing
Pulp members Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey, and Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and Phil Selway all appear in which film?
They were four of the Weird Sisters in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
They play Dementors in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
They play Glastonbury festival punters in Bridget Jones’s Baby
What nationality was Arnold Böcklin?
German
Swiss
Austrian
Which of the following is not a Swedish painter?
August Strindberg
Hilma af Klint
Anders Zorn
Puccini is famous for his tragic heroines but one of the following does not die. Which?
Madama Butterfly
Tosca
Turandot
Which 19th-century composer-performer entertained concert audiences with their farmyard impressions?
Niccolò Paganini
Clara Schumann
Frédéric Chopin
In HBO’s hit comedy show Silicon Valley, Jìan-Yáng’s “See Food” artificial intelligence app can only successfully identify which type of food?
Hot dogs
Ice-cream
Nachos
The revolutionary anthem Ciao Bella, recorded by such disparate artistes as Yves Montand, the Red Army Choir and Sandie Shaw, is one of the recurring tropes, along with Dali masks and red jumpsuits, of the global Netflix hit Money Heist. Whose privations was it originally written to lament?
Soldiers occupying Italian Somalia in 1935 and facing the Abyssinian Crisis (in what is now Ethiopia)
Construction workers in Sicily in the early 1950s, battling both an emergent mafia and paltry government pensions
The mondina women in the paddy fields of north Italy
Which Norwegian archipelago, also home to the infamous Moskstraumen (or maelstrom) whirlpool system, is the chill setting for the series Twin, currently airing on BBC Four?
Lofoten
Svalbard/Spitzbergen
Jan Mayen
Which writer took her pen name from an Ibsen play?
Siri Hustvedt
Nora Ephron
Rebecca West
Which musical contains the number Out of the Darkness?
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Dear Evan Hansen
The Boy in the Dress
Whose video for Cloudbusting featured Donald Sutherland?
Björk
Neneh Cherry
Kate Bush
Michael Owuo Jr is the real name of which rapper?
Drake
Snoop Dogg
Stormzy
How many slow, sad ballads are there on Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia?
1
0
3
In September it will be 10 years since Lady Gaga wore her infamous meat dress to the MTV Video Music awards. What happened to it?
It was fed to the hyenas at Central Park Zoo
It was dumped at the Pentagon in protest at the US military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on homosexuality
It was preserved by a taxidermist and displayed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Which of these architects has not featured in The Simpsons?
Rem Koolhaas
Frank Gehry
Zaha Hadid
What came first?
Art deco
Art nouveau
New brutalism
18 and above.
Certified genius
17 and above.
Brain box
16 and above.
Culture vulture
15 and above.
Wow!
14 and above.
Hot to trot
13 and above.
Well done you!
12 and above.
Very respectable
11 and above.
Pretty good
10 and above.
Not bad
9 and above.
Average
8 and above.
Could do better
7 and above.
Not so hot
6 and above.
Poor
5 and above.
Bird brain
4 and above.
Good grief
3 and above.
Shocking
2 and above.
Not pretty
0 and above.
Embarrassing
1 and above.
Woeful
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