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Tests your arts knowledge with these questions from the Observer’s critics
According to John Huston, what was the best part of being a director?
The catering service
Sadism
You get to decide how long the bar stays open
Keanu Reeves’s first name is Hawaiian for what?
A cool breeze over the mountains
Mighty tree by the water
Fragrant cloud
Which of the following on set injuries did Twister director Jan De Bont suffer at the start of his career when he was working as a cinematographer?
He was mauled by a lion and had to have his scalp sewn back on
He broke a collarbone after falling out of a second-storey window while attempting to frame an establishing shot
He got his foot caught in a camera tracking rail, and his toe had to be amputated
Which of these is not a statue?
Venus of Willendorf
Venus of Milo
Venus of Urbino
Venus of Brassempouy
Which of these composers did Andy Warhol not paint?
Beethoven
Haydn
Wagner
Mozart
The head of which British composer has featured on a UK bank note?
Henry Purcell
Edward Elgar
Benjamin Britten
There are many strange musical instruments. One of the following is real. Which?
Cello Horn
Fiddle Flute
Rumen Drum
David Tennant is slated to star in Des, a three-episode ITV delight still poised for the end of this year. But who he is starring as?
1960s thriller writer Desmond Bagley, who out-Bonded Ian Fleming in his wartime spy exploits
Serial killer Dennis Nilsen
Desi Arnaz, warring husband of Lucille Ball (Katherine Ryan), in a period-sharp psychodrama
Which of these actors – not the characters – from Endeavour also played a role (as a dodgy don) in one episode of the original Morse?
Roger Allam (in Endeavour, Fred Thursday)
Sean Rigby (Jim Strange)
Anton Lesser (Reginald Bright)
The UK’s 2003 Eurovision song, by Liverpool group Jemini, scored “nul points”. What was the eerily prophetic song title?
Cry Baby
Don’t Play That Song Again
Why Do I Always Get It Wrong?
Which 20th-century Hamlet swallowed his father?
Simon Russell Beale
Daniel Day-Lewis
Jonathan Pryce
Which playwright said writers feel about critics “what lamp-posts feel about dogs”?
Christopher Hampton
Harold Pinter
Lucy Prebble
Which punk rocker declared “Like trousers, like brain”?
Joe Strummer
Paul Weller
Who “shot a man in Reno just to watch him die”?
Merle Haggard
Willie Nelson
Johnny Cash
Bob Dylan recently released a 17-minute track about the assassination of John F Kennedy. What was it called?
The Place Where Faith Hope and Charity Die
Murder Most Foul
Lower the Flags
Which British pop location received a spruce-up, thanks to Covid-19?
Salford Lads’ Club, made famous by the Smiths
The David Bowie memorial in Brixton
The zebra crossing outside Abbey Road Studios made famous by the Beatles
Which architect popularised the saying “Less is more”?
Le Corbusier
Adolf Loos
Mies van der Rohe
Which of these cathedral spires did not collapse?
Salisbury
Lincoln
Chichester
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