What sight made this woman faint? Take the great British art quiz

This quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from more than 3,000 venues and by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK will set the questions.

Today, our questions are set by y Gaer Museum, Art Gallery and Library. Y Gaer is a new cultural venue in Brecon, bringing together Brecknock Museum and Brecon Library as a community resource for the people of Brecon, Wales and the world. The collection contains works such as Augustus John’s Welsh Mountains, Iwan Bala’s Santes Mariona and numerous works by Josef Herman.

You can see art from y Gaer Museum, Art Gallery and Library on Art UK here. Find out more about the venue here.

This work is titled Madame Adelina Patti Watching Ernest Nicolini Landing a Salmon, Pont Pantysgallog. In 1877, which composer described Patti as “being perhaps the finest singer who ever lived”?

This is a portrait of Joseph Russell Bailey, First Baron Glanusk (1840-1906). Which annual music festival is held in the grounds of the Glanusk estate?

Which football club has a painting by Thomas Hemy – better known for this picture of the Lusitania sinking – of a game against Aston Villa, hanging in their stadium?

The actress Sarah Siddons famously fainted at the sight of what?

Llangors lake is the largest natural lake in south Wales. It also contains Wales’s only crannog (an artificial island), which protected an early medieval royal dwelling. Y Gaer Museum, Art Gallery and Library displays a unique object found in the lake. What is it?

In the southern part of the Brecon Beacons national park is a popular and beautiful area called Waterfall Country, here recorded by Sam Garratt. As well as being a talented artist, Garratt had two shops in Brecon, making and selling what?

A respected lawyer, philosopher and student of psychology, under Freud, Stanley Price Morgan Bligh inherited a large estate in Cilmeri, Builth Wells, and became a pioneer of modern agriculture. He erected a memorial to whom on his land?

Brecon Castle was built by Bernard de Neufmarche in about 1093. The stone bridge over the River Honddu was destroyed in a flood in 1853 and its replacement lost 20 years later in another flood. Which Shakespeare play mentions Brecknock?

You got…

Rather a mixed result, but not too bad.

Less than triumphant, but you tried.

You’re so cultured you probably faint at the sight of the Elgin marbles.

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