Arts and Design

Observer culture quiz: from Die Hard to the price of heroin


Test your arts knowledge with these questions from the Observer’s critics

Which actor has played the most comic book characters?

Halle Berry

Josh Brolin

Chris Evans

Which of following is true of the 1988 action movie Die Hard?

It was Alan Rickman’s feature film debut

It was originally set at Easter

It was banned in Germany

Which of the following films was Joaquin Phoenix not Oscar-nominated for?

The Master

Walk the Line

You Were Never Really Here

Which artist had a semi-circular sculpture room in his Antwerp house, with a round skylight to give perfectly even light?

Rubens

Van Dyck

Rodin

Which painter died after falling from scaffolding while painting a fresco in Cádiz?

Goya

Murillo

El Greco

Which of Gustav Mahler’s nine completed symphonies is the longest?

No 2 “Resurrection”

No 3

No 8 “Symphony of a Thousand”

Which one of the following places is not the title of a work by Gustav Holst?

Hammersmith

Brook Green

Shepherd’s Bush

Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor, was working part-time on a building site when he secured the role, and thus a certain immortality among Doctor Who fans, after BBC executives saw a feature film in which he had a major role. The film was a fantasy notable for one name, to which the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is soon to devote an entire retrospective exhibition. Which name?

Serge Danot

Ray Harryhausen

Louis Malle

Actor Leo McKern made Rumpole of the Bailey his own in the series that ran from 1978. John Mortimer also adapted his creation for a radio series, and among those who “were” Rumpole on the radio was which actor, later to find arguably greater plaudits elsewhere?

Benedict (Sherlock) Cumberbatch

Shaun (Endeavour) Evans

Richard E (Withnail) Grant

Honeysuckle, Perdita and Rollo are all sibling actors from one family, and, in addition to possessing one of the most deliciously moreish first-name/surname combinations in television, Honeysuckle was phenomenal in the ever underrated Foyle’s War. What is that surname?

Weeks

Brooks

Wanders

The artist Paula Rego based a triptych on a play by which 20th-century dramatist?

Martin McDonagh

Caryl Churchill

Sarah Kane

Which London theatre was once a butcher’s shop?

Almeida

Donmar

Young Vic

I Don’t Want to Talk About It was a No 1 for Rod Stewart, but a song originally by whom?

Neil Young

Crazy Horse

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Who assured us The Revolution Will Not Be Televised?

Grandmaster Flash

The Last Poets

Gil Scott-Heron

Who sang: “Alabama’s got me so upset, Tennessee made me lose my rest, and everybody knows about Mississippi, goddam!”

Curtis Mayfield

Kendrick Lamar

Nina Simone

How much did Lou Reed pay for heroin on the Velvet Underground’s I’m Waiting for the Man?

$17

$26

$43

Who worked with both penguins and pigs?

Edwin Lutyens

Berthold Lubetkin

John Warren Barry

Who designed a cowshed shaped like a cow?

Jean-Jacques Lequeu

Jean-Jacques Lavache

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux

18 and above.

Perfection! Well done you!

17 and above.

Clever clogs!

16 and above.

Clever clogs!

15 and above.

OK you’re good

14 and above.

OK you’re good

13 and above.

Decent attempt!

12 and above.

Decent attempt!

11 and above.

Not bad!

10 and above.

Not bad!

9 and above.

Pretty meh

8 and above.

Pretty meh

7 and above.

Nothing to shout about

6 and above.

Nothing to shout about

5 and above.

Pretty poor

4 and above.

Poor

3 and above.

Woeful

2 and above.

Woeful

0 and above.

Oh dear

1 and above.

Oh dear

Continue reading…



READ NEWS SOURCE

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this site, you accept our use of cookies.