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!
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Clever clogs!
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OK you’re good
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OK you’re good
13 and above.
Decent attempt!
12 and above.
Decent attempt!
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Not bad!
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Not bad!
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Pretty meh
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Pretty meh
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Nothing to shout about
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Nothing to shout about
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Pretty poor
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Poor
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Woeful
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Woeful
0 and above.
Oh dear
1 and above.
Oh dear