Tests your arts knowledge with these questions from the Observer’s critics
Francis Ford Coppola was given his middle name in honour of who or what?
The Ford motor company
Michigan congressman Gerald Ford (later President Ford)
Film director John Ford
Which painter impressed a pope by drawing a perfect circle?
Michelangelo
Giotto
Leonardo da Vinci
Which TV anthology series did Lady Gaga join in 2015?
American Horror Story
True Detective
Unsolved
Which of the following did not happen to Brian De Palma?
He stole a motorbike and was shot in the leg following a police chase
He crashed a motorbike and lost one testicle and most of the skin from his buttock
As a child, he stalked his father with a camera, hoping to find proof of his infidelity
The Danish composer Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No 4 (1916) is also known as:
The Inexhaustible
The Indistinguishable
The Inextinguishable
The Bangladeshi film Amra Ekta Cinema Banabo (The Innocence) was released in Bangladeshi cinemas on 20 December 2019. Why was it notable?
It was made collectively, with no writer and director, but a series of votes put to the cast and crew
It holds the record for the longest non-experimental film ever made (the running time is more than 21 hours)
All major roles were played by animals
What was the subject of the first known painting?
An animal
A human being
A bird
In which Shakespeare play is a woman insulted by being called an acorn?
The Winter’s Tale
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
As You Like It
What was the 19th-century Russian composer Alexander Borodin’s other job?
Dentist
Banker
Chemist
Blockbusters presenter Bob Holness was the subject of an enduring myth that he had been the tenor saxophonist on Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street, to a little presumed chagrin on the part of the real sax player, Raphael Ravenscroft. What was indisputably true about Bob, however, was that he had once portrayed James Bond 007. When and where?
1956, on a South African Springbok Radio production of Moonraker
1967, on one of the last series (a Dr No adaptation) to be broadcast late‑night on the BBC Home Service before it became Radio 4
1976, standing in as a double for Roger Moore for two days on The Spy Who Loved Me, while on holiday near the film set in Porto Cervo, Sardinia
Who played a character who luxuriated in the name of Camilla Fortescue-Cholmeley-Browne?
Zoe Boyle in Downton Abbey
Patricia Hodge in The Vicar of Dibley
Miranda Hart in Call the Midwife
Who designed the Cenotaph in London?
Edwin Landseer
Edwin Lutyens
Robert Lutyens
KSI is a UK rapper who released his debut solo album this month. Which of the following is not among his other job descriptions?
Boxer
YouTuber
Model
Which play did the Daily Mail call a “disgusting feast of filth”?
Edward Bond’s Saved
Sarah Kane’s Blasted
Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and Fucking
In which year did Michael Jackson tell the world he was “Bad”?
1986
1987
1988
Name the odd one out:
Ben by Michael Jackson
Martha My Dear by Paul McCartney
Nadine by Chuck Berry
Which label boss issued a company memo that said: “We will release only No 1 records”?
Berry Gordy of Motown
Alan McGee of Creation Records
Simon Cowell of Syco Music
Which has the highest dome?
The Pantheon, Rome
St Peter's, Rome
The Capitol, Washington DC
17 and above.
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13 and above.
Pretty impressive stuff! But there's always room for more culture, and more points. See you next week?
9 and above.
Solid stuff! Maybe next week you can really push for the big leagues…
0 and above.
Well, we don't want to make anyone feel bad. But that was... quite bad. Time for a brush-up?
4 and above.
Not bad, not bad. But we think you know you could do better
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