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Culture quiz: from Bob Holness 007 to the Daily Mail's feast of filth

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.

Wow. You pretty much ARE culture, aren't you? But don't let that crown slip... check back next week for more quizzery.

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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