HOW CULTURED ARE YOU?
Take our quiz of the year
From the box office
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Bombalurina. Munkustrap. Jennyanydots. These characters all appeared in which critically mauled film? 2
Mama Cass, Steve Mcqueen and Bruce Lee were all real-life characters in which counter-historical love letter to the Sixties? 3
This year saw the eighth bigscreen adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women. But what are the names of Alcott’s subsequent two novels featuring the Marches?
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Which actor walked out of an interview with The Daily
Telegraph’s Robbie Collin, and which film was he promoting? 5
Which Fast & Furious star was Hollywood’s highest-paid actor in 2019?
Box clever
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Jason Watkins, Josh O’connor, Marion Bailey, Ben Daniels. 7 Hiam Abbass, Brian Cox, Cherry Jones, Kieran Culkin. 8 Stephen Graham, Martin Compston, Rochenda Sandall, Anna Maxwell Martin. 9 Stephen Graham, Niamh Cusack, Niamh Algar. 10
Stephen Graham, Guy Pearce, Jason Flemyng, Kayvan Novak.
Eyes on the prize
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The Booker Prize was split in two. Who shared it? 12
The Turner Prize was won by every single nominee. Name one of them.
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Which cat-and-mouse thriller about a glamorous assassin and her nemesis took home the most awards at the TV Baftas? 14
“If, by the way, I forget anybody, I’m gonna find you later, I’m gonna give you all a massive snog.” Which Oscar winner threatened this in her acceptance speech?
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The Mercury Prize was won by David Orobosa Omoregie. How is he better known?
The art of the matter
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Christ Mocked, by the 13thcentury artist Cimabue, was discovered hanging above what in a French kitchen in September? 17
A gold lavatory by Maurizio Cattelan was stolen from which English stately home in September? 18 Thousands of photographs of Year 3 schoolchildren were collated and put on display at Tate Britain in November. Who was the artist?
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The Louvre mounted a major exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci’s work in October.
But which painting was notable by its absence? 20 Which mistress of Picasso’s finally emerged from the shadows to gain her own major retrospective at Tate Modern?
Write stuff
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A New York hepatologist’s wife drops off their kids, leaves him a text message and then disappears out of their lives. 22
An ethereal young boy, living in an English village, summons the magical, mystical force of Dead Papa Toothwort. 23
A group of schoolgirls are abducted and taken into the wilds of northeastern Nigeria. 24 Aunt Lydia, a divorced judge, is picked to create the laws and uniforms of the women of Gilead. 25 Alan Turing didn’t commit suicide. Tony Benn became leader of the Labour Party. Britain lost the Falklands War.
Stage struck
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Part of the ceiling of the Piccadilly Theatre collapsed in November. Which play by Arthur Miller was being performed the time? 27 A Very Expensive Poison was a meta-theatrical play by Lucy Prebble about which 2006 incident? 28 Fleabag’s “hot priest”, Andrew Scott, starred as actor Garry Essendine in a revival of which play by Noël Coward? 29 Harold Pinter’s play Betrayal, which was revived in the West End earlier this year, was based partly on the playwright’s affair with which British broadcaster? 30
Inua Ellams’s reworking of Three Sisters transposed Chekhov’s 1901 play to which African conflict of the Sixties?
Hot under the collar
Of the following quotes, four are from 2019’s most talked-about TV show, Fleabag. Pick the rogue one: 31
“People are all we’ve got. So grab the night by its nipples and go flirt with someone.” 32 “[Love is] all any of us want, and it’s hell when we get there! So, no wonder it’s something we don’t want to do on our own.”
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“With the weapons of love, God has defeated selfishness and death.” 34 “Putting pine nuts on your salad doesn’t make you a grown-up.” 35 “I sometimes worry that I wouldn’t be such a feminist if I had bigger t***.”
Music, maestro
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Killing Eve star Fiona Shaw directed Glyndebourne’s production of Cendrillon (Cinderella). The opera is by which French composer? 37 Eugene Onegin and Agrippina were operatic works given new leases of life by which Antipodean director? 38
Daniel Kidane’s Woke premiered at which major cultural event? 39
Reports of a 10 per cent rise in classical music sales came out this year. Which Italian pianist accounted for one in 12 UK classical streams? 40 Which famous Dutch conductor, now 90 years of age, gave his final concerts in London this summer?
Medals of honour (41-45)
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What connects Margaret Atwood, John Cleese and Melvyn Bragg? 47
Which documentary was made 50 years ago, taken out of circulation three years later, and formed the basis of an episode of a hit TV drama this year?
48
Marriage Story was one of the most acclaimed films of the year, but which other movie about divorce, and winner of five Oscars, was first released 40 years ago?
49
David Attenborough’s TV shows this year included Our Planet and Seven Worlds, One Planet. His first major wildlife series aired 40 years ago. What was the name of it? 50
In 1989, the Royal Court theatre staged a play called Ice Cream by one of its favourite playwrights. Earlier this year, they staged another work by the same writer, entitled Glass/kill/
Bluebeard/imp. Name the writer.
Groove thing (51-55)
Pair the artist and album correctly, a) Lana del Rey i) Ghosteen b) Billie Eilish ii) Thank U, Next c) Ariana Grande iii) Norman F-----d) Nick Cave and Rockwell the Bad Seeds iv) Heavy Is the Head e) Stormzy v) When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Last words
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The deaths of which two giants of British cultural life were announced on November 27? 57 “Any girl can look glamorous. Just stand there and look stupid.” Which icon of Hollywood wholesomeness, who died in May, said this?
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Writer and illustrator Judith Kerr also died in May. Her husband, Nigel Kneale, created which influential science fiction series of the Fifties? 59
This actress and Broadway star died in January aged 97, and had played the role of Dolly Levi nearly 5,000 times. What was her name? 60
“Pretentious? Moi?” is an immortal line from Fawlty Towers uttered by which actor, who died in December?