Test your arts knowledge with these questions from our critics
What can you see in every scene in David Fincher’s Fight Club?
A copy of the New York Times
A knife
A Starbucks cup
Jean-Luc Godard is known for his pithy pronouncements on cinema. Which if the following did he not say?
"The hardest thing to do is genuine simplicity."
"All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun."
"Tracking shots are a question of morality."
What do Angelina Jolie, Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges have in common?
They all turned down offers of roles in the Transformers series
They all won Oscars but then subsequently lost the statuettes
They are all fluent in Spanish
Before Megan Fox was famous, she had a job which required her to dress up as what?
A banana
Smurfette
A wedge of gouda
Which Young British Artist did not exhibit in the first, pioneering Freeze show?
Sarah Lucas
Tracey Emin
Damien Hirst
Jacopo Robusti is also known as…
Tintoretto
Titian
Giorgione
Puccini described the disastrous premiere of one of his most popular operas as “a lynching”. Which opera?
Madam Butterfly
La Bohème
Tosca
Which drug-addicted fictional detective played a stringed instrument?
Sherlock Holmes
Lord Peter Wimsey
Hercule Poirot
Villanelle, the protagonist in the book series behind the TV show Killing Eve, is the creation of which former specialist writer for a national newpaper?
The Times’s crime correspondent
The chess columnist of the Washington Post
The dance critic of the Observer
The title card (a shot with images and/or text, also known as an intertitle, inserted at segment intervals) for which UK TV series featured a penny farthing?
The Prisoner
Tales of the Unexpected
Adam Adamant Lives!
Which terrestrial channel broadcast a soap opera at 8pm on its launch night?
Channel 5, Family Affairs
Channel 4, Brookside
ITV, Coronation Street
Which star of the BBC con artist show Hustle recorded an audiobook of Chris Ryan’s Alpha Force: Survival?
Adrian Lester
Robert Glenister
Robert Vaughn
Which was the first original play by a living female dramatist to be produced on the National’s Olivier stage?
Top Girls
Her Naked Skin
Blasted
Which play contains a conjuring governess?
The Cherry Orchard
Arcadia
The Children’s Hour
Which playwright inspired Nina Simone’s To Be Young, Gifted and Black?
Lorraine Hansberry
August Wilson
Langston Hughes
When asked “What is jazz?” who replied “Madam, if you don’t know by now, don’t mess with it!”?
Fats Waller
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Only one member of the Beach Boys actually surfed. Was it…
Dennis Wilson
Carl Wilson
Mike Love
How do you do the Toosie Slide, as per Drake’s recent single?
“To the left, take it back now y’all, one hop this time, right foot two stomps”
“Right foot uhhp, left foot slide, left foot uhhp, right foot slide”
“You put your left leg in, you put your left leg out, in out, in out, shake it all about”
Ed Sheeran names his guitars. Which of these is not a Sheeran axe?
Herbert
Cyril
Nigel
Who designed Florence’s Pazzi Chapel?
Borromini
Bernini
Brunelleschi
Which architectural style came first?
Perpendicular
Early English
Decorated
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