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SCREEN

1 Named after a London area, which black-and-white Shane Meadows film was funded with £400,000 of money from Eurostar?

2 Which comic book character was tasked with fighting “The Golden Army”?

3 Before going into exile in Syria and then Turkey, the band Acrassicauda played what music and where in the title of a documentary?

4 Which Oscar-winning playwright made his feature film debut as a director with In Bruges?

5 Which summer blockbuster gave rise to the derisive term “nuking the fridge”?

6 MacGuff was the surname of which teenage film character?

7 Which French actor played Dominic Greene in Quantum of Solace and Jean-Dominique Bauby in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly?

a) Vincent Cassel

b) Samuel Le Bihan

c) Mathieu Amalric

d) Guillaume Canet

8 Paul Thomas Anderson loosely based his film There Will Be Blood on which Upton Sinclair novel?

a) Gold!

b) Oil!

c) Milkshake!

d) Greed!

9 Name the American actor on the right in the picture above.

10 Name the animated film in the picture above (use scroll arrows), adapted from Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel.

STAGE

11 Which former Pop Idol contestant played Rhett Butler in Trevor Nunn's ill-fated musical adaptation of Gone with the Wind?

12 Which Gilbert & Sullivan operetta played simultaneously in the West End with productions by the ENO and the Carl Rosa Company?

13 The Donmar Warehouse's year-long residency at Wyndham's Theatre kicked off with which Chekhov play with Kenneth Branagh in the title role?

14 Which choreographer's Dorian Gray was declared the biggest-selling dance show in Edinburgh Festival history on the night of its official world premiere?

15 Name the stand-up comic whose website features him as a cartoon superhero welcoming visitors with the words: “Onwards! Towards the Singularity at the End of Time With ...”?

16 Felicity Kendal played Florence Lancaster in the latest West End revival of which Noël Coward play?

17 Which Flight of the Conchords TV show cast member was nominated for this year's if.comedy award?

a) Rhys Darby

b) Kristen Schaal

c) Bret McKenzie

d) Arj Barker

18 Name the ubiquitous theatre director who staged productions of King Lear, Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author and Pinter's No Man's Land?

a) Rupert Goold

b) Michael Grandage

c) Jonathan Kent

d) Samuel West

19 Which title character from a “circus opera” created by the Chinese actor-director Chen Shi-zheng, Damon Albarn and artist James Hewlett is depicted in the picture above (use scroll arrows).

20 Identify the David Mamet play in the picture above (use scroll arrows), which starred Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum at the Old Vic.

SOUNDS

21 What flavour was the chapstick that Katy Perry waxed lyrical about in her song I Kissed a Girl?

22 Shaffer Chimere Smith is the real name of which chart-topping R&B musician, who declared 2008 to be the Year of the Gentleman in the title of his latest album?

23 Reissued in June to great acclaim, what was the title of Beach Boy Dennis Wilson's only solo album?

24 The Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher told which London-born music producer that he should “learn three chords on the guitar and go write a tune”?

25 The founders of Fabric nightclub Keith Reilly and Cameron Leslie opened which 2,600-capacity music venue - their first project outside of their Charterhouse Street club - at The O2?

26 The Proms opened on July 18 with which German composer's 12-minute piece Festliches Präludium?

27 Which rapper duetted with Estelle on her number one single American Boy?

a) will.i.Am

b) Timbaland

c) Pharrell Williams

d) Kanye West

28 Name the British jazz band who followed up their Mercury-nominated second record, Held on the Tips of Fingers, with a self-titled album in July?

a) Portico Quartet

b) Curios

c) Polar Bear

d) Loose Tubes

29 Identify the Grammy- nominated fado singer in the picture above (use scroll bars), whose image was reportedly the most “disappeared” of London Underground posters advertising a season of shows at The Barbican.

30 This painting above - Netherlandish Proverbs by Pieter Breughel the Elder - provided the cover for which Seattle-based band's debut album?

31 Which Roman emperor was the subject of the British Museum exhibition Empire and Conflict?

32 Tate Modern was accused of hanging two works from which American artist's Black on Maroon series upside down?

33 His first major British show for more than 20 years, whose name preceded The Art of Architecture in the title of an exhibition staged at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral?

34 Taking place at Olympia Grand Hall in March, what is the UK's largest consumer health, beauty and wellbeing expo called?

35 The noodle bar Cha Cha Moon was the latest venture of which Hong Kong-born restaurateur and Wagamama creator?

36 What word is missing from the name of a March-May exhibition at The Barbican: The _______ Museum of Terrestrial Art?

37 Olympic champions Sebastian Coe, Kelly Holmes and Jonathan Edwards all took part in Martin Creed's Work no.850 by running around which art gallery?

a) Tate Britain

b) Tate Modern

c) Hayward Gallery

d) National Gallery

38 Europe's first museum dedicated to quilt-making and textile arts opened in which English city in June?

a) Truro

b) Brighton & Hove

c) York

d) Norwich

39 The picture above (use scroll bars) features a work by one of the Chinese artists showcased at the new Saatchi Gallery. Name the painter best known for depictions of himself laughing.

40 Unveiled in October, who is the subject of the £1.5 million Marc Quinn gold sculpture Siren, pictured above (use scroll bars)?

TV & RADIO

41 Which actress played the titles roles in BBC Four's Margaret Thatcher - The Long Walk to Finchley and Channel 4's The Devil's Whore?

42 Gwion Jones, Harry Stott, Laurence Jeffcoate and Jodie Prenger were the winners of which BBC TV show?

43 Jemima Rooper's character Amanda Price swapped places with which author in a time-travelling ITV series?

44 Which much-loved jazz musician and host of the BBC radio programme I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue died in April?

45 Which Channel 4 TV series culled most of its cast because the teenage characters were completing their A levels, although old faces may do future cameos?

46 Which 30 Rock actress returned to Saturday Night Live to do an acclaimed impression of the former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin?

47 Who was, surprisingly, the only character to die in the last ever episode of The Wire?

a) Jimmy McNulty

b) Marlo Stanfield

c) Slim Charles

d) Cheese Wagstaff

48 What year was the setting for Ashes to Ashes, the sequel to Life on Mars?

a) 1981

b) 1982

c) 1983

d) 1984

49 Which TV competition was won by the pop star in picture above (use scroll bars)?

50 Which Manchester-born rising media star replaced DJ Nihal as the Radio 1 Weekend Breakfast Show host in August?