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Liverpool group Jemini, who competed at the 2003 Eurovision song contest.
Liverpool group Jemini, who competed at the 2003 Eurovision song contest. Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP
Liverpool group Jemini, who competed at the 2003 Eurovision song contest. Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP

Culture quiz: from Warhol's portraits to shooting a man in Reno

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Tests your arts knowledge with these questions from the Observer’s critics

  1. 1.According to John Huston, what was the best part of being a director?
  2. 2.Keanu Reeves’s first name is Hawaiian for what?
  3. 3.Which of the following on set injuries did Twister director Jan De Bont suffer at the start of his career when he was working as a cinematographer?
  4. 4.Which of these is not a statue?
  5. 5.Which of these composers did Andy Warhol not paint?
  6. 6.The head of which British composer has featured on a UK bank note?
  7. 7.There are many strange musical instruments. One of the following is real. Which?
  8. 8.David Tennant is slated to star in Des, a three-episode ITV delight still poised for the end of this year. But who he is starring as?
  9. 9.Which of these actors – not the characters – from Endeavour also played a role (as a dodgy don) in one episode of the original Morse?
  10. 10.The UK’s 2003 Eurovision song, by Liverpool group Jemini, scored “nul points”. What was the eerily prophetic song title?
  11. 11.Which 20th-century Hamlet swallowed his father?
  12. 12.Which playwright said writers feel about critics “what lamp-posts feel about dogs”?
  13. 13.Which punk rocker declared “Like trousers, like brain”?
  14. 14.Who “shot a man in Reno just to watch him die”?
  15. 15.Bob Dylan recently released a 17-minute track about the assassination of John F Kennedy. What was it called?
  16. 16.Which British pop location received a spruce-up, thanks to Covid-19?
  17. 17.Which architect popularised the saying “Less is more”?
  18. 18.Which of these cathedral spires did not collapse?
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