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THE WEEKLY QUIZ THAT TESTS YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE ARTS

1 Which miner worked down the pit at Bestwood?

2 Which miner had to make up rhymes to scare away the goblins?

3 In 1980, who was the Coal Miner's Daughter?

4 Who wrote about the mines at Falun?

5 Who had a hit with "Working in the Coal Mine"?

6 Which mining town was home to Chaval and Maheu?

ANSWERS

1 Walter Morel, in Lawrence's Sons and Lovers. 2 Curdie, in George Fraser McDonald's children's fantasy The Princess and the Goblin and its sequel The Princess and Curdie. 3 Loretta Lynn, as played by Sissy Spacek in Michael Apted's biopic.

4 T A Hoffmann - one of his celebrated tales. 5 Lee Dorsey 6 Germinal, in the novel by Emil Zola.