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THE WEEKLY QUIZ THAT TESTS YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE ARTS

1 Where did Fanny Price and the Bertrams live?

2 What musical play begins with the conception of Seurat's painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte?

3 Someone left the cake out in the rain: where did this happen?

4 Which Caroline comedy, which takes its name from a place in London, revolves around Fairfield's courtship of Mistress Carol, and the return from abroad of the disguised merchant Bonavent?

5 Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known as ... what?

6 Where in Moscow were three faceless corpses found under the snow, whose murder was investigated by Arkady Renko?

ANSWERS:

1 Mansfield Park, in the novel by Jane Austen. 2 Sunday in the Park with George, by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim. 3 In "MacArthur Park" - the hit song written by Jimmy Webb, and taken into the charts by Richard Harris and Donna Summer, neither of whom had much of an ear for lyrics. 4 James Shirley's Hyde Park. 5 "Parklife" (the opening line of the song by Blur, as spoken by Phil Daniels). 6 Gorky Park, in the thriller of that name by Martin Cruz Smith.