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THE WEEKLY QUIZ THAT TESTS YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE ARTS

1 What follows the power struggles of Andrew Fraser, Ray Gould, Simon Kerslake and Charles Seymour?

2 The night Matilda was burnt to death, where had her aunt gone?

3 What sort of meetings did Roy Neary and Claude Lacombe have on Devil's Tower?

4 What do we know about Ron Kovic's birthday?

5 What precedes "The Manticore" and "World of Wonders"?

6 Where would you find Ingrid Bergman singing "Knick knack paddy wack"?

ANSWERS:

1 Jeffrey Archer's parliamentary blockbuster, First Among Equals. 2 "To see that Interesting Play / 'The Second Mrs Tanqueray' " (Hilaire Belloc, Cautionary Tales). 3 Close Encounters of the Third Kind - they're the Richard Dreyfuss and Francois Truffaut characters; Devil's Tower is the mountain whose image Dreyfuss sculpts out of mashed potato. 4 He was Born on the Fourth of July, according to the title of his autobiography - the basis of the Tom Cruise film. 5 Fifth Business - the first novel in Robertson Davies's Deptford Trilogy. 6 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (the 1958 film about the missionary Gladys Aylward).