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THE WEEKLY QUIZ THAT TESTS YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE ARTS

1 Who were held captive by Dominick Medina?

2 Who were reunited Twenty Years After?

3 What was the Bellman's declared criterion of veracity?

4 What romance is expedited by Truffaldino the jester and Celio the magician?

5 Who were John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz and Harry Carey Jr?

6 "And now that we've come to the end of our rainbow, there's something I must say out loud ..." And what would that be?

ANSWERS:

1 The Three Hostages in the "shocker" by John Buchan. 2 The Three Musketeers and, of course, D'Artagnan, in Dumas' sequel. 3 "What I tell you three times is true" (Lewis Carroll, "The Hunting of the Snark"). 4 The Love of Three Oranges, in the opera by Prokofiev. 5 Three Godfathers, in John Ford's 1948 film version - one of many - of Peter B Kyne's sentimental western yarn. 6 You're once, twice, three times a lady (according to the 1978 hit by the Commodores).