From the quiz on 29/3/16.
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Which English artist created the Angel of the North, a 20-metre-tall steel sculpture located just off the A1 in Gateshead? Antony Gormley
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British author Dick Francis is famous for his crime novels centred on which sport, with which he was formerly professionally involved? Horse racing
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What name, literally meaning “session”, is given to a Welsh festival featuring competitions in music, poetry and drama? Eisteddfod
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In Yann Martel’s Booker Prize–winning novel Life of Pi, what is the name of Pi’s Bengal tiger companion? Richard Parker
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Which French impressionist is noted for his many paintings of dance scenes, including The Dance Class, The Dance Lesson and Ballet Rehearsal? Edgar Degas
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The title of John Green’s best-selling 2012 novel The Fault in Our Stars is a reference to a line spoken by Cassius in the first act of which Shakespeare play? Julius Caesar
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Which classic French novel of 1942 opens with lines commonly but somewhat controversially translated as “Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can’t be sure.”? L’Étranger (The Stranger, The Outsider)
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What is the name of the stick with padded head that is used by painters to support and steady their brush hand? Maulstick
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Rhyme royal, in which stanzas have seven lines of iambic pentameter and rhyme ababbcc, was introduced into English poetry by which English poet? Geoffrey Chaucer
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The sonnet The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus is engraved on a plaque and mounted inside which famous monument? Statue of Liberty
