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26 Culture Questions for the 2.6 Challenge

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We hope our quiz will test your knowledge of arts and culture, and keep  you and your friends entertained at home. The rules are simple: there are 26 questions, each answer begins with a different letter of the alphabet (though they're not in alphabetical order, just to make it trickier). 

The competition is now closed but still feel free to play the quiz and challenge your friends.

Good luck!

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* 1. What is the name of the musical about twins separated at birth, that opened in Liverpool in 1983, ran in London for 24 years and has been on tour ever since?

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* 2. ‘hopeless breakages’ is an anagram of which Thames-side theatre?

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* 3. The blockbuster “Dior” exhibition was held at which venue in 2019?

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* 4. Which hit musical is adapted from a novel written in 1862?

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* 5. Which shape is also the name of a theatre in Bolton?

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* 6. In which city will you find the National Railway Museum?

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* 7. Which of London’s theatres was originally commissioned by the playwright W. S. Gilbert, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame?

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* 8. Julie Covington had a UK no.1 hit with which Webber/Rice song?

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* 9. Name the musical from these lyrics:

There's a clock on the wall and it's moving too slow
It's got hours to kill and a lifetime to go
And I'm holding my breath til I hear the last bell
Then I'm coming out hard and I'm giving 'em hell
Cause I'm a superstar and you don't even know it
In a wonderbra and you don't even know it.........

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* 10. What is the last name of the English Romantic painter who left nearly 300 paintings and almost 20,000 watercolours and drawings to the nation?

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* 11. What is the formal name given to the art of engraving on wood or of printing from woodblocks?

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* 12. "The price of Earl Squints deel" is an anagram of which musical that started life as a film?

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* 13. Which Shakespearean character can be found in a storm ranting against his 'ungrateful' daughters?

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* 14. What is the name given to a performer who steps in when a principal actor or actress is unable to appear on stage?

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* 15. In which show did Ethel Merman play the lead in the original Broadway production, and Dolores Gray play the lead in the original West End version?

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* 16. What is the name of the James Graham play that has recently been made into an ITV 3-part series?

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* 17. The New Art Gallery, designed by Peter St John and Adam Caruso, can be found in which city? 

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* 18. What was the previous name of the Wicked Witch of The East?

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* 19. Which one-woman play, recently made available online, began life at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival before being turned into a TV show?

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* 20. Which UK museum has had two naval guns on permanent display outside the building since 1968?

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* 21. Which musical, featuring music by the Gipsy Kings, took inspiration from a novel and a hit film starring Antonio Banderas?

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* 22. An ex-EastEnder told us that money makes the world go round in the 2019 UK tour of which show?

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* 23. Who played Bobbie in the 2018 production of Company on London’s West End?

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* 24. Which English dramatist wrote the Jacobean revenge tragedy ‘The Duchess of Malfi'?

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* 25. Which musical have all of these actors got in common?

Mary Martin, Carol Channing, Danny La Rue, Samantha Spiro and soon Imelda Staunton

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* 26. Which artist painted the ceiling of The Sistine Chapel?

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