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* This weekend BBC television is broadcasting a programme called Test The Nation: an IQ test for the nation. Front Row has set an Artistic Intelligence quiz for our listeners. The questions have been set by distinguished practioners in the various areas of the arts. Answers please by Friday 17th May. £50 book token for the winner.
The questions are:
1. What connects the three Baroque composers Scarlatti, JS Bach and Handel?
2. Which was the first film shown as an in-flight movie?
3. What is the sum of Picasso's wives and Matisse's children?
4. What 'f' word links Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler and Milan Kundera?
5. What number connects Enid Blyton to Brad Pitt and British psychedelic band Hawkwind?
6. Add together James Ellroy's 'Dahlia', a merry operatic star, and The Who's Boris to find a feared predator.
7. How did three out of seven come to go on hands and knees for Tom, Dick and Harry ?
8. What elusive plant links John O'Gaunt's dying speech in Richard II, Rupert Brooke's Grantchester and a fatal flight out of Lisbon?
CLICK HERE TO EMAIL YOUR ANSWERS
Also on tonights programme:
* A review of Sean Penn in I Am Sam.
Listen to the review
* The conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier talks about his musical family, conducting in Belfast during the Troubles and why England has been so important to him.
Listen to the interview
* The Becks Prize was awarded tonight (07/05/02). An alternative to the Turner Prize it is aimed at new artists rather than the more established.
Listen to the discussion
* And a review of the new novel by Iain Pears, author of the award-winning An Instance Of The Fingerpost.
Listen to the review
* Songwriter Otis Blackwell has died, aged 70. Front Row remembers the man who wrote rock 'n roll classics such as Return to Sender, Great Balls of Fire and Fever
Listen to the feature
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