Did you follow arts and culture news this week? Are you up to speed on the latest books, plays and movies? Take our quiz to test yourself.
1 Jagged Little Pill, the jukebox musical based on the music of Alanis Morissette, opens in Toronto on Oct. 24. How many million copies has the album of the same name sold since its 1995 release?
a. 50 million
b. 100 million
c. 33 million
d. 15 million
33 million. Morrissette’s record label, Maverick, predicted the album would sell just 125,000 copies – a figure that impressed Morrissette at the time. “I was like, ‘How am I going to deal with that?’“ she said in an interview with the Globe’s Johanna Schneller. “I had no idea what was coming.”
2 Zadie Smith’s new novel, The Fraud, is based on what historical event?
a. The sinking of the Titanic
b. The Tichborne case
c. The Tinder swindler
d. The life of Charles Ponzi
The Tichborne case. The Tichborne case is named for Roger Tichborne, heir to a British fortune, who was presumed drowned at sea in 1854. Andrew Bogle, a Black man who had grown up enslaved on a Jamaican plantation and who was a former servant for the Tichbornes first made an appearance in Smith’s fiction in a draft of her 2012 novel NW, but didn’t end up in the published version.
3 This week, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra received its largest-ever single donation, from the estate of H. Thomas and Mary Beck. How much was the donation?
a. $10 million
b. $5.2 million
c. $25 million
d. $14.7 million
4 What exercise gadget was the late actress Suzanne Somers famous for promoting?
a. The Thighmaster
b. The Shake Weight
c. Bowflex
d. FitFlops
5 Dicks: The Musical, which premiered at TIFF in September, opens in wide release on Friday. Which real-life couple both have roles in the film?
a. Bad Bunny and Kendall Jenner
b. Beyonce and Jay-Z
c. Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick
d. Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman
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