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 Which artist was named this year’s most-streamed artist by Spotify?
a. Drake
b. Taylor Swift
c. Beyoncé
d. Bad Bunny
2 Which Canadian author was on this year’s Booker shortlist, and which author won the prize?
a. Eleanor Catton; Paul Lynch
b. Margaret Atwood; Paul Murray
c. Sarah Bernstein; Paul Lynch
d. Kevin Chong; Paul Harding
3 The television adaptation of Lessons in Chemistry cast the wrong type of dog, Sophie Vershbow argued this week. Which breed did they cast?
a. Golden Retriever
b. Great Pyrenees
c. Pug
d. Goldendoodle
4 Bradley Cooper stars as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro, a biopic of the famed musician, out this week. Who directs the film?
a. Ridley Scott
b. Bradley Cooper
c. Steven Spielberg
d. Carey Mulligan
5 Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, completed posthumously after the musical theatre titan died in 2021, debuted on Broadway this month. What is it called?
a. Here We Are
b. There It Is
c. Off You Go
d. Where I Am
Here We Are. The musical satirizes the 1%, and ironically premieres as the form is less populist than ever: “Back when Sondheim made his debut … with West Side Story in the 1950s,” theatre critic J. Kelly Nestruck writes, “average ticket prices for a musical were closer to US$5 – about US$55 today.” During a recent run of Sondheim show Merrily, the top ticket price was US$599.
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