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OBITUARIES 1. For which film did Sidney Poitier win his groundbreaking best actor Oscar? 2. Myra Gale Brown was the controversial third wife of which late rock’n’roll star? SUBSCRIBE TO THE

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The Week delivered directly to your inbox. 3. Robbie Coltrane made his name as a dramatic actor playing a criminal psychologist in the TV series _Cracker_. What was his character’s name? 4.

Which country music star’s memoir was entitled _Coal Miner’s Daughter_? 5. Hilary Mantel’s trilogy about Thomas Cromwell cemented her literary reputation. Name the three books, in order of

publication. 6. What is the name given to the boy in Raymond Briggs’s much-loved book _The Snowman_? 7. Which maverick British scientist devised the Gaia theory? 8. “I can take any empty

space and call it a bare stage.” Who said this? 9. Which globally renowned painter moved from Portugal to England as a teenager to escape the Salazar regime? 10. Which actress voiced the

singing teapot, Mrs. Potts, in Disney’s 1991 version of _Beauty and the Beast_? 11. This composer wrote a piece of music called _Panic_ that caused panic at the BBC, when it was schedule to

be performed on the Last Night of the Proms. Who was he? ANSWERS 1. _Lilies of the Field_ 2. Jerry Lee Lewis 3. Eddie “Fitz” Fitzgerald 4. Loretta Lynn 5. _Wolf Hall; Bring Up the Bodies;

The Mirror & the Light_ 6. Trick question: the book is wordless so he is not named; but in the TV film he is called James 7. James Lovelock 8. Peter Brook 9. Paula Rego 10. Angela

Lansbury 11. Harrison Birtwistle