artcetera; THE WEEKLY QUIZ THAT TESTS YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE ARTS

1 "Thy hand, great Anarch!, lets the curtain fall" - and then what happens?

2 What, obscurely speaking, connects William Styron and William Golding?

3 "Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster." What's the story?

4 Where would you follow the imprisonment and trial of NS Rubashov?

5 Who found his efforts to take revenge on the people who destroyed his face limited by the fact that his new synthetic skin dissolved in sunlight after 99 minutes?

6 Name the seminal TV eco-thriller, scripted by Troy Kennedy Martin, in which Bob Peck played a policeman investigating a nuclear cover-up.

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