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 Grammy Award-winning Canadian musician will host the 2024 Juno awards?
a. Nelly Furtado
b. Alanis Morissette
c. Shania Twain
d. Avril Lavigne
2 It was announced this week that Canadian actress Sara Topham will star as the titular character in Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler at the Stratford Festival next year. What Tony-winning Broadway production did Topham appear in this year?
a. Into The Woods
b. Leopoldstadt
c. Macbeth
d. Some Like it Hot
3 CBC has recently reformatted three made-in-Canada feature-length films into multi-episode miniseries. The first, Bones of Crows, aired in September. Which two adaptations will air later in November?
a. Scarborough and I Like Movies
b. Swan Song and BlackBerry
c. Seven Veils and The Testament
d. In Flames and The Nature of Love
Swan Song and BlackBerry. “We have enough research to show that linear audiences are different from Gem audiences, and so we see ourselves as cheerleaders in getting content seen by as many people as possible,’’ Sally Catto, the CBC’s general manager of entertainment, factual and sports, told The Globe’s Barry Hertz of the decision to reformat.
4 After being hit by a car in Toronto, Talking Heads superfan Ted Kulczycky had one goal: to see Stop Making Sense at TIFF. Approximately how many times had Kulczycky already seen the film before its August theatrical run?
a. More than 50
b. More than 100
c. More than 70
d. More than 80
5 The Curse, a new Paramount+ series from Benny Safdie and Nathan Fielder, premieres on Nov. 10. What is the name of the fictional home-reno show on which the series centres?
a. Staged and Engaged
b. Flipanthropy
c. Walking Contract-iction
d. The Home Reno Show
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