Test your knowledge of books and arts in this 30-year special edition of Brainwaves with Marty Smith

Could remember the answer to a trivia question you were asked 12 months ago? Find out in this themed quiz Marty Smith created last year to celebrate 30 years of Brainwaves. Marty's 10 quizzes from last year were such a hit we have dragged them out again to test your long-term memory. The theme for the following quiz is books and arts.

Kevin Jackson and Madeleine Eastoe in Swan Lake.

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** To celebrate 30 years of Brainwaves, Marty Smith and advertiser.com.au have produced 10 for this summer, made up of some of his best questions. This quiz’s theme is: Books and arts. Decide your answer then click on the answer button to see if you were correct. We’ll tally your score as you go. **

question: Which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is performed entirely on rollerskates?

option: Starlight Express

answer: 1

question: In the book The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens, who is the fiancee of the title character?

option: Rosa Bud

answer: 1

question: Which clergyman created Thomas the Tank Engine?

option: The Rev W. Awdry

answer: 1

question: How many of Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven were girls?

option: Three (Janet, Barbara, Pam)

answer: 1

question: In which opera do the characters Rodolfo, Mimi and Marcello appear?

option: La Boheme

answer: 1

question: Which male singing voice is between tenor and bass?

option: Baritone

answer: 1

question: In which English town is William Shakespeare buried?

option: Stratford-upon-Avon

answer: 1

question: The song We Kiss in a Shadow comes from which musical?

option: The King and I

answer: 1

question: In the stage and film musical My Fair Lady, name the professor who teaches Eliza Doolittle to be a lady.

option: Henry Higgins

answer: 1

question: Who composed the opera Falstaff?

option: Giuseppe Verdi

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1889 book A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court?

option: Mark Twain

answer: 1

question: What were the given names of reclusive US author J. D. Salinger?

option: Jerome David

answer: 1

question: Who composed the music for the ballet Swan Lake?

option: Tchaikovsky

answer: 1

question: Which nursery rhyme character had “so many children, she didn’t know what to do”?

option: An old woman who lived in a shoe

answer: 1

question: What is a “pas seul”?

option: Dance for one person

answer: 1

question: In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, what is Robin Starveling’s occupation?

option: Tailor

answer: 1

question: Name the odd one out - Pepper, July, Duffy, Rosie or Molly.

option: Rosie (the others are orphans in the stage musical Annie)

answer: 1

question: Who plays Dame Edna Everage?

option: Barry Humphries

answer: 1

question: Which English romantic poet lived from 1795 to 1821?

option: John Keats

answer: 1

question: Whose first novel was Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History?

option: John Steinbeck’s

answer: 1

question: The Prix Goncourt is an annual literary award in which country?

option: France

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1934 book Tender Is the Night?

option: F. Scott Fitzgerald

answer: 1

question: Which Danish author wrote the fairytale Thumbelina?

option: Hans Christian Andersen

answer: 1

question: Who wrote about a magic pudding called Albert?

option: Norman Lindsay

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the play Spider’s Web?

option: Agatha Christie

answer: 1

question: Who was artistic director of the 1996 Adelaide Festival?

option: Barrie Kosky

answer: 1

question: To which section of an orchestra does the vibraphone belong?

option: Percussion

answer: 1

question: Which two-act Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera is subtitled The Town of Titipu?

option: The Mikado

answer: 1

question: Name the musical about a doomed romance between a young Vietnamese woman and a US Marine before the end of the Vietnam War.

option: Miss Saigon

answer: 1

question: Which Italian author created Pinocchio?

option: Carlo Collodi

answer: 1

question: What did US literary critic Daphne Merkin call a “thick black paste covering one’s life”?

option: Depression

answer: 1

question: In which year did Australian operatic soprano Dame Joan Sutherland die?

option: 2010

answer: 1

question: On which passenger train does Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot investigate the murder of Ratchett?

option: Orient Express

answer: 1

question: Who is the patron saint of music?

option: St Cecilia

answer: 1

question: Which English poet wrote: “To err is human, to forgive, divine”?

option: Alexander Pope

answer: 1

question: The musical Kiss Me, Kate is based on which play by William Shakespeare?

option: The Taming of the Shrew

answer: 1

question: Who composed the march The Stars and Stripes Forever?

option: John Philip Sousa

answer: 1

question: La Gioconda is another name for which famous portrait by Leonardo da Vinci?

option: Mona Lisa

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the lyrics for the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar?

option: Tim Rice

answer: 1

question: Name the donkey friend of Winnie the Pooh.

option: Eeyore

answer: 1

question: A classical guitar usually has how many strings?

option: Six

answer: 1

question: Who created the comic strip Joe Palooka in 1930?

option: Ham Fisher

answer: 1

question: Who composed the Kakadu Variations?

option: Beethoven

answer: 1

question: What is the family name of the fictional sisters Amy, Beth, Jo and Meg?

option: March (in the book Little Women by Louisa May Alcott)

answer: 1

question: What is the name of the policeman in the Noddy stories?

option: Mr Plod (sometimes called PC Plod or Officer Plod)

answer: 1

question: Which 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell was written to expose and prevent cruelty to horses?

option: Black Beauty

answer: 1

question: Which nursery rhyme character “kissed the girls and made them cry”?

option: Georgie Porgie

answer: 1

question: Which 18th-century English artist painted The Blue Boy?

option: Thomas Gainsborough

answer: 1

question: By what name was Norma Sykes, of England, better known to Australian theatre audiences in the late 1950s?

option: Sabrina

answer: 1

question: In music, what does the direction “alla marcia” mean?

option: In the style of a march

answer: 1