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What is an eight-week summer season of orchestral classical music?

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The Proms

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What takes place in various venues, including the Royal Albert Hall in London?

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The Proms

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What has been organised by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) since 1927?

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The Proms

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Who was an organist at Westminster Abbey. He wrote church music, operas and other pieces, and developed a British style distinct from that elsewhere in Europe.

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Henry Purcell (1659–95)

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German-born composer who spent many years in the UK and became a British citizen in 1727.

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George Frederick Handel (1695–1759)

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He wrote the Water Music for King George I and Music for the Royal Fireworks for his son, George II. Messiah, which is sung regularly by choirs, often at Easter time.

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George Frederick Handel (1695–1759)

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whose work includes The Planets, a suite of pieces themed around the planets of the solar system. He adapted Jupiter, part of the Planets suite, as the tune for I vow to thee my country, a popular hymn in British churches.

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Gustav Holst (1874–1934),

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Pomp and Circumstance Marches. March No 1 (Land of Hope and Glory) is usually played at the Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.

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Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934)

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He was strongly influenced by traditional English folk music.

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Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)

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marches for the coronations of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II

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Sir William Walton (1902–83)

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Peter Grimes and Billy Budd.

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Benjamin Britten

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He also wrote A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, which is based on a piece of music by Purcell

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Benjamin Britten

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He founded the Aldeburgh festival in Suffolk

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Benjamin Britten

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best-known works are probably Façade, which became a ballet, and Balthazar’s Feast, which is intended to be sung by a large choir.

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Sir William Walton (1902–83)

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The O2

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in Greenwich, south-east London

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Where is the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC)

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Glasgow

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What is also known as Theatreland

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London’s West End

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Since when has The Mousetrap, a murder-mystery play by Dame Agatha Christie been running in the West End?

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1952

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Who wrote comic operas in the 19th century?

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Gilbert and Sullivan

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Who wrote the comic operas HMS Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado.

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Gilbert and Sullivan

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has written the music for shows which have been popular throughout the world, including, in collaboration with Tim Rice, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, and also Cats and The Phantom of the Opera.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Which tradition of theatre includes The Dame?

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pantomime

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‘the Fringe’ Festival takes place where?

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Edinburgh

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When did most art have a religious theme, particularly wall paintings in churches and illustrations in religious books?

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During the Middle Ages

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The Turner Prize was established in 1984 to recognize what?
contemporary art
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Where are the four works shortlisted for the Turner Prize shown before the winner is announced?
Tate Britain
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What are Damien Hirst and Richard Wright notable for?
winners of the Turner Prize
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portrait painter who often painted people in country or garden scenery.
Thomas Gainsborough
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Scottish painter who was best known for painting portraits. One of his most famous works is called The Origin of Painting.
David Allan (1744–96)
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an influential landscape painter in a modern style. He is considered the artist who raised the profile of landscape painting.
Joseph Turner
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landscape painter most famous for his works of Dedham Vale on the Suffolk–Essex border in the east of England.
John Constable
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painted detailed pictures on religious or literary themes in bright colours. The group included Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Sir John Millais.
Pre-Raphaelites
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successful Northern Irish portrait painter. His work included painting the Royal Family.
Sir John Lavery (1856–1941)
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English sculptor and artist. He is best known for his large bronze abstract sculptures.
Henry Moore (1898–1986)
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Welsh artist, best known for his engravings and stained glass.
John Petts (1914–91)
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German-born British artist. He is best known for his portraits.
Lucian Freud (1922–2011)
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‘pop art’ movement of the 1960s and continues to be influential today.
David Hockney
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example of a Norman castle keep, built on the orders of William the Conqueror.
The White Tower in the Tower of London
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Where is Hardwick Hall?
Derbyshire
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In the 17th century, who designed the Queen’s House at Greenwich and the Banqueting House in Whitehall in London in the Classical style
Inigo Jones
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When did simpler designs become popular?
In the 18th century
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Who designed the inside decoration as well as the building itself in great houses such as Dumfries House in Scotland. His ideas influenced architects in cities such as Bath, where the Royal Crescent was built.
The Scottish architect Robert Adam
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Designed New Delhi to be the seat of government in India.
Sir Edwin Lutyens
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Designed Cenotaph in Whitehall.
Sir Edwin Lutyens
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Who are Sir Norman Foster, Lord (Richard) Rogers and Dame Zaha Hadid
Modern British architects
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Who designed the grounds around country houses so that the landscape appeared to be natural, with grass, trees and lakes.
Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown
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Who often worked with Edwin Lutyens to design colourful gardens around the houses he designed.
Gertrude Jekyll
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designed furniture in the 18th century
Thomas Chippendale
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designed Art Deco ceramics
Clarice Cliff
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20th-century interior designer
Sir Terence Conran
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Mary Quant
Fashion Designer
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was voted the country’s best-loved novel in 2003
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
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When was the Man Booker Prize founded
1968
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Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Far from the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure.
Thomas Hardy
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Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Decline and Fall and Scoop, Brideshead Revisited.
Evelyn Waugh
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Lucky Jim.
Sir Kingsley Amis
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The Heart of the Matter, The Honorary Consul, Brighton Rock and Our Man in Havana.
Graham Greene
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Anglo-Saxon hero battles against monsters
Beowulf
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poems inspired by Scotland
Sir Walter Scott
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Which century did the following poets belong to? | William Blake, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Robert and Elizabeth Browning
19th century
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What subject matter did Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon write about?
WWI
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Where is Poet’s Corner?
Westminster Abbey.
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Oh to be in England now that April’s there And whoever wakes in England sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf While the Chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England – Now!’
Robert Browning
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‘What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons.’
Wilfred Owen
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When was the Concorde decommissioned
2003

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