Culture quiz from Jurassic Park's raptors to Rihanna's Vogue shoot

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Tests your arts knowledge with these questions from the Observer’s critics
The line “I’ll have what she’s having!”, from When Harry Met Sally, ranks 33rd on the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 greatest movie quotes of all time. But who was the actor who delivered the line?
Billy Crystal’s granny
Writer Nora Ephron’s stepmother
Director Rob Reiner’s mother
The sound design team on Jurassic Park used what to create the terrifying noises made by the raptors?
A recording of a pair of young raccoons fighting over a bagel
The sound of tortoises mating
The sound of fledgling crows calling for food, slowed down
Coldplay singer Chris Martin appears as an extra in which British film?
Shaun of the Dead, as a zombie
Last Christmas, as a member of Covent Garden’s homeless community
Notting Hill, as a bookshop customer
Which artist owned an ocelot?
Yves Tanguy
Leonora Carrington
Salvador Dalí
Which of these artists did not own a dachsund?
Picasso
David Hockney
René Magritte
Which Mozart opera was Queen Elizabeth II referring to when she described it as “the one with the pin in it”?
The Magic Flute
Don Giovanni
The Marriage of Figaro
Haydn’s Symphony No 45 is known as the “Farewell” because the musicians have to leave one by one in the last movement. Which instrument is left on stage last?
Oboe
Double bass
Violin
Ellicott, Troy and Kersey are all fictional…
Love interests in Buffy
Crime show deputies
Channel islands
Michael Gove was one of three co-hosts in the ill-judged 1992 C4 “topical” show A Stab in the Dark. A regular segment featured him going through celebrities’ bins, including that of David Attenborough. Who were his co-hosts? 
Tony Robinson and Jenny Eclair
Meera Syal and Tim McInnerny
Tracey MacLeod and David Baddiel
The Pays de la Loire region of north-west France is home to which TV couple?
Lisa Faulkner and John Torode
Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford
Dick and Angel Strawbridge
Which Dame trod the boards as “Baby”?
Eileen Atkins
Judi Dench
Diana Rigg
In which play did David Hare trace his journey through Israel and Palestine?
Gethsemane
The Permanent Way
Via Dolorosa
Which girl group had a hit with Dancing in the Street?
The Supremes
Martha and the Vandellas
The Ronettes
What is the real name of  Spice Girl “Sporty Spice”?
Melanie Cartwright
Melanie Chisholm
Melanie Calderwell
With the festival cancelled, what is happening to unsold Glastonbury cotton tote bags?
They are being composted
They are being mixed with cow dung and used as building materials
They are being sent to NHS workers to put used scrubs in
What surprising item is Rihanna sporting on the May cover of Vogue?
A durag
A hijab
Bunny ears
Which of the following was not written by an architect?
Rome, Open City
Delirious New York
Learning from Las Vegas
Who said: “It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic… that form ever follows function”?
Louis Sullivan
Walter Gropius
John Ruskin
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