theartsdesk Christmas Quiz - Answers

Here are the answers to our monster Christmas arts quiz of 12 dozen questions on the year past, as seen by theartsdesk writers. There are clues in all the questions in the main quiz page. If you don't want to know the answers just yet till you've grappled with them, close this page now.

1. A suitcase bomb in Kiss Me Deadly
2. The Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, which reopened its main theatre in October, having lost its ballet director Gennady Yanin to scandal and its stars Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev to the Mikhailovsky Ballet
3. "Everyday"
4. 29
5. 205
6. Noel Gallagher
7. Phyllida Lloyd
8. 1980         
9. A cube   
10. A guitar maker        
11. Allan Ramsey
12. Analogue film (16 and 35mm)
13. Mouse on Mars (who are Andi Toma and Jan St Werner)
14. James Corden in One Man, Two Guvnors, Jamie Parker and Samuel Barnett in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Andrew Knott in Backbeat
15. Ane Brun, Norway  
16. Anish Kapoor's Leviathan, on show in the Grand Palais
17. Anna Nicole by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Richard Thomas for the Royal Opera
18. FolkeLarm in Oslo 
19. English National Opera's new staging by Christopher Alden of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream 
20. Australia
21. Austrian
22. Barry Flanagan
23. Catherine Tate played God in "Godblog", Jeanette Winterson's section of Sixty-Six Books at the Bush Theatre, and also played Beatrice in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
24. Beyoncé - some of her moves in her video Countdown were copied from Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker of the Rosas contemporary dance company
25. Birmingham
26. Blue (Fokine's The Blue God, given in Les Saisons Russes du XXI Siècle, Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, The Blue Dragon)
27. Brian Eno
28. Brian Wilson
29. Brian Ferry
30. Camille
31. Casa Popurului, The Palace Of the Parliament in Bucharest
32. Cesaria Evora   
33. Christian Bale in The Fighter
34. Christo and Jeanne-Claude
35. Clement Freud  
36. Colin Jones
37. Philip Seymour Hoffman leared to cook and to swim for Jack Goes Boating
38. Cy Twombly
39. Daniel Kramer in Carmen for Opera North
40. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
41. Gaby's Deli
42. Dartington Hall hosted the Home Festival
43. Sir David Attenborough
44. Dame Diana Rigg played Mrs Higgins this year in Shaw's Pygmalion, in which in 1974 she played Eliza Doolittle   
45. Dimitri Tiomkin, Hollywood film composer
46. Don Sanche by Franz Liszt 
47. Edvard Grieg
48. Francis Bacon
49. Gerhard Richter
50. Gertrude Lawrence   
51. Glenn Gould
52. Guy Garvey
53. Hamlet, with Michael Sheen, at the Young Vic
54. Hanson  
55. Havergal Brian  
56. His kids (or rather, Instant People, the name of their band)
57. He assaulted a silicone sculpted likeness of himself with an electric saw for his video, Cut-Up
58. A soup tureen 
59. Iggy Pop
60. Jacki Weaver 
61. James Corden (One Man, Two Guvnors) and Celia Imrie (Noises Off)  
62. Jason Orange
63. Jean-Paul Goode and Antonio Lopez
64. Jönsi
65. Julia Ormond in My Week with Marilyn  
66. King Robbo
67. Lady Gaga
68. Lil B
69. Elizabeth or Lizzie Grant
70. London, where in You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger she met Antonio Banderas
71. Romany gypsy
72. Martin Carthy
73. Georges Méliès, in Hugo
74. Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood
75. Matilda      
76. Matt Smith
77. Arabacus Pulp
78. Moby 
79. Nénette, The Jungle Book, Every Which Way But Loose/Any Which Way You Can    
80. New Image Painting
81. Northern Italy
82. Omid Djalili
83. Oscar Niemeyer
84. The Ballet Russes' Parade
85. Peter Gabriel
86. Photocopiers
87. Piet Oudolf 
88. Pina Bausch, in Wim Wenders' Pina
89. Pippin in the Menier Chocolate Factory production 
90. Possible answers include Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, The Cherry Orchard, The Tempest
91. A pro-Vladimir Putin Russian youth movement
92. Ray Davies
93. Reykjavik
94. Rent collector
95. Richard Bean
96. Roger Corman, Richard Lester, John Schlesinger and François Truffaut - though there are others
97. The racehorse and record-breaking sire Sadler's Wells
98. Sarah Martins as Camille Bordey in BBC One's Death in Paradise
99. Gwilym Simcock recorded Good Days at Schloss Elmau at Schloss Elmau   
100. Sharon Gless of Cagney and Lacey starred in A Round-Heeled Woman at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
101. Sheridan Smith late of Legally Blonde featured in Flare Path     
102. Sleeps In Oysters
103. Sonny Rollins at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival    
104. Sophie Grabøl as Sarah Lund in BBC Four's The Killing
105. Soprano Susan Bullock found it on the council rubbish dump
106. Welsh and Spanish, in Patagonia
107. The 50 Names For Snow of Kate Bush's eponymous album were read by Stephen Fry
108. Steve Reich's Four Organs, played in the "Tubular Bells" concert at St George's Bristol
109. Stuart Sutcliffe, John Lennon and George Harrison in Backbeat 
110. Swan Lake in Black Swan
111. Tarantula by Thierry Jonquet  
112. Joshua Bell has succeeded Sir Neville Marriner at the head of the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
113. The Alternative Miss World
114. 15 March, as named by the ancient Romans - it was also the date on which Julius Caesar was assassinated
115. The Big Uneasy
116. The Canadian Shields
117. The Help, in which Octavia Spencer bakes excrement into a pie
118. The Hepworth Wakefield, designed by David Chipperfield to help to fend off the river Calder
119. 27 at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, and BBC Two's The Hour
120. The Japanese earthquake and tsunami inspired 6,000 Miles Away
121. The late Merce Cunningham
122. In Opera North's Das Rheingold Leeds schoolchildren voiced the Nibelungen
123. Juno and the Paycock (Sean O'Casey) at the National Theatre, J M Synge's The Playboy of the Western World at the Old Vic, Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Young Vic 2010 and 2011)
124. The Prodigy
125. The Singing Ringing Tree
126. David Tennant played Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing at the Wyndham's Theatre, backing it himself
127. David Leland made videos for The Travelling Wilburys
128. The Deep Blue Sea, Flare Path, Cause Célèbre, Less Than Kind - by Terence Rattigan      
129. They produced better milk, according to the Dortmund Concert Hall who sent musicians to play to them
130. Three
131. Coventry's Tile Hill, painted by Turner Prize nominee George Shaw (though the prize was won by Martin Boyce)
132. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jane Avril
133. Trebor
134. There were doubled Ariels in both Cheek By Jowl's The Tempest at the Barbican, London, and Trevor Nunn's Theatre Royal Haymarket one with Ralph Fiennes
135. U2
136. Undulating façades or bay windows
137. Winslow Homer 
138. Whitechapel Gallery - and his work was back there again this year
139. Wynton Marsalis
140. The Passenger, composed by Mieczysław Weinberg, written by Zofia Posmysz, produced at English National Opera    
141. Zooey Deschanel
142. Nikolai Ge
143. Charles Dickens
144. At least 7. On stage: The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Matthew Bourne; in live cinema screenings: New York City Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Dutch National Ballet