British arts and literature: who made what

The culture chapter of the Life in the UK syllabus names a long list of writers, composers, painters and architects, and a common kind of question gives you one of those names and asks what the person did. The existing sport, arts and culture quiz in this category covers the headline names: Shakespeare, Wren, the Beatles, the Booker and Turner prizes. This one covers the next circle out.

For literature it asks about Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice, Charles Dickens and his novels of Victorian England, and the Brontë sisters: Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights, in a 'choose two' question of the kind the real test uses. For music it asks about Edward Elgar, whose march is sung as 'Land of Hope and Glory', Benjamin Britten and his opera Peter Grimes, Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musicals. For painting it covers John Constable's landscapes, Thomas Gainsborough's portraits and David Hockney, the Bradford-born painter of the pop art years. For architecture it asks about Sir Edwin Lutyens, who designed the Cenotaph in Whitehall. It ends with the Mercury Prize, the music award, which completes the set of arts prizes: the Booker for fiction, the Turner for art and the BAFTAs for film and television.

The options are built so that you cannot pass by general impression: novelists appear as distractors for other novelists, and composers next to painters and architects. The explanation of each question places the wrong answers as well, so that working through the quiz once reviews most of the list.

The material is a quiz only, with twelve questions and an explanation after each. It covers part of one chapter and is not a mock test of the whole syllabus. The questions and explanations are Zestly's own and no handbook text is reproduced.

• Match Austen, Dickens and the Brontë sisters to their best-known novels
• Say what Elgar, Britten, Gilbert and Sullivan and Andrew Lloyd Webber are known for in music
• Tell Constable's landscapes, Gainsborough's portraits and Hockney's pop art apart
• Name the Cenotaph as Lutyens's best-known work
• Say what the Mercury Prize is for, alongside the Booker, Turner and BAFTA awards

Practice material written by Zestly from publicly known facts about British writers, composers, painters and architects. No text is taken from the Life in the UK handbook.