Dead or alive? Take the Sean Bean survival quiz

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Sean Bean is back on TV in the new E4 comedy Wasted, one of his more unusual roles in that he doesn't die on screen! Test your knowledge of his screen CV in this fun quiz

Sean Bean is one of our favourite action heroes, equally at home among the hobbits or on the Napoleonic battlefields. But considering his hand-to-hand combat, sword and shooting skills, he dies on screen far more than your average film star.

Test your knowledge of The Full Monty star's incredible CV by answering the question – did he live or did he die? Flip the image to see if you were right or not.

You can watch Sean Bean playing a version of himself in the new E4 comedy, Wasted, which premieres on Tuesday, July 26, at 10pm.

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.