Art — Quiz Night questions

1Who wrote the play "Romeo and Juliet"?

• Oscar Wilde
• Jane Austen
• Charles Dickens
• William Shakespeare

2Who wrote "Crime and Punishment"?

• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Anton Chekhov
• Leo Tolstoy
• Maxim Gorky

3Who wrote "The Little Prince"?

• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Victor Hugo
• Jules Verne
• Albert Camus

4Who wrote "Les Misérables"?

• Gustave Flaubert
• Émile Zola
• Honoré de Balzac
• Victor Hugo

5Who wrote "1984"?

• Ray Bradbury
• Aldous Huxley
• H. G. Wells
• George Orwell

6Who wrote "The Hobbit"?

• C. S. Lewis
• J. K. Rowling
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• George R. R. Martin

7Who wrote "Anna Karenina"?

• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Alexander Pushkin
• Ivan Turgenev
• Leo Tolstoy

8Who wrote "The Divine Comedy"?

• Dante
• Petrarch
• Virgil
• Boccaccio

9Who wrote "The Metamorphosis"?

• Thomas Mann
• Bertolt Brecht
• Hermann Hesse
• Franz Kafka

10"Don Quixote" belongs to which country's literature?

• France
• Portugal
• Spain
• Italy

11Which museum holds the Mona Lisa?

• Prado
• British Museum
• Louvre
• Uffizi

12Which city is the Prado Museum in?

• Paris
• Madrid
• Rome
• Vienna

13What is Michelangelo's famous statue in Florence?

• Discobolus
• Venus
• David
• The Thinker

14Which art form is three-dimensional?

• Painting
• Sculpture
• Engraving
• Photography

15Who painted "The Starry Night"?

• Salvador Dalí
• Pablo Picasso
• Claude Monet
• Vincent van Gogh

16Who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

• Donatello
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Raphael
• Michelangelo

17Who painted the Mona Lisa?

• Leonardo da Vinci
• Rembrandt
• Raphael
• Michelangelo

18Who is considered a founder of Cubism?

• Pablo Picasso
• Claude Monet
• Rembrandt
• Vincent van Gogh

19Which artist is known for melting clocks?

• Salvador Dalí
• René Magritte
• Pablo Picasso
• Joan Miró

20Which movement focused on capturing fleeting light?

• Surrealism
• Impressionism
• Baroque
• Cubism

21Which of these is not a primary colour?

• Yellow
• Green
• Red
• Blue

22Origami is the traditional art of which country?

• Japan
• Vietnam
• South Korea
• China

23Kabuki is the traditional theatre of which country?

• Japan
• India
• China
• Indonesia

24Which country did flamenco originate in?

• Portugal
• Argentina
• Spain
• Mexico

25Which country did the Renaissance begin in?

• Italy
• England
• France
• Spain

26Who wrote "War and Peace"?

• Nikolai Gogol
• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Leo Tolstoy
• Ivan Turgenev

27Who wrote the epic "Odyssey"?

• Homer
• Sophocles
• Aeschylus
• Euripides

28Who wrote the play "Faust"?

• Goethe
• Schiller
• Thomas Mann
• Heine

29Who wrote "Pride and Prejudice"?

• Jane Austen
• Virginia Woolf
• Emily Brontë
• Charlotte Brontë

30Who wrote "Madame Bovary"?

• Gustave Flaubert
• Stendhal
• Honoré de Balzac
• Émile Zola

31Who wrote the "Harry Potter" series?

• Suzanne Collins
• J. K. Rowling
• Roald Dahl
• C. S. Lewis

32Who wrote "Robinson Crusoe"?

• Mark Twain
• Daniel Defoe
• Jonathan Swift
• Herman Melville

33Who wrote "Moby Dick"?

• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Mark Twain
• Daniel Defoe
• Herman Melville

34Who wrote "A Tale of Two Cities"?

• Charles Dickens
• Wilkie Collins
• Charlotte Brontë
• Thomas Hardy

35What is a short prose work about a single event or impression called?

• Short story
• Novel
• Essay
• Biography

36What is a fourteen-line poem called?

• Haiku
• Ballad
• Sonnet
• Epic

37What is the short, nature-themed Japanese poem form called?

• Haiku
• Sonnet
• Epic
• Ballad

38What is it called when a person writes the story of their own life?

• Biography
• Autobiography
• Essay
• Novel

39"One Thousand and One Nights" was compiled from the folk-tale tradition of which region?

• Middle East
• West Africa
• Northern Europe
• Southeast Asia

40Which famous Shakespeare tragedy centers on revenge?

• Hamlet
• The Tempest
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• The Merchant of Venice

41In which city is the spiral Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright?

• London
• Berlin
• New York
• Bilbao

42Which city is the British Museum in?

• Manchester
• Liverpool
• Edinburgh
• London

43Which city is the Hermitage Museum in?

• Saint Petersburg
• Moscow
• Kyiv
• Warsaw

44Who created the sculpture "The Thinker"?

• Michelangelo
• Donatello
• Antonio Canova
• Auguste Rodin

45Which ancient Egyptian pharaoh is known for his famous golden death mask?

• Tutankhamun
• Ramesses II
• Khufu
• Akhenaten

46Which museum holds the Rosetta Stone?

• British Museum
• Egyptian Museum
• Metropolitan Museum
• Louvre

47Which museum holds the Venus de Milo statue?

• Prado
• Louvre
• British Museum
• Vatican Museums

48Which country is the ancient city of Ephesus in?

• Italy
• Greece
• Egypt
• Turkey

49Which country is the ancient city of Petra in?

• Iraq
• Lebanon
• Jordan
• Syria

50Which country is the Great Sphinx in?

• Egypt
• Morocco
• Libya
• Sudan

51Which country is the Taj Mahal in?

• Nepal
• India
• Bangladesh
• Pakistan

52Which city is the Uffizi Gallery in?

• Florence
• Rome
• Venice
• Milan

53Which city is the Van Gogh Museum in?

• Rotterdam
• Brussels
• The Hague
• Amsterdam

54Which city is the Metropolitan Museum of Art in?

• New York
• Boston
• Chicago
• Los Angeles

55Which city is the Acropolis in?

• Rome
• Thessaloniki
• Istanbul
• Athens

56Which city is the Colosseum in?

• Rome
• Venice
• Naples
• Milan

57Which country is the Chichen Itza pyramid in?

• Guatemala
• Colombia
• Peru
• Mexico

58Which country is Stonehenge in?

• Ireland
• England
• France
• Scotland

59In which country was the Terracotta Army found?

• Vietnam
• Korea
• Mongolia
• China

60Who designed the Louvre's famous glass pyramid?

• Norman Foster
• I. M. Pei
• Frank Gehry
• Renzo Piano

61Who painted "Guernica"?

• Diego Rivera
• Salvador Dalí
• Pablo Picasso
• Joan Miró

62Who painted "The Last Supper"?

• Sandro Botticelli
• Michelangelo
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Raphael

63Who painted "The Birth of Venus"?

• Raphael
• Titian
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Sandro Botticelli

64Who painted "Girl with a Pearl Earring"?

• Jan van Eyck
• Rembrandt
• Johannes Vermeer
• Frans Hals

65Who painted "The Scream"?

• Egon Schiele
• Gustav Klimt
• Wassily Kandinsky
• Edvard Munch

66Which painter is known for the "Water Lilies" series?

• Edgar Degas
• Paul Cézanne
• Claude Monet
• Auguste Renoir

67Which French painter is known for his ballet-dancer paintings?

• Edgar Degas
• Auguste Renoir
• Claude Monet
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

68Which painter is known for cutting off part of his own ear?

• Vincent van Gogh
• Paul Gauguin
• Henri Matisse
• Edvard Munch

69Who painted "American Gothic"?

• Andy Warhol
• Norman Rockwell
• Edward Hopper
• Grant Wood

70Which Pop Art artist is known for soup can and Marilyn Monroe portraits?

• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Keith Haring
• Andy Warhol
• Roy Lichtenstein

71What surface is fresco technique applied to?

• Glass
• Wood panel
• Canvas
• Wet plaster

72What is a painting called in which the painter depicts their own face?

• Self-portrait
• Landscape
• Portrait
• Still life

73What is a painting genre depicting lifeless objects like fruit or flowers called?

• Landscape
• Self-portrait
• Portrait
• Still life

74What is a painting genre depicting natural scenery called?

• Landscape
• Abstract Art
• Portrait
• Still life

75What is the art movement that does not depict real objects and relies on form and color called?

• Abstract Art
• Baroque
• Realism
• Impressionism

76What are colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel, creating the strongest contrast, called?

• Complementary colors
• Secondary colors
• Primary colors
• Neutral colors

77Which color is made by mixing red and yellow?

• Orange
• Brown
• Purple
• Green

78Which color is made by mixing blue and yellow?

• Pink
• Purple
• Orange
• Green

79Who composed the ballet "Swan Lake"?

• Johann Strauss
• Prokofiev
• Stravinsky
• Tchaikovsky

80Who composed the ballet "Romeo and Juliet"?

• Tchaikovsky
• Prokofiev
• Rachmaninoff
• Stravinsky

81What is the highest female voice type in opera called?

• Mezzo-soprano
• Tenor
• Soprano
• Alto

82What is the highest male voice type in opera called?

• Alto
• Bass
• Baritone
• Tenor

83Who composed the opera "Carmen"?

• Giacomo Puccini
• Gioachino Rossini
• Giuseppe Verdi
• Georges Bizet

84Who composed the opera "Aida"?

• Georges Bizet
• Giuseppe Verdi
• Richard Wagner
• Giacomo Puccini

85What is the area behind the stage where performers prepare called?

• Balcony
• Foyer
• Orchestra pit
• Backstage

86What is a long speech an actor gives alone on stage, revealing their inner thoughts, called?

• Dialogue
• Monologue
• Repertoire
• Prologue

87What is the person who stands in front of the orchestra and directs an opera or ballet called?

• Conductor
• Director
• Producer
• Choreographer

88Which country did the tango originate in?

• Spain
• Cuba
• Brazil
• Argentina

89Which country did the waltz spread to the world from?

• Austria
• Germany
• France
• Italy

90Which region's culture did the salsa dance originate from?

• Southeast Asia
• Mediterranean
• Caribbean
• West Africa

91In which city is Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" set?

• Florence
• Rome
• Venice
• Verona

92Which city is the Broadway theatre district in?

• Los Angeles
• New York
• Toronto
• Chicago

93Who composed the musical "The Phantom of the Opera"?

• Tim Rice
• Elton John
• Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Stephen Sondheim

94What is the face covering worn by actors in ancient Greek theatre called?

• Mask
• Puppet
• Wig
• Cape

95What is the night a play is first performed for an audience called?

• Premiere
• Tour
• Rehearsal
• Evening show

96What is the traditional performing art using figures moved by strings or hands called?

• Mime
• Revue
• Puppet
• Vaudeville

97What is the performing art done only through body movement and facial expression, without speech, called?

• Mime
• Vaudeville
• Opera
• Ballet

98Which city is the historic Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare's plays were staged, in?

• Liverpool
• Edinburgh
• London
• Manchester

99What is the small wooden hand instrument used to keep rhythm in flamenco dance called?

• Xylophone
• Tambourine
• Castanets
• Maracas

100In which city is the Rijksmuseum?

• Brussels
• Vienna
• Amsterdam
• Copenhagen