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

21In painting, which 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

101Which author wrote the novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?

• Jorge Luis Borges
• Gabriel García Márquez
• Mario Vargas Llosa
• Isabel Allende

102Who wrote the book "The Old Man and the Sea"?

• Jack London
• Ernest Hemingway
• William Faulkner
• John Steinbeck

103Which writer does the work "The Count of Monte Cristo" belong to?

• Alexandre Dumas
• Stendhal
• Émile Zola
• Victor Hugo

104Which author wrote the novel "Wuthering Heights"?

• Mary Shelley
• Emily Brontë
• Jane Austen
• Virginia Woolf

105Who wrote the book "Jane Eyre"?

• Emily Brontë
• George Eliot
• Charlotte Brontë
• Louisa May Alcott

106Which writer does the work "Ulysses" belong to?

• Oscar Wilde
• Samuel Beckett
• Virginia Woolf
• James Joyce

107Which author wrote the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

• Truman Capote
• Toni Morrison
• Harper Lee
• Pearl Buck

108Who wrote the book "Brave New World"?

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

109Who wrote "Dracula", the novel that carried the vampire legend into world literature?

• Mary Shelley
• Bram Stoker
• Stephen King
• Edgar Allan Poe

110Which author wrote the novel "Frankenstein"?

• Bram Stoker
• Mary Shelley
• Emily Brontë
• Jules Verne

111Who wrote the book "Lord of the Flies"?

• William Golding
• Joseph Conrad
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Daniel Defoe

112Who is the author of the short novel "The Stranger", set in Algeria?

• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Marcel Proust
• André Gide
• Albert Camus

113Which author wrote the novel "The Great Gatsby"?

• William Faulkner
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Ernest Hemingway
• John Steinbeck

114Who wrote the book "The Grapes of Wrath"?

• Harper Lee
• Mark Twain
• John Steinbeck
• Jack London

115Which writer does the work "Treasure Island" belong to?

• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Daniel Defoe
• Jules Verne
• Jonathan Swift

116Which author wrote the novel "Gulliver's Travels"?

• Jonathan Swift
• Daniel Defoe
• Charles Dickens
• Lewis Carroll

117Who wrote the book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"?

• Lewis Carroll
• Rudyard Kipling
• Jonathan Swift
• Roald Dahl

118Which writer does the work "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" belong to?

• Herman Melville
• Daniel Defoe
• Jules Verne
• H. G. Wells

119Which author wrote the novel "The Brothers Karamazov"?

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

120Who wrote the book "Doctor Zhivago"?

• Mikhail Bulgakov
• Boris Pasternak
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Vladimir Nabokov

121Who wrote "The Tale of Genji" in the 11th century, regarded as one of the world's first novels?

• Murasaki Shikibu
• Sei Shonagon
• Matsuo Basho
• Yasunari Kawabata

122Who composed "Shahnameh", the national epic of Persian literature?

• Ferdowsi
• Hafez
• Omar Khayyam
• Saadi

123Which Nigerian writer wrote "Things Fall Apart", a landmark of African literature?

• Chinua Achebe
• Naguib Mahfouz
• Wole Soyinka
• Nadine Gordimer

124Which English writer wrote both "Oliver Twist" and "David Copperfield"?

• George Eliot
• Oscar Wilde
• Charles Dickens
• Jonathan Swift

125Who wrote the book "Little Women"?

• Charlotte Brontë
• Astrid Lindgren
• Louisa May Alcott
• Frances Hodgson Burnett

126Which writer does the work "The Jungle Book" belong to?

• Roald Dahl
• Lewis Carroll
• Jack London
• Rudyard Kipling

127Which writer created the character Pinocchio?

• Charles Perrault
• Astrid Lindgren
• Hans Christian Andersen
• Carlo Collodi

128Which writer created the famous detective who lives on Baker Street in London?

• Agatha Christie
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Georges Simenon
• Edgar Allan Poe

129Which writer created the detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple?

• Truman Capote
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Georges Simenon
• Agatha Christie

130In the novel "Don Quixote", what is the name of the peasant squire who never leaves the hero's side?

• Quasimodo
• Sancho Panza
• Figaro
• Robinson Crusoe

131In "Les Misérables", what is the name of the hero imprisoned for years for stealing a loaf of bread?

• Quasimodo
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• Edmond Dantès
• Jean Valjean

132In Shakespeare's play "Macbeth", the main character seizes the throne of which country?

• Wales
• Denmark
• Scotland
• Ireland

133In "The Three Musketeers", what is the name of the young hero who later joins the musketeers?

• Edmond Dantès
• d'Artagnan
• Ivanhoe
• Robin Hood

134In the novel "Moby-Dick", what is the name of the obsessed seafarer who hunts a giant whale?

• Long John Silver
• Robinson Crusoe
• Captain Ahab
• Captain Nemo

135Who wrote the books about the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?

• Mark Twain
• Jack London
• Harper Lee
• Robert Louis Stevenson

136Which American poet wrote the famous poem "The Raven"?

• Robert Frost
• Walt Whitman
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Emily Dickinson

137Which poet wrote the famous sequence of 154 sonnets in English literature?

• Walt Whitman
• John Keats
• Lord Byron
• William Shakespeare

138What is the matching of sounds at the ends of lines in a poem called?

• Rhyme
• Meter
• Refrain
• Quatrain

139Which French poet wrote the poetry collection "The Flowers of Evil"?

• Paul Verlaine
• Victor Hugo
• Arthur Rimbaud
• Charles Baudelaire

140Which Indian poet became world famous for the poems he wrote in Bengali?

• Pablo Neruda
• Omar Khayyam
• Matsuo Basho
• Rabindranath Tagore

141Which ancient Greek poet lived on the island of Lesbos and is known for love poetry?

• Aesop
• Homer
• Sappho
• Virgil

142Which Chilean poet is known for the book "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair"?

• Gabriela Mistral
• Pablo Neruda
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Octavio Paz

143Who wrote the verse novel "Eugene Onegin" and is regarded as the national poet of Russian literature?

• Anton Chekhov
• Mikhail Lermontov
• Lord Byron
• Alexander Pushkin

144Which long poem is made up of the parts Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise?

• Paradise Lost
• The Divine Comedy
• The Aeneid
• The Odyssey

145Which 19th-century literary movement emphasised emotion, nature and the inner life of the individual?

• Surrealism
• Romanticism
• Naturalism
• Classicism

146Which literary movement set out to portray social life plainly, exactly as it is?

• Realism
• Romanticism
• Existentialism
• Surrealism

147Which Latin American movement tells extraordinary events as part of everyday life?

• Romanticism
• Classicism
• Naturalism
• Magical realism

148Which 20th-century art movement was built on dreams and images from the subconscious?

• Surrealism
• Classicism
• Realism
• Naturalism

149What is the narrative technique called in which a character's thoughts flow onto the page without interruption?

• Flashback
• Dialogue
• Stream of consciousness
• Description

150Which philosophical and literary movement centres on human freedom and the responsibility of choice?

• Romanticism
• Magical realism
• Classicism
• Existentialism

151Who collected and published the tales "Hansel and Gretel" and "The Town Musicians of Bremen"?

• The Brothers Grimm
• Charles Perrault
• Astrid Lindgren
• Hans Christian Andersen

152Which Danish writer wrote the tales "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling"?

• Hans Christian Andersen
• Carlo Collodi
• Charles Perrault
• The Brothers Grimm

153What are short stories called in which animals talk and a moral is drawn at the end?

• Legend
• Fairy tale
• Fable
• Epic

154In which ancient civilisation did Aesop, famous for his animal tales, live?

• The Persian Empire
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Rome
• Ancient Egypt

155In the frame story of "One Thousand and One Nights", who tells the ruler a story every night?

• Scheherazade
• Aladdin
• Ali Baba
• Sinbad

156In the legend of King Arthur, what is the name of the wizard who guides the king?

• Morgana
• Galahad
• Merlin
• Lancelot

157In Greek mythology, which young man's wax wings melted when he flew too close to the sun?

• Prometheus
• Orpheus
• Icarus
• Narcissus

158Which war is the subject of Homer's epic "The Iliad"?

• The Persian Wars
• The Trojan War
• The Peloponnesian War
• The Battle of Marathon

159In Greek mythology, which hero is remembered for a ten-year voyage home from Troy?

• Achilles
• Odysseus
• Heracles
• Jason

160Which work, coming from Mesopotamia, is counted among the oldest written epics known?

• Kalevala
• Mahabharata
• The Song of the Nibelungs
• The Epic of Gilgamesh

161Which of India's two great epics tells of the battle of Kurukshetra?

• The Vedas
• Ramayana
• Mahabharata
• The Upanishads

162Which work, compiled from Finnish folk poetry, is regarded as the country's national epic?

• The Song of the Nibelungs
• Beowulf
• Kalevala
• The Iliad

163Which classic Chinese novel follows the Monkey King's quest to fetch sacred scriptures?

• Water Margin
• Journey to the West
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms
• Dream of the Red Chamber

164Who was the first woman writer ever honoured with the Nobel Prize in Literature?

• Virginia Woolf
• Selma Lagerlöf
• Pearl Buck
• Grazia Deledda

165What is the name of the award given each year to works of science fiction and fantasy?

• The Booker Prize
• The Goncourt Prize
• The Pulitzer Prize
• The Hugo Award

166The Goncourt Prize is the best-known literary award of which country?

• Italy
• France
• Belgium
• Spain

167In which language did Franz Kafka, born in Prague, write his works?

• Hungarian
• German
• Polish
• Czech

168In which city was the most famous library of the ancient world founded?

• Alexandria
• Athens
• Rome
• Pergamon

169What is the written form called whose leaves are bound together and which is seen as the ancestor of today's book?

• Wax tablet
• Scroll
• Clay tablet
• Codex

170What is the section at the start of a book called, in which the author addresses the reader?

• Preface
• Afterword
• Index
• Footnote

171What do we call the made-up name an author uses to conceal their identity?

• Nickname
• Title
• Pen name
• Signature

172What is the book genre called that researches and recounts the life of a notable person?

• Autobiography
• Memoir
• Biography
• Essay

173What is the legal protection called that stops a work from being copied without its creator's permission?

• Licence
• Copyright
• Patent
• Trademark

174What is the organisation called that prints and distributes writers' works to bring them to readers?

• Bookshop
• Library
• Publishing house
• Printing house

175In which city is the Musée d'Orsay, converted from an old railway station?

• Bordeaux
• Lyon
• Marseille
• Paris

176In which city is the Tate Modern gallery, housed in a closed-down power station?

• Bristol
• Manchester
• Liverpool
• London

177In which city is the Ashmolean Museum, counted among the first university museums opened to the public?

• Edinburgh
• Cambridge
• Oxford
• Glasgow

178In which city is the Mauritshuis museum, home to Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'?

• The Hague
• Antwerp
• Utrecht
• Rotterdam

179Gustav Klimt's gold-leaf painting 'The Kiss' hangs in the Belvedere Palace of which city?

• Salzburg
• Vienna
• Munich
• Zurich

180In a museum of which city is Pablo Picasso's 'Guernica' displayed today?

• Barcelona
• Málaga
• Seville
• Madrid

181The warship Vasa, which sank on its maiden voyage in 1628, is now in a museum in which city?

• Copenhagen
• Stockholm
• Oslo
• Bergen

182In which country is the Pergamon Museum, where Babylon's Ishtar Gate has been rebuilt?

• Iraq
• France
• Germany
• Austria

183In which city is the Pompidou Centre, whose pipes and escalators are left on the outside?

• Paris
• Lisbon
• Milan
• Rome

184The richly decorated medieval manuscript gospel, the Book of Kells, is in a university library in which city?

• Leuven
• Dublin
• Uppsala
• Cambridge

185In which country is the National Museum of Anthropology, where the Aztec Sun Stone is displayed?

• Peru
• Mexico
• Colombia
• Guatemala

186In which city is the National Palace Museum, home to China's imperial palace treasures?

• Shanghai
• Hong Kong
• Taipei
• Seoul

187In which city are most of the museums belonging to the Smithsonian Institution gathered?

• Philadelphia
• Boston
• Chicago
• Washington

188In which city is the museum designed by Jean Nouvel, where a 'rain of light' filters through a perforated dome?

• Manama
• Abu Dhabi
• Kuwait City
• Doha

189In which city is the Egyptian Museum, famous for its pharaonic treasures?

• Alexandria
• Aswan
• Luxor
• Cairo

190In a museum of which country is the mummy known as the Iceman, Ötzi, on display?

• Slovenia
• Switzerland
• Austria
• Italy

191A large part of the marble reliefs from the Parthenon is today kept in which museum?

• British Museum
• Hermitage
• Louvre
• Prado

192In which historic building are the British Crown Jewels kept?

• Windsor Castle
• Tower of London
• Buckingham Palace
• Westminster Abbey

193Which architect designed the rippling titanium façade of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao?

• Rem Koolhaas
• Norman Foster
• Santiago Calatrava
• Frank Gehry

194Which Danish architect designed the sail-shaped roof of the Sydney Opera House?

• Jørn Utzon
• Arne Jacobsen
• Alvar Aalto
• Bjarke Ingels

195Who is the architect of the Sagrada Família church in Barcelona?

• Antoni Gaudí
• Rafael Moneo
• Ricardo Bofill
• Lluís Domènech

196Which architect designed the monumental government buildings of Brazil's purpose-built capital?

• Álvaro Siza
• Luis Barragán
• Le Corbusier
• Oscar Niemeyer

197Who was the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize?

• Odile Decq
• Kazuyo Sejima
• Zaha Hadid
• Jeanne Gang

198The famous house 'Fallingwater', built directly over a stream's waterfall, is the work of which architect?

• Louis Kahn
• Eero Saarinen
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• Philip Johnson

199Which architect founded the Bauhaus school in Germany in 1919?

• Bruno Taut
• Mies van der Rohe
• Erich Mendelsohn
• Walter Gropius

200Which artist designed the great dome of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican?

• Donatello
• Raphael
• Bernini
• Michelangelo

201Which country presented the Statue of Liberty to the United States as a gift?

• Spain
• France
• United Kingdom
• Netherlands

202In which country stands the Statue of Unity, the tallest statue in the world?

• India
• China
• Russia
• Japan

203How many presidents' faces are carved into Mount Rushmore?

• Three
• Four
• Five
• Six

204What material is the giant Buddha statue in Kamakura, Japan, made of?

• Gold
• Marble
• Bronze
• Wood

205In which city is Manneken Pis, the famous little fountain statue of a small boy?

• Bern
• Luxembourg
• Amsterdam
• Brussels

206What are the tall single-block stone monuments taken from Egypt to Paris and London called?

• Arch
• Obelisk
• Column
• Altar

207The body of the Great Sphinx is shaped like that of which animal?

• Lion
• Horse
• Bull
• Eagle

208In which country is Lalibela, famous for its churches carved out of solid rock?

• Sudan
• Kenya
• Ethiopia
• Eritrea

209In which country is the Great Mosque of Djenné, counted among the largest mud-brick buildings?

• Niger
• Morocco
• Senegal
• Mali

210What is the name of the great temple on the Athenian Acropolis dedicated to the goddess Athena?

• Propylaea
• Erechtheion
• Hephaisteion
• Parthenon

211Which famous Egyptian temple was cut apart and moved higher because of the Aswan Dam?

• Karnak Temple
• Abu Simbel
• Luxor Temple
• Temple of Hatshepsut

212What is the largest structure of the ancient city of Teotihuacan in Mexico?

• Palace of the Eagle
• Pyramid of the Moon
• Pyramid of the Sun
• Temple of the Serpent

213In which country is Registan Square, famous for its blue-tiled madrasas?

• Iran
• Uzbekistan
• Kazakhstan
• Azerbaijan

214The Palace of Knossos on Crete is a remnant of which civilisation?

• Etruscans
• Phoenicians
• Minoan civilisation
• Mycenaean civilisation

215The ancient site of Delphi in Greece was the oracle of which god?

• Poseidon
• Hermes
• Apollo
• Zeus

216Most of the sections of the Great Wall of China seen today were built under which dynasty?

• Tang dynasty
• Qing dynasty
• Han dynasty
• Ming dynasty

217What covered the outer surface of the Egyptian pyramids when they were built?

• Polished limestone
• Gold plates
• Red brick
• Coloured glaze

218From which vantage point are the giant figures of the Nazca Lines in Peru best made out?

• From the air
• From a nearby cave
• Only at night, by moonlight
• From the seashore

219On which island is Borobudur, regarded as the world's largest Buddhist monument?

• Bali
• Java
• Borneo
• Sumatra

220According to tradition, what will a person who tosses a coin into the Trevi Fountain in Rome do?

• They will return to this city one day
• They will become very wealthy
• They will live a very long life
• They will have a happy marriage

221Which engineer designed the iron inner framework that carries the copper skin of the Statue of Liberty?

• Gustave Eiffel
• Hector Guimard
• Ferdinand de Lesseps
• Auguste Bartholdi

222What is the main reason the Tower of Pisa gradually began to lean?

• It was built leaning on purpose
• A violent earthquake
• The soft ground beneath it
• The weight of its marble

223In which city does the Burj Khalifa skyscraper stand?

• Doha
• Abu Dhabi
• Dubai
• Riyadh

224In which city are the Petronas Twin Towers, linked to each other by a bridge in the sky?

• Bangkok
• Jakarta
• Kuala Lumpur
• Singapore

225In which city is the historic Charles Bridge over the Vltava, lined with statues?

• Bratislava
• Prague
• Kraków
• Budapest

226In which country is the historic Mostar Bridge, rebuilt after being destroyed in war?

• Croatia
• Montenegro
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Serbia

227Which river does the historic Ponte Vecchio in Florence, lined with shops, cross?

• Adige
• Tiber
• Po
• Arno

228In which city is Saint Basil's Cathedral, famous for its colourful twisted onion domes?

• Moscow
• Kyiv
• Novgorod
• Saint Petersburg

229Cologne Cathedral in Germany is counted among the masterpieces of which architectural style?

• Neoclassical
• Baroque
• Rococo
• Gothic

230In which country is Neuschwanstein Castle, famous for its fairy-tale look?

• Austria
• Czechia
• Switzerland
• Germany

231On what kind of site was the abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel in France built?

• On a rocky island ringed by the tide
• On the summit of a high mountain
• On an artificial island in a river
• On a dried-up lake bed

232Where were the Meteora monasteries in Greece built?

• On top of towering rocks
• On cliffs by the sea
• On islands in a lake
• In underground caves

233Which is the world-famous hall of the Palace of Versailles?

• The Golden Room
• The Throne Room
• The Crystal Room
• The Hall of Mirrors

234What is found right at the centre of the dome of the Pantheon in Rome?

• A round opening to the sky
• A stained-glass window
• A gold-plated cross
• A gigantic chandelier

235In which country is the famous Alhambra palace, left from the age of Al-Andalus?

• Morocco
• Italy
• Spain
• Portugal

236In which city is the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine of the Sikhs?

• Amritsar
• Lahore
• New Delhi
• Jaipur

237Which ancient kingdom, in what is now Sudan, holds more pyramids than Egypt does?

• The Kingdom of Aksum
• Carthage
• The Kingdom of Kush
• The Ghana Empire

238What material is the load-bearing structure of Himeji Castle, Japan's most famous historic castle, made of?

• Brick
• Granite
• Wood
• Concrete

239In which city is Gyeongbokgung, the largest historic palace of South Korea?

• Daegu
• Seoul
• Incheon
• Busan

240In which city is the Temple of Heaven, where Chinese emperors held rites for a good harvest?

• Xi'an
• Nanjing
• Beijing
• Shanghai

241In which city is Te Papa Tongarewa, the national museum of New Zealand?

• Dunedin
• Auckland
• Christchurch
• Wellington

242What is the person responsible for choosing and arranging the works shown in a museum called?

• Curator
• Guide
• Archivist
• Restorer

243Which branch of science uncovers ancient remains through excavation and studies them?

• Geology
• Archaeology
• Palaeontology
• Anthropology

244Which is the plainest of the column orders in ancient Greek architecture?

• Corinthian
• Composite
• Ionic
• Doric

245What is the half-sphere-shaped roof covering of a building called?

• Vault
• Eaves
• Dome
• Column

246What are the slanted supports that brace the walls of Gothic cathedrals from outside called?

• Groin vault
• Spire
• Rose window
• Flying buttress

247What is the decorative technique that lets coloured light fall through the windows of medieval churches called?

• Stained glass
• Mosaic
• Miniature
• Fresco

248What is the kind of sculpture carved on a stone or metal surface so that it rises from its background called?

• Bust
• Carving
• Scale model
• Relief

249What is the kind of museum where the objects are shown outdoors instead of inside a hall called?

• Botanical garden
• Art gallery
• Open-air museum
• Observatory

250Who painted 'The Night Watch', which shows a company of guards emerging from darkness into light?

• Johannes Vermeer
• Pieter Bruegel
• Rembrandt
• Jan van Eyck

251Who painted 'Las Meninas', showing the little princess and the artist himself at his canvas?

• El Greco
• Diego Velázquez
• Joaquín Sorolla
• Francisco Goya

252Which French painter depicted a woman with a flag leading the people over the barricades?

• Gustave Courbet
• Jacques-Louis David
• Édouard Manet
• Eugène Delacroix

253Which Austrian artist painted 'The Kiss', showing an embracing couple wrapped in gold leaf?

• Franz Marc
• Gustav Klimt
• Oskar Kokoschka
• Egon Schiele

254Who made the famous Japanese print where Mount Fuji looks tiny behind a giant wave?

• Katsushika Hokusai
• Kitagawa Utamaro
• Sesshu Toyo
• Utagawa Hiroshige

255Who painted 'The Third of May 1808', showing a man in a white shirt facing a firing squad?

• Francisco Goya
• Caspar David Friedrich
• Antoine Watteau
• Peter Paul Rubens

256Who painted 'The Raft of the Medusa', showing castaways on a raft waiting for help?

• Théodore Géricault
• William Turner
• Eugène Delacroix
• John Constable

257Who painted 'Nighthawks', showing people in a brightly lit diner at midnight?

• Andrew Wyeth
• Georgia O'Keeffe
• Norman Rockwell
• Edward Hopper

258Which American painter is known for laying his canvas on the floor and dripping and flinging paint onto it?

• Jackson Pollock
• Franz Kline
• Willem de Kooning
• Mark Rothko

259Which Dutch painter is known for black lines and red, yellow and blue boxes?

• Piet Mondrian
• Joan Miró
• Paul Klee
• Wassily Kandinsky

260Which famous woman painter made many self-portraits in the colours of Mexican folk art?

• Mary Cassatt
• Tamara de Lempicka
• Frida Kahlo
• Remedios Varo

261Which Belgian artist painted the work in which a green apple hides the face of a man in a bowler hat?

• Paul Delvaux
• Giorgio de Chirico
• René Magritte
• Max Ernst

262Who painted 'The School of Athens', the mural that gathers the philosophers of antiquity?

• Titian
• Raphael
• Michelangelo
• Sandro Botticelli

263Which Russian artist reduced painting to its barest form by placing a single black square on a white ground?

• Marc Chagall
• Kazimir Malevich
• Vasily Vereshchagin
• Ilya Repin

264Who painted 'The Arnolfini Portrait', with a convex mirror visible in the background?

• Rogier van der Weyden
• Hieronymus Bosch
• Albrecht Dürer
• Jan van Eyck

265Which English painter, a forerunner of impressionism, painted stormy seas in patches of light?

• John Constable
• William Turner
• Thomas Gainsborough
• Joshua Reynolds

266Which startling Italian Baroque painter used harsh light in darkness?

• Giotto
• Tintoretto
• Caravaggio
• Veronese

267'Impression, Sunrise', the painting that gave impressionism its name, is the work of which artist?

• Claude Monet
• Alfred Sisley
• Berthe Morisot
• Camille Pissarro

268Which French painter, in his old age, made works by cutting and pasting painted paper?

• Fernand Léger
• Henri Matisse
• Georges Braque
• Raoul Dufy

269Which painter left France to settle in Tahiti and painted brightly coloured works there?

• Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• Henri Rousseau
• Paul Gauguin
• Gustave Caillebotte

270Which French painter painted Mont Sainte-Victoire over and over and paved the way for cubism?

• Paul Cézanne
• Édouard Vuillard
• Camille Pissarro
• Georges Seurat

271Which French painter is known for the colourful posters he made for the Moulin Rouge cabaret in Paris?

• Maurice Utrillo
• Toulouse-Lautrec
• Alphonse Mucha
• Edgar Degas

272By what pseudonym is the British street artist known who hides his identity and works on walls with stencils?

• Keith Haring
• Shepard Fairey
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Banksy

273Which Russian artist is credited with the first fully abstract paintings and likened painting to music?

• Marc Chagall
• Natalia Goncharova
• Wassily Kandinsky
• Kazimir Malevich

274Which plant is the subject of the famous yellow series Van Gogh painted in the French town of Arles?

• Rose
• Daisy
• Sunflower
• Tulip

275Which art movement broke objects into geometric parts and showed them from several angles at once?

• Baroque
• Impressionism
• Romanticism
• Cubism

276Which art movement set out to bring dreams and the unconscious onto the canvas?

• Rococo
• Classicism
• Realism
• Surrealism

277Which movement expressed the artist's inner world through distorted forms and harsh colours?

• Classicism
• Impressionism
• Minimalism
• Expressionism

278Which 17th-century art period is known for figures in motion and strong light and shadow?

• Renaissance
• Rococo
• Gothic
• Baroque

279Which movement brought images from advertising, comics and supermarket products into art?

• Fauvism
• Pop art
• Gothic
• Romanticism

280In traditional oil painting, what are the colour pigments mixed with to turn them into paint?

• Egg yolk
• Milk
• Linseed oil
• Honey

281In the tempera technique widespread before the Renaissance, what natural substance binds the paint?

• Resin
• Beeswax
• Egg yolk
• Olive oil

282Which printing technique makes a picture by inking a carved wooden block and pressing it onto paper?

• Collage
• Woodcut
• Stained glass
• Mosaic

283Which kind of surface decoration is made by setting small coloured pieces of stone and glass side by side?

• Miniature
• Relief
• Fresco
• Mosaic

284Which art joins pieces of glass with lead strips to form church windows?

• Ceramics
• Mosaic
• Stained glass
• Engraving

285What is the technique of making a work by pasting scraps of paper, cloth and newspaper onto a surface called?

• Fresco
• Collage
• Engraving
• Tempera

286Which kind of colour is powdered pigment pressed into sticks and rubbed straight onto the paper?

• Ink
• Pastel
• Gouache
• Watercolour

287Which drawing material, made from burnt thin twigs, do artists use for quick sketches?

• Charcoal
• Wax crayon
• Chalk
• Pencil

288What is the thin board painters hold in the hand for mixing their colours called?

• Frame
• Palette
• Canvas
• Easel

289What is the transparent layer applied over a finished oil painting to protect it called?

• Primer
• Glue
• Beeswax
• Varnish

290In linear perspective, what is the place on the horizon where receding parallel lines meet called?

• Balance line
• Vanishing point
• Central axis
• Shadow point

291What is Leonardo's technique of melting colours into soft, misty transitions called?

• Engraving
• Sfumato
• Relief
• Tempera

292What is the technique of building a picture out of thousands of tiny dots of colour placed side by side called?

• Woodcut
• Pointillism
• Fresco
• Collage

293What are the small pictures that decorate book pages and use no shadow or depth called?

• Stained glass
• Miniature
• Fresco
• Engraving

294Which artist signed an ordinary urinal and exhibited it as a work of art?

• Tristan Tzara
• Kurt Schwitters
• Man Ray
• Marcel Duchamp

295Which colour appears when blue and red paint are mixed?

• Orange
• Purple
• Green
• Brown

296Red, orange and yellow belong to which family of colour?

• Neutral colours
• Cool colours
• Warm colours
• Secondary colours

297The most expensive blue of Renaissance painters was ground from which stone brought from far away?

• Quartz
• Marble
• Agate
• Lapis lazuli

298If a painter wants a green object to stand out most strikingly, which colour should be placed behind it?

• Yellow
• Blue
• Brown
• Red

299In sculpture, what is it called when the excess of a marble block is struck away with a chisel to shape it?

• Carving
• Casting
• Welding
• Modelling

300Since antiquity, which metal has been used most for making statues by pouring into a mould?

• Bronze
• Lead
• Zinc
• Aluminium

301What is the kind of sculpture that rises slightly from a surface and is not fully three-dimensional called?

• Bust
• Monument
• Relief
• Model

302What is a sculpture showing only a person's head and shoulders called?

• Bust
• Statuette
• Torso
• Relief

303Which art is created by firing shaped clay at high heat?

• Metal forging
• Glassblowing
• Wood carving
• Ceramics

304What is the tool with a spinning disc used to turn clay into a symmetrical vessel called?

• Mortar and pestle
• Potter's wheel
• Bellows
• Vice

305What is the substance on pottery that becomes a shiny, waterproof glassy layer in the kiln?

• Resin
• Plaster
• Glue
• Glaze

306Which American artist is known for balanced sculptures that hang from the ceiling and turn in the air?

• Constantin Brancusi
• Alexander Calder
• Louise Bourgeois
• Henry Moore

307From which continent came the traditional masks that deeply influenced Picasso and his peers?

• South America
• Australia
• Africa
• North America

308In ancient Egyptian wall paintings, from which angle are the face and feet of human figures shown?

• From the front
• From behind
• From the side
• From above

309What is the opening in a camera that controls how much light passes through the lens called?

• Shutter button
• Viewfinder
• Aperture
• Tripod

310Which camera setting is raised so that a fast-running athlete comes out sharp, as if frozen?

• Focal length
• Shutter speed
• Aspect ratio
• White balance

311What is the lightless room where film negatives are developed and printed onto paper called?

• Darkroom
• Booth
• Workshop
• Studio

312What is the rule of dividing the frame in three both ways and putting key elements on the lines?

• Rule of symmetry
• Rule of thirds
• Centring rule
• Golden ratio

313Which photographer made the landscapes of America's national parks famous through black-and-white images?

• Ansel Adams
• Robert Capa
• Dorothea Lange
• Edward Steichen

314In a night photograph with a long exposure, how do the headlights of moving cars appear?

• As black patches
• They do not appear at all
• As separate dots
• As long streaks of light

315Which Belgian comics master created the adventures of Tintin?

• Albert Uderzo
• Hergé
• René Goscinny
• Peyo

316What is a humorous portrait that exaggerates a person's distinctive features called?

• Sketch
• Caricature
• Silhouette
• Poster

317What is the frame in a comic in which a single moment is drawn called?

• Speech balloon
• Strip
• Panel
• Cover

318When Japanese comics are printed as books, how do the pages usually come out?

• Black and white
• In sepia tones
• Full colour
• Only in shades of blue

319What is the art of colour prints reproduced from wooden blocks in Edo-period Japan called?

• Ukiyo-e
• Bonsai
• Ikebana
• Origami

320What is depicted most often in the pictures Ice Age people painted on cave walls?

• Animals
• Ships
• Stars
• Houses

321What are the sacred images painted with gold leaf on wooden panels in Orthodox churches called?

• Fresco
• Stained glass
• Relief
• Icon

322Which material is used for brush drawing in traditional Chinese and Japanese painting?

• Acrylic paint
• Black ink
• Oil paint
• Pastel

323Which lens does a photographer choose to fit a whole narrow room into one frame?

• Portrait lens
• Macro lens
• Telephoto lens
• Wide-angle lens

324Which Russian writer wrote the plays “The Cherry Orchard” and “Three Sisters”?

• Maxim Gorky
• Anton Chekhov
• Ivan Turgenev
• Nikolai Gogol

325Which Norwegian playwright wrote the play “A Doll's House”?

• Knut Hamsun
• August Strindberg
• Henrik Ibsen
• Ludvig Holberg

326Which French playwright wrote the comedies “Tartuffe” and “The Miser”?

• Molière
• Pierre Corneille
• Beaumarchais
• Jean Racine

327Who wrote “Waiting for Godot”, a play about two men waiting for someone who never arrives?

• Luigi Pirandello
• Harold Pinter
• Eugène Ionesco
• Samuel Beckett

328Who wrote the play “Death of a Salesman”?

• Edward Albee
• Thornton Wilder
• Arthur Miller
• Eugene O'Neill

329Which ancient Greek writer composed the tragedy “Oedipus the King”?

• Aristophanes
• Sophocles
• Euripides
• Aeschylus

330Which German artist developed epic theatre and wrote “The Threepenny Opera”?

• Friedrich Schiller
• Gotthold Lessing
• Bertolt Brecht
• Georg Büchner

331Who wrote “A Streetcar Named Desire”, the play known for the character Blanche DuBois?

• John Steinbeck
• Sam Shepard
• Clifford Odets
• Tennessee Williams

332Shakespeare's play “Hamlet” takes place at the court of which country?

• Norway
• Scotland
• the Netherlands
• Denmark

333Which Shakespeare play is believed to bring bad luck if its title is said in a theatre?

• The Tempest
• Othello
• Macbeth
• King Lear

334Which famous musical was adapted from Bernard Shaw's play “Pygmalion”?

• My Fair Lady
• Beauty and the Beast
• Chicago
• Oklahoma!

335What is the person who quietly whispers forgotten words to an actor from the wings called?

• Prompter
• Dramaturge
• Stage manager
• Extra

336What is the rest break between the acts of a stage play called?

• Tour
• Finale
• Intermission
• Premiere

337What is the opening section that introduces the story to the audience at the start of a play called?

• Epilogue
• Overture
• Backstage
• Prologue

338What is the person who designs the steps and movements of a dance performance called?

• Costume designer
• Librettist
• Lighting designer
• Choreographer

339What is the visual arrangement that recreates the place where the action happens on stage called?

• Costume
• Prop
• Make-up
• Scenery

340What is a play's final full run-through, done in costume and with stage lights but without an audience, called?

• Gala night
• Matinee
• Dress rehearsal
• Read-through

341In operas and musicals, what is the lowered area right in front of the stage where the musicians sit called?

• Balcony
• Prompt box
• Orchestra pit
• Foyer

342What is the serious, sorrowful kind of theatre that ends in the hero's downfall called?

• Comedy
• Melodrama
• Vaudeville
• Tragedy

343In ancient Greek theatre, what was the group that sang and commented on events called?

• Oracle
• Chorus
• Narrator
• Jester

344In ancient Greece, theatre festivals were held in honour of which god?

• Hermes
• Dionysus
• Athena
• Apollo

345Which Russian theatre maker developed the acting method of truly living the role?

• Lee Strasberg
• Jerzy Grotowski
• Vsevolod Meyerhold
• Konstantin Stanislavski

346What are the small viewing compartments on the side walls of a theatre auditorium called?

• Stalls
• Foyer
• Gallery
• Box

347Which Mozart opera tells of the downfall of a Spanish nobleman who chases women?

• Fidelio
• Rigoletto
• Don Giovanni
• Norma

348“Nessun dorma”, one of the world's most famous tenor arias, is sung in which opera?

• Turandot
• Otello
• Tosca
• Nabucco

349In opera, what is the passage sung in a speech-like way between two arias called?

• Serenade
• Recitative
• Duet
• Cadenza

350What is the text containing the words of an opera called?

• Screenplay
• Repertoire
• Score
• Libretto

351In which German town stands the festival theatre that Wagner had built for his own works?

• Dresden
• Weimar
• Bayreuth
• Leipzig

352In which city is the Teatro Colón, the opera house world-famous for its acoustics?

• Montevideo
• Lima
• Santiago
• Buenos Aires

353The white shells forming the roof of the Sydney Opera House are most often compared to what?

• Birds' wings
• Sails
• Waves
• Giant leaves

354What Italian title is given to the woman who sings the leading role in an opera?

• Prima donna
• Chorister
• Impresario
• Maestro

355In Peking opera, what do the colourful paintings on the performers' faces convey?

• The performer's age
• The season of the scene
• The character's personality
• How long the show will last

356In classical ballet, what is the section danced by two performers together called?

• Pas de deux
• Arabesque
• Jeté
• Plié

357Most ballet terms come from which language?

• Italian
• Russian
• French
• Latin

358What is the short, puffy, layered skirt worn by ballerinas called?

• Corset
• Cape
• Tutu
• Crinoline

359Which master is known for choreographing the ballets “The Sleeping Beauty” and “The Nutcracker”?

• Marius Petipa
• Jules Perrot
• August Bournonville
• Arthur Saint-Léon

360Which ballet by Stravinsky caused the audience to riot at its 1913 premiere?

• Petrushka
• The Firebird
• The Rite of Spring
• Giselle

361Who founded the Ballets Russes, the company that introduced Russian ballet to Western Europe?

• Anna Pavlova
• Sergei Diaghilev
• Michel Fokine
• Vaslav Nijinsky

362Which American modern dance pioneer developed a dance technique named after herself?

• Twyla Tharp
• Isadora Duncan
• Martha Graham
• Ruth St. Denis

363What are the stiff-toed ballet shoes that let a dancer rise onto the tips of the toes called?

• Tap shoes
• Character shoes
• Pointe shoes
• Soft ballet slippers

364What is a ballet dancer's rapid spin on one foot called?

• Curtsy
• Pirouette
• Jeté
• Plié

365In hula dancing, what do the performers' hand and arm movements express?

• The direction of the island
• The dancer's age
• The story told by the song
• The name of the season

366Which German choreographer brought dance theatre to the world with her Wuppertal company?

• Pina Bausch
• Sasha Waltz
• Mary Wigman
• Rudolf Laban

367Which dance style keeps rhythm by striking the floor with metal-tipped shoes?

• Tap dance
• Cha-cha-cha
• Charleston
• Foxtrot

368Breakdancing emerged from which music culture?

• Disco
• Reggae
• Hip hop
• Jazz

369Kathak and Bharatanatyam are classical dance forms of which country?

• Indonesia
• India
• Thailand
• Sri Lanka

370The famous traditional dance of the Maasai is known for which movement?

• Walking back to back
• Crawling on the ground
• Jumping high on the spot
• Spinning in a squat

371The sirtaki dance is identified with which country?

• Romania
• Bulgaria
• Serbia
• Greece

372The polka dance was born in the lands of which present-day country?

• Slovakia
• Czechia
• Poland
• Austria

373The folk dance called csárdás belongs to which country?

• Hungary
• Portugal
• Croatia
• Estonia

374Merengue is regarded as the national dance of which country?

• Puerto Rico
• Cuba
• Colombia
• Dominican Republic

375The hopak folk dance, known for its high leaps, comes from which country?

• Georgia
• Belarus
• Ukraine
• Lithuania

376The tarantella is a folk dance born in the south of which country?

• Portugal
• Italy
• Malta
• Spain

377In flamenco, what is the rhythmic striking of the floor with the heels called?

• Zapateado
• Duende
• Palmas
• Cante

378Which exuberant dance made the Moulin Rouge in Paris famous?

• Waltz
• Mazurka
• Charleston
• Cancan

379Oriental dance, also known as belly dance, is the traditional performing art of which region?

• Central America
• West Africa
• Southeast Asia
• The Middle East

380What is the apparatus circus acrobats use to swing and leap from one bar to another in mid-air called?

• Springboard
• Aerial hoop
• Trapeze
• Balance beam

381What is the performer who walks along a thin wire stretched between two points called?

• Acrobat
• Tightrope walker
• Snake charmer
• Fire-eater

382What is the performer who throws several balls into the air in turn and catches them called?

• Mime artist
• Magician
• Juggler
• Ventriloquist

383Which contemporary circus company, founded in Canada, is known for performing without animals?

• Ringling Brothers
• Cirque Medrano
• Moscow State Circus
• Cirque du Soleil

384Which circus performer makes the audience laugh with exaggerated make-up, a red nose and huge shoes?

• Contortionist
• Lion tamer
• Ringmaster
• Clown

385What is the type of puppet operated from above by strings called?

• Hand puppet
• Finger puppet
• Shadow puppet
• Marionette

386Which traditional Japanese theatre is staged with large puppets operated by three people together?

• Kyogen
• Bunraku
• Peking opera
• Kabuki

387Which Indonesian tradition is performed by casting the shadows of leather puppets onto a screen?

• Kathakali
• Nang yai
• Wayang kulit
• Bunraku

388Which Japanese theatre form is known for its masks, slow movements and ceremonial air?

• Kyogen
• Rakugo
• Butoh
• Noh

389Which grand dance-theatre form, born in Kerala, has performers paint their faces green?

• Yakshagana
• Odissi
• Kathakali
• Kabuki

390In England's puppet tradition, which famous puppet couple is forever quarrelling?

• Pulcinella
• Punch and Judy
• Kasperle
• Guignol

391In which country did commedia dell'arte, known for its masked characters and improvisation, originate?

• Austria
• Spain
• Italy
• France

392Which of the world's longest-running musicals was adapted from a novel by Victor Hugo?

• Rent
• Miss Saigon
• Les Misérables
• Evita

393Which musical, adapted from poems by T. S. Eliot, is known for the song “Memory”?

• Cats
• Grease
• Starlight Express
• Hair

394Which 2015 musical tells the life of an American founding father through rap and hip hop?

• Dear Evan Hansen
• The Book of Mormon
• Hamilton
• Wicked

395In the most famous scene of “The Phantom of the Opera”, what giant object falls towards the audience?

• A chandelier
• A giant mirror
• The stage curtain
• A giant organ

396The musical “West Side Story” was inspired by which Shakespeare play?

• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Romeo and Juliet
• Twelfth Night

397In Disney's stage musical “The Lion King”, how are the animals brought to life?

• With real animals
• With drawings projected on a screen
• With giant puppets and masks
• Only through shadow play

398Which American is known for choreographing the musicals “Chicago” and “Cabaret”?

• Gower Champion
• Bob Fosse
• Jerome Robbins
• Michael Bennett

399If a little purple is mixed into yellow paint, how does the colour's vividness change?

• It turns green
• It becomes even brighter
• It dulls towards grey
• It does not change at all

400Who wrote the novel "The Alchemist", about a shepherd's search for treasure?

• Paulo Coelho
• José Saramago
• Fernando Pessoa
• Jorge Amado