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| 1261 | An italian movement c.1909-1919. It attempted to integrate the dynamism of the machine age into art. | Futurism | |
| 1262 | His many Romantic odes include Ode to Melancholy and Ode to a Graecian Urn? | Keats | |
| 1263 | Who wrote the book "The Origin of Species" ? | Charles Darwin | |
| 1264 | A European movement beginning in France. Gothic sculpture emerged c. 1200, Gothic painting later in the thirteenth century. The artworks are characterized by a linear, graceful, elegant style more naturalistic than that which had existed previously in Europe. | Gothic | |
| 1265 | Where Might You Find The Museum Of Modern Art | New York | |
| 1266 | How many books are there in Anne Rice's vampire series? | Five | |
| 1267 | What subject did 'Mr. Chips' teach? | Latin | |
| 1268 | An eighteenth-century European style, originating in France. In reaction to the grandeur and massiveness of the baroque, it employed refined, elegant, highly decorative forms. | Rococco | |
| 1269 | What was the sequel to Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women"? | Little Men | |
| 1270 | A flat board used by a painter to mix and hold colors, traditionally oblong, with a hole for the thumb; also, a range of colors used by a particular painter. | Palette | |
| 1271 | A European style of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Its elegant, balanced works revived the order and harmony of ancient Greek and Roman art. | Neoclassicism | |
| 1272 | Dr. Seuss wrote this book: The Cat in the ______. | Hat | |
| 1273 | The study of building design is ________. | Architecture | |
| 1274 | Who Wrote `The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'? | Douglas Adams | |
| 1275 | Who wrote "The Wind in the Willows" ? | Kenneth Grahame | |
| 1276 | How many stories did enid blyton publish in 1959? | Fifty nine | |
| 1277 | Which US dramatist was once married to Marylin Monroe and penned the plays "Death Of A Salesman" and "The Crucible"? | Arthur Miller | |
| 1278 | From which of Shakespeare's plays is this line: "All the world's a stage___" | As You Like It | |
| 1279 | Which Novel Features Perks The Station Porter? | The Railway Children | |
| 1280 | An artwork humoously excaggerating the qualities, defects, or pecularities of a person or idea. | Caricature | |
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| 1281 | Who had decieved the Lord of Rohan for a number of years | Wormtongue | |
| 1282 | A movement in European painting in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, characterized by violent movement, strong emotion, and dramatic lighting and coloring. | Baroque | |
| 1283 | This Romantic poet and wife of Mary Shelley drowned in a boating accident? | Percy Bysshe Shelley | |
| 1284 | Who wrote 'Valley Of The Dolls'? | Jacqueline Susann | |
| 1285 | Who wrote the famous series of Discworld books? | Terry Pratchett | |
| 1286 | Which Writer , Archaeologist & Soldier Joined The RAF After The First World War & Changed His Name To Shaw In 1927 | T E Lawrence | |
| 1287 | Painting in which natural scenery is the subject. | Landscape | |
| 1288 | In what opera would you find Lt. Pinkerton? | Madame butterfly | |
| 1289 | This Romantic poet and husband to Mary Shelley drowned in a boating accident. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | |
| 1290 | The Royal Opera House in London is home to which Branch of the arts other than Opera? | Ballet | |
| 1291 | A painting movement that flourished in France in the 1880s and 1980s in which subject matter was suggested rather than directly presented. It featured decorative, stylized, and evocative images. | Symbolism | |
| 1292 | The ____ generation included such authors as Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsburg. | Beat | |
| 1293 | The effect of the harmony of color and values in a work. | Tone | |
| 1294 | What Is The Name Of Colin Dexter's Fictional Detective | Inspector Morse | |
| 1295 | Who is a successful recording artist, talented landscape artist, and author of children's books? | Ricky Van Shelton | |
| 1296 | The study of building design is ____________. | Architecture | |
| 1297 | Meaning 'fresh' in italian. The technique of painting on moist lime plaster with colors ground in water. | Fresco | |
| 1298 | In which book is Scheherazade a story teller ? | Arabian Nights | |
| 1299 | How many plays is Shakespeare generally credited with today? | Thirty seven | |
| 1300 | The fallacy of personifying inanimate objects, often in bad taste? | Pathetic fallacy | |
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| 1301 | In painting, a thin layer of translucent color. | Wash | |
| 1302 | Who wrote 'Psycho'? | Robert Bloch | |
| 1303 | What was Picasso's first name? | Pablo | |
| 1304 | Who Composed The Ballet (The Nutcracker) | Tchaikovsky | |
| 1305 | Which Author Wrote The Book Black Beauty? | Anna Sewell | |
| 1306 | Edgar Allen Poe wrote a famous poem about this animal. | Raven | |
| 1307 | This is the choice and arrangement of words and phrases in a literary work. It is the vocabulary that the author, poet or playwright uses to create style and effect in a piece of writing? | Diction | |
| 1308 | Who wrote 'The Hobbit'? | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 1309 | Which Shakespeare play opens with the 3 Witches? | Macbeth | |
| 1310 | At which railway station does Harry Potter catch the Hogwart's Express at platform 9 and 3 quarters? | King's Cross | |
| 1311 | Douglas Adams is famous for writing what ? | The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy | |
| 1312 | A composition made of cut and pasted pieces of materials, sometimes with images added by the artist. | Collage | |
| 1313 | Who Wrote The Novel 'Silence Of The Lambs''? | Thomas Harris | |
| 1314 | What shakespearean play refers to the date of epiphany? | Twelfth Night | |
| 1315 | Name the author of his famous and only novel 'Doctor Zhivago', which presents a panoramic view of Russian society at the time of the 1917 Revolution. | Boris Pasternak | |
| 1316 | A group of American painters who united out of opposition to academic standards in the early twentieth century. | The eight | |
| 1317 | The rendering of light and shade in painting; the subtle graduations and marked variations of light and shade for dramatic effect. | Chiaroscuro | |
| 1318 | Who created 'The Saint'? | Leslie Charteris | |
| 1319 | What are arranged in the Japanese art of Ikebana? | Flowers | |
| 1320 | Who wrote 'The Great Gatsby'? | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
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| 1321 | A soft, subdued color; a drawing stick made of ground pigments, chalk, and gum water. | Pastel | |
| 1322 | Paint applied very thickly. It often projects from the picture surface. | Impasto | |
| 1323 | Stephen King's: "The Dead ________". | Zone | |
| 1324 | From which Shakespeare play is this line taken: "Goodnight, goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I should say goodnight till it be morrow." | Romeo and Juliet | |
| 1325 | What Dr Seuss character steals Christmas? | Grinch | |
| 1326 | Who wrote the vampire series that featured Lestat as the main character? | Anne Rice | |
| 1327 | In 2007 Who Topped the Best Sellers Non Fiction List With Born To Be Riled? | Jeremy Clarkson | |
| 1328 | This magazine chronicled the Man of Bronze and the Fabulous Five. | Doc savage | |
| 1329 | What did Jeannie C. Riley describe as "a little Peyton Place"? | Harper Valley | |
| 1330 | This girl hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam. | Anne frank | |
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