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Art & Literature
2,442 questions • Page 23 of 35
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| 1541 | What story features flopsy, mopsy and cottontail? | Peter Rabbit |
| 1542 | The play "Our Town" is set where? | Grover's Corners |
| 1543 | A single print made from a metal or glass plate on which an image has been represented in paint, ink, etc. | Monotype |
| 1544 | Which Famous Book Begins With The Line 'The mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home' | The Wind In The Willows |
| 1545 | Spanish modernist and cubist Pablo _____ | Picasso |
| 1546 | Which Novel Deals With The Events Of One Day In Dublin In June 1904 | Ulysses By James Joyce |
| 1547 | A movement in American painting and sculpture that originated in the late 1950s. It emphasized pure, reduced forms and strict, systematic compositions. | Minimalism |
| 1548 | In Which Novel Was It The Job Of The (Fireman) To Burn Books | Fahrenheit 451 |
| 1549 | In painting, a work made of several panels or scenes joined together. A diptych has two panels; a triptych, three. | Polyptych |
| 1550 | In Which Novels Does Bilbo Baggins Appear | The Hobbit/ Lord Of The Rings |
| 1551 | Who Wrote The Novel Emma | Jane Austen |
| 1552 | What Was Author George Elliots Real Name | Mary Ann Cross (Nee Evans) |
| 1553 | From the french word 'fauve', meaning 'wild beast'. A style adopted by artists associated with Matisse, c. 1905-1908. They painted in a spontaneous manner, using bold colors. | Fauvism |
| 1554 | In What Science Fiction Novel Do Duke Leto Atreidea & The Harkonnens Feature | Dune |
| 1555 | In 'A Christmas Carol', how many ghosts visited Scrooge? | Four |
| 1556 | Which Famous Book Contains The Line 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife' | Pride & Prejudice |
| 1557 | Who Painted Flatford Mill | Constable |
| 1558 | The representation of inanimate objects in painting, drawing or photography. | Still life |
| 1559 | Who wrote 1984 ? | George Orwell |
| 1560 | Author of such works as Gravity's Rainbow, V, The Crying of Lot 49 and most recently, Mason & Dixon? | Thomas Pynchon |
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| 1561 | Who wrote 'Rendezvous with Rama'? | Sir Arthur C. Clarke |
| 1562 | In sculpting, the cutting of a form from a solid, hard material such as stone or wood, in contrast to the technique of modeling. | Carving |
| 1563 | Which Famous Book Begins With The Line 'On January 6, 1482, the people of Paris were awakened by the tumultuous clanging of all the bells in the city' | The Hunchback Of Natre Damme |
| 1564 | Which Of The Bronte Sisters Married The Reverend A B Nicholls In 1854 | Charlotte |
| 1565 | Who wrote the epic poem Odyssey ? | Homer |
| 1566 | Which Em Forster Novel Features The Schlegal Sisters | Howards End |
| 1567 | Which Gilbert and Sullivan Opera is about the Emperor of Japan? | The Mikado |
| 1568 | What publication was subtitled The What's New Magazine | Popular science |
| 1569 | Which St Louis Born Novelist & Poet Became A British Subject In 1927 | T S Eliot |
| 1570 | A russian abstract movement begun in the early twentieth century. It employs an analytic vision based on fragmentation and multiple viewpoints. | Cubism |
| 1571 | Who wrote 'The Female Eunuch'? | Germaine Greer |
| 1572 | A movement of the 1920s and 1930s that began in France. It explored the unconscious, often using images from dreams. It used spontaneous techniques and featured unexpected juxtapositions of objects. | Surrealism |
| 1573 | Who wrote the 'Myth' series? | Robert Asprin |
| 1574 | A decorative art movement that emerged in the late nineteenth century. Characterized by dense assymmetrical ornamentation in sinuos forms, it is often symbolic and of an erotic nature. | Art noveau |
| 1575 | "Now is the winter of our discontent" is a line from which Shakespearian play? | Richard III |
| 1576 | Who said 'But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks'? | Romeo |
| 1577 | In What book would you find a Hefalump? | Winnie the Pooh |
| 1578 | In Which Shakespearean Play Would You Find The Clown Costard | Love's Labour Lost |
| 1579 | Stephen King's: " Pet ________". | Cemetary |
| 1580 | In 'Romeo and Juliet', who gave a long monologue about Queen Mab? | Mercutio |
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| 1581 | A representation of a human or an animal form. | Figure |
| 1582 | Which US clarinetist players real name was Arthur Jacob Shaw? | Artie Shaw |
| 1583 | Which Shakespearean Play Is Set In The Forest Of Arden | As You Like It |
| 1584 | What Shakespearean play features the line: A plague on both your houses? | Romeo and Juliet |
| 1585 | According To "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" what number is the answer to everything? | Forty Two |
| 1586 | Who wrote "The count of Monte-Christo"? | Dumas |
| 1587 | Who wrote the 'Father Brown' crime stories? | G.K. Chesterton |
| 1588 | Who wrote three books under the title "Das Kapital" ? | Karl Marx |
| 1589 | What word is Isaac Asimov famous for coining ? | Robotics |
| 1590 | A method of painting developed by Seurat and Signac in the 1880s. It used dabs of pure color that were intended to mix in the eyes of viewers rather than on the canvas. It is also called divisionism or neoimpressionism. | Pointillism |
| 1591 | Gandalf's elven name. | Mithrandir |
| 1592 | The ____ ____ school of poetry includes poets such as Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch | New York |
| 1593 | What is the name of Hamlet's tragic admirer? | Ophelia |
| 1594 | Which Author Wrote The 'Just So Stories''? | Rudyard Kipling |
| 1595 | Which Famous Book Begins With The Line 'Not long ago, there lived in London a young married couple of Dalmatian dogs named Pongo and Misses Pongo' | 101 Dalmations |
| 1596 | Who Kills Nancy In Dickens Novel Oliver Twist | Bill Sykes |
| 1597 | Who Created The Character Adrian Mole | Sue Towsend |
| 1598 | Faulkner penned this book with 4 distinctive sections: the Benjy section, Quentin's section, Jason and then Dilsey's sections. | The Sound and the Fury |
| 1599 | For Which Novel Was Boris Pasternak Awarded The 1958 Nobel Prize , An Award He Declined | Dr Zhivago |
| 1600 | Ground chalk or plaster mixed with glue, used as a base coat for tempera and oil painting. | Gesso |
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| 1601 | Who Wrote (Gone With The Wind) | Margaret Mitchell |
| 1602 | Which Famous Book Contains The Line 'It was the best of times it was the worst of times it was the age of wisdom' | A Tale Of 2 Cities |
| 1603 | The visual and tactile quality of a work based on the particular way the materials are handled; also, the distribution of tones or shades of a single color. | Texture |
| 1604 | Who was Winnie the Pooh's neighbour? | Piglet |
| 1605 | Which Author Described World War One As The War To End All Wars? | HG Wells |
| 1606 | Who Painted The Blue Boy | Gainsborough |
| 1607 | Who Said When A Man Is Tired Of London He Is Tired Of Life | Dr Samuel Johnson |
| 1608 | Design style prevalent during the 1920s and 1930s, characterized by a sleek use of straight lines and slender forms. | Art deco |
| 1609 | A technique in abstract painting developed in the 1950s. It focuses on the lyrical effects of large areas of color, often poured or stained onto the canvas. | Color field painting |
| 1610 | Name the Shakespeare play from this ultra short plot summary: Urged on by his wife, a man murders his king in order to take his place. | Macbeth |
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