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Art & Literature
2,442 questions • Page 21 of 35
| # | Question | Answer |
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| 1401 | Which Novel Features Perks The Station Porter? | The Railway Children |
| 1402 | What School Of Poets Was John Donne Attributed To | The Metaphysical Poets |
| 1403 | Whose Smile Remained After The Rest Of It Had Vanished | The Cheshire Cat's |
| 1404 | An artwork humoously excaggerating the qualities, defects, or pecularities of a person or idea. | Caricature |
| 1405 | Who Is Pips Benefactor In Dickens's Great Expectations | Abel Magwitch |
| 1406 | Who had decieved the Lord of Rohan for a number of years | Wormtongue |
| 1407 | A movement in European painting in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, characterized by violent movement, strong emotion, and dramatic lighting and coloring. | Baroque |
| 1408 | This Romantic poet and wife of Mary Shelley drowned in a boating accident? | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| 1409 | Who wrote 'Valley Of The Dolls'? | Jacqueline Susann |
| 1410 | What Is The Nationality Of Picasso | Spanish |
| 1411 | Who wrote the famous series of Discworld books? | Terry Pratchett |
| 1412 | Which Famous Book Begins With The Line 'Marley was dead, to begin with. There was no doubt about that' | A Christmas Carol |
| 1413 | Which Writer , Archaeologist & Soldier Joined The RAF After The First World War & Changed His Name To Shaw In 1927 | T E Lawrence |
| 1414 | Painting in which natural scenery is the subject. | Landscape |
| 1415 | In what opera would you find Lt. Pinkerton? | Madame butterfly |
| 1416 | This Romantic poet and husband to Mary Shelley drowned in a boating accident. | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| 1417 | The Royal Opera House in London is home to which Branch of the arts other than Opera? | Ballet |
| 1418 | 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 |
| 1419 | Which American Author Wrote The Novel (Roots) | Alex Haley |
| 1420 | The ____ generation included such authors as Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsburg. | Beat |
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| 1421 | The effect of the harmony of color and values in a work. | Tone |
| 1422 | What Is The Name Of Colin Dexter's Fictional Detective | Inspector Morse |
| 1423 | Of Which Famous London Landmark Was Sir Alfred Gilbert The Sculptor | Eros |
| 1424 | Who is a successful recording artist, talented landscape artist, and author of children's books? | Ricky Van Shelton |
| 1425 | The study of building design is ____________. | Architecture |
| 1426 | Meaning 'fresh' in italian. The technique of painting on moist lime plaster with colors ground in water. | Fresco |
| 1427 | In which book is Scheherazade a story teller ? | Arabian Nights |
| 1428 | Who Wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle) | Adolf Hitler |
| 1429 | Which Famous Book Begins With The Line 'When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightening, or in rain' | Macbeth |
| 1430 | Who Wrote The Noddy Stories | Enid Blyton |
| 1431 | How many plays is Shakespeare generally credited with today? | Thirty seven |
| 1432 | The fallacy of personifying inanimate objects, often in bad taste? | Pathetic fallacy |
| 1433 | In painting, a thin layer of translucent color. | Wash |
| 1434 | Which American Artist Is Known For A Portarit Of His Mother | James Whistler |
| 1435 | Who wrote 'Psycho'? | Robert Bloch |
| 1436 | By What Name Is The Great Italian Sculptor & Artist Buonarroti Better Known | Michelangelo |
| 1437 | Who Wrote (Far From The Madding Crowd) | Thomas Hardy |
| 1438 | The Famous Lithograph (The Scream) Was Created By Which Artist | Edvard Munch |
| 1439 | Which Welsh Poet Died Of Alcohol Poisoning The Year He Publsihed His Collected Poems | Dylan Thomas |
| 1440 | What was Picasso's first name? | Pablo |
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| 1441 | Who Wrote The Play (Hay Fever) | Noel Coward |
| 1442 | Who Composed The Ballet (The Nutcracker) | Tchaikovsky |
| 1443 | Who Is The Most Famous Character Ever To Be Created By Helen Fielding | Bridget Jones |
| 1444 | Which Author Wrote The Book Black Beauty? | Anna Sewell |
| 1445 | Edgar Allen Poe wrote a famous poem about this animal. | Raven |
| 1446 | 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 |
| 1447 | Who wrote 'The Hobbit'? | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| 1448 | Which Shakespeare play opens with the 3 Witches? | Macbeth |
| 1449 | At which railway station does Harry Potter catch the Hogwart's Express at platform 9 and 3 quarters? | King's Cross |
| 1450 | Douglas Adams is famous for writing what ? | The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy |
| 1451 | Who Drew Drawings Of Absurd Mechanical Contrivances | William Heath Robinson |
| 1452 | A composition made of cut and pasted pieces of materials, sometimes with images added by the artist. | Collage |
| 1453 | How many lines are in a sonnet | 14 |
| 1454 | Who Wrote The Novel 'Silence Of The Lambs''? | Thomas Harris |
| 1455 | What shakespearean play refers to the date of epiphany? | Twelfth Night |
| 1456 | 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 |
| 1457 | In Which Shakespearean Tragedy Does Laertes Appear | Hamlet |
| 1458 | Which Celebration Of The Arts In Held In Wales | The Eisteddfod |
| 1459 | A group of American painters who united out of opposition to academic standards in the early twentieth century. | The eight |
| 1460 | The rendering of light and shade in painting; the subtle graduations and marked variations of light and shade for dramatic effect. | Chiaroscuro |
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| 1461 | Whose Works The Ballad Of Reading Gaol & De Profundis, Were Written From His Experiences In Prison | Oscar Wilde |
| 1462 | Who created 'The Saint'? | Leslie Charteris |
| 1463 | What are arranged in the Japanese art of Ikebana? | Flowers |
| 1464 | Name The 3 Bronte Sisters | Charlotte, Emily & Anne |
| 1465 | Who wrote 'The Great Gatsby'? | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 1466 | Which Antipodean Opera Singer Sung At Prince Charles Wedding To Lady Diana Spencer | Kiri Te Kanawa |
| 1467 | A soft, subdued color; a drawing stick made of ground pigments, chalk, and gum water. | Pastel |
| 1468 | Paint applied very thickly. It often projects from the picture surface. | Impasto |
| 1469 | Who Wrote About Tarzan | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 1470 | Stephen King's: "The Dead ________". | Zone |
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