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AUTHOR: JennJenn
"\"Our Town\" is a play by whom?":
- Thornton Wilder
- Wilder
"\"The Diary of Anne Frank\" was first published in English under what title?":
- The diary of a young girl
A European movement of the late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century. In reaction to neoclassicism, it focused on emotion over reason, and on spontaneous expression?:
- Romanticism
A European style developed in France in the late eleventh century. Its sculpture is ornamental, stylized and complex?:
- Romanesque
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
A Russian abstract movement originated by Malevich c. 1913. It was characterized by flat geometric shapes on plain backgrounds and emphasized the spiritual qualities of pure form?:
- Suprematism
A band of painted or sculpted decoration, often at the top of a wall?:
- Frieze
A composition made of cut and pasted pieces of materials, sometimes with images added by the artist?:
- Collage
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
A figurative movement that emerged in the United States and Britain in the late 1960s and 1970s. The subject matter, usually everyday scenes, is portrayed in an extremely detailed, exacting style. It is also called superrealism, especially when referring to sculpture?:
- Photorealism
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
A group of American painters who united out of opposition to academic standards in the early twentieth century?:
- The eight
A group of English painters formed in 1848. These artists attempted to recapture the style of painting preceding Raphael. They rejected industrialized England and focused on painting from nature, producing detailed, colorful works?:
- Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
A large painting or decoration done on a wall?:
- Mural
A late-nineteenth-century French school of painting. It focused on transitory visual impressions, often painted directly from nature, with an emphasis on the changing effects of light and color?:
- Impressionism
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
A method of producing images or letters from sheets of cardboard, metal, or other materials from which forms have been cut away?:
- Stenciling
A method of watercolor painting, but prepared with a more gluey base, producing a less transparent effect?:
- Gouache
A movement in American painting and sculpture that originated in the late 1950s. It emphasized pure, reduced forms and strict, systematic compositions?:
- Minimalism
A movement in European painting in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, characterized by violent movement, strong emotion, and dramatic lighting and coloring?:
- Baroque
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
A movement of the 1960s and 1970s that emphasized the artistic idea over the art object. It attempted to free art from the confines of the gallery and the pedestal?:
- Conceptual art
A movement that began in Britain and the United States in the 1950s. It used the images and techniques of mass media, advertising, and popular culture, often in an ironic way?:
- Pop art
A movement, c. 1915-23, that rejected accepted aesthetic standards. It aimed to create antiart and nonart, often employing a sense of the absurd?:
- Dadaism
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
A painting or drawing executed in a single color?:
- Monochrome
A painting technique using pigments mixed with egg yolk and water. It produces clear, pure colors.?:
- Tempera
A print made by carving on a wood block, which is then inked and printed?:
- Woodcut
A printing process in which ink impressions are taken from a flat stone or metal plate prepared with a greasy substance, such as an oily crayon?:
- lithography
A realistic style of painting in which everyday life forms the subject matter, as distinguished from religious or historical painting?:
- Genre painting
A representation of a human or an animal form?:
- Figure
A russian abstract movement begun in the early twentieth century. It employs an analytic vision based on fragmentation and multiple viewpoints?:
- Cubism
A single print made from a metal or glass plate on which an image has been represented in paint, ink, etc?:
- Monotype
A soft, subdued color; a drawing stick made of ground pigments, chalk, and gum water?:
- Pastel
A style, c. 1520-1600, that arose in reaction to the harmony and proportion of the High Renaissance. It featured elongated, contorted poses, crowded canvases, and harsh lighting and coloring?:
- Mannerism
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
A technique of engraving, using a sharp-pointed needle, that produces a furrowed edge resulting in a print with soft, velvety lines?:
- Drypoint
A termed coined by British art critic Roger Fry to refer to a group of nine-teenth century painters, who were dissatisfied with the limitations of impressionism. It has since been used to refer to various reactions against impressionism, such as fauvism and expressionism?:
- Postimpressionism
According To "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" what number is the answer to everything?:
- Forty Two
- 42
An Italian movement c.1909-1919. It attempted to integrate the dynamism of the machine age into art?:
- Futurism
An abstract movement in Europe and the United States, begun in the mid-1950's and based on the effect of optical patterns?:
- Op art
An artwork humoously excaggerating the qualities, defects, or pecularities of a person or idea?:
- Caricature
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
An etching tecnique in which a solution of asphalt or resin is used on the plate. It produces prints with rich, gray tones?:
- Aquatint
Artwork, usually paintings, characterized by a simplified style, nonscientific perspective, and bold colors. The artists are generally not professionally trained?:
- Naive art
At which railway station does Harry Potter catch the Hogwart's Express at Platform 9 and 3 Quarters?:
- King's Cross
- kings cross
Author of "The Lighthouse" and "Eminent Victorians"?:
- Virginia Woolf
- woolf
Author of such works as 'Gravity's Rainbow', 'V', 'The Crying of Lot 49' and most recently, 'Mason & Dixon'?:
- Thomas Pynchon
- pynchon
Bob Kane created who?:
- Batman
By what name is the great Italian sculptor & artist Buonarroti better known as?:
- Michelangelo
Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, and Tinker Bell are characters in what story?:
- Peter Pan
Design style prevalent during the 1920s and 1930s, characterized by a sleek use of straight lines and slender forms?:
- Art deco
Douglas Adams is famous for writing what?:
- The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
"Dr. Seuss wrote this book: The Cat in the______?":
- Hat
Edgar Allen Poe wrote a famous poem about this animal?:
- Raven
"Faulkner penned this book with 4 distinctive sections: Benjy, Quentin, Jason, and Dilsey sections?":
- The Sound and the Fury
For what is Dame Margott Fonteyn famous?:
- Ballet Dancing
- Ballet
For which novel was Boris Pasternak awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize - an award he declined?:
- Dr Zhivago
- dr. zhivago
French impressionist Claude _____?:
- Monet
Frodo is chosen to deliver The Ring into the heart of what?:
- Mount doom
From the Hebrew word for 'prophet'. A group of French painters active in the 1890s who worked in a subjective, sometimes mystical style, stressing flat areas of color and pattern?:
- Nabis
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
"From which Shakespeare play is this line taken: \"To be or not to be\"?":
- Hamlet
"From which Shakespeare play is this line taken: 'Double, double'?":
- Macbeth
"From which Shakespeare play is this line taken: 'What in a name that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet'?":
- Romeo and juliet
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
"From which of Shakespeare's plays is this line: \"All the world's a stage___\"?":
- As You Like It
From whom did Bilbo obtain The Ring?:
- Gollum
Gandalf's elven name.?:
- Mithrandir
Ground chalk or plaster mixed with glue, used as a base coat for tempera and oil painting?:
- Gesso
Group of American artists from 1908 to 1918. Their work featured scenes of urban realism?:
- Ash Can School
H.G. Wells novel where Earth is invaded by Martians?:
- War of the Worlds
He penned the founding novel of the utopian genre, "Utopia"?:
- Sir Thomas More
- More
He wrote 'Ulysses', 'Giacomo Joyce', 'Dubliners', and 'Finnegan's Wake', among others?:
- James Joyce
- joyce
His many Romantic odes include 'Ode to Melancholy' and 'Ode to a Graecian Urn'?:
- Keats
Homer wrote this account of the Trojan War?:
- Iliad
How many books are there in Anne Rice's vampire series?:
- Five
- 5
How many holes are there on a traditional artist's palette?:
- One
- 1
How many lines are in a sonnet?:
- 14
- fourteen
How many plays is Shakespeare generally credited with today?:
- 37
- thirty seven
How many stories did Enid Blyton publish in 1959?:
- Fifty nine
- 59
How many tales are there in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'?:
- 23
- twenty three
In 'A Christmas Carol', how many ghosts visited Scrooge?:
- Four
- 4
In 'A Christmas Carol', what was the name of the miser?:
- Ebenezer Scrooge
- scrooge
In 'Alice In Wonderland', who never stopped sobbing?:
- Mock Turtle
In 'Romeo and Juliet', who gave a long monologue about Queen Mab?:
- Mercutio
In 'Romeo and Juliet', who said 'I have a faint cold, fear thrills through my veins'?:
- Juliet
In 'Romeo and Juliet', who says 'make the bridal bed in that dim monument where Tybalt lies'?:
- Juliet
In 'Romeo and Juliet', who says 'what must be must be'?:
- Juliet
In 'Romeo and Juliet', who was Mercutio's long monologue about?:
- Queen Mab
In 1526 Hans Holbein became the officiaal portrait painter of which English king?:
- Henry VIII
In 2007 who topped the best sellers non fiction list with 'Born To Be Riled'?:
- Jeremy Clarkson
- Clarkson
In Swift's Gulliver's Travels, what is Gulliver's profession?:
- Surgeon
In The Canterbury Tales at which tavern do the story tellers assemble?:
- The Tabard
- tabard
In a general sense, refers to objective representation. More specifically, a nineteenth century movement, especially in France, that rejected idealized academic styles in favor of everyday subjects?:
- Realism
In one of Donald Horne's novels, what was Australia dubbed?:
- The Lucky Country
In painting, a thin layer of translucent color?:
- Wash
In painting, a work made of several panels or scenes joined together. A diptych has two panels; a triptych, three?:
- Polyptych
In painting, the degree of lightness or darkness in a color?:
- Value
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
In sculpture, the building up of form using a soft medium such as clay or wax, as distinguished from carving. In painting and drawing, using color and lighting variations to produce a three-dimensional effect?:
- Modeling
In the 'Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner' which bird is shot?:
- An Albatross
- albatross
In the Dr Seuss books, which elephant hatched an egg?:
- Horton
In the book 'The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole', what was the name of Adrian's girlfriend?:
- Pandora
In what book would you find a Hefalump?:
- Winnie the Pooh
In what city will you find the Museum of Modern Art?:
- New York city
In what field of study would you find "flying buttresses"?:
- Architecture
In what opera would you find Lt. Pinkerton?:
- Madame butterfly
In what work does the HAL 9000 appear?:
- 2001, A Space Odyssey
- 2001 a space odyssey
In which British national daily newspaper does Rupert The Bear appear ?:
- The Daily Express
In which English county was John Constable born?:
- Suffolk
In which Gilbert & Sullivan Operetta does Nakipoo appear?:
- The Mikado
In which John Steinbeck story features the slow-witted Lennie and his friend George ?:
- Of Mice and Men
In which Shakespearean Play would you find the clown Costard?:
- Love's Labour Lost
- love labour lost
In which Shakespearean tragedy does Laertes appear?:
- Hamlet
In which book did four ghosts visit Scrooge?:
- A Christmas Carol
In which book is Scheherazade a story teller?:
- Arabian Nights
In which book would you find the characters Desinov & Dolokhov?:
- War and Peace
In which century did artists first start painting on canvas?:
- 15th Century
- 15th
- 15
- fifteenth
In which city is Leonardo da Vinci's 'Last Supper' displayed?:
- Milan
In which city is the Encyclopædia Britannica published?:
- Chicago
In which city will you find the largest opera house in the world?:
- New York City
In which novel was it the job of the firemen to burn books?:
- Fahrenheit 451
Meaning 'fool the eye' in french. In painting, the fine, detailed rendering of objects to convey the illusion that the painted forms are real and three-dimensional?:
- Trompe l'oeil
Meaning 'fresh' in Italian. The technique of painting on moist lime plaster with colors ground in water?:
- Fresco
Meaning 'rebirth' in french. Refers to Europe c. 1400-1600. The style began in Italy and stressed the forms of classical antiquity, a realistic representation of space based on scientific perspective, and secular subjects?:
- Renaissance
Movement in painting, originating in New York City in the 1940s. It emphasized spontaneous personal expression, freedom from accepted artistic values, surface quallities of paint, and the act of painting itself?:
- Abstract expressionism
Name the Philadelphian artist who introduced the world to "Pop Art"?:
- Andy Warhol
- Warhol
"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
Name the author of 'The Catcher in the Rye'?:
- J.D. Salinger
- JD Salinger
- Salinger
Name the author of the famous 'Doctor Zhivago', which presents a panoramic view of Russian society at the time of the 1917 Revolution?:
- Boris Pasternak
- Pasternak
On a represented form, a point of most intense light?:
- Highlight
On what book was 'Three Days Of The Condor' based?:
- Six Days Of The Condor
Paint applied very thickly. It often projects from the picture surface?:
- Impasto
Reducing or distorting in order to represent three-dimensional space as perceived by the eye, according to the rules of perspective?:
- Foreshortening
Referring to the principles of Greek and Roman art of antiquity with its emphasis on harmony, proportion, balance, and simplicity. In a general sense, it refers to art based on accepted standards of beauty?:
- Classicism
Refers to art that uses emphasis and distortion to communicate emotion. More specifically, it refers to early twentieth-century northern European art, especially in Germany c. 1905-23?:
- Expressionism
Sherlock Holmes lived at 221b _____ street?:
- Baker
Sir Alfred Gilbert was the sculptor of what famous landmark?:
- Eros
Spanish modernist and cubist Pablo _____?:
- Picasso
"Stephen King's: \"Pet ________\"?":
- Semetary
"Stephen King's: \"Salem's _________\"?":
- Lot
"Stephen King's: \"The Dead ________\"?":
- Zone
The Royal Opera House in London is home to which branch of the arts other than Opera?:
- Ballet
The ____ ____ school of poetry includes poets such as Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch?:
- New York
The ____ generation included such authors as Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsburg?:
- Beat
The book "Wamyouruijoshou" was the first to use what word ?:
- Kite
The effect of the harmony of color and values in a work?:
- Tone
The fallacy of personifying inanimate objects, often in bad taste?:
- Pathetic fallacy
The famous lithograph 'The Scream' was created by which artist?:
- Edvard Munch
- munch
The play "Our Town" is set where?:
- Grover's Corners
The rendering of light and shade in painting; the subtle graduations and marked variations of light and shade for dramatic effect?:
- Chiaroscuro
The representation of inanimate objects in painting, drawing or photography?:
- Still life
The study of building design is ____________?:
- Architecture
The surrealist painter Salvador Dali was a native of which country?:
- Spain
The technique of producing printed designs through various methods of incising on wood or metal blocks, which are then inked and printed?:
- Etching
The term Impressionism was first used about which artist?:
- Claude Monet
- Monet
The two races in HG Well's "The Time Machine" are the child-like Eloi and the subterannean ______?:
- Morlocks
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
This Romantic poet and husband to Mary Shelley drowned in a boating accident?:
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
This book, Oscar Wilde's only novel, was used as evidence in his sodomy trial?:
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
This early American statesman and inventor wrote the book, "Fart proudly"?:
- Benjamin Franklin
- franklin
This girl hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam?:
- Anne frank
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
This magazine chronicled the Man of Bronze and the Fabulous Five?:
- Doc savage
This magazine used to boast a circulation of 7,777,777?:
- Better homes and gardens
This man was Time magazine's 1938 "Man of the Year"?:
- Adolf Hitler
- Hitler
This statue was found on the Greek island of Melos in 1820?:
- Venus de milo
Three main types of Greek columns are Doric, Ionic, and __________?:
- Corinthian
Tilly Trotter, Hannah Massey, and Maggie Rowan are all characters created by which novelist?:
- Catherine Cookson
- cookson
To what was 'The Hall Of Arts & Sciences' changed to?:
- The Royal Albert Hall
Under what pen name did Hector Hugh Munro write?:
- Saki
Water-soluble paint made from pigments and a plastic binder?:
- Acrylic
What Dr Seuss character steals Christmas?:
- Grinch
What Dutch master painted 64 self-portraits?:
- Rembrandt
What Irish playwright and author, wrote "The Importance of Being Ernest" and "A Picture of Dorian Grey" among others?:
- Oscar Wilde
- Wilde
"What Shakespearean play features the line: 'A plague on both your houses'?":
- Romeo and Juliet
"What Shakespearean play features the line: A plague on both your houses?":
- Romeo and Juliet
What Shakespearean play refers to the date of epiphany?:
- Twelfth Night
What are arranged in the Japanese art of Ikebana?:
- Flowers
What book is the film Blade Runner based on?:
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
What colour is the Art and Literature wedge in Trivial Pursuit?:
- Brown
What controversial book did Germaine Greer write?:
- The Female Eunuch
What dance is associated with vienna?:
- Waltz
What did Jeannie C. Riley describe as "a little Peyton Place"?:
- Harper valley
What did Winston encounter in Room 101?:
- Rats
What do you call a picture that is made of various material stuck together?:
- Collage
What does A E Houseman's initials stand for?:
- Alfred Edward
What famous character did Edgar Rice Burroughs create?:
- Tarzan
What famous gothic novel was written by Mary Shelley?:
- Frankenstein
What is Mrs William Heelis better known as?:
- Beatrix Potter
What is Picasso's nationality?:
- Spanish
What is Samuel Clemens better known as?:
- Mark Twain
What is an Icelandic epic called?:
- Saga
What is the art of tracing designs and making impressions of them called?:
- Lithography
What is the ballet term for spinning on one foot?:
- Piroutte
What is the earliest known drawing medium ?:
- Charcoal
What is the fourth book in the Harry Potter series?:
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- The Goblet Of Fire
What is the most performed opera in the UK?:
- La Boheme
What is the name given to the painting medium involving egg yolks?:
- Tempera
What is the name of Colin Dexter's fictional detective?:
- Inspector Morse
What is the name of Gandalf's horse?:
- Shadowfax
What is the name of Hamlet's tragic admirer?:
- Ophelia
What is the name of the 7th and final Harry Potter book?:
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
What is the name of the Russian National Ballet?:
- The Kirov Ballet
- Kirov
What is the name of the bird in The Peanuts comic?:
- Woodstock
What is the name of the main character in Homer's Odyssey?:
- Odysseus
What is the opposite of an utopia?:
- Dystopia
What is the surname of Cathy in Wuthering Heights?:
- Earnshaw
What nationality was Jospeh Conrad?:
- Polish
What nationality were most of the Impressionist painters?:
- French
- France
What other name does Stephen King write under?:
- Richard Bachman
"What play by Shakespeare features the following characters: Cornwall, Gloucester, Regan, and Goneril?":
- King Lear
What publication was subtitled 'The What's New Magazine'?:
- Popular Science
What rank was Biggles?:
- Major
What school of poets was John Donne attributed to?:
- The Metaphysical Poets
- metaphsical
What science fiction novel features Duke Leto Atreidea & The Harkonnens?:
- Dune
What series did Robert Jordan write?:
- Wheel of Time
What story features Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail?:
- Peter Rabbit
What type of animal is Rupert the Bear's best friend Bill?:
- Badger
What was Dante's last name?:
- Alighieri
What was H.G Wells' first novel?:
- The Time Machine
What was Lestat's last name?:
- De Lioncourt
What was Picasso's first name?:
- Pablo
What was Shakespeare's first play?:
- Henry VI
What was Shakespeare's last completed play?:
- The Tempest
What was Sherlock Holmes' 7% solution in 'The Sign of Four'?:
- Cocaine
What was the famous novel written in gaol, by John Bunyan?:
- Pilgim's Progress
What was the name of Charles Dickens' last novel which was unfinished at his death?:
- The Mystery Of Edwin Drood
What was the name of Mother Goose's son?:
- Jack
What was the name of William Wordworth's sister?:
- Dorothy
What was the name of the author who released 'A Guide To Baby And Child Care' in 1946?:
- Dr. Spock
- spock
- dr spock
What was the only novel to be written by Margaret Mitchell?:
- Gone With The Wind
What was the sequel to Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women"?:
- Little Men
What was the title of the first James Bond novel?:
- Casino Royale
What were the dolls in the novel 'Valley Of The Dolls'?:
- Pills
What were the tree like creatures in The Lord Of The Rings called?:
- Ents
What were the two cities in 'A Tale Of Two Cities'?:
- London and Paris
- paris and london
What word is Isaac Asimov famous for coining?:
- Robotics
What's Penthouse's sister publication for women?:
- Viva
Where is the Louvre located?:
- Paris
Where is the Prado Gallery?:
- Madrid
Where is the world's largest art gallery?:
- Paris
Where was El Grecho born?:
- Crete
Where would you find Poets Corner?:
- Westminster Abbey
Where would you find the Elgin Marbles?:
- The British Museum
Which Algerian born French author's works included 'L'Etranger' and 'La Peste'?:
- Albert Camus
- Camus
Which American artist is known for a portrait of his mother?:
- James Whistler
- whistler
Which American auther wrote the novel 'Roots'?:
- Alex Haley
- haley
Which American author wrote Jaws?:
- Peter Benchley
- benchley
Which British artist is noted for his numerous paintings of horses?:
- George Stubbs
- Stubbs
Which British painter frequently uses a swimming pool as a theme?:
- David Hockney
- hockney
Which English writer divided his novels into 3 categories, 'Novels Of Character & Environment', 'Romances & Fantasies', and 'Novels Of Ingenuity'?:
- Thomas Hardy
- Hardy
Which Nobel Prize winner wrote 'A History Of The English Speaking Peoples'?:
- Winston Churchill
- churchill
Which Science Fiction story centers around alien children in a village?:
- The Midwitch Cuckoos
Which Shakespeare play contains the line 'if music be the food of love play on'?:
- Twelfth Night
Which Shakespeare play opens with the 3 Witches?:
- Macbeth
Which Shakespearean character has the most lines?:
- Hamlet
Which Shakespearean play is set in the Forest Of Arden?:
- As You Like It
Which Shakesperean play features the line "Now is the winter of our discontent"?:
- Richard III
Which St. Louis born novelist & poet became a British subject in 1927?:
- T.S. Eliot
- ts eliot
Which Stephen King novel is set at The Overlook Hotel?:
- The Shining
Which Tennesee Williams play is about a Sicilian-American woman?:
- The Rose Tattoo
Which US author penned the novels "Of Mice and Men" and "East Of Eden"?:
- John Steinbeck
- Steinbeck
Which US clarinetist player's real name was Arthur Jacob Shaw?:
- Artie Shaw
Which US dramatist was once married to Marylin Monroe and penned the plays "Death Of A Salesman" and "The Crucible"?:
- Arthur Miller
- miller
Which Welsh poet died of alcohol poisoning the year he publsihed his collected poems?:
- Dylan Thomas
- thomas
Which antipodean opera singer sung at Prince Charles' wedding to Lady Diana Spencer?:
- Kiri Te Kanawa
Which artist's name literally means 'Little Barrel'?:
- Botticelli
Which author described World War One as 'The War To End All Wars'?:
- HG Wells
- h.g. wells
- wells
Which author did Hitler acclaim as the Prophet of Right Wing Authoritarianism?:
- Nietzsche
Which author penned the Disc-World series of sci-fi novels?:
- Terry Pratchett
- pratchett
Which author wrote 'The Sound & The Fury', 'The Wild Palms', and 'As I Lay Dying'?:
- William Faulkner
Which author wrote 'The Spy That Came In From The Cold'?:
- John Le Carre
- le carre
Which author wrote novels upon which the TV series 'All Creatures Great & Small' was based?:
- James Herriot
- herriot
Which author wrote the 'Just So Stories'?:
- Rudyard Kipling
- kipling
Which author wrote the book 'Black Beauty'?:
- Anna Sewell
- sewell
Which author's father was imprisoned for debt?:
- Charles Dickens
- Dickens
Which book including the characters Pod, Arrietty, Homily & Peagreen inspired the film 'the Secret Life of Arrietty'?:
- The Borrowers
Which celebration of the arts is held in wales?:
- The Eisteddfod
Which character created by Dodie Smith drove a black & white car and wore a black & white fur coat?:
- Cruella De Vil
Which colour followed Picasso's Blue Period?:
- Pink
Which decorative style was popular in the 1920's & 1930's?:
- Art Deco
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 Notre Damme
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
"Which famous book begins with the line: 'Marley was dead, to begin with. There was no doubt about that'?":
- A Christmas Carol
"Which famous book begins with the line: 'Not long ago, there lived in London a young married couple of Dalmation dogs named Pongo and Misses Pongo'?":
- 101 Dalmations
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
- pride and prejudice
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 Two Cities
Which famous book contains the line 'Mr & Mrs Dursley of number 4 Privet Drive were proud to say that they were perfectly normal'?:
- Harry Potter And The Philosophers Stone
Which famous book contains the line 'Once upon a time there was a little chimney sweep and his name was tom'?:
- The Water Babies
"Which famous play begins with the line: 'When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightening, or in rain'?":
- Macbeth
Which famous sculptor was refused entry to the French Academy 3 times?:
- August Rodin
- Rodin
Which former jockey specializes in novels concerning horse racing?:
- Dick Francis
- francis
Which gallery has exhibitions in London & St Ives, Cornwall?:
- The Tate Gallery
- tate
Which is the largest museum in the world?:
- Louvre
Which member of the Monty Python Team wrote children's books about 'Erik The Viking'?:
- Terry Jones
- jones
Which movement spanned the period from the 17th Century to the early 18th?:
- Baroque
Which novel by Mary Shelley was subtitled 'The Modern Prometheus'?:
- Frankenstein
Which novel by Michael Crichton was the best selling paperback in 1993?:
- Jurassic Park
Which novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin in June 1904?:
- Ulysses
Which novel features Perks the station porter?:
- The Railway Children
Which novel was originally going to be titled Elinor And Marianne?:
- Sense And Sensibility
Which of Jane Austen's novels was published posthumously?:
- Persuasion
Which of the Bronte sisters married the Reverend A B Nicholls in 1854?:
- Charlotte
Which outlaw rode a horse called Black Bess?:
- Dick Turpin
Which painter cut off his own ear?:
- Vincent Van Gogh
Which poet preceded Ted Hughes as Poet Laureate?:
- Sir John Betjeman
- betjeman
Which poet wrote no verses during his time as Britain's Poet Laureate?:
- William Wordsworth
Which poet, in his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" told us that "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen / And waste its sweetnes on the desert air"?:
- Thomas Gray
- Gray
Which publishing company was founded in London in 1935 by Allen Lane?:
- Penguin
Which school did Billy Bunter attend?:
- Greyfriars
Which sculptor produced 'A Lobster Telephone'?:
- Salvador Dali
- Dali
Which story involves the schoolboy Piggy?:
- Lord Of The Flies
Which tavern was the favourite haunt of Falstaff in Shakespeare's 'Henry IV'?:
- The Boar's Head
- the boars head
- boar's head
- boars head
Which thriller writer's works include 'The Dark Eyes Of London', 'Four Just Men', and 'Sanders Of The River'?:
- Edgar Wallace
- Wallace
Which woman had more potraits painted of her than anyone else?:
- Queen Elizabeth II
- elizabeth ii
Which word created by JK Rowling gained entry into the Oxford English Dictionary In 2003?:
- Muggle
Who Wrote "Brave New World"?:
- Aldous Huxley
- huxley
Who co-wrote 'Yeoman Of The Guard', 'Lolanthe And The Mikado'?:
- Gilbert & Sullivan
Who composed the ballet 'Romeo & Juliet'?:
- Prokofiev
Who composed the ballet 'The Nutcracker'?:
- Tchaikovsky
Who composed the opera 'Oedipus Rex'?:
- Stravinsky
Who created 'Maudie Frickett'?:
- Jonathan Winters
- winters
Who created 'The Saint'?:
- Leslie Charteris
- Charteris
Who created Lord Peter Wimsey?:
- Dorothy L Sayers
- Sayers
Who created Sherlock Holmes ?:
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Doyle
Who created Winnie the Pooh?:
- A. A. Milne
- A.A. Milne
- aa milne
- a a milne
- Milne
Who designed the album sleeve for the Rolling Stones LP 'Sticky Fingers'?:
- Andy Warhol
- warhol
Who did Macduff kill?:
- Macbeth
Who drew drawings of absurd mechanical contrivances?:
- William Heath Robinson
- Robinson
Who had decieved the Lord of Rohan for a number of years?:
- Wormtongue
Who is Karen Blixen better known as?:
- Isaak Dinesen
Who is Pip's benefactor in Dickens's 'Great Expectations'?:
- Abel Magwitch
- Magwitch
Who is associated with the address 221B Baker Street, London?:
- Sherlock Holmes
Who is novelist Helen Fielding's most famous character?:
- Bridget Jones
Who is responsible for painting the Mona Lisa?:
- Leonardo da Vinci
- da vinci
Who is the author of "Brave New World"?:
- Aldous Huxley
- huxley
Who is the author of "Harry Potter"?:
- J.K. Rowling
- JK Rowling
- Joanne Rowling
Who is the protagonist of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'?:
- Satan
Who killed Macbeth?:
- Macduff
Who kills Nancy in Dicken's novel 'Oliver Twist'?:
- Bill Sykes
Who painted 'Flatford Mill'?:
- Constable
Who painted 'Irises'?:
- Vincent Van Gogh
- van gogh
Who painted 'The Blue Boy'?:
- Gainsborough
Who painted 'The Last Supper'?:
- Leonardo da Vinci
- da vinci
Who painted the Creation Of Adam?:
- Michelangelo
Who painted the Mona Lisa?:
- Leonardo da Vinci
- da Vinci
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?:
- Michelangelo
Who penned the 1999 autobiography 'Managing My Life'?:
- Alex Ferguson
Who penned the novel 'The Pelican Brief' which was made into a film starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington?:
- John Grisham
Who said 'But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks'?:
- Romeo
Who told stories about Brer Rabbit & Brer Fox?:
- Uncle Remus
Who was William Shakespeare's Wife?:
- Anne Hathaway
Who was Winnie the Pooh's neighbour?:
- Piglet
Who was the author of 'Dracula'?:
- Bram Stoker
- Stoker
Who was the first person to be buried at Poets Corner?:
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- chaucer
Who was the human companion of Willow?:
- Mad Mardigan
Who was the merchant in Shakespeare's 'The Merchant Of Venice'?:
- Antonio
Who won a Pulitzer Prize for Angela's Ashes?:
- Frank McCourt
- mccourt
Who writes the discworld novels?:
- Terry Pratchett
- Pratchett
Who wrote "Animal Farm"?:
- George Orwell
- Orwell
Who wrote "Ender's Game"?:
- Orson Scott Card
- card
Who wrote "Ten Little Indians"?:
- Agatha Christie
- christie
Who wrote "The Count of Monte-Christo"?:
- Alexander Dumas
- dumas
Who wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?:
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- coleridge
Who wrote "The Wind in the Willows"?:
- Kenneth Grahame
- grahame
Who wrote '1984'?:
- George Orwell
- orwell
Who wrote 'A Christmas Carol'?:
- Charles Dickens
Who wrote 'A Tale Of Two Cities'?:
- Charles Dickens
- dickens
Who wrote 'Alice In Wonderland'?:
- Lewis Carroll
- carroll
Who wrote 'Far From The Madding Crowd'?:
- Thomas Hardy
- hardy
Who wrote 'Gone With The Wind'?:
- Margaret Mitchell
- mitchell
Who wrote 'Gulliver's Travels'?:
- Jonathan Swift
- swift
Who wrote 'Jurassic Park'?:
- Michael Crichton
- crichton
Who wrote 'Psycho'?:
- Robert Bloch
- bloch
Who wrote 'Rendezvous with Rama'?:
- Sir Arthur C. Clarke
- arthur clarke
- clarke
Who wrote 'Robinson Crusoe'?:
- Daniel Defoe
- defoe
Who wrote 'The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn'?:
- Mark Twain
- twain
Who wrote 'The Birds'?:
- Daphne du Maurier
- du maurier
Who wrote 'The Canterbury Tales'?:
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Who wrote 'The Female Eunuch'?:
- Germaine Greer
- greer
Who wrote 'The Great Gatsby'?:
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- fitzgerald
- f scott fitzgerald
Who wrote 'The Gulag Archipelago'?:
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Solzhenitsyn
Who wrote 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'?:
- Douglas Adams
Who wrote 'The Hobbit'?:
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- jrr tolkien
- tolkien
Who wrote 'The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd'?:
- Agatha Christie
- christie
Who wrote 'The Rose Tattoo'?:
- Tennessee Williams
Who wrote 'The Time Machine'?:
- H.G. Wells
- HG Wells
- wells
Who wrote 'To Kill A Mockingbird'?:
- Harper Lee
- Lee
Who wrote 'Valley Of The Dolls'?:
- Jacqueline Susann
- susann
Who wrote 'Weird Harold and Fat Albert'?:
- Bill Cosby
Who wrote 'little lamb, who made thee'?:
- William Blake
- blake
Who wrote Great Expectations?:
- Charles Dickens
Who wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle)?:
- Adolf Hitler
- hitler
Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?:
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Chaucer
Who wrote about tarzan?:
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Burroughs
Who wrote the 'Dragonriders Of Pern' series?:
- Anne McCaffrey
- mccaffrey
Who wrote the 'Father Brown' crime stories?:
- G.K. Chesterton
- chesterton
- gk chesterton
Who wrote the 'Myth' series?:
- Robert Asprin
Who wrote the 'Noddy Stories'?:
- Enid Blyton
- blyton
Who wrote the 'Noddy' books?:
- Enid Blyton
- blyton
Who wrote the Barsetshire novels?:
- Anthony Trollope
- trollope
Who wrote the Tin Tin stories?:
- Georges Remi Herge
- Herge
Who wrote the book "The Origin of Species"?:
- Charles Darwin
- darwin
Who wrote the books 'The Firm' and 'The Pelican Brief' - both of which were made into films?:
- John Grisham
- Grisham
Who wrote the epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey?:
- Homer
Who wrote the famous book 'A Brief History Of Time' in 1988 ?:
- Stephen Hawking
Who wrote the gothic novel 'Dracula'?:
- Bram Stoker
- Stoker
Who wrote the long religious epic, "Paradise Lost"?:
- John Milton
- milton
Who wrote the novel "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde"?:
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Stevenson
Who wrote the novel 'Emma'?:
- Jane Austen
- austen
Who wrote the novel 'Silence Of The Lambs'?:
- Thomas Harris
- Harris
Who wrote the novel Jaws, which was later turned into a blockbuster movie by Steven Spielburg?:
- Peter Benchley
- benchley
Who wrote the novels 'About A Boy'', 'How To Be Good'' and 'High Fidelity'' ?:
- Nick Hornby
Who wrote the novels 'Slaughterhouse Five' and 'Breakfast Of Champions'?:
- Kurt Vonnegut
- vonnegut
Who wrote the novels 'The Hunt For Red October' and 'Clear And Present Danger'?:
- Tom Clancy
Who wrote the opera 'The Flying Dutchman'?:
- Wagner
Who wrote the play 'Hay Fever'?:
- Noel Coward
- coward
Who wrote the play 'The Mousetrap'?:
- Agatha Christie
- Christie
Who wrote the shortest ever letter?:
- Victor Hugo
Who wrote the threepenny opera?:
- Bertolt Brecht
- brecht
Who wrote the vampire series that featured Lestat as the main character?:
- Anne Rice
- rice
Who wrote three books under the title "Das Kapital"?:
- Karl Marx
- marx
Whose autobiography was entitled 'Dear Me'?:
- Peter Ustinov
- ustinov
Whose first collection of short stories entitled 'In Our Time' was published in 1925?:
- Ernest Hemmingway
- hemmingway
Whose ghost appears at the dinner table in 'Macbeth'?:
- Banquo
Whose last words were 'Thus with a kiss I die'?:
- Romeo
Whose life was the subject of James Boswell's Biography, published in 1791?:
- Samuel Johnson
- johnson
Whose smile remained after the rest of it had vanished?:
- The Cheshire Cat
- cheshire cat
Whose works 'The Ballad Of Reading Gaol' & 'De Profundis', were written from his experiences in prison?:
- Oscar Wilde
- Wilde
With what art movement was Salvador Dali associated?:
- Surrealism
Women's magazine launched by New York in the 70's?:
- Ms
Works of a culturally homogenous people without formal training, generally according to regional traditions and involving crafts?:
- Folk art