Art and Literature Quiz 4
1. What nationality was the painter Paul Klee?
2. By what name is painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos better known?
3. Which British artist achieved notoriety in 1976 when he admitted to faking old masters?
4. Which artist?s studio was known as the factory?
5. Napoleon and Snowball are creatures in which satirical novel?
6. Whose paintings include ?The Fighting Temeraire??
7. Of which art form is Ikebana a Japanese example?
8. Who's autobiography was entitled 'Learning to Fly'?
9. Which British soldier and author wrote ?The Seven Pillars of Wisdom??
10. What was the title of R. D. Blackmore?s famous novel set on Exmoor?
11. Who wrote Hard Times and Bleak House?
12. Who was the author of Pygmalion?
13. Which artist cut off part of his ear and later committed suicide?
14. Which British statesman wrote the History of the English Speaking Peoples?
15. Franz Hals painted his most famous work in 1624; what was it called?
16. Which French author created Inspector Maigrette?
17. Who wrote Alice In Wonderland?
18. Who sculpted the famous nude figure of David and painted the fresco in the Sistine Chapel?
19. Who was the first official poet Laureate?
20. Whose autobiography was entitled ?Polly wants a Zebra??
ANSWERS
1. Swiss
2. El Greco
3. Tom Keating
4. Andy Warhol
5. Animal Farm
6. J.M.W. Turner
7. Flower Arrangement
8. Victoria Beckham
9. T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia)
10. Lorna Doone
11. Charles Dickens
12. George Bernard Shaw
13. Vincent Van Gogh
14. Winston Churchill
15. The Laughing Cavalier
16. Georges Simenon
17. Lewis Carroll
18. Michelangelo
19. John Drydon
20. Michael Aspel