25.3 Flashcards

1
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Who created the character Sherlock Holmes?

A

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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2
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What’s an approach which rejects the past and traditional methods to create “original” cultural forms?

A

Modernist

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3
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Who wrote Sherlock Holmes novels?

A

Dorothy Sayers

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4
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Who wrote Journey To the Center of the Earth?

A

Jules Verne

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5
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Who wrote The Time Machine and The Invisible Man?

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H. G. Wells

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Name the three influential writers that people Call them the Lost Generation because their works reflect the views of unbelieving men?

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Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Elliot, and F. Scott Fitzgerald

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7
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Who was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century?

A

G. K. Chesterton

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8
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Who wrote Animal Farm?

A

George Orwell

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9
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Who wrote the Hiding Place?

A

Corrie Ten Boom

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10
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Who wrote the Clair de Lune?

A

Claude Debussy

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11
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What wrote Second Piano Concerto?

A

Sergei Rachmaninoff

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12
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Who wrote The Tender Land?

A

Aaron Copland

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13
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Who wrote the first opera for television?

A

Gian Carlo Menotti

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14
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Who wrote Faust?

A

Charles Gounod

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15
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Who wrote Madame Butterfly and Tosca?

A

Giacomo Puccini

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16
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Who was in the British team that’s wrote the operas Mikado and H.M.S Pinafore?

A

Sirs William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

17
Q

Who worked for the Saturday Evening Post for 47 years?

A

Norman Rockwell

18
Q

What is most famous for American Gothic?

A

Wood

19
Q

What was the first major art movement?

A

Abstract Expression Movement

20
Q

Who was the most famous Abstract Artist?

A

Jackson Pollock

21
Q

Who was the most celebrated American Artist of the 20th century?

A

Andrew Wyeth

22
Q

What was the first skyscraper?

A

Home Insurance Company Building

23
Q

How many stories does it have to have to be a skyscraper?

A

Ten

24
Q

What is one of Chicagos nickname?

A

Birthplace of Modern Architecture

25
Q

Who led a movement to preserve classical architecture?

A

Henry H. Reed

26
Q

Who was one of the most widely recognized American Architects?

A

Frank Lloyd Wright