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Who wrote The Mikado?

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Gilbert and Sullivan

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What was Benjamin Britten known for?

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He was a music composer

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Who wrote The Planets?

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Gustav Holst

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What was the most famous work of Edward Elgar?

Where was he from?

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Pomp and Circumstance

Worcester

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What kind of music did Ralph Vaughan Williams do?

What was his biggest influence?

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  • Choirs and Orchestras
  • English folk music
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Who wrote Façade?

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Sir William Walton

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What were two famous works of Sir William Walton?

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  • Façade
  • Belshazzar’s Feast
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Which composer wrote marches for both George VI and Queen Elizabeth II?

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Sir William Walton

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Name two famous works by Benjamin Britten

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  • Billy Budd
  • Peter Grimes
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What event was founded by Benjamin Britten?

Where does it take place?

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  • Aldeburgh Festival
  • Suffolk
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What is the name of a music arena in Glasgow?

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The SEC Centre

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What is an annual culture festival in Wales?

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National Eisteddfod of Wales

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  • Who was David Allan?
  • Where was he from?
  • When was he active?
  • What was his most famous work?
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  • A portrait painter
  • Scotland
  • 18th century
  • The Origin of Painting
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  • What did Joseph Turner do?
  • When did he do it?
  • What was a major result in his field?
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  • A landscape painter
  • 18th/19th century
  • Raised profile of landscape painting
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  • What was John Constable famous for?
  • Where did he work?
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  • Landscape painter
  • Dedham Vale on Suffolk-Essex border
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Who are two British winners of Turner Prize?

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  • Damian Hirst
  • Richard Wright
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  • What did John Petts do?
  • Where was he from?
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  • Art in stained glass and engravings
  • Wales
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  • What was Lucien Freud famous for?
  • Where was he from?
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  • Painting portraits
  • Germany
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David Hockney was a famous contributor to _________

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The pop art movement

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  • What did Henry Moore do?
  • Where was he from?
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  • Abstract sculptures in Bronze
  • England
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What was Sir John Lavery famous for?

Where was he from?

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  • For being a portrait artist
  • N. Ireland
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Who were 3 famous Pre-Raphaelite painters?

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  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Sir John Millais
  • Holman Hunt
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Whose works was A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra based on?

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Purcell

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  • Who was a famous 20th century architect AND garden designer?
  • Who did they collaborate with?
  • what is their most famous piece?
  • What was another non-art related thing they are famous for?
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  • Sir Edwin Lutyens
  • Gertrude Jekyll
  • The Cenotaph in Whitehall
  • Designing New Delhi to be the seat of India
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  • Who often said a place has “capabilities”?
  • What style was the person famous for?
  • What period were they active in?
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  • Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown
  • “Natural style” of garden design
  • 18th century
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  • Who was famous for working in the Art Deco style?
  • What did they create?
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  • Clarice Cliff
  • Ceramics
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27
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When was the Man Booker Prize started?

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1968

28
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Which Poet won The Nobel Prize for Literature?

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Seamus Heaney

29
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Which novelist won the Nobel Prize for Literature?

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  • Sir Henry Goulding
30
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Which Playwright won The Nobel Prize in Literature?

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Harold Pinter

31
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Name 3 winners of the Man Booker Prize

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  • Hilary Mantel
  • Ian McEwan
  • Julian Barnes
32
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  • Robert Adam was an 18th ______ from ______.
  • He did both _______ and ______
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  • Architect
  • Scotland
  • Interiors and Exteriors
33
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  • Indigo Jones was famous in what time period?
  • What 2 things did he design?
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  • 17th century
  • Queens house in Greenwich and Banqueting House in Whitehall
34
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  • What Genre did Evelyn Waugh write?
  • What are 3 famous works
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  • Satirical
  • Decline and Fall, Scoop, Brideshead Revisited
35
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  • What did Graham Greene’s work centre around?
  • What are his famous works?
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  • His Religious Beliefs
  • Brighton Rock, Our Man in Havana, Honorary Consul, The Heart of the Matter
36
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Who wrote “Lucky Jim”?

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Sir Kingsley Amis

37
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How many novels did Sir Kingsley Amis write?

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More than 20

38
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Who wrote Kidnapped?

A

Robert Louis Stevenson

39
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Name 3 works by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  • Kidnapped
  • Treasure Island
  • Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
40
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was from ________

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Scotland

41
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What is a famous poem from the Middle Ages about a knight in King Arthur’s Court?

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

42
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John Milton was a believer in ________, and wrote _______

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  • Protestantism
  • Paradise Lost
43
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William Wordsworth was a _______ inspired by _______

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  • Poet
  • Nature
44
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Who are two poets who wrote about WWI?

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  • Wilfred Owen
  • Siegfried Sassoon
45
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What did Alfred Lord Tennyson do?

A

Write poetry

46
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What did Elizabeth Browning do?

A

She was a poet

47
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What did Robert Browning do?

A

He was a poet

48
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Who wrote Anthem for Doomed Youth?

What’s is it it about?

What format is it in?

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  • Wilfred Owen
  • Poetry
  • WWI
49
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Who wrote “Oh to be in England now that April’s there”?

What’s the title of the overall piece of work?

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  • Robert Browning
  • Home Thoughts from Abroad
50
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Who wrote She walks in beauty?

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Lord Byron

51
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Who wrote the following? What was the name of the overall work?

“I wander’d as lonely as a cloud

Who floats on high o’er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd

A host of golden daffodils.”

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  • William Wordsworth
  • The Daffodils
52
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What is Ted Hughes famous for?

A

Being a modern poet

53
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John Masefield is a ________

A

Modern poet

54
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Sir Walter de la Mare is known for _______

A

Being a modern poet

55
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What is Sir John Betjeman known for?

A

Modern poetry

56
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Name 4 modern poets

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  • Sir Walter de la Mare
  • Sir John Betjamin
  • Ted Hughes
  • John Masefield
57
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  • Who was known for painting portraits of The Royal family?
  • Where was he from?
A
  • Sir John Lavery
  • Northern Ireland
58
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Who wrote George’s Marvellous Medicine?

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Roald Dahl

59
Q

How many people died in the troubles?

A

3,000

60
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What caused trouble with the “Balance of Payments”?

What did this result it?

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  • Instability with the pound vs other currencies
  • Imports of goods coming into the UK were valued at more than what others paid for the UK’s exports
61
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In addition to The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling also wrote these two pieces of Literature

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  • The poem If
  • Just So Stories
62
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In what building. Is the Tate Modern?

A

Bankside Power Station

63
Q

An important historic country house is _____ Hall in ______

A

Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire

64
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Name 3 MODERN famous British architects

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  • Norman Foster
  • Zaha Hadid
  • Richard Rogers
65
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This famous Victorian designed _____ bridge which spans across _____

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  • Brunel
  • Clifton Suspension Bridge
  • Avon Gorge

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