Arts & Literature 🎨 Flashcards
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What is the first novel in the A Song of Ice and Fire series?
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A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
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What does the term “vanitas” refer to in art?
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A still life symbolizing the brevity of life
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What is the name of the hero in Homer’s “Iliad”?
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Achilles
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Which writer created the character Hercule Poirot? ⭐️
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Agatha Christie
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Who is the best-selling female author of all time?
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Agatha Christie
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Who wrote “Brave New World”?
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Aldous Huxley
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Who wrote “The Color Purple”?
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Alice Walker
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Which artist is associated with the “Campbell’s Soup Cans”?
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Andy Warhol
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Which artist created the statue “The Thinker”? ⭐️
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Auguste Rodin
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What is the name of the hobbit in “The Hobbit”?
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Bilbo Baggins
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Who wrote Dracula? ⭐️
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Bram Stoker
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Which famous British author wrote The Chronicles of Narnia series? ⭐️
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C.S. Lewis
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Who wrote “A Tale of Two Cities” & “Bleak House”?
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Charles Dickens
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Who wrote “Jane Eyre”?
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Charlotte Brontë
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Which artist is known for his series of “Haystacks” & “Water Lilies”?
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Claude Monet
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Who wrote “Inferno” & The Divine Comedy? ⭐️
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Dante Alighieri
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Who wrote Don Quixote, one of the most influential novels in literature? ⭐️
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Miguel de Cervantes
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Which poet wrote “The Raven”? ⭐️
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Who painted “The Scream”?
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Edvard Munch
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Who wrote “Wuthering Heights”?
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Emily Brontë
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Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Who wrote “The Metamorphosis”?
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Franz Kafka
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What is the term for a painting done on wet plaster?
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Fresco
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Who wrote Crime and Punishment & The Brothers Karamazov?
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Who wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude?
Gabriel García Márquez
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Who wrote "The Canterbury Tales"?
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Who wrote "Middlemarch"?
George Eliot
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Who is the author of 1984 and Animal Farm?
George Orwell
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Which artist is known for pointillism?
Georges Seurat
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What is the name of the monster in "Beowulf"?
Grendel
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Who painted The Kiss?
Gustav Klimt
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Who painted "The Garden of Earthly Delights"?
Hieronymus Bosch
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What is the name of the protagonist in "The Catcher in the Rye"?
Holden Caulfield
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Who wrote The Odyssey?
Homer
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What is the term for a decorative handwritten manuscript?
Illuminated manuscript
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What is the title of the longest novel ever published?
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
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What is the name of the island in "Lord of the Flies"?
It is unnamed
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In which country did the Renaissance begin?
Italy
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Who wrote The Catcher in the Rye?
J.D. Salinger
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Which author wrote The Lord of the Rings trilogy?
J.R.R. Tolkien
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Who painted "The Arnolfini Portrait"?
Jan van Eyck
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Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
Jane Austen
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Who painted "The Girl with a Pearl Earring"?
Johannes Vermeer
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Which poet wrote "Ode to a Nightingale"?
John Keats
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Who is the author of "Of Mice and Men"?
John Steinbeck
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Who wrote "Slaughterhouse-Five"?
Kurt Vonnegut
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Who painted the "The Last Supper"?
Leonardo da Vinci
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What is the most visited museum in the world?
Louvre
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What is the full name of the composer Beethoven?
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Who wrote "The Handmaid's Tale"?
Margaret Atwood
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Who is the author of Frankenstein?
Mary Shelley
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What is the name of the fictional town in "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
Maycomb
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Which artist is famous for the "Creation of Adam"?
Michelangelo
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What novel begins with the line "Call me Ishmael"?
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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Which painting is considered the most famous work of art in the world?
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
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What is the term for a collection of myths?
Mythology
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Who wrote "The Scarlet Letter"?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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What is the name of the dystopian world in "1984"?
Oceania
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Who wrote "The Picture of Dorian Gray"?
Oscar Wilde
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Which artist is famous for his "Blue Period" & Guernica?
Pablo Picasso
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What is the name of the ship in Moby-Dick?
Pequod
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What artist is famous for his abstract paintings and sculptures, often using geometric shapes?
Piet Mondrian
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What is the most-printed book of all time after the Bible?
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
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What are the three primary colors?
Red, blue, yellow
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What famous artist painted "The Night Watch"?
Rembrandt van Rijn
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Which philosopher is known for the phrase, "I think, therefore I am"?
René Descartes
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Who is considered the father of modern philosophy?
René Descartes
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Who wrote "The Road Not Taken"?
Robert Frost
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Who wrote "The Jungle Book"?
Rudyard Kipling
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Which artist is known for his surrealist work, particularly melting clocks?
Salvador Dalí
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Who painted "The Persistence of Memory"?
Salvador Dalí
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What is the most expensive painting ever sold?
Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci
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What 20th-century writer is known for his absurdist plays, such as Waiting for Godot?
Samuel Beckett
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What artist painted "The Birth of Venus"?
Sandro Botticelli
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What is the term for a three-dimensional work of art?
Sculpture
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What is the term for a painting made with watercolor on dry plaster?
Secco
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Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Selma Lagerlöf
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What is the glazing technique of Da Vinci called without lines or borders? ⭐️
Sfumato
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Which writer created the character Sherlock Holmes? ⭐️
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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What is the term for a poem of 14 lines?
Sonnet
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What famous writer was known as the "King of Horror"?
Stephen King
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What is the term for a painting or drawing of inanimate objects?
Still life
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What does the art term chiaroscuro refer to?
Strong contrasts between light and dark
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Who wrote The Hunger Games trilogy?
Suzanne Collins
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Who wrote "The Bell Jar"?
Sylvia Plath
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Which playwright wrote "A Streetcar Named Desire"?
Tennessee Williams
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Which famous novel was banned in several U.S. states due to its controversial themes of racism?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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What is the most translated book in the world?
The Bible
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In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, what family does Juliet belong to?
The Capulets
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What is the most expensive book ever sold?
The Codex Leicester by Leonardo da Vinci
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What is the title of the first book in The Lord of the Rings series?
The Fellowship of the Ring
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What is the name of the theater associated with Shakespeare?
The Globe Theatre
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Which novel has been translated into the most languages?
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Which book by J.R.R. Tolkien became a movie directed by Peter Jackson?
The Lord of the Rings
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What is the title of Ernest Hemingway's novel about an aging fisherman?
The Old Man and the Sea
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What is the longest-running Broadway musical?
The Phantom of the Opera
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What is the name of the 1992 book that was later turned into an Oscar-winning movie, The Silence of the Lambs?
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
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Which Shakespeare play features the character Prospero?
The Tempest
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What is the title of the sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"?
Through the Looking-Glass
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What is the name of the fairy in Peter Pan?
Tinker Bell
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Which French author wrote "Les Misérables"?
Victor Hugo
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Which artist is famous for "Sunflowers" & "Starry Night"? ⭐️
Vincent van Gogh
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What is the name of Dante's guide in "The Divine Comedy"?
Virgil
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Who wrote "Lolita"?
Vladimir Nabokov
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Which novel by Leo Tolstoy is considered one of the longest novels ever written?
War and Peace
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Who wrote "The Sound and the Fury"?
William Faulkner
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Who is known as the "Bard of Avon"?
William Shakespeare
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Which composer wrote the opera The Magic Flute?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Who is the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? ⭐
Douglas Adams
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Who wrote Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night? ⭐
Dylan Thomas
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What was the original title of the novel 1984? ⭐
The Last Man in Europe
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Which novel features a character named Pip? ⭐
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Which Polish composer is famous for piano and national music? ⭐️
Frédéric Chopin
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Which city is known as the 'Hundred Spires'? ⭐️
Prague
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Which Spanish artist is associated with Cubism? ⭐️
Pablo Picasso
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Who wrote The Prince, a famous political treatise? ⭐️
Niccolò Machiavelli
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Who created the Renaissance statue David? ⭐️
Michelangelo
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Which Spanish fortress is famous for its Moorish architecture? ⭐️
Alhambra
