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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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What is the best-selling book of all time/first novel ever published?

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Don Quixote by 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?

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Gabriel García Márquez

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Who wrote “The Canterbury Tales”?

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Who wrote “Middlemarch”?

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George Eliot

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Who is the author of 1984 and Animal Farm?

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George Orwell

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Which artist is known for pointillism?

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Georges Seurat

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What is the name of the monster in “Beowulf”?

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Grendel

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Who painted The Kiss?

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Gustav Klimt

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Who painted “The Garden of Earthly Delights”?

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Hieronymus Bosch

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What is the name of the protagonist in “The Catcher in the Rye”?

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Holden Caulfield

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Who wrote The Odyssey?

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Homer

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What is the term for a decorative handwritten manuscript?

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Illuminated manuscript

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What is the title of the longest novel ever published?

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In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

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What is the name of the island in “Lord of the Flies”?

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It is unnamed

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38
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In which country did the Renaissance begin?

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Italy

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Who wrote The Catcher in the Rye?

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J.D. Salinger

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Which author wrote The Lord of the Rings trilogy?

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J.R.R. Tolkien

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Who painted “The Arnolfini Portrait”?

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Jan van Eyck

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42
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Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?

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Jane Austen

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Who painted “The Girl with a Pearl Earring”?

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Johannes Vermeer

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44
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Which poet wrote “Ode to a Nightingale”?

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John Keats

45
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Who is the author of “Of Mice and Men”?

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John Steinbeck

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Who wrote “Slaughterhouse-Five”?

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Kurt Vonnegut

47
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Who painted the “The Last Supper”?

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Leonardo da Vinci

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What is the most visited museum in the world?

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Louvre

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What is the full name of the composer Beethoven?

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Ludwig van Beethoven

50
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Who wrote “The Handmaid’s Tale”?

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Margaret Atwood

51
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Who is the author of Frankenstein?

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Mary Shelley

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What is the name of the fictional town in “To Kill a Mockingbird”?

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Maycomb

53
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Which artist is famous for the “Creation of Adam”?

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Michelangelo

54
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What novel begins with the line “Call me Ishmael”?

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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

55
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Which painting is considered the most famous work of art in the world?

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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

56
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What is the term for a collection of myths?

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Mythology

57
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Who wrote “The Scarlet Letter”?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

58
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What is the name of the dystopian world in “1984”?

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Oceania

59
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Who wrote “The Picture of Dorian Gray”?

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Oscar Wilde

60
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Which artist is famous for his “Blue Period” & Guernica?

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Pablo Picasso

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What is the name of the ship in Moby-Dick?

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Pequod

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What artist is famous for his abstract paintings and sculptures, often using geometric shapes?

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Piet Mondrian

63
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What is the most-printed book of all time after the Bible?

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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

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What are the three primary colors?

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Red, blue, yellow

65
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What famous artist painted “The Night Watch”?

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Rembrandt van Rijn

66
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Which philosopher is known for the phrase, “I think, therefore I am”?

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René Descartes

67
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Who is considered the father of modern philosophy?

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René Descartes

68
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Who wrote “The Road Not Taken”?

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Robert Frost

69
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Who wrote “The Jungle Book”?

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Rudyard Kipling

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Which artist is known for his surrealist work, particularly melting clocks?

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Salvador Dalí

71
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Who painted “The Persistence of Memory”?

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Salvador Dalí

72
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What is the most expensive painting ever sold?

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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?

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Samuel Beckett

74
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What artist painted “The Birth of Venus”?

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Sandro Botticelli

75
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What is the term for a three-dimensional work of art?

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Sculpture

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What is the term for a painting made with watercolor on dry plaster?

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Secco

77
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Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

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Selma Lagerlöf

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What is the glazing technique of Da Vinci called without lines or borders? ⭐️

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Sfumato

79
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Which writer created the character Sherlock Holmes?

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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What is the term for a poem of 14 lines?

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Sonnet

81
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What famous writer was known as the “King of Horror”?

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Stephen King

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What is the term for a painting or drawing of inanimate objects?

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Still life

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What does the art term chiaroscuro refer to?

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Strong contrasts between light and dark

84
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Who wrote The Hunger Games trilogy?

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Suzanne Collins

85
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Who wrote “The Bell Jar”?

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Sylvia Plath

86
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Which playwright wrote “A Streetcar Named Desire”?

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Tennessee Williams

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Which famous novel was banned in several U.S. states due to its controversial themes of racism?

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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What is the most translated book in the world?

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The Bible

89
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In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, what family does Juliet belong to?

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The Capulets

90
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What is the most expensive book ever sold?

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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?

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The Fellowship of the Ring

92
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What is the name of the theater associated with Shakespeare?

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The Globe Theatre

93
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Which novel has been translated into the most languages?

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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?

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The Lord of the Rings

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What is the title of Ernest Hemingway’s novel about an aging fisherman?

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The Old Man and the Sea

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What is the longest-running Broadway musical?

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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?

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The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

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Which Shakespeare play features the character Prospero?

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The Tempest

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What is the title of the sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”?

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Through the Looking-Glass

100
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What is the name of the fairy in Peter Pan?

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Tinker Bell

101
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Which French author wrote “Les Misérables”?

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Victor Hugo

102
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Which artist is famous for “Sunflowers” & “Starry Night”?

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Vincent van Gogh

103
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What is the name of Dante’s guide in “The Divine Comedy”?

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Virgil

104
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Who wrote “Lolita”?

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Vladimir Nabokov

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Which novel by Leo Tolstoy is considered one of the longest novels ever written?

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War and Peace

106
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Who wrote “The Sound and the Fury”?

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William Faulkner

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Who is known as the “Bard of Avon”?

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William Shakespeare

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Which composer wrote the opera The Magic Flute?

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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