Varsity - Fine Arts Flashcards
What 1971 musical with the songs “Could We Start Again, Please!” and “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” by
Andrew Lloyd Webber, is based on the Gospels?
Jesus Christ Superstar
In architecture, what is the central approach to the high altar, the main body of the church called?
nave
What is the name of a weak beat or any pulse between the beats in a measured rhythmic pattern?
offbeat
Praxiteles (PRAX-it-uh-lees) was once credited with what 2-meter-high statue, now attributed to Alexandros of Antioch, that is on display in the Louvre?
(the) “Venus di Milo”, or “Aphrodite of Milos”
How many sharps are in the key signature of F sharp major?
6
What Kansas native is known for his photography as well as his direction of the 1970’s movie, “Shaft”?
(Gordon) Parks
Many 19th century composers produced marches for this American showman famous for his circus and notable side shows, even though many of the advertised freaks were hoaxes.
(P. T.) Barnum
What name describes a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace items
such as flowers or fruit?
Still life
What is the name of highly choreographed, stylized, theater in Japan with all male performers?
kabuki
Name the artist who sculpted a giant figure of an Old Testament hero to symbolize the defense of civil
liberties thought to be embodied by the Republic of Florence?
Michelangelo (Buonarotti)
About whom was the musical “Yankee Doodle Dandy” written?
(George M.) Cohan
Which art style that predominated the Middle Ages featured mosaics and icons?
Byzantine
What Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle namesake developed his heroic style in “St. Mark” and “St. John Evangelist” which bestowed him with the reputation of the greatest sculptor of the Renaissance?
Donatello
What form of theater conveyed bewilderment, anxiety, and wonder in the face of an inexplicable universe in dreamlike plots written by playwrights like Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter.
Theatre of the Absurd
Name the composer of the operetta “Hansel and Gretel”.
(Engelbert) Humperdinck
What is the term for an artist who plans the lettering and images for books, packages, posters, and other printed materials?
graphic designer
What French Impressionist is best known for his works entitled: “Luncheon of the Boating Party”, and “Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette” (moo-LAHN duh la gah-LET)?
(Pierre-Auguste) Renoir
Identify the dance style that orginated in the Middle East and utilizes finger cymbals known as “zils,” a 9/8 time signature, and defined hip movements.
Belly dance
Name the Norwegian composer whose best pieces include the “Holberg Suite,” “Morning Mood,” and “In the Hall of
the Mountain King.”
(Edvard) Grieg (greeg)
What art term is a French word that means “pasting” or “gluing”, and in doing so, creates artwork from pieces of
cloth, magazines or other materials?
Collage
Name this American art movement that emerged in the Midwest in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry were the most well-known of the artists in this movement.
Regionalism
What key signature has no sharps or flats?
C
Percussion instruments are classified in one of two groups. Name both groups.
Pitched and Unpitched
Name the American artist who specialized in depictions of the Old West and who was a war correspondent and
illustrator during the Spanish-American War for William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal.
(Frederic) Remington
What type of fiber art production starts out as a chain and is named for the French word meaning “small hook”?
crochet
Name the stage musical that has grossed more than $6.2 billion worldwide, making it the biggest box office hit of any work in any medium of all time.
The Lion King
Name the French painter whose early masterworks, “Luncheon on the Grass” and “Olympia”, caused great controversy
and served as rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionism.
(Édouard) Manet
Among German composer Felix Mendelssohn works are “Overture to a Midsummer Night’s Dream” and the melody
for what sacred Christmas song?
“Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”
What is an unaccompanied vocal composition, often in counterpoint, usually for small ensembles, which was popular
in 16th and 17th century England?
madrigal
What field of art would regularly require the use of an armature?
Sculpture
Name three of the four fashion capitals of the world.
Paris, New York, Milan, and London
Which Bulgarian artist is known for his large-scale fabric wrappings of well-known landmarks?
Christo
What term is given to a piece of music played at the end of a recital/concert responding to the audiences enthusiastic
reaction to the performance, shown by continuous applause?
encore
What Mexican artist, who was also known to be a political revolutionary, Communist, and Atheist, painted his first
famous fresco at the Ministry of Education Building in Mexico City in the year 1923?
(Diego) Rivera
Name the part of a 35mm camera that either increases or decreases the amount of light entering the camera.
Aperture
Who is the Protestant theologian who also composed the hymn, “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”?
(Martin) Luther
Name the 16th century Spanish artist who is perhaps best known for this paintings “The Burial of Count Orgaz” and
“View of Toledo”.
El Greco or (Dominikos) Theotokopoulas
What type of shoes do ballerinas use to get up on their toes?
Pointe
An artist creates this on his or her art piece to draw in the viewer’s eye.
Focal Point
The song, “Turn! Turn! Turn!” written and adapted by Pete Seeger and performed by the “The Byrds” uses the words from which book of the Bible?
Ecclesiastes
Name the Surrealistic Belgium artist who’s work was characterized as humorous, placing ordinary objects and people in realistic settings as in the “Son of Man”.
(Rene) Magritte
What term is used to describe a type of performance art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries which included song,
dance, and slapstick comedy?
vaudeville
Name the singer/songwriter and folk musician who was nicknamed “The Dust Bowl Troubadour.”
Woody Guthrie
What art form refers to the linear representation of visual objects, including symbols and even abstract forms,
generally to create a two- or three-dimensional medium?
drawing
This is an approach in study, philosophy, or practice that focuses on human values and concerns.
Humanism
Which Norman Rockwell painting featured a woman with massive arms, shoulders, and hands and symbolized those
who kept the American economy strong during WWII?
Rosie the Riveter
Who wrote “Symphony Number 8 in B Minor” which is often called the “Unfinished Symphony”?
(Franz) Schubert
What is the term for a decorative or structural feature, most often composed of stone, typically having a cylindrical or
polygonal shaft?
Column (also accept Pillar)
Who was the first ancient Greek to appear on stage as a character other than himself in a play?
Thespis
Name the man who both designed and sculpted the Statue of Liberty.
(Frederic Auguste) Bartholdi (bar-TOL-dee)
What note is on the middle line of the bass clef?
D
Name the French artist credited for developing the technique of pointillism exemplied by his masterwork “La Grande
Jatte”.
(George) Seurat
Which brass instrument has the greatest range?
French Horn
This German Northern Renaissance artist elevated printmaking to a fine art and created such prints as “The Four
Horseman of the Apocalypse” and “Knight, Death, and the Devil”.
(Albrecht) Dürer (DUHR-er)
What are the 3 types of minor scales?
Natural, Harmonic, Melodic
Known for his portraits that are characterized by elongated forms and figures like “Gypsy Woman with Baby”, name
the Italian painter and sculptor who was a contemporary of Picasso and Utrillo and who died at the age of 35 in 1920.
(Amadeo) Modigliani
Name this musical which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and tells the story of poor artists living in the East
Village of New York City during the AIDS crisis of the early 1990’s.
Rent
What is the title of the painting by Botticelli depicting a group of mythological figures in a garden, meant to
represent the lushness of Spring?
“La Primavera”
A type of play that is considered serious drama typically describing a conflict between the main character and a
superior force.
Tragedy
In what art style did American artist Mary Cassatt [Cah-sought], known for her pastel drawings of women and children, work?
Impressionist
What song, important to Kansans, was composed by Brewster Higley?
“Home on the Range”
What is the architectural term for the court of a Roman house, usually found near the entrance and partly open to the
sky?
Atrium
What modern dance evolved from Irish and British clog dancing?
Tap Dancing
Between 1508 and 1512, the artist Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel located in the Vatican
City. He returned between 1535 and 1541 to paint another work on the altar. What is the name of this masterpiece?
“The Last Judgement”
Who composed the famous lullaby that starts with the line “lullaby and goodnight?”
(Johannes) Brahms
What is a graphic symbol of a company name or trademark called?
Logo (also accept Logogram)
What is the appropriate audience response between movements of a symphony?
silence, not clapping
Born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1941, this artist has led the avant-garde in the development of glass as a fine art
with his larger than life colorful blown-glass sculptures.
(Dale) Chihuly
What is the name of the American prima ballerina who was Native American?
Maria Tallchief
What famous artist is noted for keeping notebooks or ideas on a wide variety of subjects, from helicopter design to human anatomy, writing the books in reverse from right to left?
(Leonardo) da Vinci
Who are the writers of such comic operas as HMS Pinafore and Pirates of Penzance?
(W.S.) Gilbert and (Arthur) Sullivan
Name the country in which the Gothic form of artistic style was first developed.
France
Who is the person depicted in the mural “Tragic Prelude” by John Stuart Curry in the Kansas State Capitol building?
John Brown
How many unique pitches are there in an octave?
12
Name the Mexican painter, whose work has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience, who is best known for her self-
portraits and her close relationship with her home La Casa Azul.
(Frida) Kahlo
What woodworking tool is used to guide a hand saw to make precise angled cuts?
Mitre box
What is the layer of corrosion, usually brown or green, that appears on copper or bronze sculptures called?
Patina
In clothing, these terms refer to what garment - straight leg, tapered, bell bottom, flared, jeans or hip hugger.
Pants
Who is the subject of the song written and performed by Don McLean, in which the first four lines are, “Starry, starry night; Paint your pallet blue and gray; Look out on a summer’s day; With eyes that know the darkness in my soul?”
Vincent Van Gogh
What branch of philosophy deals with morality, distinguishing between good and evil in the world?
ethics
By what two processes are 90% of all fabrics in the United States made?
weaving or knitting
What painting by Raphael depicts great philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians including Plato, Aristotle, and Ptolemy?
“The School of Athens”
Who was born in Tel Aviv in 1945, was crippled for life with polio, and became a renowned concert violinist?
(Itzhak) Perlman
What is a creamy mixture of clay and water used typically in pottery?
Slip
Known for his obsession with dance, name the French Impressionist whose famous wax and clay sculpture, “Little Dancer of Fourteen Years,” was shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in October of 2014.
(Edgar) Degas (day gah)
What institution, located in New York, is a performing arts conservatory established in 1905 that educates and trains students in dance, drama, and music?
Julliard School
What American architect, famous for his organic style, designed Falling Water as well as New York’s Guggenheim
Museum?
(Frank Lloyd) Wright
The text for oratorios come from what source?
The Bible
The Antoinette Perry awards are presented annually to outstanding Broadway productions. By what name are these
awards more commonly known?
The Tony Awards
Name the French sculptor who created such works as “The Burghers of Calais”, “Kiss” and “Balzac”.
(Auguste) Rodin (roe DAHN)
In what country did ballet originate?
Italy
What is the term for the front exterior surface of a building?
Facade
The 1850 opera Lohengrin by German composer Richard Wagner (Rick hard VAHG ner) includes what song that
is still played today, especially at weddings?
“The Bridal Chorus” or “Here Comes the Bride”
What architectural term refers to a passageway or walkway covered by a succession of arches supported by columns?
Arcade
Around 500 BC, what mathematician and philosopher studied the musical scale and the ratios between the lengths of
vibrating strings needed to produce them?
Pythagoras
Identify the photographer who documented the plight of the Dust Bowl victims with photos such as “Migrant
Mother”.
(Dorothea) Lange
Name the American composer and pianist who directed the New York Philharmonic and whose works include the
ballet Fancy Free and the musical West Side Story.
(Leonard) Bernstein
The Kansas Statehouse has recently been revitalized. What metal covers the outside of the dome?
copper
What is the term for the carvings produced by North American sailors in ivory from whale teeth, whale bones or sea
shells?
Scrimshaw
Identify the contemporary Chinese artist and designer of Beijing’s Olympic Stadium who recently opened an art
installation about freedom on the island of Alcatraz.
Ai Weiwei (pronounced Eye Way-Way)
What term refers to covering a surface with gold leaf?
Gliding
Which Irving Berlin musical centers around historical characters who traveled with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show at
the end of the 19th century?
Annie Get Your Gun
Name the American painter of “Nighthawks”, a painting characteristic of the artist’s stark, precisely realistic work that
often conveys a mood of solitude and isolation with urban settings.
(Edward) Hopper
What instrument’s name comes from a French phrase meaning “high wood”?
Oboe
What is the musical term used to indicate a rapid alternation between two adjacent notes on a scale, or for a series of
hammer-ons or pull-offs when playing guitar.
Trill (also accept Triller and Trillo)
Which artist, whose work was inspired by the scenery of New Mexico, married Alfred Stiegitz, a New York art
promoter, gallery owner, and photographer ?
Georgia O’Keeffe
Name the fusible metal alloy used to join together metal workpieces, having a melting point below that of the
workpieces, that is commonly used in electronics and plumbing.
solder (pronounced sodder)
What is the name of George Gershwin’s only opera?
Porgy and Bess
What is meant by the phrase “Common Time” as it relates to written music?
4/4 time (four four time)
Which impressionist master created several series of paintings which include “Rouen Cathedral”, the “British Houses
of Parliament”, and “Haystacks”?
(Claude) Monet
Several of the main characters in what Stephen Sondheim musical are taken from “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Jack
and the Beanstalk”, “Rapunzel”, and “Cinderella”.
Into the Woods
What architectural name is given to an abutting wall, inside or outside a building, which adds additional strength?
Buttress
Name the English architect who helped rebuild London after the Great Fire in 1666 and whose masterpiece was St.
Paul’s Cathedral.
(Christopher) Wren
What musical term refers to the distance from one note to another?
Interval
This term means high fashion or high sewing in French. Some famous designers of this term are Coco Chanel
(SHAH nell) and Christian Dior. What is the term?
Haute couture (OHT coo toor)
What is the term in art for making one composition by combining parts of objects or designs, and in film as a
stylized form of editing to present a great deal of information in a short time.
montage
What Greek philosopher founded a school called the Academy around 387 B.C.?
Plato
Name the war photographer who brought home the horrors of the Civil War in more than 7000 negatives.
(Matthew) Brady
What is the printing method called in which a stone is used for the printing plate?
lithography
The ballet Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky premiered at what historic theatre in Moscow, Russia in 1877?
Bolshoi (Theater)
What artist began life in Missouri and worked on Laugh-O-Graham and created the character Oswald the Rabbit before
forming his own company with his brother Roy?
Walt Disney
What is the maximum number of sharps or flats possible in a key signature?
7
Name the Baroque composer who wrote the oratorios Samson and Esther.
George Frideric Handel
Carmine, vermilion, and titian are all shades of what color?
Red
What is the name for a numbered musical work or composition?
Opus
Which Dutch artist was considered the best portraitist in Amsterdam and painted “The Night Watch”?
Rembrandt
What 1958 Broadway musical, based partly on an event in Elvis Presley’s life, was originally entitled Let’s Go
Steady?
Bye Bye Birdie
What drawing technique for creating space and depth in a composition was formalized during the Renaissance
Period?
Perspective
The architect Bruce Graham designed the Inland Steel Building and the John Hancock Building in Chicago. He is
best known for what design also located in Chicago.
Willis Tower (Accept Sears Tower)
What major scale has a key signature of 3 flats?
E-flat (major)
What is a large semi-circular area at the choir end of a church called?
Apse
Written in the 1890s, what popular song began as a classroom tune called, “Good Morning to All”?
“Happy Birthday to You”
What famous Renaissance architect designed the dome of the Florence Cathedral?
(Filippo) Brunelleschi (broo neh LEGS key)
What hand tool in woodworking is used to shape or thin out a piece of timber by removing small amounts of wood
and can also remove rough patches of timber that cannot be removed by sandpaper?
(hand) planer
What is the term for a thin layer of expensive wood bonded to a thicker piece of cheaper plywood to give the appearance
of the expensive wood but at a reduced price?
Veneer
Identify the museum, which derives its name from the Spanish for “meadow” and holds an extensive collection of Spanish
paintings, but also a number of works from Flemish masters such as Diego Velazquez and Francisco Goya.
The Prado
Name the French mime who introduced the character named “Bip.”
(Marcel) Marceau
Name the form of textile embellishment, traditionally practiced by Native Americans, whose name comes from a porcupine product that is used as a decorative element.
Quillwork
What Johann Strauss II opera’s title is translated as, “The Bat”?
Die Fledermaus
Flowers, household items, and other inanimate objects are often the subjects of what type of painting?
Still life
Invented by Ben Franklin, what instrument is known as a mouth organ?
Harmonica
What was the world’s first successful photographic process?
Daguerrotype (dag-er-o-type)
What English composer mingled English folk songs and Tudor church music in his works, which include “Concerto for the Bass Tuba” as well as music for the Queen Elizabeth II coronation in 1953?
(Ralph Vaughan) Williams
Which group of unknown individuals shaped the high standard for quilting techniques through their use of color and simple lines in American quilting?
The Amish (or Mennonites)
What is the curtain called that is used for special effects and, depending on the lighting, is either transparent or
opaque?
Scrim
What publishing organization did Stan Lee and Jack Kirby create to market comics such as the Fantastic Four, the
X-men, and the Incredible Hulk?
Marvel Comics
In music, what are the four woodwinds and one brass instrument that make up the ensemble known as a woodwind
quintet?
flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn
Whose work, commissioned by the Russian czars and consisting of 15 jeweled Imperial Easter Eggs, was viewed by
352,000 people visiting the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art?
(Peter Carl) Fabergé
How many strings are on a mandolin?
8
What is the name of the famous sculpture depicting Dante at the gates of Hell created by Auguste Rodin?
The Thinker
Brass musicians sometimes use the clean head of a rubber toilet plunger to alter their sound. In this capacity, what
would the plunger be called?
A mute
Used in making fine furniture, what is the darker inactive inner portion of a tree called?
Heartwood
From what Broadway musical did the song “How are Things in Glocca Morra?” come?
Finnian’s Rainbow
What is the name of the mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose
aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism?
The Hudson River School
Name this English, Grammy-award winning rock band formed in 1985 in Oxfordshire by bandmates including Thom
Yorke, whose albums include “OK Computer” and “In Rainbows.”
Radiohead
What material does architect Shigeru (shig-er-oo) Ben use to create his structures?
Recycled cardboard
What tool uses taut horse hair to get the best sound from stringed instruments?
Bow
What artist of the 1905 painting “The Smoke Signal” is better known for his bronze statues of the American West,
especially “The Bronco Buster”?
(Frederic) Remington
When a humorist said, “You can’t judge Egypt by ‘Aida,’ “ he was referring to an opera by what composer?
(Giuseppe) Verdi
Name the French mime who introduced the character named “Bip.”
(Marcel) Marceau
Name the form of textile embellishment, traditionally practiced by Native Americans, whose name comes from a porcupine product that is used as a decorative element.
Quillwork
What Johann Strauss II opera’s title is translated as, “The Bat”?
Die Fledermaus
Flowers, household items, and other inanimate objects are often the subjects of what type of painting?
still life
Invented by Ben Franklin, what instrument is known as a mouth organ?
Harmonica
What was the world’s first successful photographic process?
Daguerrotype (dag-er-o-type)
What English composer mingled English folk songs and Tudor church music in his works, which include “Concerto
for the Bass Tuba” as well as music for the Queen Elizabeth II coronation in 1953?
(Ralph Vaughan) Williams
Which group of unknown individuals shaped the high standard for quilting techniques through their use of color and
simple lines in American quilting?
The Amish (or Mennonites)
What is the curtain called that is used for special effects and, depending on the lighting, is either transparent or
opaque?
scrim
What publishing organization did Stan Lee and Jack Kirby create to market comics such as the Fantastic Four, the X-men, and the Incredible Hulk?
Marvel Comics
In music, what are the four woodwinds and one brass instrument that make up the ensemble known as a woodwind quintet?
flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn
Whose work, commissioned by the Russian czars and consisting of 15 jeweled Imperial Easter Eggs, was viewed by 352,000 people visiting the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art?
(Peter Carl) Fabergé
How many strings are on a mandolin?
8
What is the name of the famous sculpture depicting Dante at the gates of Hell created by Auguste Rodin?
The Thinker
Brass musicians sometimes use the clean head of a rubber toilet plunger to alter their sound. In this capacity, what
would the plunger be called?
A mute
Used in making fine furniture, what is the darker inactive inner portion of a tree called?
Heartwood
From what Broadway musical did the song “How are Things in Glocca Morra?” come?
Finnian’s Rainbow
What is the name of the mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism?
The Hudson River School
Name this English, Grammy-award winning rock band formed in 1985 in Oxfordshire by bandmates including Thom
Yorke, whose albums include “OK Computer” and “In Rainbows.”
Radiohead
What material does architect Shigeru (shig-er-oo) Ben use to create his structures?
Recycled cardboard
What tool uses taut horse hair to get the best sound from stringed instruments?
Bow
What artist of the 1905 painting “The Smoke Signal” is better known for his bronze statues of the American West, especially “The Bronco Buster”
(Frederic) Remington
When a humorist said, “You can’t judge Egypt by ‘Aida,’ “ he was referring to an opera by what composer?
(Giuseppe) Verdi
What term is used when building material is exactly vertical to a perpendicular level line?
plumb
What style of music is traditionally played by a sextet consisting of two violins, a piano, a double bass, and two bandoneons?
Tango
What 19th to 20th century sculptor, educated for a short while in Kansas, had almost completed the Mount Rushmore memorial when he died?
(Gutzon) Borglum
Which Romantic-era composer wrote his Third Piano Concerto, and it came to be regarded as the most difficult piano concerto in the standard repertoire?
(Sergei) Rachmaninoff
What name, Italian for pity, is given to any painting, drawing, or sculpture of Mary, the mother of Jesus, holding the dead body of Jesus.
Pietà (pee-ay-TAH)
What is the name of the highly stylized form of Japanese theater which began during the 17th and 18th centuries and is still performed today?
Kabuki
Name the style of art most popular in the 18th century that is characterized by extravagant decorative effects, asymmetry, and artificial pastoral subjects.
Rococco
What famous woman married, then gave up her honeymoon with Joe DiMaggio to entertain troops with the USO in Korea?
(Marilyn) Monroe
Identify the term that comes from the Greek, meaning “love of wisdom”; and is a subject that considers questions stemming from reflections on everyday events in life.
Philosophy
What Czech composer’s “New World Symphony” was composed while he was living in the United States?
(Antonin) Dvorak
What is the technical term for the tall, four-sided shaft that gradually tapers to a pyramidal point at the top similar to the Washington Monument?
Obelisk
Used during the 18th and 19th centuries, what is the name for improvisation as part of a performance?
Cadenza
Name the comic artist best known for his one panel comic “The Far Side,” which was sometimes divided into smaller sections for the story line.
Gary Larson
Name the controversial American dancer who, known for her Bohemian ways, died from strangulation when her long scarf was caught around the wheel of the sportscar in which she was riding.
Isadora) Duncan
Name the building which houses the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera?
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
From what classification of trees do all hardwoods come?
Deciduous trees
Name the musical that features the song “Luck be a Lady” and in which Nathan Detroit is engaged to Adelaide for 14
years.
Guys and Dolls
Name the Kansas born jazz artist whose nickname is “Bird.”
(Charlie) Parker
Which branch of philosophy is also known as “moral philosophy”?
Ethics
What brass musical instrument is bandleader Tommy Dorsey most famous for playing?
Trombone
From what classification of trees do all softwoods come?
Coniferous
Name the composer of the song “Summertime,” one of the best-known songs from the folk opera Porgy and Bess.
(George) Gershwin
What is the common name for a pattern consisting of rows of short, slanted parallel lines with the direction of the slant alternating row by row?
A herringbone weave
In theatre, what is the name of the area of the stage that is farthest away from the audience?
Upstage
Name the artist who often visited the Lourve to study the French masters as a boy and who created many well-known paintings including “Bathers” and “Girl With a Watering Can”.
(Auguste) Renoir
Which style of art, music, and architecture of the 18th century evolved from the Baroque period and is characterized by elaborate ornamentation and gracefulness?
Rococo
Name the three basic methods of hand built construction of pottery.
pinch, coil, slab
What color can be found in shades called sage, pistachio, and hunter?
green
Introduced in 1942 by Bing Crosby in the movie “Holiday Inn,” what Irving Berlin song became one of the most widely recorded and performed holiday songs ever?
White Christmas
What stringed symphonic instrument has a pedestal and a crown?
Harp
Name the Spanish artist famous for developing the Cubist style of painting.
(Pablo) Picasso
What rock band performed “Carry on My Wayward Son”?
Kansas
In Edgar Degas’ 1875 painting “Uncle and Niece,” what is the uncle reading?
a newspaper
During what activity would one hear “honor your partner” or “honor the corner” as part of the instructions?
Square dancing
What are Primitive, Segmental, and Stilted types of architecture topped with a keystone?
Arch
What American tap dancer is famous for his roles opposite Shirley Temple in films such as The Little Colonel?
(Bill “Bojangles”) Robinson
What element of art defines the edges and surface ridges of an object?
Contour Line
How many flats are in the key of E-flat major?
Three
What 19th century French artist distanced himself from the Impressionists and painted the scandalous pieces
“Luncheon on the Grass” and “Olympia”?
(Edouard) Manet
Name the musical based on the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Spamalot
Developed in Rome during the 1600’s, name the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music.
Baroque
What ballet great is most well known for his jumps as well as a role in the popular TV series “Sex and the City”?
(Mikhail) Baryshnikov
What form of quilting creates an embossed design by outlining the pattern with single stitches and then padding it with yarn or cotton?
Trapunto
Name the opera by Georges Bizet that was re-envisioned by MTV in 2001 as a “hip-hopera” starring Beyonce
Knowles.
Carmen
Name the French mime who introduced the character named “Bip.”
(Marcel) Marceau
Name the form of textile embellishment, traditionally practiced by Native Americans, who name comes from a porcupine product that is used as a decorative element
Quillwork
What Johann Strauss II opera’s title is translated as, “The Bat”?
Die Fledermaus
Flowers, household items, and other inanimate objects are often the subjects of what type of painting?
still life
Invented by Ben Franklin, what instrument is known as a mouth organ?
Harmonica
What was the world’s first successful photographic process?
Daguerrotype (dag-er-o-
What English composer mingled English folk songs and Tudor church music in his works, which include “Concerto for the Bass Tuba” as well as music for the Queen Elizabeth II coronation in 1953?
(Ralph Vaughan) Williams
Which group of unknown individuals shaped the high standard for quilting techniques through their use of color and simple lines in American quilting?
The Amish (or Mennonites)
What is the curtain called that is used for special effects and, depending on the lighting, is either transparent or opaque?
scrim
What publishing organization did Stan Lee and Jack Kirby create to market comics such as the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the INcredible Hulk?
Marvel Comics
In music, what are the four woodwinds and one brass instrument that make up the ensemble known as a woodwind quintet?
flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn
Whose work, commissioned by the Russian czars and consisting of 15 jeweled Imperial Easter Eggs, was viewed by 352,000 people visiting the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art?
(Peter Carl) Fabergé
How many strings are on a mandolin?
8
What is the name of the famous sculpture depicting Dante at the gates of Hell created b Auguste Rodin?
The Thinker
Brass musicians sometimes use the clean head of a rubber toilet plunger to alter their sound. In this capacity, what would the plunger be called?
A mute
Used in making fine furniture, what is the darker inactive inner portion of a tree called?
Heartwood
From what Broadway musical did the song “How are Things in Glocca Morra?” come?
Finnian’s Rainbow
What is the name of the mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism?
The Hudson River School
Name this English, Grammy-award winning rock band formed in 1985 in Oxfordshire by bandmates including Thom Yorke, whose albums include “OK Computer” and “In Rainbows.”
Radiohead
What material does architect Shigeru (shig-er-oo) Ben use to create his structures?
Recycled cardboard
What tool uses taut horse hair to get the best sound from stringed instruments?
Bow
What artist of the 1905 painting “The Smoke Signal” is better known for his bronze statues of the American West, especially “The Bronco Buster”?
(Frederic) Remington
When a humorist said, “You can’t judge Egypt by ‘Aida,’ “ he was referring to an opera by what composer?
(Giuseppe) Verdi
What term is used when building material is exactly vertical to a perpendicular level line?
plumb
What style of music is traditionally played by a sextet consisting of two violins, a piano, a double bass, and two bandoneons
Tango
What 19th to 20th century sculptor, educated for a short while in Kansas, had almost complete the Mount Rushmore memorial when he died?
(Gutzon) Borglum
Which Romantic-era composer wrote his Third Piano Concerto, and it came to be regarded as the most difficult piano concerto in the standard repertoire?
(Sergei) Rachmaninoff
What is hte name of the Baroque era Italian musical form which contained choral and instrument parts in Germany and was adopted by Bach?
Cantana
Give the first and last name of this member of the Realist and Regionalist Movement who had no high school diploma, no formal art training, and is famous for painting such masterpieces such as “Christina’s World”?
Andrew Wyeth
Name the 19th and early 20th century Italian composer whose operas include “Tosca” and “Madame Butterfly”.
(Giacomo) Puccini (pronounced Pew-chee-nee)
What type of joint has a groove cut across the face of a piece of stock to receive the end of another board?
Dado joint
In what musical farce does the hero Pseudolus (sue-dough-lus) attempt to free himself from slavery by arranging a marriage for his master’s son with the help of his fellow-slave Hysterium (his-ter-e-um)?
“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”
Name this Kansas-born painter who, along with Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, was hailed as one of the three great painters of American Regionalism and was famous for the series of murals in the Kansas State Capitol known as Tragic Prelude.
(John) Curry
What Persian musical instrument is played by striking the strings with little hammers?
Hammered dulcimer
Coined by philosopher Sir Francis Bacon, what word completes the phrase “Knowledge is…”?
“Power”
From 1966 to 1983, what singer-songwriter had hits titled “Cherry Cherry,” “Sweet Caroline,” Cracklin’ Rosie,” “Sad Sung Blue” and “America”?
Neil Diamond
What famous painting by Sandro Botticelli (bot-i-chellie) features a woman rising out of a seashell?
The Birth of Venus
Aaron Copeland’s “Appalachian Spring” and “Billy the Kid” are what type of musical compositions?
Ballet
The strongest of the natural fiers, what lightweight insulating filament is obtained from cocoons of a certain worm and is used in the textile industry?
Slik
In Greek drama, what is the name of a group of actors who stand apart from the main actors in the play and supplement their performances with spoken or sung comment?
Chorus
For what art form are the following known: Dorothy Lang, Gordon Parks, and Felix Man?
Photography
Name the German composer who wrote Rhenish Symphony and married Clara Wiek [veek].
(Robert) Schumann
What term do jewelers use when referring to alloys of palladium and gold?
White gold
Identify the first American-trained ballerina of international importance who was born in 1925 to an Osage Indian father and a Socttish-Irish-Dutch mother.
Maria Tallchief
What does a “pyrometric cone” measure?
The internal temperature of a kiln
Equipped with catgut or metal strings that vibrate when played, on what instrument is a paradiddle or a flamadiddle played?
Snare drum
Nicknamed “Jack the Dripper” by Time magazine in 1956, what artist created works of art by splattering and dripping paint onto a canvas?
(Jackson) Pollock
Currently the longest running play on Broadway, what Andrew Lloyd Webber produced musical is based on a book by French author Gaston Leroux?
The Phantom of the Opera
What is the term for the film or incrustation, usually green, that forms on copper and bronze as a result of oxidation?
Patina
Researchers found that chickens gained weight faster when they heard a classical piece of music, rather than a “Rock” number. Name the Italian composer of the 4 violin concertos, “The Four Seasons,” which were a favorite of the chickens.
(Antonio) Vivaldi
What term describes a tiered tower with multiple eaves commonly built in eastern Asia as a temple or memorial?
Pagoda
Name the woman who choreographed “Oklahoma!” forging new ground with a dream sequence that explores the inner psychology of Laurie, the female lead.
(Agnes) de Mille
Designed by Eero (arrow) Saarinen (sar-i-nen), what is the name of the memorial in Missouri that is the central focus of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial?
The Gateway Arch
Name the Camille Saint-Saens (say-sahns) orchestral piece which opens with the Royal March of the Lion, whose movements are meant to describe a particular animal, usually mimicking the sounds it makes or characterizing the way it moves or carries itself.
“Carnival of the Animals”
Name the 20th century art movement which used simplified shapes of real objects to emphasize form instead of subject matter.
Abstract art
Name two double-reed instruments used in an orchestra or band.
can have two of the following: oboe, bassoon, English horn
List two of the seven common woodworking joints?
can have two of the following; butt, dado, dovetail, lap, miter rabbet, mortise, and tenon
Name the Italian tenor, a member of “The Three Tenors,” who made his operatic debut in La Bohéme in 1961.
(Luciano) Pavarotti
What is the term for the life history of the piece of artwork, which normally starts with the artist selling it, giving it as a gift, or passing it through a dealer?
Provenance
Name the period in music that roughly extended from Beethoven’s middle period to the death of Mahler in 1911.
Romantic
What painter embarked on her career partly because her fingers became too stiff to continue with embroidery work?
Grandma Moses (also accept Anna Mary Robertson Moses)
Name the French composer to “Claire de Lune” whose death occurred in the midst of the aerial and artillery bombardment of Paris during the German Spring Offensive of World War I.
(Claude) Debussy
In a woodworking shop, what piece of machinery is used to turn objects either on a faceplate or between centers?
Lathe
Name the only Broadway show tune recorded by the Beatles.
“Til There Was You” (from Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man)
Name the ballet by Peter Tchaikovsky in which Margot Fonteyn captured the hearts of New Yorkers in 1949 in the role of Princess Aurora.
The Sleeping Beauty
Which artistic movement, beginning during World War I, had as its goal to ridicule the trivialities that seemed to define the modern world and often was named anti-art?
Dada
Name the African-American, female contralto who gave a free concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial that was attended by some 75,000 people after the Daughters of the American Revolution blocked the concert’s performance at Constitution Hall.
(Marian) Anderson
Red, yellow and orange are an example of what color scheme?
Analogous
Brass musicians sometimes use the clean head of a rubber toilet plunger to alter their sound. In this capacity, what would the plunger be called?
A mute
Used in making fine furniture, what is the darker inactive inner portion of a tree called?
Heartwood
What art style involves the use of moving/motorized parts, shifting lights, and/or sounds?
Kinetic art
Give the term for a musical composition which deals with the suffering and death of Jesus.
A passion
What form of dance accompanied by oli (oh-lee) and mele (me-lee) was developed by the Polynesian culture of Hawaii?
Hula
In photography, what is the name for the invisible image produced by the action of light on silver halide crystals suspended in the emulsion of a photographic material?
Latent image
According to what religion did Jesus die on the cross for sinners?
Christianity
Who was the inspiration for Beethoven’s Third Symphony, also known as “Eroica”?
Napoleon
Which composer wrote 106 known symphonies, one of which nicknamed “The Surprise,” was thought to have beenwritten to wake up a sleepy audience?
(Franz Joseph) Haydn
What is a musical figure consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one
indicated, and the note itself again, marked by a mirrored S-shape lying on its side above the staff?
Turn
How many counts does a dotted sixteenth note get in 4/4 time?
3/8
Name the popular 19th Century engravers and lithographers whose creations of common scenes are often found on Christmas cards and calendars.
Currier and Ives
Name the Rolling Stone photographer who took the famous photo of a naked John Lennon curled up with a clothed Yoko Ono.
(Annie) Leibovitz (pronounced - Lee bo wits)
Selling only one painting during his lifetime, what. is the name of the painter whose works include “The NIght Cafe”?
(Vincent) Van Gogh
In the Broadway musical Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, name the song the Phantom sings to Christine telling her to, “open up her mind, let your fantasies unwind in this darkness which you know you cannot Fight.”
“Music of the Night”
Explain the difference between Del Segno (D.S.) and Da Capo (D.C.).
D.S. - go back to the sign; D.C. - go back to the beginning
What 100 room home did Irish architect James Hoban design that holds the distinction of being the oldest in Washington D.C.?
The White House
What term is used to describe an actor’s stage movements that the actor and director have decided on during rehearsals?
Blocking
Name the musician who is the only recording artist to hit Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart as both a vocalist and a trumpet player. He was also a member of a band that included his name along with “The Tijuana Brass.”
(Herb) Albert
What Broadway Musical is based on a fictional Scottish town that appears only once every 100 years?
Brigadoon
What is the technique of working air pockets out of clay called?
Wedging
Inspired by Napoleon’s withdrawal from Moscow, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture contains the national anthems of what two countries?
France and Russia
What is the name of the chief area of the church that extends from the sanctuary to the main entrance?
Nave
Give the name of the movement composed of initially British, then American artists in the 1950s and 1960s, which was characterized by references to imagery and products from popular culture, media, and advertising.
Pop Art
What six letter word can refer to a Spanish dance accompanied by castanets or to a musical work by Maurice Ravel?
Bolero
Name the three forms of minor scales.
Natural, Harmonic, Melodic
What 20th century composer and conductor wrote the operetta Candide, as well as the Chichester Psalms and, most famously, the musical West Side Story?
(Leonard) Bernstein
In 1508 Michelangelo accepted the commission to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. What title did he give to this masterpiece?
“The Last Judgment”
What is the English translation of the Latin phrase “Ars Artis Gratia” that appears on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer logo?
Art for Art’s Sake
What is it called when a flourish of trumpets or other similar instruments is used for military or ceremonial purposes?
Fanfare
From what Broadway musical did the song “How are Things in Glocca Morra?” come?
Finnian’s Rainbow
Which opera by Giacomo (jock-uh-mo) Puccini (poo-chee-knee) opens on Christmas Eve in 19th century Paris with Marcello a painter, and Rodolfo a writer, trying to work in their freezing garret?
La Boheme
In what stage should clay be to utilize underglaze?
Greenware
In an artwork what is the term for the empty space that surrounds objects, shapes and forms?
Negative space
What type of arch forms the farmhouse window in the background of the painting in Grant Wood’s painting American Gothic?
Gothic (gothic arch)
What is the name of the mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose
aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism?
The Hudson River School
In which Rogers & Hammerstein musical does the song “Edelweiss” appear?
The Sound of Music
Which composer wrote “Music for the Royal Fireworks?”
(George Frederic) Handel
Name this English, Grammy-award winning rock band formed in 1985 in Oxfordshire by bandmates including Thom Yorke, whose albums include “OK Computer” and “In Rainbows.”
Radiohead
What is the North American name for the instrument “cor anglais”?
English Horn
What painter, known for his “Haystacks,” said of himself: “I put my heart and soul into my work and have lost my mind in the process”?
(Vincent) Van Gogh
What was the name of the fine art movement of the 60’s that depended upon commercial art and popular culture inspiration?
Pop art
What material does architect Shigeru (shig-er-oo) Ben use to create his structures?
Recycled cardboard
What famous Russian composer and pianist wrote the following ballets The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of
Spring?
(Igor) Stravinsky
What is the device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter?
Potter’s Wheel
What tool uses taut horse hair to get the best sound from stringed instruments?
Bow
What artist of the 1905 painting “The Smoke Signal” is better known for his bronze statues of the American West, especially “The Bronco Buster”?
(Frederic) Remington
What do letters stand for in the acronym ASCAP?
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
What Russian word for “big” is the name of one of the best-known ballet companies in the world?
Bolshoi.
When a humorist said, “You can’t judge Egypt by ‘Aida,’ “ he was referring to an opera by what composer?
(Giuseppe) Verdi
What famous classical symphony was built on four notes?
Beethoven’s Fifth
Which American pop artist was noted for his large-scale depictions of comic book panels?
(Roy) Lichtenstein
What term refers to the first firing of clay?
Bisque
Occurring in 1964, what trumpeter became the oldest person ever to score a chart-topping single?
(Louis) Armstrong
What term is used when building material is exactly vertical to a perpendicular level line?
Plumb
What was the nickname of jazz pianist and bandleader William Basie?
“Count”
What style of music is traditionally played by a sextet consisting of two violins, a piano, a double bass, and two bandoneons?
Tango
What philosopher said, “To sing well and to dance well is to be well educated”?
Plato
Beginning with the lowest pitched string, list in order the six strings of an acoustic guitar.
E,B,G,D,A,E
What is the name of the poem from which the fourth movement words come in Beethoven’s Choral Symphony
Number 9?
“Ode to Joy”
What 19th to 20th century sculptor, educated for a short while in Kansas, had almost completed the Mount Rushmore memorial when he died?
(Gutzon) Borglum
What painting medium has a much shorter drying time than oil, is soluble in water, eliminates the need for turpentine, and can be directly applied to the canvas?
Acrylic
Which Romantic-era composer wrote his Third Piano Concerto, and it came to be regarded as the most difficult piano concerto in the standard repertoire?
(Sergei) Rachmaninoff
Franz Joseph Haydn’s famous symphony #94 was composed to keep dinner guests awake. What nickname did the symphony earn from its purpose?
Surprise Symphony
What name, Italian for pity, is given to any painting, drawing, or sculpture of Mary, the mother of Jesus, holding the dead body of Jesus.
Pietà (pee-ay-TAH)
The art concept of perspective relates to what mathematical concept?
Slope
Name the Russian composer who wrote pieces such as “Scheherazade” and “Flight of the Bumblebee”?
(Nikolai) Rimsky-Korsakov
Who is the main character of Michelangelo’s sculpture for the tomb of Pope Julius II?
Moses
What type of pliable, nonabrasive eraser can be shaped, and is used for cleaning artwork, picking out highlights,
and softening pencil lines?
kneaded eraser
What is the name of the highly stylized form of Japanese theater which began during the 17th and 18th centuries and
is still performed today?
Kabuki
Name the style of art most popular in the 18th century that is characterized by extravagant decorative effects, asymmetry, and artificial pastoral subjects.
Rococco
Born in Wisconsin, what modern artist became famous for paintings of enlarged flowers, sun-bleached bones, and
desert scenery?
Georgia O’Keefe
What folk opera by George Gershwin was inspired by reading a Dubose Heyward novel and observing the Gullah people of Folly Beach and is set in Charleston, South Carolina?
Porgy and Bess
What instrument in a woodwind quintet is actually not a woodwind at all?
French horn
What famous woman married, then gave up her honeymoon with Joe DiMaggio to entertain troops with the USO in Korea?
(Marilyn) Monroe
In buildings which have a high central dome and a round room underneath, what is the term for the round space?
Rotunda
Based on a 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire, what is the name of the Broadway musical with music and lyrics by
Stephen Schwartz and songs including “Defying Gravity” and “Popular”?
Wicked
A string quartet is composed of what four instruments?
Two violins, viola, and cello
Identify the term that comes from the Greek, meaning “love of wisdom”; and is a subject that considers questions
stemming from reflections on everyday events in life.
Philosophy
As what are colored substances which dissolve in liquids and impart their color effects to materials by staining or
being absorbed classified?
Dyes
What Czech composer’s “New World Symphony” was composed while he was living in the United States?
(Antonin) Dvorak
Name the Chinese-American artist who created the glass pyramid in front of the Louvre.
I.M. Pei (Pay)
What is the technical term for the tall, four-sided shaft that gradually tapers to a pyramidal point at the top similar to
the Washington Monument?
Obelisk
What Lerner and Lowe musical is based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion?
My Fair Lady
Used during the 18th and 19th centuries, what is the name for improvisation as part of a performance?
Cadenza
Name the three types of minor scales commonly used in Western Music.
Natural (minor), harmonic (minor), melodic (minor)
What is the name of the area or object that stands out and draws the most attention in a composition?
Focal Point
Name the comic artist best known for his one panel comic “The Far Side,” which was sometimes divided into smaller sections for the story line.
Gary Larson
Of what are polonaise, mazurka, and minuet examples?
Dance
Name the controversial American dancer who, known for her Bohemian ways, died from strangulation when her long scarf was caught around the wheel of the sportscar in which she was riding.
(Isadora) Duncan
What musical term refers to the text of an opera, cantata, oratorio, or other work for voices and orchestra?
Libretto
What 18th century philosopher influenced the authors of the American Constitution with his work “The Spirit of the Law”?
Montesquieu
In Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,” who is the barber?
Figaro
What period of art did the following artists live and work, Michelangelo, Raphael and DaVinci?
Renaissance
In art, a different “shade” is achieved by adding what color?
black
Name the artist who was the founder of the Mexican Mural Renaissance whose works include “The HIstory of Mexico.”
(Diego) Rivera
Name the building which houses the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera?
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Name the Pulitzer Prize winning American composer whose works included orchestral ballets and narrated symphonies, often including well known folk melodies.
(Aaron) Copland
Whose famous musical includes the songs “Iowa Stubborn” and “Ya Got Trouble”?
The Music Man
Name the musical instrument that has a chanter and three drones.
bagpipes
From what classification of trees do all hardwoods come?
Deciduous trees
Ansel Adams, Dorthea Lange and Annie Leibovitz are all associated with what type of art?
Photography
Name the musical that features the song “Luck be a Lady” and in which Nathan Detroit is engaged to Adelaide for 14 years.
Guys and Dolls
Name the Kansas born jazz artist whose nickname is “Bird.”
(Charlie) Parker
What style of dance originated in Central Europe in the 1830s and is characterized by a basic pattern of hop-step-
close-step in 2/4 (two-four) time?
Polka
Which branch of philosophy is also known as “moral philosophy”?
Ethics
Name a common time signature for a waltz.
three-four or six eight
What brass musical instrument is bandleader Tommy Dorsey most famous for playing?
Trombone
From what classification of trees do all softwoods come?
Coniferous
Identify the German composer known for his six Brandenburg Concertos and The Passion According to Saint John.
(Johann Sebastian) Bach
Name the composer of the song “Summertime,” one of the best-known songs from the folk opera Porgy and Bess.
(George) Gershwin
What term describes a tiered tower with multiple eaves commonly built in eastern Asia as a temple or memorial?
Pagoda
What is the common name for a pattern consisting of rows of short, slanted parallel lines with the direction of the slant alternating row by row?
A herringbone weave
In theatre, what is the name of the area of the stage that is farthest away from the audience?
Upstage
What primary color has the lightest value?
Yellow
Name the opera about a 14th-century Swiss patriot who wishes to end Austria’s domination of his country.
William Tell
Which element of design would be defined as the actual or implied quality of a surface?
Texture
Name the two Americans, a composer and lyricist team, credited with creating the musical An American in Paris.
George and Ira Gershwin
What is the name of the textless vocal exercise used to learn intervals and scales in music?
Solfege
David, Moses, and the Pieta are all sculptures carved by what renaissance artist?
Michelangelo
During what decade were dances like the foxtrot, waltz, and Charleston all popular in America?
1920s
What is the third note on the B flat major scale?
D
What nationally known folk singer wrote “This Land Is Your Land”?
Woodie Guthrie
Also acceptable: Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
What is the division between earth and sky in a picture called?
Horizon line
What expression is used instead of “good luck” when one wishes an actor success before opening night?
“Break a leg”
What is the common name for an actor’s second audition for the same part?
callback
Name the philosophical term for the “quantitative study of the universe.”
Cosmology
Name the musical group from Topeka and Lawrence, famous for such songs as “Carry on my Wayward Son” and Dust in the Wind.”
Kansas
Solve the following analogy: country is to Nashville as what is to New Orleans?
Jazz
Hatalii (Hi tall ee) are traditional Navajo medicine men. In doing curing ceremonies they incorporate ritual chants as well as elaborate paintings made with what substance?
Sand
What American artist declared, “Art is anything you can get away with,” and coined the phrase, “Fifteen minutes of fame”?
(Andy) Warhol
What city that is the setting for Madame Butterfly was also the target for the second atomic bomb of World War II?
Nagasaki
What American composer ran off to join the circus at the age of 19 and contributed more circus marches than any other composer?
(Karl) King
Name the technique of reproducing a design by using this process.
-coating a metal plate with wax
-drawing with a sharp stylus through the wax to the metal
-treating the metal with acid
Etching
How many 8th notes make up two measures of music written in 3/4 time?
Twelve
What would one be doing if he/she were using the following materials or products: embosser, a smoother, cutter and fondant?
Decorating a cake
Name the actor who died before the theatrical release of his acclaimed turn as Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause?
James Dean
Meaning almond, name the instrument that Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass, popularized.
Mandolin
What cotton fabric is derived from the French phrase translated as “Cord of the King,” even though the fabric was developed in England?
Corduroy
With works including Pirates of Penzance and the Mikado, who were the witty Englishmen who satirized the society of the Victorian Period?
Gilbert & Sullivan
What learning disabled intellectual is quoted as saying, “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
(Albert) Einstein
What symphony by Antonin Dvorak (duh-VOAR-zjahk) contains an iconic second movement based on the traditional slave song “Going Home?”
The 9th Symphony (also accept New World Symphony or Symphony from the New World)
This writer of the Enlightenment was quoted as saying: “I do not agree with a word you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Voltaire
What is the term for the art of performing music spontaneously without the aid of manuscript, sketches or memory?
Improvisation
What solfege is sung in an ascending major scale?
Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do
Name the popular portraitist whose Biblically themed paintings include “Simeon in the Temple,” “Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple,” and “David with the Head of Goliath Before Saul.”
Rembrandt
Name the art medium that comes in a variety of forms including soft, hard, oil and pencil and is usually made of pure pigments similar to oil paints.
Pastel
Name the Russian composer who wrote the tone-poem, “Night on Bald Mountain,” immortalized in Walt Disney’s Fantasia.
Modest Mussorgsky [Muss-org-ski]
What Gershwin opera is set in Catfish Row on the waterfront in Charleston, South Carolina and contains the well-
known hit “Summertime”?
Porgy and Bess
What do you call the act of carving, trimming, or shaping a stick or piece of wood with a knife?
Whittling
What French dance was originally performed by two couples and was also known as the Country Dance or the Opposite Dance? It was later expanded to four couples.
Quadrille
What five-letter name is given to a simultaneous combination of at least three different pitches?
Chord
In the field of photography, what does ISO control?
It controls how much light is let into the camera
Name the composer of the piece most commonly associated with the Can-Can.
(Jacques) Offenbach
Premiering in 1791 three months before his death, what was the title of Mozart’s last opera?
The Magic Flute
What internationally recognized building was designed by Danish architect Jorn Utzon at age 38?
Sydney Opera House
Name the elaborate French art style that reflected the extravagant court life of the mid 1700s.
Rococo
How many flats are in the key signature D flat major?
5
Who said, “I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted … the clouds as actual blood. The color shrieked.”?
(Edvard) Munch
Identify the type of Caribbean folk music or satirical ballad developed by natives of Trinidad that shares its name with the sea nymph who kept Odysseus imprisoned for seven years.
Calypso
What group of artists were the most despised in their time and are the most popular now?
The Impressionists
Name the German composer who is known for his organ music and most famous work entitled “Canon in D Major.”
(Johann) Pachelbel
Born in the Netherlands in 1898, what artist used translation rotation, and repetition best displayed in his tessellations?
(M.C.) Escher
What brass instrument may have an “F” attachment, is related to the sackbut, and can produce a glissando when a musician moves its slide in or out?
Trombone
What English composer was influenced by folk music and Hinduism and is best known for “The Planets”?
(Gustav) Holst
Kansas City is ranked as the city with the second most number of water fountains in the world. What European city has the most?
Rome
After what Greek building is the Lincoln Memorial patterned?
The Parthenon (in Athens, Greece)
What sets the flute, piccolo, and recorder apart from the other woodwind instruments?
they are direct blown; or they do not require a reed
Who composed and wrote the lyrics for the Oklahoma state song?
Rodgers and Hammerstein
In woodworking, what kind of joint uses a tail and socket that is cut at an angle to provide a locking effect that strengthens the joint?
Dovetail Joint
What is the popular architectural design style of the 1920s and ’30s characterized especially by sleek geometric or stylized forms and by the use of man-made materials
Art Deco
What is the name for the type of art portrait that deliberately exaggerates a person?
Caricature
Which famous Italian composer from the Romantic Era, otherwise known as “The Italian Mozart,” is credited with writing many operas, including his most famous piece “The Barber of Seville,” which appears in cartoons alongside Bugs Bunny?
(Gioachino) Rossini
A chantey is a form of song sung in rhythm to work. It is usually associated with people in what line of work?
Sailing
How many basic positions are there in modern-day classical ballet?
Five
Name the Kansas born artist known for his unsigned works such as “Tragic Prelude” found in the Kansas Capitol Building.
(John Steuart) Curry
Currently playing at the Majestic Theater over 11,000 times, which musical is the longest running Broadway show?
Phantom of the Opera
Which Baroque composer, also known as the Red Priest, utilized a technique whereby sounds of a hunt are created in his memorable Concerto movement called “Autumn”?
Vivaldi
With an exhibit housed in Lucas, Kansas, what art style represents both past and present societies characterized by naïve subject matter and a vivacious style?
Folk Art
What is the area around the objects in a drawing or painting that is often called the background or empty space?
Negative space
Name the instrument that takes its name from the Italian word for small and is featured in John Phillips Sousa’s, “Stars and Stripes Forever.”
Piccolo
What is the Debussy work that translates as “The Light of the Moon”?
“Claire de Lune”
Which art tool comes in a variety of hair or bristle types shapes, and sizes and variety of handle lengths?
Paintbrush
Who is considered as the Greek God of Music?
Apollo
At what stage of drying is it most appropriate to carve designs into clay without warping or cracking the piece?
Leather-hard
What is the London equivalent to New York’s Broadway?
What is the London equivalent to New York’s Broadway?
Where is the Guggenheim Museum, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright?
New York
What letter of the alphabet is used to describe the holes in the body of a violin?
F
Name the musical that includes songs such as “Luck Be a Lady,” “Sue Me” and “Sit Down You’re Rocking the Boat.”
Guys and Dolls
Give the term for a tall, four-sided monument that tapers into a pyramid-like form.
Obelisk
Name the composer of “White Christmas” and “God Bless America” who passed away in 1989 at the age of 101.
(Irving) Berlin
In an orchestra, what is the chief bass member of the woodwinds?
Bassoon
What French word is used in ballet to identify a jump from one foot to the other as one leg is “thrown” for power?
Jete’
What is the theatrical term for taking down, changing out and putting away costumes, props and sets after a production?
Strike or strike the set
What French composer used mathematical theory when composing music such as “Nocturnes” and “Clair de Lune”?
(Claude) Debussy
Which style of art, music, and architecture of the 18th century evolved from the Baroque period and is characterized by elaborate ornamentation and gracefulness?
Rococo
Name the three basic methods of hand built construction of pottery.
Pinch, coil, slab
What color can be found in shades called sage, pistachio, and hunter?
Green
Introduced in 1942 by Bing Crosby in the movie “Holiday Inn,” what Irving Berlin song became one of the most widely recorded and performed holiday songs ever?
White Christmas
What stringed symphonic instrument has a pedestal and a crown?
Harp
Name the Spanish artist famous for developing the Cubist style of painting.
(Pablo) Picasso
What rock band performed “Carry on My Wayward Son”?
Kansas
In Edgar Degas’ 1875 painting “Uncle and Niece,” what is the uncle reading?
A newspaper
During what activity would one hear “honor your partner” or “honor the corner” as part of the instructions?
Square dancing
What are Primitive, Segmental, and Stilted types of architecture topped with a keystone?
Arch
What American tap dancer is famous for his roles opposite Shirley Temple in films such as The Little Colonel?
(Bill “Bojangles”) Robinson
What element of art defines the edges and surface ridges of an object?
Contour Line
How many flats are in the key of E-flat major?
Three
What 19th century French artist distanced himself from the Impressionists and painted the scandalous pieces “Luncheon on the Grass” and “Olympia”?
(Edouard) Manet
Name the musical based on the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Spamalot
Developed in Rome during the 1600’s, name the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music.
Baroque
What ballet great is most well known for his jumps as well as a role in the popular TV series “Sex and the City”?
(Mikhail) Baryshnikov
What form of quilting creates an embossed design by outlining the pattern with single stitches and then padding it with yarn or cotton?
Trapunto
Name the opera by Georges Bizet that was re-envisioned by MTV in 2001 as a “hip-hopera” starring Beyonce Knowles.
Carmen
When marching on a football field, what is the standard number of steps taken for every five yards marched?
Eight
What popular 1970’s art form uses tied knots to create pieces of art?
Macramé
Name the type of music that includes symphonies, operas, chamber music, and ballets
Classical music
What handicapped, 19th century French painter was famous for the posters he designed as advertisements for night clubs and entertainers?
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
What master of suspense directed dozens of hit Hollywood thrillers, including the classic films Strangers on a Train (1951), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963)?
(Alfred) Hitchcock
Name both the artist of and the style in which the masterpiece “Scream” was painted
(Edvard) Munch (moonk)/Expressionism
What is the name of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that depicts that depicts the last seven days in the life of Jesus of Nazareth?
Jesus Christ Superstar
What two types of hardwoods are used for making Major League baseball bats?
Maple and Ash
The didgeridoo is an instrument native to what continent?
Australia
Introduced in 1970, what film format uses 70 mm film running horizontally to produce images projected onto screens over 50 ft. tall
Imax
Name the Kansas who created “Weary Willy,” a clown apprearing in Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus.
(Emmett) Kelly
In which European country will you find the Van Gogh Museum?
Netherlands (Also accept Holland)
What is the systematic depiction on a flat surface of the illusion of consistent depth?
Perspective
For what musical about the Mississippi River was the song “Ol’ Man River” written?
Show Boat
The word ‘opera’ is the plural form of what Latin term meaning ‘work’?
Opus
What U.S. President designed buildings for the University of Virginia as well as the Virginia Capitol Building
Thomas Jefferson
Name the Russian composer who wrote the scores for the movies “Ivan the Terrible” and “Alexander Nevsky,” as well the orchestral piece “Peter and the Wolf: Symphonic Tale for Children.”
(Sergei) Prokofiev
In what location would one find the Moai, monolithic human rock figures whose heads are 3/5 of their bodies?
Easter Island
Name the sculptor who said, “The essence of the sculptor’s work is liberating the figure from the marble that imprisons it.”
Michelangelo
To what instrument family does the glockenspiel belong?
Percussion
Name the style of music composed as a Roman Catholic mass for the dead.
Name the artist who lived in Kansas
Name the artist who lived in Kansas for a time and is known for his bronze sculptures and paintings of the American West, such as “The Calvary Charge.”
(Frederic) Remington
Name the order of the flats as they would appear on a staff.
BEADGCF
Name the form of abstract art that uses geometric designs to produce optical illusions.
Op Art
What word did showman John P. Harris coin after combining the price of admission to a theater and the Greek word for theater?
Nickelodeon
In three dimensional art, to what does the term “throwing” refer?
Using the potter’s wheel
Name the Elvis Presley hit song that used the classic melody “Aura Lee.”
“Love Me Tender”
What is the name of the famous philosopher who wrote, “The life which is examined is not worth living”?
Plato
What American composer used images of the Western frontier as themes for his musical compositions?
(Aaron) Copland
What style of house has steeply-angled sides that usually begin at or near the foundation line and meet at the top, as well as a ceiling that is open to the top rafters.
An A-frame
What type of sculpture consists of rods, objects, and strings?
Mobile
Who was the first black soloist to sing with the Metropolitan Opera of New York City
(Marian) Anderson
What American conductor composed the musical On the Town and also composed “I Feel Pretty” for West Side Story?
(Leonard) Bernstein
Name three of the five classical orders of architecture.
Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan and Composite
With what instrument are the Amati, Guarneri (Gwah-neeh-ree), and Stradivari families associated?
Violin
Name the art movement in which dreams, nightmares, the subconscious and fantasies inspire the final work.
Surrealism
What music scale contains no sharps or flats?
C major
What American neoclassical home is the best known structure designed by 18th century architect James Hoban?
The white House
What mathematician and philosopher is considered the founder of rationalism?
(René) Descartes
From the Italian word for “tail”, what musical term is defined as the concluding passage of a musical composition?
coda
What art form includes such patterns as Lonestar, Wandering Geese, and Log Cabin?
quilting
Based on the Charleston of the 1920’s and the 1930’s, what dance was named for Charles Lindbergh after his historic Atlantic crossing?
Lindy Hop
Name the 1951 opera composed by Gian-Carlo Menotti and based on the story of the Three Wise Men that was the first opera written for television.
Amahl and the Night Visitors
What American hardwood has the highest strength to weight ratio?
(Black) Walnut
What is the term given to artwork that is executed without color, only black, white, and grays?
achromatic
The Mikado is an operetta by what composing duo?
Gilbert and Sullivan
In Gustav Holst’s The Planets, which planet is “The Bringer of War”?
Mars
Madrigals style music is from which period?
Renaissance
Ballet terms are written in what language
French
What American artist, known as the “Painter of Light,” has recently created a series of paintings referred to as the “Disney Dreams”?
(Thomas) Kincaid
What title is given to the leading female singer in a grand opera?
Diva
Identify this Wisconsin-born abstract painter who is famous for such works as “Sky Above Clouds” and “Black Iris.”
(Georgia) O’Keefe
John Cage composed the piece of music entitled “4 Minutes, 33 Seconds.” What makes this piece of music unique?
It is totally silent.
What city are you in if you are at the Museum of Modern Art (commonly referred to as MOMA)?
New York City
Name the French Impressionist known for his pinks, blues, and lavenders as well as numerous nudes.
Renoir
What is the tool, or device, used to carry the weft yarn through the shed in weaving?
shuttle
Where is the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, scheduled to open in 2011, being built?
Kansas City, MO
What is the name of the 100-foot bronze statue of Apollo erected at the harbor entrance of a Mediterranean island in the third century B.C.?
Colossus of Rhodes
Name the two most common stringed instruments found in a symphony orchestra that are not played with a bow.
Harp and Piano
Often remembered as the father of Pop Art, who was trained as a commercial artist and worked for “Vanity Fair”?
(Andy) Warhol
What is the official term that refers to an actor or actress in a drama, play, or film?
Thespians
What term refers to a glaze fault characterized by the cracking of fired glazes due to high tensile stresses?
Crazing
Who composed the “Bridal Chorus” better known as “Here comes the Bride”?
(Richard Wagner (vahg ner)
What is the architectural term for a round room directly under the dome of a building?
rotunda
What present-day musician earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for playing, on the saxophone, the longest note ever recorded?
Kenny G. or Kenneth Bruce Gorelick
What type of Greek column is found mostly on the Parthenon in Greece?
Doric
What type of instrument includes parts called “stops,” which, when pulled out, bring various sets of pipes into play?
Organ
What medieval art period or movement featured churches with glowing stained glass windows, pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and high reaching spired?
Gothic (Art)
