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This list contains Fine Arts-themed trivia questions across the following categories:

• Literature
• Music
• Theater & Musicals
• Visual Arts

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Fine Arts Trivia Questions

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Literature

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1. Which superhero employs Alfred Pennyworth as his butler?

Answer: Batman

a) Superman

b) Batman

c) Iron Man

d) Spider-Man

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2. In Hans Christian Andersen's original fairy tale, whose heart did "The Snow Queen" freeze?

Answer: A Boy

a) A Boy

b) A Girl

c) An Old Man

d) A Princess

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3. In J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye, what is the name of Holden Caulfield's younger sister?

Answer: Phoebe

a) Sally

b) Allie

c) Jane

d) Phoebe

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4. In Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, what does the portrait magically give Dorian?

Answer: Immortality

a) Wealth

b) Knowledge

c) Immortality

d) Power

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5. In Roald Dahl's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, what is Charlie's last name?

Answer: Bucket

a) Smith

b) Bucket

c) Jones

d) Wonka

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6. In Suzanne Collins's book The Hunger Games, what animal is on Katniss Everdeen's broach?

Answer: Mockingjay

a) Sparrow

b) Eagle

c) Mockingjay

d) Crow

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7. In T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land, what month of the year is the "cruellest"?

Answer: April

a) April

b) March

c) November

d) January

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8. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, what is the name of the character who has fled slavery and is trying to reach freedom?

Answer: Jim

a) Tom

b) Joe

c) Huck

d) Jim

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9. In The Arabian Nights, who tells 1,001 tales to the shah to postpone her execution at dawn?

Answer: Scheherazade

a) Scheherazade

b) Aladdin

c) Sinbad

d) Ali Baba

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10. In the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, how many years did Sleeping Beauty sleep for?

Answer: 100

a) 60

b) 80

c) 100

d) 120

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11. In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, on what river do Huck Finn and Jim go rafting?

Answer: Mississippi

a) Missouri

b) Colorado

c) Ohio

d) Mississippi

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12. In the book The Neverending Story, what is Bastian's surname?

Answer: Bux

a) Bix

b) Bux

c) Lux

d) Nox

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13. In the book The Velveteen Rabbit, what illness forces the boy to give up the rabbit?

Answer: Scarlet Fever

a) Chickenpox

b) Measles

c) Scarlet Fever

d) Tuberculosis

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14. In the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk, what did Jack trade for a handful of beans?

Answer: A Cow

a) A Cow

b) A Sheep

c) A Horse

d) A Goat

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15. In the novel The Great Gatsby, what color is the light that Gatsby sees at the end of Daisy's dock?

Answer: Green

a) Red

b) Yellow

c) Blue

d) Green

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16. In what Nick Hornby novel does a bachelor attend single mothers' groups to meet women?

Answer: About a Boy

a) High Fidelity

b) Fever Pitch

c) About a Boy

d) A Long Way Down

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17. In what classic children's book does the main character come from Asteroid B-612?

Answer: The Little Prince

a) Charlotte's Web

b) The Little Prince

c) The Secret Garden

d) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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18. In what sequel to Stephen King's The Shining does a grown-up Dan Torrance battle the True Knot?

Answer: Doctor Sleep

a) Carrie

b) Misery

c) Salem's Lot

d) Doctor Sleep

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19. Who wrote the novel The Road, which was later turned into a film starring Viggo Mortensen?

Answer: Cormac McCarthy

a) Cormac McCarthy

b) Don DeLillo

c) Philip Roth

d) Toni Morrison

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20. Who wrote the book Where The Sidewalk Ends?

Answer: Shel Silverstein

a) Maurice Sendak

b) Dr. Seuss

c) Shel Silverstein

d) E.E. Cummings

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21. Who wrote Life of Pi?

Answer: Yann Martel

a) Yann Martel

b) Paulo Coelho

c) Haruki Murakami

d) Salman Rushdie

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22. Who tells the first tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales?

Answer: Knight

a) Wife of Bath

b) Miller

c) Prioress

d) Knight

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23. What is Atticus Finch's profession in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird?

Answer: Lawyer

a) Doctor

b) Teacher

c) Lawyer

d) Journalist

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24. What is the name given to Lord Voldemort's legion of followers in the Harry Potter series?

Answer: Death Eaters

a) Shadow Lords

b) Dark Lords

c) Death Eaters

d) Night Stalkers

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25. Detective Comics issue no. 27, published in 1939, marked the first appearance of which superhero?

Answer: Batman

a) Batman

b) Superman

c) Wonder Woman

d) The Flash

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26. What is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything?

Answer: 42

a) 42

b) 7

c) 100

d) 21

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27. Who is the object of Quasimodo's unrequited love in the book The Hunchback of Notre Dame?

Answer: Esmeralda

a) Fleur-de-Lys

b) Clopin

c) Frollo

d) Esmeralda

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28. Who is the author of the Alex Cross detective series, including the books Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider?

Answer: James Patterson

a) James Patterson

b) Michael Connelly

c) Lee Child

d) Robert Crais

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29. Which is not a novel by Jane Austen?

Answer: Wuthering Heights

a) Pride and Prejudice

b) Wuthering Heights

c) Sense and Sensibility

d) Emma

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30. Which influential poet was born Everett LeRoi Jones?

Answer: Amiri Baraka

a) Maya Angelou

b) Langston Hughes

c) Amiri Baraka

d) Gwendolyn Brooks

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31. Which author wrote the Bourne Trilogy series of novels?

Answer: Robert Ludlum

a) Daniel Silva

b) John le Carré

c) Tom Clancy

d) Robert Ludlum

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32. Which author famously went to jail for refusing to pay a poll tax?

Answer: Henry David Thoreau

a) Henry David Thoreau

b) Ralph Waldo Emerson

c) Nathaniel Hawthorne

d) Walt Whitman

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33. What is the title of the third book in Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy?

Answer: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

a) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

b) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

c) The Girl Who Played with Fire

d) The Girl Who Lived Twice

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34. What does the bird say in Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven?

Answer: Nevermore

a) After

b) Always

c) Forever

d) Nevermore

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35. In Norse mythology, which god traditionally guards the entrance to Asgard?

Answer: Heimdall

a) Thor

b) Loki

c) Odin

d) Heimdall

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36. What book by Victor Hugo was adapted into a long-running musical of the same name?

Answer: Les Misérables

a) The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

b) Toilers of the Sea

c) Les Misérables

d) Ninety-Three

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37. Which prolific inventor began publishing the folksy, practical Poor Richard's Almanack in 1732?

Answer: Ben Franklin

a) Samuel Morse

b) Thomas Edison

c) Alexander Graham Bell

d) Ben Franklin

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38. What U.S. novelist was the creator of Jurassic Park and the TV medical drama series ER? 

Answer: Michael Crichton

a) Stephen King

b) Michael Crichton

c) Tom Clancy

d) Dean Koontz

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39. Which novel by Gabriel García Márquez tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family? 

Answer: One Hundred Years of Solitude

a) Love in the Time of Cholera

b) Chronicle of a Death Foretold

c) One Hundred Years of Solitude

d) The General in His Labyrinth

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40. Who wrote the dystopian novel "Brave New World"?

Answer: Aldous Huxley

a) George Orwell

b) Philip K. Dick

c) Ray Bradbury

d) Aldous Huxley

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41. What is the title of the first novel in the "Discworld" series by Terry Pratchett? 

Answer: The Colour of Magic

a) The Light Fantastic

b) Guards! Guards!

c) The Colour of Magic

d) Mort

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42. Which novel features the characters Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy? 

Answer: Pride and Prejudice

a) Pride and Prejudice

b) Sense and Sensibility

c) Emma

d) Mansfield Park

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43. What is the name of the fictional town where Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" is set?

Answer: Maycomb

a) Monroeville

b) Maycomb

c) Yoknapatawpha

d) Grover's Corners

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44. In "The Great Gatsby," what is the name of Daisy Buchanan's husband? 

Answer: Tom Buchanan

a) Jay Gatsby

b) Nick Carraway

c) Tom Buchanan

d) George Wilson

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45. Which novel by Leo Tolstoy begins with the line, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"? 

Answer: Anna Karenina

a) War and Peace

b) Anna Karenina

c) The Death of Ivan Ilyich

d) Resurrection

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46. Who is the author of the "Foundation" series?

Answer: Isaac Asimov

a) Arthur C. Clarke

b) Philip K. Dick

c) Robert Heinlein

d) Isaac Asimov

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47. Which novel features a dystopian future where books are banned and "firemen" burn any that are found? 

Answer: Fahrenheit 451

a) Brave New World

b) 1984

c) Fahrenheit 451

d) The Handmaid's Tale

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Music

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1. What 1980s pop singer won a 2013 Tony for Best Original Score for the musical "Kinky Boots"?

Answer: Cyndi Lauper

a) Madonna

b) Cyndi Lauper

c) Whitney Houston

d) Pat Benatar

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2. What Bernstein musical, set in 1950s New York, was based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

Answer: West Side Story

a) My Fair Lady

b) Porgy and Bess

c) The Sound of Music

d) West Side Story

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3. Which is not a vocal part in an all-male barbershop quartet?

Answer: Alto

a) Tenor

b) Alto

c) Baritone

d) Bass

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4. In Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera, with whom does the Phantom fall in love?

Answer: Christine

a) Meg

b) Carlotta

c) Christine

d) Madame Giry

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5. Which composer, known for his extensive body of work including the Brandenburg Concertos and The Well-Tempered Clavier, had 20 children?

Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach

a) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

b) Ludwig van Beethoven

c) Johann Sebastian Bach

d) Franz Schubert

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6. Who composed the music to the ballets The Nutcracker and Swan Lake?

Answer: Tchaikovsky

a) Tchaikovsky

b) Stravinsky

c) Debussy

d) Prokofiev

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7. Ladies attending the crowded premiere of Handel's "Messiah" in 1742 were asked to leave what at home?

Answer: Hoop Skirts

a) Wigs

b) Hoop Skirts

c) Fans

d) Gloves

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8. The La Scala Opera House is located in which Italian city?

Answer: Milan

a) Rome

b) Florence

c) Venice

d) Milan

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9. Who is not a character in the musical Les Misérables?

Answer: Mario

a) Mario

b) Jean Valjean

c) Fantine

d) Javert

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10. Who composed the opera The Marriage of Figaro?

Answer: Mozart

a) Wagner

b) Verdi

c) Rossini

d) Mozart

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11. According to Deee-Lite, in what bodily organ does "groove" reside? 

Answer: Heart

a) Brain

b) Liver

c) Heart

d) Stomach

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12. In what band would you find members will.i.am and apl.de.ap? 

Answer: The Black Eyed Peas

a) The Black Eyed Peas

b) OutKast

c) Linkin Park

d) The Roots

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13. In what rock band would you find Paul Hewson and David Evans? 

Answer: U2

a) Coldplay

b) U2

c) The Rolling Stones

d) Radiohead

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14. The bands Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Nirvana were part of a "scene" in which U.S. city? 

Answer: Seattle

a) Los Angeles

b) Chicago

c) New York

d) Seattle

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15. What Beatles song was downloaded the most in the United States the first day iTunes began selling their music in 2010? 

Answer: "Here Comes the Sun"

a) "Here Comes the Sun"

b) "Let It Be"

c)  "Hey Jude"

d) "Yesterday"

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16. What Beatles song ranked number one on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the top 100 Fab Four tunes? 

Answer: "A Day in the Life"

a) "Come Together"

b) "A Hard Day's Night"

c) "A Day in the Life"

d) "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

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17. What Black Eyed Peas song was the most downloaded song of all time on iTunes when Apple announced the list in 2010? 

Answer: I Gotta Feeling

a) "Boom Boom Pow"

b) "I Gotta Feeling"

c) "Where Is the Love?"

d) "Pump It"

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18. What Canadian singer was "Rockin' in the Free World" with the release of his 1989 album Freedom? 

Answer: Neil Young

a) Leonard Cohen

b) Gordon Lightfoot

c) Neil Young

d) Bryan Adams

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19. What classic record label boasted the acts Diana Ross & The Supremes and Marvin Gaye? 

Answer: Motown Records

a) Atlantic Records

b) Capitol Records

c) Sun Records

d) Motown Records

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20. What pop singer refers to her fans as "little monsters"? 

Answer: Lady Gaga

a) Katy Perry

b) Lady Gaga

c) Beyoncé

d) Rihanna

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21. What R&B crooner born in Honolulu was an Elvis impersonator at 4 years old? 

Answer: Bruno Mars

a) Bruno Mars

b) Justin Timberlake

c) Usher

d) John Legend

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22. What famed country singer never wore a cowboy hat on stage? 

Answer: George Jones

a) Willie Nelson

b) George Jones

c) Johnny Cash

d) Merle Haggard

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23. Who was the subject of Elton John’s original song "Candle in the Wind"?

Answer: Marilyn Monroe

a) Marilyn Monroe

b) Princess Diana

c) Judy Garland

d) Audrey Hepburn

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24. What rap artist makes a guest appearance on Katy Perry's single "California Gurls"? 

Answer: Snoop Dogg

a) Dr. Dre

b) Jay-Z

c) Kanye West

d) Snoop Dogg

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25. What singer performed "Forget You" with Gwyneth Paltrow at the 2011 Grammy Awards wearing brightly colored feathers?

Answer: CeeLo Green

a) Bruno Mars

b) Usher

c) CeeLo Green

d) Pharrell Williams

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26. What singer, who scored a 2011 viral hit with her song "Friday," released its sequel, "Saturday," in 2013?

Answer: Rebecca Black

a) Rebecca Black

b) Katy Perry

c) Miley Cyrus

d) Lady Gaga

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27. Whose debut album was Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.?

Answer: Bruce Springsteen

a) Neil Young

b) Bob Dylan

c) Bruce Springsteen

d) Tom Petty

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28. Which band was not part of the "Big Four Tour" of thrash metal in 2010 and 2011?

Answer: Iron Maiden

a) Slayer

b) Metallica

c) Megadeth

d) Iron Maiden

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29. Which of these artists sang with Beyoncé in the 2003 single "Crazy in Love"?

Answer: Jay-Z

a) Jay-Z

b) Usher

c) Pharrell Williams

d) Kanye West

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30. Which rock tune was on Voyager I's data disc to acquaint other worlds with our culture? 

Answer: "Johnny B. Goode"

a) "Stairway to Heaven"

b) "Bohemian Rhapsody"

c) "Imagine"

d) "Johnny B. Goode"

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31. Which two Beatles have kids that were born on the same day?

Answer: Paul & Ringo

a) John & George

b) Paul & Ringo

c) Paul & George

d) John & Ringo

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32. Who sang at the wedding reception of Bill and Melinda Gates in Hawaii in 1994?

Answer: Willie Nelson

a) Willie Nelson

b) Elton John

c) Paul McCartney

d) Stevie Wonder

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33. What's the name of the house band on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon? 

Answer: The Roots

a) The Tonight Groove

b) The Tonight Band

c) The Tonight Players

d) The Roots

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34. What British rock group released a debut album called Parachutes? 

Answer: Coldplay

a) Oasis

b) Coldplay

c) Radiohead

d) Blur

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Theater & Musicals

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1. In what musical does the cast sing for about 525,600 minutes? 

Answer: Rent

a) Hamilton

b) Les Misérables

c) Wicked

d) Rent

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2. Which musical features the song “Defying Gravity” and tells the story of a misunderstood green-skinned girl?

Answer: Wicked

a) Wicked

b) Les Misérables

c) The Phantom of the Opera

d) Rent

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3. Which musical tells the story of a young boy who becomes a slave in ancient Egypt and features the song “Any Dream Will Do”? 

Answer: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

a) Beauty and the Beast

b) The Lion King

c) Jesus Christ Superstar

d) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

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4. Which musical is set in a high school and features the song “Summer Nights” as part of its soundtrack? 

Answer: Grease

a) West Side Story

b) Grease

c) Hairspray

d) Mamma Mia!

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5. Which play, written by Arthur Miller, explores the themes of identity and disillusionment in post-World War II America through the character Willy Loman?

Answer: Death of a Salesman

a) A View from the Bridge

b) The Crucible

c) Death of a Salesman

d) All My Sons

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6. Which musical features the character of Maria, an aspiring nun who becomes a governess in Austria?

Answer: The Sound of Music

a) The Sound of Music

b) Fiddler on the Roof

c) Carousel

d) My Fair Lady

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7. Which classic play by Tennessee Williams depicts the troubled life of Blanche DuBois in New Orleans? 

Answer: A Streetcar Named Desire

a) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

b) A Streetcar Named Desire

c) The Glass Menagerie

d) The Night of the Iguana

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8. Which musical, based on the story of a famous British detective, features songs such as “It’s a Hard Knock Life” and “Easy Street”? 

Answer: Annie

a) Annie

b) Oliver!

c) Matilda

d) Mary Poppins

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9. Which musical set in the 1920s features the song “Razzle Dazzle” and follows the story of a lawyer and his schemes?

Answer: Chicago

a) 42nd Street

b) Cabaret

c) Anything Goes

d) Chicago

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10. Which play by Eugene O'Neill tells the story of the Tyrone family and their struggles with addiction and illness? 

Answer: Long Day's Journey Into Night

a) Long Day's Journey Into Night

b) Mourning Becomes Electra

c) The Iceman Cometh

d) The Hairy Ape

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11. In Virgil's Aeneid, who does Aeneas tragically fall in love with on his way to founding Rome?

Answer: Dido

a) Helen

b) Dido

c) Lavinia

d) Circe

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12. Whose skull does Hamlet hold and talk to in the Shakespearean play Hamlet?

Answer: Yorick

a) Yorick

b) Claudius

c) Laertes

d) Polonius

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13. What is the name of Dante's guide through Heaven in The Divine Comedy?

Answer: Beatrice

a) Virgil

b) Beatrice

c) Francesca

d) Dante

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14. What play by Oscar Wilde features the characters John "Jack" Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff?

Answer: The Importance of Being Earnest

a) Lady Windermere's Fan

b) An Ideal Husband

c) The Picture of Dorian Gray

d) The Importance of Being Earnest

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15. Which of the following types of theater is not Japanese?

Answer: Kathakali

a) Bunraku

b) Noh

c) Kabuki

d) Kathakali

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Visual Arts

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1. During what period did Pablo Picasso paint circus people, clowns, and acrobats?

Answer: Rose Period

a) Blue Period

b) Rose Period

c) Cubism Period

d) Surrealism Period

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2. How many paintings did Van Gogh sell during his lifetime?

Answer: 1

a) 1

b) 10

c) 15

d) 100

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3. The Andy Warhol Museum, which is the largest museum in the country dedicated to one artist, is located in which city?

Answer: Pittsburgh

a) Pittsburgh

b) New York

c) Chicago

d) Los Angeles

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4. The artist Georges Seurat is known for developing what type of painting technique?

Answer: Pointillism

a) Impressionism

b) Cubism

c) Pointillism

d) Surrealism

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5. The exterior of the Statue of Liberty was designed by who?

Answer: Frederic Bartholdi

a) Frederic Bartholdi

b) Gustave Eiffel

c) Auguste Rodin

d) Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

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6. What 18th-century fountain yields around $3,500 a day for Italian charities?

Answer: Trevi Fountain

a) Fountain of Neptune

b) Fountain of the Four Rivers

c) Trevi Fountain

d) Fontana della Barcaccia

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7. What American artist didn't start painting until she was 78 years of age?

Answer: Grandma Moses

a) Grandma Moses

b) Georgia O'Keeffe

c) Mary Cassatt

d) Louise Nevelson

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8. What Maurice Sendak book was adapted for the screen by director Spike Jonze?

Answer: Where the Wild Things Are

a) The Polar Express

b) The Snowy Day

c) Where the Wild Things Are

d) Goodnight Moon

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9. What Stephen King novel was adapted for the big screen by Stanley Kubrick?

Answer: The Shining

a) The Shining

b) Carrie

c) Misery

d) It

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10. What affliction did John Milton, the author of the epic poem "Paradise Lost", have?

Answer: Blindness

a) Deafness

b) Epilepsy

c) Paralysis

d) Blindness

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11. What affliction did the woman have in Andrew Wyeth's painting Christina's World?

Answer: Polio

a) Tuberculosis

b) Polio

c) Multiple Sclerosis

d) Cerebral Palsy

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12. What did Marcel Duchamp draw on a postcard of the Mona Lisa to create pop art?

Answer: Goatee/Mustache

a) Glasses

b) Hat

c) Goatee/Mustache

d) Beard

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13. Which English author did Nicole Kidman wear a prosthetic nose to portray in the film The Hours?

Answer: Virginia Woolf

a) Virginia Woolf

b) Jane Austen

c) Emily Brontë

d) Mary Shelley

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14. Which French artist is famous for his posters and paintings of the Moulin Rouge nightclub in Paris?

Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec

a) Degas

b) Manet

c) Toulouse-Lautrec

d) Renoir

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15. Which artist famously sculpted The Thinker?

Answer: Auguste Rodin

a) Auguste Rodin

b) Michelangelo

c) Donatello

d) Gian Lorenzo Bernini

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16. Which French artist is known for his paintings and sculptures of ballet dancers?

Answer: Edgar Degas

a) Claude Monet

b) Henri Matisse

c) Edgar Degas

d) Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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17. What radical early 20th-century art movement is Picasso famous for co-founding with Georges Braque?

Answer: Cubism

a) Surrealism

b) Cubism

c) Fauvism

d) Expressionism

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18. What museum was the setting for the Ben Stiller film A Night at the Museum?

Answer: American Museum of Natural History

a) The Louvre

b) American Museum of Natural History

c) Smithsonian Institution

d) British Museum

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19. Which artist was known for his woodcut artwork featuring dogs?

Answer: Stephen Huneck

a) Stephen Huneck

b) Edward Hopper

c) Andy Warhol

d) Pablo Picasso

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20. Who sculpted the Pietà?

Answer: Michelangelo

a) Leonardo da Vinci

b) Michelangelo

c) Donatello

d) Bernini

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