50 Question Art and Literature Quiz #1 Welcome to your 50 Question Art and Literature Quiz #1 Round 1: Literature 10 questions all about Literature. None Which John Steinbeck book features the slow-witted Lennie and his friend George? In which novel was it the job of the fireman to burn books? In which Shakespearean play would you find the clown Costard? In which book does the schoolboy "Piggy" feature? In Swift's “Gulliver's travels” what is Gulliver's profession? In the book “The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole”, what was the name of Adrian's girlfriend? In what book would you find a Heffalump? In what novel do Duke Leto Atreidea & the Harkonnens feature? In which book did four ghosts visit Scrooge? Who is the author of 'The Catcher in the Rye'? Round 2: Geography 10 Geography questions on the theme of Art and Literature. None In which building would you find poets corner? In which city is the Louvre located? On which island was El Grecho born? The surrealist painter Salvador Dali was a native of which country? In which city will you find the largest opera house in the world? In which city was the encyclopaedia Britannica first published? What is a family of four art galleries in London, Liverpool and Cornwall? In which city would you find the Van Gogh museum? Andrew Wyeth's 1948 painting “Christina’s World” is of a real house in which American State? In which American state was Paul Jackson Pollock born? Round 3: Authors 10 questions all about Authors. None Who wrote “Great Expectations”? Who wrote the “Dragonriders of Pern” series? Who wrote The Mousetrap, the worlds longest running show as of 2020? Who wrote the “Noddy” books? Who wrote the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”? Who wrote the book “Brave New World”? Who wrote the books “The Firm” and “The Pelican Brief” both of which were made into films? Who wrote “The Canterbury Tales”? Who wrote the Discworld series of novels? Who wrote the Gothic novel “Dracula”? Round 4: Art Styles 10 questions all about Art styles. Can you identify them all? None Name a design style prevalent during the 1920s and 1930s, characterized by a sleek use of straight lines and slender forms. Name a method of painting developed by Seurat and Signac in the 1880s. it used dabs of pure colour that were intended to mix in the eyes of viewers rather than on the canvas. It is also called divisionism or neo impressionism. Name a method of producing images or letters from sheets of cardboard, metal, or other materials from which forms have been cut away. Name a late-nineteenth-century French school of painting. it focused on transitory visual impressions, often painted directly from nature, with an emphasis on the changing effects of light and colour. Name a movement, c. 1915-23, that rejected accepted aesthetic standards. it aimed to create antiart and nonart, often employing a sense of the absurd. Name a printing process in which ink impressions are taken from a flat stone or metal plate prepared with a greasy substance, such as an oily crayon. Name a European movement of the late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century. In reaction to neoclassicism, it focused on emotion over reason, and on spontaneous expression. Name a movement in American painting and sculpture that originated in the late 1950s. It emphasised pure, reduced forms and strict, systematic compositions. Name a movement of the 1920s and 1930s that began in France. It explored the unconscious, often using images from dreams. It used spontaneous techniques and featured unexpected juxtapositions of objects. Name a Russian abstract movement which began in the early twentieth century. It employs an analytic vision based on fragmentation and multiple viewpoints. Round 5: General Knowledge 10 general questions on the theme of Art and Literature. None What animals did Winston encounter in room 101? What famous character did Edgar Rice Burroughs create? What is the name of the Russian national ballet? What other name does Stephen King write under? What was the title of the first ever James Bond novel? Which author described World War One as “The war to end all wars”? For what is Dame Margott Fonteyn famous? Which word, created by J.K. Rowling, gained entry into the oxford English dictionary in 2003? Who composed the opera “Oedipus Rex”? Who kills Nancy in Dickens novel “Oliver Twist”? Time's up
