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Which Shakespearean character has the most lines?`Hamlet
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Who killed Macbeth?`Macduff
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What was the name of Charles Dickens' last novel which was unfinished at his death?`The Mystery Of Edwin Drood
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Who is associated with the address 221B Baker Street, London?`Sherlock Holmes
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What is the fourth book in the Harry Potter series?`Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire`The Goblet Of Fire
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For what is Dame Margott Fonteyn famous?`Ballet Dancing`Ballet
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A realistic style of painting in which everyday life forms the subject matter, as distinguished from religious or historical painting?`Genre painting
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On what book was 'Three Days Of The Condor' based?`Six Days Of The Condor
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From the Hebrew word for 'prophet'. A group of French painters active in the 1890s who worked in a subjective, sometimes mystical style, stressing flat areas of color and pattern?`Nabis
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Who wrote Great Expectations?`Charles Dickens
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A termed coined by British art critic Roger Fry to refer to a group of nine-teenth century painters, who were dissatisfied with the limitations of impressionism. It has since been used to refer to various reactions against impressionism, such as fauvism and expressionism?`Postimpressionism
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Who co-wrote 'Yeoman Of The Guard', 'Lolanthe And The Mikado'?`Gilbert & Sullivan
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From which Shakespeare play is this line taken? 'Goodnight, goodnight! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I should say goodnight till it be morrow'?`Romeo and Juliet
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Which author wrote 'The Sound & The Fury', 'The Wild Palms', and 'As I Lay Dying'?`William Faulkner
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What was H.G Wells' first novel?`The Time Machine
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This statue was found on the Greek island of Melos in 1820?`Venus de milo
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French impressionist Claude _____?`Monet
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Which story involves the schoolboy Piggy?`Lord Of The Flies
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A band of painted or sculpted decoration, often at the top of a wall?`Frieze
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Who wrote the famous book 'A Brief History Of Time' in 1988 ?`Stephen Hawking
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In one of Donald Horne's novels, what was Australia dubbed?`The Lucky Country
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Three main types of Greek columns are Doric, Ionic, and __________?`Corinthian
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In which book did four ghosts visit Scrooge?`A Christmas Carol
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What is the name of the Russian National Ballet?`The Kirov Ballet`Kirov
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In 'Romeo and Juliet', who was Mercutio's long monologue about?`Queen Mab
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Who wrote the books 'The Firm' and 'The Pelican Brief' - both of which were made into films?`John Grisham`Grisham
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Which US author penned the novels "Of Mice and Men" and "East Of Eden"?`John Steinbeck`Steinbeck
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Who wrote the shortest ever letter?`Victor Hugo
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His many Romantic odes include 'Ode to Melancholy' and 'Ode to a Graecian Urn'?`John Keats
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Who created Lord Peter Wimsey?`Dorothy L Sayers`Sayers
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Under what pen name did Hector Hugh Munro write?`Saki
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Water-soluble paint made from pigments and a plastic binder?`Acrylic
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In Swift's Gulliver's Travels, what is Gulliver's profession?`Surgeon
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A method of watercolor painting, but prepared with a more gluey base, producing a less transparent effect?`Gouache
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Who created Sherlock Holmes ?`Sir Arthur Conan Doyle`Arthur Conan Doyle`Doyle
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Dr. Seuss wrote this book: The Cat in the______?`Hat
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Which sculptor produced 'A Lobster Telephone'?`Salvador Dali`Dali
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In which century did artists first start painting on canvas?`15th Century`15th`15`fifteenth
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Name the author of 'The Catcher in the Rye'?`J.D. Salinger`JD Salinger`Salinger
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The surrealist painter Salvador Dali was a native of which country?`Spain
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What is the name of the main character in Homer's Odyssey?`Odysseus
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"Our Town" is a play by whom?`Thornton Wilder`Wilder
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Which poet wrote no verses during his time as Britain's Poet Laureate?`William Wordsworth
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Which thriller writer's works include 'The Dark Eyes Of London', 'Four Just Men', and 'Sanders Of The River'?`Edgar Wallace`Wallace
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What controversial book did Germaine Greer write?`The Female Eunuch
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Who was the merchant in Shakespeare's 'The Merchant Of Venice'?`Antonio
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A Russian abstract movement originated by Malevich c. 1913. It was characterized by flat geometric shapes on plain backgrounds and emphasized the spiritual qualities of pure form?`Suprematism
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What is Samuel Clemens better known as?`Mark Twain
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In what work does the HAL 9000 appear?`2001, A Space Odyssey`2001 a space odyssey
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What is the ballet term for spinning on one foot?`Piroutte
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Which character created by Dodie Smith drove a black & white car and wore a black & white fur coat?`Cruella De Vil
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Who was the author of 'Dracula'?`Bram Stoker`Stoker
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This man was Time magazine's 1938 "Man of the Year"?`Adolf Hitler`Hitler
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What is the opposite of an utopia?`Dystopia
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In painting, the degree of lightness or darkness in a color?`Value
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Who is the author of "Harry Potter"?`J.K. Rowling`JK Rowling`Joanne Rowling
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Who painted the Mona Lisa?`Leonardo da Vinci`da Vinci
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From which Shakespeare play is this line taken: 'Double, double'?`Macbeth
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Who wrote 'The Time Machine'?`H.G. Wells`HG Wells`wells
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Who wrote 'To Kill A Mockingbird'?`Harper Lee`Lee
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This book, Oscar Wilde's only novel, was used as evidence in his sodomy trial?`The Picture of Dorian Gray
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In which English county was John Constable born?`Suffolk
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"The Diary of Anne Frank" was first published in English under what title?`The diary of a young girl
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Who penned the 1999 autobiography 'Managing My Life'?`Alex Ferguson
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What famous gothic novel was written by Mary Shelley?`Frankenstein
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From which Shakespeare play is this line taken: 'What in a name that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet'?`Romeo and juliet
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This magazine used to boast a circulation of 7,777,777?`Better homes and gardens
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In which city is the Encyclopædia Britannica published?`Chicago
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What was Shakespeare's last completed play?`The Tempest
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Which famous sculptor was refused entry to the French Academy 3 times?`August Rodin`Rodin
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Which Stephen King novel is set at The Overlook Hotel?`The Shining
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An etching tecnique in which a solution of asphalt or resin is used on the plate. It produces prints with rich, gray tones?`Aquatint
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What Dutch master painted 64 self-portraits?`Rembrandt
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Which author's father was imprisoned for debt?`Charles Dickens`Dickens
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Women's magazine launched by New York in the 70's?`Ms
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Who wrote 'The Rose Tattoo'?`Tennessee Williams
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Where was El Grecho born?`Crete
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A movement of the 1960s and 1970s that emphasized the artistic idea over the art object. It attempted to free art from the confines of the gallery and the pedestal?`Conceptual art
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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 color?`Impressionism
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Which English writer divided his novels into 3 categories, 'Novels Of Character & Environment', 'Romances & Fantasies', and 'Novels Of Ingenuity'?`Thomas Hardy`Hardy
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Where is the Louvre located?`Paris
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Sherlock Holmes lived at 221b _____ street?`Baker
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Who wrote the novels 'The Hunt For Red October' and 'Clear And Present Danger'?`Tom Clancy
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A figurative movement that emerged in the United States and Britain in the late 1960s and 1970s. The subject matter, usually everyday scenes, is portrayed in an extremely detailed, exacting style. It is also called superrealism, especially when referring to sculpture?`Photorealism
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A painting technique using pigments mixed with egg yolk and water. It produces clear, pure colors.?`Tempera
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Who created Winnie the Pooh?`A. A. Milne`A.A. Milne`aa milne`a a milne`Milne
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Homer wrote this account of the Trojan War?`Iliad
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Who won a Pulitzer Prize for Angela's Ashes?`Frank McCourt`mccourt
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Who is novelist Helen Fielding's most famous character?`Bridget Jones
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How many tales are there in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'?`23`twenty three
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Who wrote "Animal Farm"?`George Orwell`Orwell
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Who writes the discworld novels?`Terry Pratchett`Pratchett
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An abstract movement in Europe and the United States, begun in the mid-1950's and based on the effect of optical patterns?`Op art
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Name the Philadelphian artist who introduced the world to "Pop Art"?`Andy Warhol`Warhol
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Which Algerian born French author's works included 'L'Etranger' and 'La Peste'?`Albert Camus`Camus
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What were the dolls in the novel 'Valley Of The Dolls'?`Pills
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Who wrote the 'Dragonriders Of Pern' series?`Anne McCaffrey`mccaffrey
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Which novel by Michael Crichton was the best selling paperback in 1993?`Jurassic Park
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Who is the author of "Brave New World"?`Aldous Huxley`huxley
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What was Lestat's last name?`De Lioncourt
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Who was the human companion of Willow?`Mad Mardigan
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Who penned the novel 'The Pelican Brief' which was made into a film starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington?`John Grisham
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What type of animal is Rupert the Bear's best friend Bill?`Badger
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Which poet, in his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" told us that "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen / And waste its sweetnes on the desert air"?`Thomas Gray`Gray
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In the book 'The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole', what was the name of Adrian's girlfriend?`Pandora
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Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?`Geoffrey Chaucer`Chaucer
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Who did Macduff kill?`Macbeth
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What other name does Stephen King write under?`Richard Bachman
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Stephen King's: "Salem's _________"?`Lot
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Which famous book contains the line 'Once upon a time there was a little chimney sweep and his name was tom'?`The Water Babies
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What is the earliest known drawing medium ?`Charcoal
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Who told stories about Brer Rabbit & Brer Fox?`Uncle Remus
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What is the most performed opera in the UK?`La Boheme
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Whose first collection of short stories entitled 'In Our Time' was published in 1925?`Ernest Hemmingway`hemmingway
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Which word created by JK Rowling gained entry into the Oxford English Dictionary In 2003?`Muggle
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Which British artist is noted for his numerous paintings of horses?`George Stubbs`Stubbs
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Who wrote 'Robinson Crusoe'?`Daniel Defoe`defoe
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Author of "The Lighthouse" and "Eminent Victorians"?`Virginia Woolf`woolf
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In which British national daily newspaper does Rupert The Bear appear ?`The Daily Express
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What was Shakespeare's first play?`Henry VI
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Which novel by Mary Shelley was subtitled 'The Modern Prometheus'?`Frankenstein
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What was the name of the author who released 'A Guide To Baby And Child Care' in 1946?`Dr. Spock`spock`dr spock
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How many plays is Shakespeare generally credited with today?`37`thirty seven
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What dance is associated with vienna?`Waltz
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Which Shakespeare play contains the line 'if music be the food of love play on'?`Twelfth Night
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Which book including the characters Pod, Arrietty, Homily & Peagreen inspired the film 'the Secret Life of Arrietty'?`The Borrowers
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Who wrote the gothic novel 'Dracula'?`Bram Stoker`Stoker
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What Irish playwright and author, wrote "The Importance of Being Ernest" and "A Picture of Dorian Grey" among others?`Oscar Wilde`Wilde
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What is the name of Gandalf's horse?`Shadowfax
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He penned the founding novel of the utopian genre, "Utopia"?`Sir Thomas More`More
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Who is Karen Blixen better known as?`Isaak Dinesen
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What book is the film Blade Runner based on?`Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
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Meaning 'fool the eye' in french. In painting, the fine, detailed rendering of objects to convey the illusion that the painted forms are real and three-dimensional?`Trompe l'oeil
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In what field of study would you find "flying buttresses"?`Architecture
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Who wrote the novel "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde"?`Robert Louis Stevenson`Stevenson
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Who wrote 'The Canterbury Tales'?`Geoffrey Chaucer
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A group of English painters formed in 1848. These artists attempted to recapture the style of painting preceding Raphael. They rejected industrialized England and focused on painting from nature, producing detailed, colorful works?`Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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Who wrote the Tin Tin stories?`Georges Remi Herge`Herge
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Who wrote 'The Gulag Archipelago'?`Alexander Solzhenitsyn`Solzhenitsyn
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What nationality was Jospeh Conrad?`Polish
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Who wrote the play 'The Mousetrap'?`Agatha Christie`Christie
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What Shakespearean play features the line: 'A plague on both your houses'?`Romeo and Juliet
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What is the art of tracing designs and making impressions of them called?`Lithography
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Referring to the principles of Greek and Roman art of antiquity with its emphasis on harmony, proportion, balance, and simplicity. In a general sense, it refers to art based on accepted standards of beauty?`Classicism
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Who is the protagonist of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'?`Satan
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How many holes are there on a traditional artist's palette?`One`1
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Which of Jane Austen's novels was published posthumously?`Persuasion
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Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, and Tinker Bell are characters in what story?`Peter Pan
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This girl hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam?`Anne frank
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What is Mrs William Heelis better known as?`Beatrix Potter
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Which colour followed Picasso's Blue Period?`Pink
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What did Jeannie C. Riley describe as "a little Peyton Place"?`Harper Valley
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This magazine chronicled the Man of Bronze and the Fabulous Five?`Doc savage
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In 2007 who topped the best sellers non fiction list with 'Born To Be Riled'?`Jeremy Clarkson`Clarkson
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Who wrote the vampire series that featured Lestat as the main character?`Anne Rice`rice
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The term Impressionism was first used about which artist?`Claude Monet`Monet
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What Dr Seuss character steals Christmas?`Grinch
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Which famous book contains the line 'Mr & Mrs Dursley of number 4 Privet Drive were proud to say that they were perfectly normal'?`Harry Potter And The Philosophers Stone
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Stephen King's: "The Dead ________"?`Zone
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Who wrote about tarzan?`Edgar Rice Burroughs`Burroughs
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Paint applied very thickly. It often projects from the picture surface?`Impasto
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A soft, subdued color; a drawing stick made of ground pigments, chalk, and gum water?`Pastel
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Which antipodean opera singer sung at Prince Charles' wedding to Lady Diana Spencer?`Kiri Te Kanawa
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Who wrote 'The Great Gatsby'?`F. Scott Fitzgerald`fitzgerald`f scott fitzgerald
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What are arranged in the Japanese art of Ikebana?`Flowers
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Who created 'The Saint'?`Leslie Charteris`Charteris
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Whose works 'The Ballad Of Reading Gaol' & 'De Profundis', were written from his experiences in prison?`Oscar Wilde`Wilde
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The rendering of light and shade in painting; the subtle graduations and marked variations of light and shade for dramatic effect?`Chiaroscuro
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A group of American painters who united out of opposition to academic standards in the early twentieth century?`The eight
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Which celebration of the arts is held in wales?`The Eisteddfod
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In which Shakespearean tragedy does Laertes appear?`Hamlet
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Name the author of the famous 'Doctor Zhivago', which presents a panoramic view of Russian society at the time of the 1917 Revolution?`Boris Pasternak`Pasternak
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What Shakespearean play refers to the date of epiphany?`Twelfth Night
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Who wrote the novel 'Silence Of The Lambs'?`Thomas Harris`Harris
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How many lines are in a sonnet?`14`fourteen
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A composition made of cut and pasted pieces of materials, sometimes with images added by the artist?`Collage
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Who drew drawings of absurd mechanical contrivances?`William Heath Robinson`Robinson
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Douglas Adams is famous for writing what?`The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
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At which railway station does Harry Potter catch the Hogwart's Express at Platform 9 and 3 Quarters?`King's Cross`kings cross
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Which Shakespeare play opens with the 3 Witches?`Macbeth
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Who wrote 'The Hobbit'?`J.R.R. Tolkien`jrr tolkien`tolkien
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This is the choice and arrangement of words and phrases in a literary work. It is the vocabulary that the author, poet or playwright uses to create style and effect in a piece of writing?`Diction
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Edgar Allen Poe wrote a famous poem about this animal?`Raven
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Which author wrote the book 'Black Beauty'?`Anna Sewell`sewell
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Who composed the ballet 'The Nutcracker'?`Tchaikovsky
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Who wrote the play 'Hay Fever'?`Noel Coward`coward
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What was Picasso's first name?`Pablo
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Which Welsh poet died of alcohol poisoning the year he publsihed his collected poems?`Dylan Thomas`thomas
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The famous lithograph 'The Scream' was created by which artist?`Edvard Munch`munch
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Who wrote 'Far From The Madding Crowd'?`Thomas Hardy`hardy
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By what name is the great Italian sculptor & artist Buonarroti better known as?`Michelangelo
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Who wrote 'Psycho'?`Robert Bloch`bloch
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Which American artist is known for a portrait of his mother?`James Whistler`whistler
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In painting, a thin layer of translucent color?`Wash
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The fallacy of personifying inanimate objects, often in bad taste?`Pathetic fallacy
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Who wrote the 'Noddy Stories'?`Enid Blyton`blyton
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Which famous play begins with the line: 'When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightening, or in rain'?`Macbeth
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Who wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle)?`Adolf Hitler`hitler
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In which book is Scheherazade a story teller?`Arabian Nights
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Meaning 'fresh' in Italian. The technique of painting on moist lime plaster with colors ground in water?`Fresco
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The study of building design is ____________?`Architecture
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Sir Alfred Gilbert was the sculptor of what famous landmark?`Eros
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What is the name of Colin Dexter's fictional detective?`Inspector Morse
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The effect of the harmony of color and values in a work?`Tone
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The ____ generation included such authors as Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsburg?`Beat
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Which American auther wrote the novel 'Roots'?`Alex Haley`haley
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A painting movement that flourished in France in the 1880s and 1980s in which subject matter was suggested rather than directly presented. It featured decorative, stylized, and evocative images?`Symbolism
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The Royal Opera House in London is home to which branch of the arts other than Opera?`Ballet
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This Romantic poet and husband to Mary Shelley drowned in a boating accident?`Percy Bysshe Shelley
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In what opera would you find Lt. Pinkerton?`Madame butterfly
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Which famous book begins with the line: 'Marley was dead, to begin with. There was no doubt about that'?`A Christmas Carol
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What is Picasso's nationality?`Spanish
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Who wrote 'Valley Of The Dolls'?`Jacqueline Susann`susann
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A movement in European painting in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, characterized by violent movement, strong emotion, and dramatic lighting and coloring?`Baroque
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Who had decieved the Lord of Rohan for a number of years?`Wormtongue
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Who is Pip's benefactor in Dickens's 'Great Expectations'?`Abel Magwitch`Magwitch
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An artwork humoously excaggerating the qualities, defects, or pecularities of a person or idea?`Caricature
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Whose smile remained after the rest of it had vanished?`The Cheshire Cat`cheshire cat
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What school of poets was John Donne attributed to?`The Metaphysical Poets`metaphsical
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Which novel features Perks the station porter?`The Railway Children
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From which of Shakespeare's plays is this line: "All the world's a stage___"?`As You Like It
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In the 'Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner' which bird is shot?`An Albatross`albatross
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Which US dramatist was once married to Marylin Monroe and penned the plays "Death Of A Salesman" and "The Crucible"?`Arthur Miller`miller
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How many stories did Enid Blyton publish in 1959?`Fifty nine`59
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Where is the world's largest art gallery?`Paris
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Who wrote "The Wind in the Willows"?`Kenneth Grahame`grahame
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Which decorative style was popular in the 1920's & 1930's?`Art Deco
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Who wrote 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'?`Douglas Adams
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Which outlaw rode a horse called Black Bess?`Dick Turpin
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A European style of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Its elegant, balanced works revived the order and harmony of ancient Greek and Roman art?`Neoclassicism
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Where is the Prado Gallery?`Madrid
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Which British painter frequently uses a swimming pool as a theme?`David Hockney`hockney
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Which former jockey specializes in novels concerning horse racing?`Dick Francis`francis
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A flat board used by a painter to mix and hold colors, traditionally oblong, with a hole for the thumb; also, a range of colors used by a particular painter?`Palette
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What was the sequel to Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women"?`Little Men
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An eighteenth-century European style, originating in France. In reaction to the grandeur and massiveness of the baroque, it employed refined, elegant, highly decorative forms?`Rococco
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What was the only novel to be written by Margaret Mitchell?`Gone With The Wind
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Who wrote 'The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd'?`Agatha Christie`christie
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How many books are there in Anne Rice's vampire series?`Five`5
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In what city will you find the Museum of Modern Art?`New York city
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Who wrote the book "The Origin of Species"?`Charles Darwin`darwin
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Which tavern was the favourite haunt of Falstaff in Shakespeare's 'Henry IV'?`The Boar's Head`the boars head`boar's head`boars head
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What was the name of William Wordworth's sister?`Dorothy
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In The Canterbury Tales at which tavern do the story tellers assemble?`The Tabard`tabard
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What do you call a picture that is made of various material stuck together?`Collage
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His many Romantic odes include 'Ode to Melancholy' and 'Ode to a Graecian Urn'?`Keats
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An Italian movement c.1909-1919. It attempted to integrate the dynamism of the machine age into art?`Futurism
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Who wrote the novels 'Slaughterhouse Five' and 'Breakfast Of Champions'?`Kurt Vonnegut`vonnegut
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What was Dante's last name?`Alighieri
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What nationality were most of the Impressionist painters?`French`France
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What was Sherlock Holmes' 7% solution in 'The Sign of Four'?`Cocaine
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Who wrote 'Alice In Wonderland'?`Lewis Carroll`carroll
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What rank was Biggles?`Major
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This early American statesman and inventor wrote the book, "Fart proudly"?`Benjamin Franklin`franklin
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In which Gilbert & Sullivan Operetta does Nakipoo appear?`The Mikado
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Who wrote 'Gulliver's Travels'?`Jonathan Swift`swift
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Who is responsible for painting the Mona Lisa?`Leonardo da Vinci`da vinci
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Reducing or distorting in order to represent three-dimensional space as perceived by the eye, according to the rules of perspective?`Foreshortening
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In the Dr Seuss books, which elephant hatched an egg?`Horton
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Who wrote 'Gone With The Wind'?`Margaret Mitchell`mitchell
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Who painted 'The Last Supper'?`Leonardo da Vinci`da vinci
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He wrote 'Ulysses', 'Giacomo Joyce', 'Dubliners', and 'Finnegan's Wake', among others?`James Joyce`joyce
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Which school did Billy Bunter attend?`Greyfriars
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Whose life was the subject of James Boswell's Biography, published in 1791?`Samuel Johnson`johnson
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Which movement spanned the period from the 17th Century to the early 18th?`Baroque
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What play by Shakespeare features the following characters: Cornwall, Gloucester, Regan, and Goneril?`King Lear
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Who painted the Creation Of Adam?`Michelangelo
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Stephen King's: "Pet ________"?`Semetary
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A movement that began in Britain and the United States in the 1950s. It used the images and techniques of mass media, advertising, and popular culture, often in an ironic way?`Pop art
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Which poet preceded Ted Hughes as Poet Laureate?`Sir John Betjeman`betjeman
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Which Nobel Prize winner wrote 'A History Of The English Speaking Peoples'?`Winston Churchill`churchill
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The two races in HG Well's "The Time Machine" are the child-like Eloi and the subterannean ______?`Morlocks
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What is the name given to the painting medium involving egg yolks?`Tempera
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Who wrote 'Jurassic Park'?`Michael Crichton`crichton
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Who wrote '1984'?`George Orwell
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Which author wrote novels upon which the TV series 'All Creatures Great & Small' was based?`James Herriot`herriot
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What is the surname of Cathy in Wuthering Heights?`Earnshaw
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Which author did Hitler acclaim as the Prophet of Right Wing Authoritarianism?`Nietzsche
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Which woman had more potraits painted of her than anyone else?`Queen Elizabeth II`elizabeth ii
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Who wrote 'A Christmas Carol'?`Charles Dickens
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What is the name of the 7th and final Harry Potter book?`Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Who wrote the Barsetshire novels?`Anthony Trollope`trollope
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Where would you find the Elgin Marbles?`The British Museum
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In a general sense, refers to objective representation. More specifically, a nineteenth century movement, especially in France, that rejected idealized academic styles in favor of everyday subjects?`Realism
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What was the name of Mother Goose's son?`Jack
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Who was William Shakespeare's Wife?`Anne Hathaway
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In 'Romeo and Juliet', who says 'make the bridal bed in that dim monument where Tybalt lies'?`Juliet
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Whose autobiography was entitled 'Dear Me'?`Peter Ustinov`ustinov
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A large painting or decoration done on a wall?`Mural
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Who wrote "Ender's Game"?`Orson Scott Card`card
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What did Jeannie C. Riley describe as "a little Peyton Place"?`Harper valley
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Who wrote the threepenny opera?`Bertolt Brecht`brecht
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Who wrote the novels 'About A Boy'', 'How To Be Good'' and 'High Fidelity'' ?`Nick Hornby
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From which Shakespeare play is this line taken: "To be or not to be"?`Hamlet
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The book "Wamyouruijoshou" was the first to use what word ?`Kite
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Who wrote the epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey?`Homer
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Who wrote 'The Birds'?`Daphne du Maurier`du maurier
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Who wrote the novel Jaws, which was later turned into a blockbuster movie by Steven Spielburg?`Peter Benchley`benchley
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What publication was subtitled 'The What's New Magazine'?`Popular Science
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Which gallery has exhibitions in London & St Ives, Cornwall?`The Tate Gallery`tate
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Which artist's name literally means 'Little Barrel'?`Botticelli
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Who wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?`Samuel Taylor Coleridge`coleridge
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Who Wrote "Brave New World"?`Aldous Huxley`huxley
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A style, c. 1520-1600, that arose in reaction to the harmony and proportion of the High Renaissance. It featured elongated, contorted poses, crowded canvases, and harsh lighting and coloring?`Mannerism
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Tilly Trotter, Hannah Massey, and Maggie Rowan are all characters created by which novelist?`Catherine Cookson`cookson
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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?`Romanticism
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What did Winston encounter in Room 101?`Rats
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The technique of producing printed designs through various methods of incising on wood or metal blocks, which are then inked and printed?`Etching
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In sculpture, the building up of form using a soft medium such as clay or wax, as distinguished from carving. In painting and drawing, using color and lighting variations to produce a three-dimensional effect?`Modeling
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Which member of the Monty Python Team wrote children's books about 'Erik The Viking'?`Terry Jones`jones
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What does A E Houseman's initials stand for?`Alfred Edward
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What colour is the Art and Literature wedge in Trivial Pursuit?`Brown
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Group of American artists from 1908 to 1918. Their work featured scenes of urban realism?`Ash Can School
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With what art movement was Salvador Dali associated?`Surrealism
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Which Science Fiction story centers around alien children in a village?`The Midwitch Cuckoos
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Works of a culturally homogenous people without formal training, generally according to regional traditions and involving crafts?`Folk art
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Refers to art that uses emphasis and distortion to communicate emotion. More specifically, it refers to early twentieth-century northern European art, especially in Germany c. 1905-23?`Expressionism
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Where would you find Poets Corner?`Westminster Abbey
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A painting or drawing executed in a single color?`Monochrome
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Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?`Michelangelo
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Who wrote 'A Tale Of Two Cities'?`Charles Dickens`dickens
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Who painted 'Irises'?`Vincent Van Gogh`van gogh
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Which Shakesperean play features the line "Now is the winter of our discontent"?`Richard III
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A technique of engraving, using a sharp-pointed needle, that produces a furrowed edge resulting in a print with soft, velvety lines?`Drypoint
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Who was the first person to be buried at Poets Corner?`Geoffrey Chaucer`chaucer
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Which Tennesee Williams play is about a Sicilian-American woman?`The Rose Tattoo
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Artwork, usually paintings, characterized by a simplified style, nonscientific perspective, and bold colors. The artists are generally not professionally trained?`Naive art
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What famous character did Edgar Rice Burroughs create?`Tarzan
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From whom did Bilbo obtain The Ring?`Gollum
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In 1526 Hans Holbein became the officiaal portrait painter of which English king?`Henry VIII
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Who wrote "Ten Little Indians"?`Agatha Christie`christie
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In 'A Christmas Carol', what was the name of the miser?`Ebenezer Scrooge`scrooge
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Who created 'Maudie Frickett'?`Jonathan Winters`winters
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Meaning 'rebirth' in french. Refers to Europe c. 1400-1600. The style began in Italy and stressed the forms of classical antiquity, a realistic representation of space based on scientific perspective, and secular subjects?`Renaissance
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Which author penned the Disc-World series of sci-fi novels?`Terry Pratchett`pratchett
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A print made by carving on a wood block, which is then inked and printed?`Woodcut
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On a represented form, a point of most intense light?`Highlight
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Who designed the album sleeve for the Rolling Stones LP 'Sticky Fingers'?`Andy Warhol`warhol
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Name the Shakespeare play from this ultra short plot summary: Urged on by his wife, a man murders his king in order to take his place?`Macbeth
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A technique in abstract painting developed in the 1950s. It focuses on the lyrical effects of large areas of color, often poured or stained onto the canvas?`Color field painting
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Design style prevalent during the 1920s and 1930s, characterized by a sleek use of straight lines and slender forms?`Art deco
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Who painted 'The Blue Boy'?`Gainsborough
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Which author described World War One as 'The War To End All Wars'?`HG Wells`h.g. wells`wells
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Who was Winnie the Pooh's neighbour?`Piglet
|
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The visual and tactile quality of a work based on the particular way the materials are handled; also, the distribution of tones or shades of a single color?`Texture
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Which famous book contains the line 'It was the best of times it was the worst of times it was the age of wisdom'?`A Tale of Two Cities
|
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Ground chalk or plaster mixed with glue, used as a base coat for tempera and oil painting?`Gesso
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For which novel was Boris Pasternak awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize - an award he declined?`Dr Zhivago`dr. zhivago
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Faulkner penned this book with 4 distinctive sections: Benjy, Quentin, Jason, and Dilsey sections?`The Sound and the Fury
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Who kills Nancy in Dicken's novel 'Oliver Twist'?`Bill Sykes
|
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Which famous book begins with the line: 'Not long ago, there lived in London a young married couple of Dalmation dogs named Pongo and Misses Pongo'?`101 Dalmations
|
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Which author wrote the 'Just So Stories'?`Rudyard Kipling`kipling
|
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What is the name of Hamlet's tragic admirer?`Ophelia
|
||||
The ____ ____ school of poetry includes poets such as Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch?`New York
|
||||
Gandalf's elven name.?`Mithrandir
|
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A method of painting developed by Seurat and Signac in the 1880s. It used dabs of pure color that were intended to mix in the eyes of viewers rather than on the canvas. It is also called divisionism or neoimpressionism?`Pointillism
|
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What word is Isaac Asimov famous for coining?`Robotics
|
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Who wrote three books under the title "Das Kapital"?`Karl Marx`marx
|
||||
Who wrote the 'Father Brown' crime stories?`G.K. Chesterton`chesterton`gk chesterton
|
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Who wrote "The Count of Monte-Christo"?`Alexander Dumas`dumas
|
||||
According To "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" what number is the answer to everything?`Forty Two`42
|
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What Shakespearean play features the line: A plague on both your houses?`Romeo and Juliet
|
||||
Which Shakespearean play is set in the Forest Of Arden?`As You Like It
|
||||
Which US clarinetist player's real name was Arthur Jacob Shaw?`Artie Shaw
|
||||
A representation of a human or an animal form?`Figure
|
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In 'Romeo and Juliet', who gave a long monologue about Queen Mab?`Mercutio
|
||||
In which Shakespearean Play would you find the clown Costard?`Love's Labour Lost`love labour lost
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In what book would you find a Hefalump?`Winnie the Pooh
|
||||
Who said 'But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks'?`Romeo
|
||||
A decorative art movement that emerged in the late nineteenth century. Characterized by dense assymmetrical ornamentation in sinuos forms, it is often symbolic and of an erotic nature?`Art noveau
|
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Who wrote the 'Myth' series?`Robert Asprin
|
||||
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?`Surrealism
|
||||
Who wrote 'The Female Eunuch'?`Germaine Greer`greer
|
||||
A russian abstract movement begun in the early twentieth century. It employs an analytic vision based on fragmentation and multiple viewpoints?`Cubism
|
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Which St. Louis born novelist & poet became a British subject in 1927?`T.S. Eliot`ts eliot
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Which of the Bronte sisters married the Reverend A B Nicholls in 1854?`Charlotte
|
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Which famous book begins with the line 'On January 6, 1482, the people of Paris were awakened by the tumultuous clanging of all the bells in the city'?`The Hunchback Of Notre Damme
|
||||
In sculpting, the cutting of a form from a solid, hard material such as stone or wood, in contrast to the technique of modeling?`Carving
|
||||
Who wrote 'Rendezvous with Rama'?`Sir Arthur C. Clarke`arthur clarke`clarke
|
||||
Author of such works as 'Gravity's Rainbow', 'V', 'The Crying of Lot 49' and most recently, 'Mason & Dixon'?`Thomas Pynchon`pynchon
|
||||
Who wrote '1984'?`George Orwell`orwell
|
||||
The representation of inanimate objects in painting, drawing or photography?`Still life
|
||||
Who painted 'Flatford Mill'?`Constable
|
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Which famous book contains the line 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife'?`Pride & Prejudice`pride and prejudice
|
||||
In 'A Christmas Carol', how many ghosts visited Scrooge?`Four`4
|
||||
What science fiction novel features Duke Leto Atreidea & The Harkonnens?`Dune
|
||||
From the french word 'fauve', meaning 'wild beast'. A style adopted by artists associated with Matisse, c. 1905-1908. They painted in a spontaneous manner, using bold colors?`Fauvism
|
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Who wrote the novel 'Emma'?`Jane Austen`austen
|
||||
In painting, a work made of several panels or scenes joined together. A diptych has two panels; a triptych, three?`Polyptych
|
||||
In which novel was it the job of the firemen to burn books?`Fahrenheit 451
|
||||
A movement in American painting and sculpture that originated in the late 1950s. It emphasized pure, reduced forms and strict, systematic compositions?`Minimalism
|
||||
Which novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin in June 1904?`Ulysses
|
||||
Spanish modernist and cubist Pablo _____?`Picasso
|
||||
Which famous book begins with the line 'The mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home'?`The Wind In The Willows
|
||||
A single print made from a metal or glass plate on which an image has been represented in paint, ink, etc?`Monotype
|
||||
The play "Our Town" is set where?`Grover's Corners
|
||||
What story features Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail?`Peter Rabbit
|
||||
Who wrote 'The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn'?`Mark Twain`twain
|
||||
In 'Romeo and Juliet', who said 'I have a faint cold, fear thrills through my veins'?`Juliet
|
||||
Who wrote 'Weird Harold and Fat Albert'?`Bill Cosby
|
||||
In which city will you find the largest opera house in the world?`New York City
|
||||
What's Penthouse's sister publication for women?`Viva
|
||||
A movement, c. 1915-23, that rejected accepted aesthetic standards. It aimed to create antiart and nonart, often employing a sense of the absurd?`Dadaism
|
||||
In which city is Leonardo da Vinci's 'Last Supper' displayed?`Milan
|
||||
Which publishing company was founded in London in 1935 by Allen Lane?`Penguin
|
||||
Whose last words were 'Thus with a kiss I die'?`Romeo
|
||||
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?`lithography
|
||||
Which author wrote 'The Spy That Came In From The Cold'?`John Le Carre`le carre
|
||||
Who wrote the opera 'The Flying Dutchman'?`Wagner
|
||||
What was the title of the first James Bond novel?`Casino Royale
|
||||
What is the name of the bird in The Peanuts comic?`Woodstock
|
||||
What Dutch master painted 64 self-portraits?`Rembrandt
|
||||
In 'Alice In Wonderland', who never stopped sobbing?`Mock Turtle
|
||||
Which American author wrote Jaws?`Peter Benchley`benchley
|
||||
Whose ghost appears at the dinner table in 'Macbeth'?`Banquo
|
||||
What were the two cities in 'A Tale Of Two Cities'?`London and Paris`paris and london
|
||||
Frodo is chosen to deliver The Ring into the heart of what?`Mount doom
|
||||
Movement in painting, originating in New York City in the 1940s. It emphasized spontaneous personal expression, freedom from accepted artistic values, surface quallities of paint, and the act of painting itself?`Abstract expressionism
|
||||
Which painter cut off his own ear?`Vincent Van Gogh
|
||||
Who wrote 'little lamb, who made thee'?`William Blake`blake
|
||||
What were the tree like creatures in The Lord Of The Rings called?`Ents
|
||||
Bob Kane created who?`Batman
|
||||
A method of producing images or letters from sheets of cardboard, metal, or other materials from which forms have been cut away?`Stenciling
|
||||
To what was 'The Hall Of Arts & Sciences' changed to?`The Royal Albert Hall
|
||||
What was the famous novel written in gaol, by John Bunyan?`Pilgim's Progress
|
||||
Which novel was originally going to be titled Elinor And Marianne?`Sense And Sensibility
|
||||
Who wrote the long religious epic, "Paradise Lost"?`John Milton`milton
|
||||
In 'Romeo and Juliet', who says 'what must be must be'?`Juliet
|
||||
Who composed the ballet 'Romeo & Juliet'?`Prokofiev
|
||||
Which is the largest museum in the world?`Louvre
|
||||
In which John Steinbeck story features the slow-witted Lennie and his friend George ?`Of Mice and Men
|
||||
What is an Icelandic epic called?`Saga
|
||||
Who composed the opera 'Oedipus Rex'?`Stravinsky
|
||||
In which book would you find the characters Desinov & Dolokhov?`War and Peace
|
||||
Who wrote the 'Noddy' books?`Enid Blyton`blyton
|
||||
H.G. Wells novel where Earth is invaded by Martians?`War of the Worlds
|
||||
What series did Robert Jordan write?`Wheel of Time
|
||||
A European style developed in France in the late eleventh century. Its sculpture is ornamental, stylized and complex?`Romanesque
|
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