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Arts, media, and entertainment: Sample quiz questions
The first answer is the correct one in each case.
Who wrote the plays The Wasps, The Birds, and The Frogs?
- Aristophanes
- Aeschylus
- Sophocles
- Euripides
In which US city did house music originate?
- Chicago
- New Orleans
- New York
- Detroit
Who wrote the play The Three Sisters?
- Anton Chekhov
- August Strindberg
- Ivan Turgenev
- Leo Tolstoy
Which Dickens novel was left unfinished at the time of his death?
- Edwin Drood
- The Pickwick Papers
- Bleak House
- Little Dorrit
Who wrote Porgy and Bess?
- George Gershwin
- Leonard Bernstein
- Stephen Sondheim
- Irving Berlin
Which playwright and poet wrote Peer Gynt and Ghosts while in exile from his native Norway?
- Ibsen
- Chekhov
- Strindberg
- Turgenev
Who was the architect of the Guggenheim Museum in New York?
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Walter Gropius
- Robert Venturi
- Michael Graves
The film in a cine camera takes a rapid sequence of still photos which produces movement on screen. At the standard rate, how many frames go through per second?
What is the name for a ballet, such as Giselle, in which the female dancers wear calf-length white dresses?
- Ballet blanc
- Romantic ballet
- Russian ballet
- Modern ballet
In the decorative arts and architecture, what is the name for the use of Chinese styles and motifs in Western art, especially in the late 17th to early 19th centuries?
- Chinoiserie
- Cloisonné
- Chinook
- Occidentalism
Who said 'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful'?
- William Morris
- Constance Spry
- John Ruskin
- Niklaus Pevsner
In which art gallery can you see Leonardo's world famous Mona Lisa?
- Louvre, Paris
- Hermitage, Leningrad
- Prado, Madrid
- Tate Gallery, London
Who wrote the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's in 1958?
- Truman Capote
- Arthur Miller
- F Scott Fitzgerald
- Evelyn Waugh
Which Indian novelist won the Booker Prize for The God of Small Things?
- Arundhati Roy
- Salman Rushdie
- Vikram Seth
- Reena Manji
Which classic novel inspired the film Clueless, starring Alicia Silverstone?
- Emma
- Cold Comfort Farm
- The Fiddler on the Roof
- The Graduate
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