Art & Literature50 randomly selected Art & Literature questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 13th May 2024 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | According to the proverb, "Three may keep a secret if two of them are..." what? |
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Dead | |
| 2. | In modern literature, who has a pet rat called Scabbers? |
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Ron Weasley (Harry Potter series) | |
| 3. | Nicknamed "The King", the work of what American comic book artist includes Captain America, Fantastic Four, Hulk, Thor, and X-Men? |
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Jack Kirby | |
| 4. | Who wrote the 2002 Booker Prize winning novel The Life of Pi? |
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Yann Martel | |
| 5. | Wheatfield with Crows is a July 1890 painting by who? |
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Vincent van Gogh | |
| 6. | The subject of 17 novels and 6 films, what is the adopted name of the fictional character whose real name is David Webb? |
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Jason Bourne | |
| 7. | Anastasia Steele is the female protagonist in what best-selling series of novels? |
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Fifty Shades (E. L. James) | |
| 8. | Released in September 2013, Doctor Sleep is the sequel to what classic 1977 horror novel? |
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The Shining (Stephen King) | |
| 9. | In J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan; Tootles, Nibs, Slightly, Curly, and The Twins are collectively known as what? |
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The Lost Boys | |
| 10. | What is the pen name of British spy novelist David John Moore Cornwell? |
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John le Carré | |
| 11. | What are the names of Wendy's two brothers in Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie? |
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John and Michael | |
| 12. | What is the name of the clown in Shakespeare's Henry IV and The Merry Wives of Windsor? |
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Falstaff (Sir John Falstaff) | |
| 13. | Who wrote the 1960s bestsellers Hotel and Airport? |
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Arthur Hailey | |
| 14. | Published in 2016 under the pseudonym Beryl Evans, what famous author wrote the children's book Charlie the Choo-Choo? |
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Stephen King | |
| 15. | "Religion is the opium of the people" is one of the most frequently paraphrased statements of what philosopher and economist? |
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Karl Marx (The German original, "Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkes" is often rendered as "religion... is the opiate of the masses.") | |
| 16. | In Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, who never stopped sobbing? |
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Mock Turtle | |
| 17. | What is written on the tiny bottle that Alice finds in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? |
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Drink Me | |
| 18. | According to the popular nursery rhyme, "Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace." What is Wednesday's child? |
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Full of woe | |
| 19. | At the end of what Shakespeare play does Puck apologise to the audience for any offence caused? |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
| 20. | Whose series of novels, beginning in 1950 with I, Robot, first introduced the "Three Laws of Robotics"? |
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Isaac Asimov | |
| 21. | What 1908 children's novel begins with Mole meeting Rat? |
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Kenneth Grahame|The Wind in the Willows | |
| 22. | Who painted Les Parapluies (The Umbrellas) during the 1880s? |
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | |
| 23. | Sold for a then record $300 million in September 2015, Interchange is a 1955 oil painting by what Dutch-American artist? |
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Willem de Kooning | |
| 24. | By what pen name was author Barbara McCorquodale better known? |
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Barbara Cartland (McCorquodale was her married name) | |
| 25. | What colour was Velvet's surname in the 1935 novel National Velvet? |
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Brown | |
| 26. | What American novelist's best-known book is the infamous 1979 bestseller Flowers in the Attic? |
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V. C. Andrews | |
| 27. | In the Shakespeare tragedy, who killed Macbeth? |
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Macduff | |
| 28. | Who wrote the 1988 best-seller A Brief History of Time? |
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Stephen Hawking | |
| 29. | First published in 1726, who wrote Gulliver's Travels? |
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Jonathan Swift | |
| 30. | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest are collectively known as the _________ Trilogy. |
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Millennium (Stieg Larsson) | |
| 31. | First published in 1991, the main title of Jung Chang's worldwide bestseller, recounting the lives of three female generations of her family in China is Wild _____ what? |
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Swans (Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China) | |
| 32. | The first line of what 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel reads "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"? |
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Rebecca | |
| 33. | Who wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? |
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Douglas Adams | |
| 34. | What 1898 science fiction novel begins with an unusual incident at Horsell Common near Woking in Surrey? |
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The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells) | |
| 35. | What Irish novelist is best known for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939)? |
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James Joyce | |
| 36. | What 1958 novella by Truman Capote includes the characters Fred, Holly Golightly, Joe Bell, Mag Wildwood, and Rusty Trawler? |
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Breakfast at Tiffany's | |
| 37. | Complete the title of this 1960 Dr. Seuss novel: One Fish Two Fish ____ Fish ____ Fish? |
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Red Fish Blue Fish | |
| 38. | What is the name of Dorothy's dog in the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz? |
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Toto | |
| 39. | First published in 1813, who wrote Pride and Prejudice? |
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Jane Austen | |
| 40. | Born in 1884, what English author is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of children's books? |
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Arthur Ransome | |
| 41. | What novel about a schoolteacher by English writer James Hilton was first published in 1934? |
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips | |
| 42. | What travel guide was founded in Australia in 1973 by married couple Maureen and Tony Wheeler? |
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Lonely Planet | |
| 43. | What English artist painted The Blue Boy in 1779? |
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Thomas Gainsborough (now in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California) | |
| 44. | What is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the semi-legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey? |
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Homer | |
| 45. | In Treasure Island, what is Long John Silver employed as on the Hispaniola? |
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Cook | |
| 46. | What fictional bear was originally illustrated in the 1920s by E. H. Shepard? |
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Winnie-the-Pooh (A. A. Milne) | |
| 47. | What 1950 novel by Patricia Highsmith was adapted for film in 1951 by Alfred Hitchcock? |
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Strangers on a Train | |
| 48. | What is the name of the remote Yorkshire farmhouse in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights? |
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Wuthering Heights | |
| 49. | At 74 x 30 feet, Paradise at Doge's Palace, Venice is reputed to be the largest canvas painting ever done. Who painted it in 1588? |
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Tintoretto | |
| 50. | Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), and Silas Marner (1861) are the first three novels by what English author? |
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George Eliot | |
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