Art & Literature50 randomly selected Art & Literature questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 9th November 2026 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | Arthur Curry is the alter ego of what DC Comics superhero? |
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Aquaman | |
| 2. | What 1996 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Frank McCourt was followed by the sequels 'Tis in 1999 and Teacher Man in 2005? |
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Angela's Ashes | |
| 3. | What type of animal is the title character in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes? |
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Squirrel | |
| 4. | Whose novels include the Anne of Green Gables series and the Emily trilogy? |
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Lucy Maud Montgomery | |
| 5. | What country hosts the international Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children's literature? |
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Sweden | |
| 6. | A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows. What 2011 novel comes next? |
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A Dance with Dragons (The series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin) | |
| 7. | Name the American novelist and short story writer best known for her debut best-selling Divergent trilogy. |
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Veronica Roth | |
| 8. | In the English comic strip created by Reg Smythe, what is the name of Andy Capp's wife? |
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Flo | |
| 9. | What colour was Velvet's surname in the 1935 novel National Velvet? |
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Brown | |
| 10. | What author is best known for writing the Paddington Bear series of children's books? |
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Michael Bond | |
| 11. | In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, who delivers the famous opening line, Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears? |
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Mark Antony | |
| 12. | What British politician wrote the 1938 non-fiction novel While England Slept, inspiring John F. Kennedy's 1940 Harvard thesis, Why England Slept? |
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Winston Churchill | |
| 13. | First published in 1963 and written while he was still working for MI6, what John le Carré novel was adapted into a 1965 film starring Richard Burton as British field agent Alec Leamas? |
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold | |
| 14. | Which British author wrote the Famous Five and Secret Seven series of novels? |
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Enid Blyton | |
| 15. | What 14th century poet wrote The Canterbury Tales? |
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Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| 16. | What well known English author was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in 1832? |
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Lewis Carroll | |
| 17. | What is the name of the title character and protagonist in |
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Bilbo Baggins | |
| 18. | This 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli is titled The |
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Venus | |
| 19. | First published in 1902, who wrote the Just So Stories for Little Children? |
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Rudyard Kipling | |
| 20. | What English author's fictional characters include Rincewind, Death, and Granny Weatherwax? |
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Terry Pratchett (from the Discworld series) | |
| 21. | According to the nursery rhyme, who was born on a Monday, christened on Tuesday, married on Wednesday, took ill on Thursday, grew worse on Friday, died on Saturday and buried on Sunday? |
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Solomon Grundy (That was the end, of .. ) | |
| 22. | For what eponymous comic strip character is Jim Davis best known? |
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Garfield | |
| 23. | Opening line: "My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip." What classic novel? |
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Charles Dickens|Great Expectations | |
| 24. | Who wrote the 1722 novel Moll Flanders? |
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Daniel Defoe | |
| 25. | Anne of Avonlea is the 1909 sequel to what 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery? |
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Anne of Green Gables | |
| 26. | What British comedian and actor published his memoirs, My Booky Wook, in 2007? |
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Russell Brand | |
| 27. | Released in September 2013, Doctor Sleep is the sequel to what classic 1977 horror novel? |
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The Shining (Stephen King) | |
| 28. | In Greek mythology, what is the name of the God with the body of a man and the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat? |
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Pan (Greek: Πᾶν - The Roman God is called Faun) | |
| 29. | The Hogwart's Express leaves from platform 9¾ in what railway station? |
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King's Cross (London) | |
| 30. | Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 is an 1871 painting, more commonly known as what? |
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Whistler's Mother (James McNeill Whistler) | |
| 31. | A Rake's Progress is a series of eight paintings by what 18th-century English artist? |
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William Hogarth | |
| 32. | Complete the title of this 1967 novel by Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of ____. |
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Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad) | |
| 33. | What British author first published Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder in 1945? |
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Evelyn Waugh (Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh) | |
| 34. | The title of a comic fantasy book series; what fictional world is supported by four enormous elephants atop a 10,000 mile-long piloting turtle? |
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Discworld (Terry Pratchett) | |
| 35. | What 19th century British Poet Laureate coined famous phrases such as "'Tis better to have loved and lost. Than never to have loved at all." and "Theirs not to reason why. Theirs but to do and die."? |
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson | |
| 36. | What 1978 children's picture book without words by Raymond Briggs was adapted into an animated short film in 1982? |
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The Snowman | |
| 37. | Montague and Capulet are the feuding families in what Shakespeare play? |
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Romeo and Juliet | |
| 38. | What is the surname of the author whose first names are David Herbert Richards? |
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Lawrence (D. H. Lawrence) | |
| 39. | Who wrote about herself, her husband, and a lioness called Elsa in the 1960 book Born Free? |
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Joy Adamson | |
| 40. | Who sculpted The Kiss in 1889? |
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Auguste Rodin | |
| 41. | In the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and in stage and film adaptations since, what is Dorothy's surname? |
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Gale | |
| 42. | Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of what 1922 novel by James Joyce? |
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Ulysses | |
| 43. | What American writer, and husband of film star Marilyn Monroe, had his conviction for contempt of Congress dismissed in 1958? |
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Arthur Miller | |
| 44. | Who wrote the 1719 classic Robinson Crusoe? |
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Daniel Defoe | |
| 45. | What 1932 novel is followed by Men Against the Sea (1933), and Pitcairn's Island (1934)? |
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Mutiny on the Bounty (Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall) | |
| 46. | What is the surname of Wendy and her brothers in Peter Pan? |
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Darling | |
| 47. | Anna Karenina is an 1877 novel by what author? |
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Leo Tolstoy | |
| 48. | Name this Peanuts character. |
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Patricia Reichardt / Peppermint Patty | |
| 49. | From the opening line of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, what is the cruellest month? |
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April (April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, ..) | |
| 50. | Who wrote Winnie The Pooh? |
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A. A. Milne | |
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