Art & Literature50 randomly selected Art & Literature questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 7th April 2025 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | Who was the youngest of the three Brontë sisters? |
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Anne Brontë (born 1820 - Emily 1818 and Charlotte 1816) | |
| 2. | Set during the French and Indian War in 1757, what is the title of American author James Fenimore Cooper's most famous novel, first published in 1826? |
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The Last of the Mohicans | |
| 3. | In what 1912 George Bernard Shaw play are Professor Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle central characters? |
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Pygmalion (later adapted into a musical as My Fair Lady) | |
| 4. | In which book of the Bible does Moses lead the Israelites out of Egypt? |
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Exodus | |
| 5. | What 2000 novel by Tom Clancy about a war between Russia and China includes the names of two creatures in its title? |
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The Bear and the Dragon | |
| 6. | What member of the Monty Python team wrote the 1983 children's novel The Saga of Erik the Viking? |
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Terry Jones | |
| 7. | In William Golding's 1954 novel, Lord of The Flies, the title is attributed to the severed head of what type of animal? |
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Pig / Boar | |
| 8. | With sales of around 80 million, what 2003 novel remains the best-selling book of the 21st century to date? |
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Dan Brown|The Da Vinci Code | |
| 9. | What fruit obscures the face of the man in Magritte's The Son of Man? |
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Apple | |
| 10. | A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels, the first of which gave its name to what TV series? |
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A Game of Thrones (George R. R. Martin) | |
| 11. | First published in 1988, who wrote A Brief History of Time? |
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Stephen Hawking | |
| 12. | Who wrote the 1912 play Pygmalion? |
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George Bernard Shaw | |
| 13. | First published in 1837, who wrote the short story The Emperor's New Clothes? |
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Hans Christian Andersen | |
| 14. | What classic 1719 novel is thought to be based on the life of Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk? |
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Daniel Defoe|Robinson Crusoe | |
| 15. | Who wrote the 1945 novel Animal Farm? |
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George Orwell | |
| 16. | Who wrote the classic novels Rob Roy and Ivanhoe? |
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Sir Walter Scott | |
| 17. | What is the title of Harper Lee's 2015 sequel to her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird? |
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Go Set a Watchman | |
| 18. | Who wrote Educating Rita, Blood Brothers and Shirley Valentine? |
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Willy Russell | |
| 19. | The Hugo Award is an annual literary prize for the best novel in what genre? |
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Science fiction / Fantasy | |
| 20. | What was the name of the lion in C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe? |
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Aslan | |
| 21. | For what work are Danish-American sculptors Gutzon and Lincoln Borglum most famous? |
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial | |
| 22. | Goneril, Regan and Cordelia are the daughters of what William Shakespeare title character? |
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King Lear | |
| 23. | Mary Anne Evans was the real name of what 19th century British author? |
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George Eliot | |
| 24. | What American author wrote From Here to Eternity, Some Came Running and The Thin Red Line? |
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James Jones | |
| 25. | Whose 1807 poem Daffodils begins I wandered lonely as a cloud… |
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William Wordsworth | |
| 26. | Whose novels include the Anne of Green Gables series and the Emily trilogy? |
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Lucy Maud Montgomery | |
| 27. | In Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin, what is the surname of the absent-minded professor with hearing difficulties? |
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Calculus (Professor Cuthbert Calculus) | |
| 28. | In Charles Dickens' first novel, whose landlady is Mrs. Tamora Bardell? |
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Samuel Pickwick (The Pickwick Papers) | |
| 29. | In what dystopian novel, first published in 1932, are human embryos "hatched" from a bottle rather than being carried to term in a womb? |
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Aldous Huxley|Brave New World | |
| 30. | Of what French artist is this an 1888 self-portrait? |
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Paul Gauguin (Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin) | |
| 31. | Who, according to the New Testament, denied Jesus three times before the cock crowed twice? |
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Peter (Mark 14:30 - also known as Simon Peter, Simeon, Cephas, Peter the Apostle, or Saint Peter) | |
| 32. | With what type of spoon did The Owl and the Pussycat dine on mince and slices of quince? |
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Runcible (They dined on mince and slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible spoon.) | |
| 33. | American author and lawyer Erle Stanley Gardner is best known as the creator of what character? |
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Perry Mason | |
| 34. | In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, what is the name of Ebeneezer Scrooge's abused and underpaid clerk? |
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Bob Cratchit | |
| 35. | In what city did the Wizard of Oz live? |
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Emerald City | |
| 36. | John, Susan, Titty, Roger, Peggy, and Nancy are characters from what 1930 children's adventure novel? |
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Arthur Ransome|Swallows and Amazons | |
| 37. | Wheatfield with Crows is a July 1890 painting by who? |
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Vincent van Gogh | |
| 38. | Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) made The Cat in the Hat using only 236 unique words. Later, Random House co-founder Bennett Cerf bet him $50 he couldn’t do it with just 50 words. Seuss rose to the occasion by writing what 1960 book? |
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Green Eggs and Ham | |
| 39. | Who wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? |
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Douglas Adams | |
| 40. | First published in 1949, who wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four? |
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George Orwell | |
| 41. | Gulliver's Travels (1726) and A Modest Proposal (1729) are among the works of what Anglo-Irish author and satirist? |
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Jonathan Swift | |
| 42. | In an analysis of entries in the Concise Oxford English dictionary, ignoring frequency of word use, what letter of the alphabet is the least common? |
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Q | |
| 43. | The lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley are followed in what 1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray? |
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Vanity Fair | |
| 44. | The Night Watch is a 1642 painting by what Dutch artist? |
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Rembrandt van Rijn | |
| 45. | What nationality was Rembrandt? |
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Dutch | |
| 46. | What 1935 novel by Enid Bagnold was adapted into a 1944 film starring Elizabeth Taylor? |
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National Velvet | |
| 47. | What is the name of the game played on broomsticks by Harry Potter and his team mates? |
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Quidditch | |
| 48. | What is the surname of the private detective that stars in a series of crime fiction novels written by British author J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith? |
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Strike (Cormoran Strike) | |
| 49. | Whose artworks include My Bed, Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995, and Hate and Power Can Be a Terrible Thing? |
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Tracey Emin | |
| 50. | What classic novel did Mark David Chapman cite as his manifesto when arrested for the assassination of John Lennon? |
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The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger) | |
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