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Arts and Literature 20 questions

Literature and Art

1 What American author created the detective Philip Marlowe?
2 Who wrote Jane Eyre?
3 Who is the author of Les Misérables?
4 Who painted Guernica?
5 Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is best known for which type of painting?
6 Which famous literary term from George Orwell's '1984' refers to the act of holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously?
7 Which university is responsible for administering the Pulitzer Prizes?
8 Which mechanical printing process did Andy Warhol use to mass-produce his famous Pop Art images?
9 What famous phrase is written on René Magritte's painting of a pipe?
10 Which female writer and art collector is credited with coining the term 'The Lost Generation'?
11 How many of Shakespeare's plays made their first printed appearance in the 1623 First Folio?
12 In which 1863 exhibition was Manet’s scandalous 'Luncheon on the Grass' first shown?
13 The word 'paper' comes from the name of which Ancient Egyptian writing material?
14 What is the standard rhyme scheme for a five-line Limerick poem?
15 The literary term 'stanza' is derived from an Italian word meaning what?
16 What is the name of the decorative technique used in the Taj Mahal where semi-precious stones are inlaid into white marble?
17 Which historical art form inspired Gustav Klimt's use of gold leaf in his paintings?
18 Which comic character is credited with being the first to consistently use speech balloons for dialogue?
19 In addition to Hieroglyphs and Demotic, what was the third language/script found on the Rosetta Stone?
20 In ancient Chinese poetry, the Great Wall was often used as a symbol of what?

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