Art & Literature50 randomly selected Art & Literature questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 20th 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 Some questions and answers may be outdated.)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 Deep Thought supercomputer, what is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything? |
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42 (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) | |
| 2. | What is the name of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale about a young peasant girl called Karen who cannot stop dancing? |
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The Red Shoes | |
| 3. | What English author wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, first published in 1987? |
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Douglas Adams | |
| 4. | Who wrote the 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye? |
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J. D. Salinger | |
| 5. | What fictional bear hails from Deepest, Darkest Peru? |
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Paddington Bear | |
| 6. | What 1949 novel introduced the basement torture chamber Room 101? |
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George Orwell|Nineteen Eighty-Four | |
| 7. | What 1932 novel was set in the "year of Our Ford 632"? |
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) | |
| 8. | Who wrote the 2002 Booker Prize winning novel The Life of Pi? |
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Yann Martel | |
| 9. | What 1885 novel by Sir H. Rider Haggard tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain? |
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King Solomon's Mines | |
| 10. | Which British author wrote the Famous Five and Secret Seven series of novels? |
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Enid Blyton | |
| 11. | For what children's character is Italian novelist Carlo Collodi most famous? |
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Pinocchio | |
| 12. | Who wrote the 1864 novel Journey to the Center of the Earth? |
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Jules Verne | |
| 13. | What comic book character lived at apartment 3-D, 344 Clinton Street? |
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Clark Kent / Superman (Metropolis) | |
| 14. | What French artist painted The Pink Nude in 1935? |
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Henri Matisse | |
| 15. | Written in rhymed verse, what children’s Christmas story takes place in Whoville? |
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Dr. Seuss) | |
| 16. | 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) | |
| 17. | Released posthumously in 1959, what Australian actor's autobiography is titled My Wicked, Wicked Ways? |
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Errol Flynn | |
| 18. | First published in the UK in 1987, to what was Where's Wally? renamed for the North American market? |
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Where's Waldo? | |
| 19. | First published in 2007, complete this title of a series of children's novels by Jeff Kinney: Diary of a _____ _____. |
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Wimpy Kid | |
| 20. | What 'C' descibes the avant-garde art movement founded by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso at the beginning of the 20th century? |
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Cubism | |
| 21. | What is the first book of the New Testament? |
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Matthew | |
| 22. | First published in 1988, who wrote The Satanic Verses? |
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Salman Rushdie | |
| 23. | What two types of animal were used as mallets and balls at the Queen's Croquet Ground in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland? |
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Flamingoes and Hedgehogs | |
| 24. | Which of Shakespeare's plays begins with the line, "Now is the winter of our discontent"? |
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Richard III | |
| 25. | 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 | |
| 26. | First published in 1988, who wrote A Brief History of Time? |
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Stephen Hawking | |
| 27. | What sci-fi universe was first created by Frank Herbert in 1965? |
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Dune | |
| 28. | What Victorian author created the fictional Midlands town of Middlemarch? |
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George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) | |
| 29. | A Lotus Grows in the Mud is a memoir written by what Oscar-winning American actress in 2005? |
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Goldie Hawn | |
| 30. | What 1906 children's novel by Edith Nesbit tells the story of a family who move from London to a house called "The Three Chimneys" in Yorkshire after the father was wrongly imprisoned for spying? |
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The Railway Children | |
| 31. | This 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli is titled The |
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Venus | |
| 32. | In what major city is the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum? |
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New York City (Manhattan) | |
| 33. | Painter Frido Kahlo was of what nationality? |
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Mexican | |
| 34. | In a 1965 novel, whose full identity is revealed as Vice Admiral Sir Miles Messervy KCMG? |
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M (Ian Fleming - The Man with the Golden Gun) | |
| 35. | What 1962 novel begins with the line, "They’re out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them."? |
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Ken Kesey|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | |
| 36. | In the Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Dr. Watson first met Sherlock Holmes after returning from a war in what country? |
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Afghanistan | |
| 37. | What is the surname of the Inspector featured in a popular series of Ruth Rendell novels? |
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Wexford (Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford) | |
| 38. | First published in 1813, who wrote Pride and Prejudice? |
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Jane Austen | |
| 39. | What is the name of the "Dancing Clown" in Stephen King's 1986 horror novel It? |
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Pennywise / Robert Gray | |
| 40. | Who wrote the 1831 novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame? |
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Victor Hugo | |
| 41. | 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 | |
| 42. | First published in 1928, who wrote Lady Chatterley's Lover? |
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D. H. Lawrence | |
| 43. | What is written on the tiny bottle that Alice finds in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? |
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Drink Me | |
| 44. | Released in November 2010, what is the title of the memoirs of former U.S. President George W. Bush? |
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Decision Points | |
| 45. | Also known as The Absinthe Drinker, who painted Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto in 1903? |
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Pablo Picasso | |
| 46. | In Jules Verne's 1873 novel, what is the name of the main character who went Around the World in Eighty Days? |
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Phileas Fogg | |
| 47. | What international company shares its name with a character from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick? |
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Starbucks (Starbuck is the young chief mate of the Pequod) | |
| 48. | Complete this monologue from William Shakespeare's pastoral comedy As You Like It: "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women _____ _____" |
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... merely players | |
| 49. | Complete the title of this fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm: The Mouse, the Bird, and the ______. |
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Sausage (Von dem Mäuschen, Vögelchen und der Bratwurst) | |
| 50. | For what 1900 novel is American author L. Frank Baum best known? |
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | |
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