Art & Literature50 randomly selected Art & Literature questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 16th February 2026 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | Who wrote the 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls? |
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Ernest Hemingway | |
| 2. | Complete the name of this famous artist: ______ Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y ________. |
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Pablo Picasso | |
| 3. | 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 | |
| 4. | Who wrote Winnie The Pooh? |
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A. A. Milne | |
| 5. | Whose novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928)? |
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Virginia Woolf | |
| 6. | Leonardo da Vinci spent much of his earlier working life in the service of Ludovico il Moro in what Italian city? |
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Milan | |
| 7. | One of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century, what is the name of this German and Swiss artist and printmaker? |
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Hans Holbein the Younger | |
| 8. | 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 | |
| 9. | What famous bronze statue by Edvard Eriksen was unveiled on the 23rd August 1913? |
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The Little Mermaid (Langelinie, Copenhagen) | |
| 10. | In Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, what is the name of the Betelgeusian character with two heads and three arms? |
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Zaphod Beeblebrox | |
| 11. | 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) | |
| 12. | Who wrote the 1892 poem Gunga Din? |
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Rudyard Kipling | |
| 13. | What is the name of Long John Silver's pet parrot? |
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Captain Flint | |
| 14. | Who wrote The Longest Day (1959), The Last Battle (1966), and A Bridge Too Far (1974)? |
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Cornelius Ryan | |
| 15. | What do A.A. Milne's initials stand for? |
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Alan Alexander | |
| 16. | Created by Celtic monks around 800 AD, and currently on display at the Trinity College Library, Dublin; what name is given to this famous illuminated manuscript containing the four Gospels of the New Testament? |
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Book of Kells / Book of Columba (Irish: Leabhar Cheanannais) | |
| 17. | Completed in 1837, what was the name of the first full novel written by Charles Dickens? |
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The Pickwick Papers (The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club) | |
| 18. | This British actor was born in 1910. In 1971, a best-selling book titled The Moon's a Balloon was published, the memoirs of his early life. He died in 1983. Name him. |
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David Niven | |
| 19. | What series of travel books was founded in London in 1981 by ex-students Mark Ellingham and Martin Dunford? |
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Rough Guides | |
| 20. | What famous literary character was born on 31st July 1980? |
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Harry Potter | |
| 21. | What American novelist's best-known book is the infamous 1979 bestseller Flowers in the Attic? |
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V. C. Andrews | |
| 22. | In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, what is Romeo's surname? |
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Montague | |
| 23. | What is the only Shakespeare play with an animal in its title? |
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The Taming of the Shrew | |
| 24. | What Man Booker Prize-winning 2001 novel by Yann Martel was adapted into a 2012 Academy Award-winning film? |
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Life of Pi | |
| 25. | Wheatfield with Crows is a July 1890 painting by who? |
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Vincent van Gogh | |
| 26. | What is the name of Charlie Brown's younger sister in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts? |
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Sally | |
| 27. | Born in 1920, what former British steeplechase jockey turned crime writer with novels centred on horse racing in England? |
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Dick Francis | |
| 28. | Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Angel, and Iceman were the original members of what 1963 Marvel Comics' team of superheroes? |
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X-Men | |
| 29. | How many sisters are there in the title of the 1900 play by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov? |
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Three | |
| 30. | From what platform number at King's Cross station does the Hogwarts Express depart? |
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9¾ | |
| 31. | What Victorian author created the fictional Midlands town of Middlemarch? |
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George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) | |
| 32. | In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, what is Charlie's last name? |
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Buckett | |
| 33. | What 'H' describes a very short form of Japanese poetry consisting of 3 lines of five, seven and five syllables respectively? |
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Haiku (Japanese: 俳句) | |
| 34. | First published in 1949, what novel opens with the line "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"? |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell) | |
| 35. | What 1935 novel by Enid Bagnold was adapted into a 1944 film starring Elizabeth Taylor? |
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National Velvet | |
| 36. | First published in 1908, what British author's most famous work is The Wind in the Willows? |
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Kenneth Grahame | |
| 37. | In what country did the Pied Piper lure away the rats and the children? |
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Germany (Hamelin, Lower Saxony) | |
| 38. | Also referred to as "the Imp" or "the Halfman", what is the name of the dwarf character in the A Song of Ice and Fire book series, as portrayed in the Game of Thrones TV series by Peter Dinklage? |
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Tyrion Lannister | |
| 39. | Andy, Marbles, Spike, Olaf, Molly, Rover and Belle are the siblings of what comic strip character? |
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Snoopy | |
| 40. | What is the surname of the family headed by Charles and Caroline in the best-selling series of Little House books, including Little House on the Prairie? |
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Ingalls (written by Laura Ingalls Wilder) | |
| 41. | What 19th century French author wrote The Man in the Iron Mask? |
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Alexandre Dumas | |
| 42. | Whose 1849 poem In Memoriam A.H.H. coined the famous phrase 'Tis better to have loved and lost. Than never to have loved at all? |
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (A.H.H. referred to his recently deceased friend Arthur Henry Hallam) | |
| 43. | Who was mainly known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951)? |
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Ray Bradbury | |
| 44. | In what century was William Shakespeare born? |
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16th (circa 1564) | |
| 45. | 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 | |
| 46. | The title of a 1952 children's fantasy novel; by what name are Arrietty, Pod, Homily, Hendreary, Lupy and Eggletina collectively known? |
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The Borrowers (Mary Norton) | |
| 47. | What former British Prime Minister's autobiography is titled A Journey? |
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Tony Blair | |
| 48. | What well known English author was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in 1832? |
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Lewis Carroll | |
| 49. | Who is best known for his novels Lie Down in Darkness (1951), The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), and Sophie's Choice (1979)? |
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William Styron | |
| 50. | Fill in the blank in this opening line from a 1955 novel: "______, light of my life, fire of my loins." |
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Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) | |
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