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1 Which painter is famous for his matchstick men paintings?
A L S Lowry
2 Which London art gallery awards the prestigious annual Turner Prize?
A The Tate
3 Which animal is the subject of Sir Edwin Landseer’s painting ‘The Monarch of the Glen’?
A A Stag
4 In which European city would you find La Scala opera house?
A Milan
5 Which author created the mystery-solving monk Cadfael?
A Ellis Peters – The Cadfael Chronicles is a series of historical murder mysteries written by the linguist-scholar Edith Pargeter (1913–1995) under the name Ellis Peters. Set in the 12th century in England during the Anarchy, the novels focus on a Welsh Benedictine monk, Cadfael, who aids the law by investigating and solving murders.
6 Which literary character is described by the author as ‘The Napoleon of Crime’?
A Professor James Moriarty
7 Which famous 60’s artist was shot, but not killed, two days after Robert Kennedy’s assassination in 1968?
A Andy Warhol (shot by radical feminist Valerie Solanas)
8 Who wrote the historical novel Les Miserables?
A Victor Hugo
9 The popular ‘Humming Chorus’ (Coro a bocca chiusa), comes from which Puccini opera?
A Madame Butterfly
10 Which surrealist painter designed the ‘Chupa Chups’ logo in 1969?
A Salvador Dali