
Art and Literature 115655 is a selection of 10 questions. Art and Literature 115655 is the filename to differentiate it from other Art and Literature quizzes. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.
1 Which character is the exploited clerk to ‘Scrooge’ in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens?
A Bob Cratchit
2 What is the name of the young girl who is a leading character in Peter Pan?
A Wendy
3 Which school did ‘Billy Bunter’ attend?
A Greyfriars – William George Bunter is a fictional schoolboy created by Charles Hamilton using the pen name Frank Richards
4 In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, with which famous words did ‘Julius Caesar’ receive his wounds from ‘Brutus’?
A Et tu, Brute? “You too, Brutus?”
5 The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want’ Of which Psalm is this the first line?
A 23, hymn Music by John Campbell (1854)
6 On crossing the Rubicon in 49Bc, which Roman general is to have quoted: ‘The die is cast’?
A Julius Caesar – The Rubicon is a shallow river in north-eastern Italy
7 Which famous sci-fi author wrote the book “I, Robot”?
A Isaac Asimov – I, Robot, a collection of nine short stories
8 Whose volume of poetry, The Birthday Letters, won the 1999 Whitbread Book of the Year Award?
A Ted Hughes – awarded only months after Hughes’ death
9 Whose paintings include A Cornfield with Cypresses and A Starry Night?
A Vincent Van Gough
10 Which novel set in Yorkshire features ‘Catherine Earnshaw’ and ‘Heathcliff’?
A Wuthering Heights – only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name “Ellis Bell”