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- Q: Which artist made his name with paintings of soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles?
A: Andy Warhol - Q: Who sculpted the marble statue of the biblical hero ‘David’?
A: Michelangelo. - Q: In which Italian town was Leonardo da Vinci born?
A: Vinci, Tuscany (full name, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci) - Q: Which part of his anatomy did the artist Vincent Van Gogh give to a prostitute named Rachel?
A: His (left) ear (he asked her to “keep this object carefully”) - Q: In which Oscar Wilde play does the formidable aunt, Lady Bracknell, exclaim “A HANDBAG”?
A: The Importance of Being Earnest - Q: What is the first name of Mary Shelley’s tragic hero, Baron
A: Victor. - Q: Who is the hero in an 11-book series of seafaring novels set during the Napoleonic Wars by author CS Forester?
A: Horatio Hornblower (Cecil Scott “C.S.” Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith. - Q: The line “To be or not to be, that is the question” is from which Shakespeare play?
A: Hamlet - Q: Originating in France, which 19th-century style of painting is characterised by the exploration of colour and technique to capture the transience of light?
A: Impressionism - Q: Which of Shakespeare’s plays opens with the words “Now is the winter of our discontent”?
A: Richard III