Art and Literature 120306

Art and Literature 120306 is a selection of 10 questions. Art and Literature 120306 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 artist made his name with paintings of soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles?
A   Andy Warhol

2   Who sculpted the marble statue of the biblical hero ‘David’ that is exhibited in the Accademia Gallery in Florence?
A   Michelangelo

3   In which Italian town was Leonardo da Vinci born?
A   Vinci, Tuscany (full name, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci)

4   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”)

5   In which Oscar Wilde play does the formidable aunt, Lady Bracknell exclaim “A HANDBAG”?
A   The Importance of Being Earnest

6   What is the first name of Mary Shelley’s tragic hero, baron
A   Victor (she was only 18 when she started writing the book and it was published when she was 21, anonymously for the first edition)

7   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 – he also wrote The African Queen, which was made in to a movie starring Humphrey Bogart)

8   In which of Shakespeare’s plays does the line “To be or not to be, that is the question” come from?
A   Hamlet

9   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

10   Which of Shakespeare’s plays opens with the words “Now is the winter of our discontent”?
A   Richard III