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- Q: Who shocked the art world with her 1998 work, My Bed, when exhibited at the Tate Gallery in 1999?
A: Tracey Emin. The installation, which featured her own unmade, stained bed surrounded by sordid personal items like used condoms and underwear, caused a major media frenzy - Q: Which reference book went on sale for the first time in 1955?
A: The Guinness Book of Records (now known as Guinness World Records). Conceived by Sir Hugh Beaver, managing director of the Guinness Brewery, to settle arguments about records and facts in pubs. - Q: Which famous Gothic horror novel did French author Gaston Leroux publish in 1910?
A: The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l’Opéra). The novel tells the story of Erik, a disfigured musical genius and “Opera Ghost” who haunts the Paris Opera House, manipulating management and obsessively tutoring a young soprano, Christine Daaé - Q: Who penned the famous lines, “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble”?
A: William Shakespeare. The chant appears in his tragedy Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I, spoken by the three witches as they prepare a potion. - Q: Which author wrote the 1951 novel “The Catcher in the Rye”?
A: J.D. Salinger (Jerome David Salinger) from USA. Released on July 16, 1951, this iconic coming-of-age story is famous for its themes of alienation, innocence, and the rebellion of its protagonist, Holden Caulfield - Q: Who wrote the horror novel “The Shining” on which the 1980 film was based?
A: Stephen King. While the film is a classic, King famously disliked Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation for its significant deviations from his original story. - Q: What is the name for a band of painted or sculpted decoration?
A: Frieze. These decorative bands are commonly found in architecture (e.g., between the architrave and cornice), often featuring reliefs or frescoes that narrate scenes in sequence. - Q: Which 1932 novel described a vision of the future as a sanitised, technologically controlled society?
A: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. It features a society managed through genetic engineering (Romanovsky’s Process), Pavlovian conditioning, and “hypnopaedia” (sleep-learning) to ensure social stability. - Q: Which late nineteenth-century decorative art movement is characterised by dense asymmetric ornamentation, sinuous curves, and organic, plant-like forms?
A: Art Nouveau. It sought to break away from historical, traditional styles, often utilising iron, glass, and ceramics to create modern, asymmetrical designs. - Q: According to Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, what number is the answer to everything?
A: 42. A supercomputer named Deep Thought took 7.5 million years of processing to come up with this answer.