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- Q: Which Italian polymath and influential artist had the surname Buonarroti?
A: Michelangelo (full name Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni). - Q: In Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”, what is Lemuel Gulliver’s first profession?
A: Surgeon. Trained in medicine, he studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, apprenticed under a prominent London surgeon, and completed his medical studies at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. - Q: In which novel is it the job of the firemen to burn books?
A: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In this famous dystopian story, “firemen” do not put out fires; instead, they start them to destroy prohibited books and the houses they are hidden in. - Q: Which American author wrote the 1951 coming-of-age novel “The Catcher in the Rye”?
A: J. D. Salinger. Jerome David Salinger. - Q: Pop Art became a worldwide phenomenon largely through the efforts of which Philadelphian artist?
A: Andy Warhol. The Pop Art movement began in the UK. - Q: The Hardy Boys frequently teamed up with which other amateur sleuth?
A: Nancy Drew. The books are ghostwritten by several authors and published under the collective pseudonym Carolyn Keene. - Q: Which country is the birthplace of the surrealist painter Salvador Dali?
A: Spain. He was born in the town of Figueres in the Catalonia region. - Q: What is the name of the subterranean race in H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine”?
A: Morlocks. They are the ape-like, subterranean counterparts to the surface-dwelling Eloi. - Q: Which English Romantic poet drowned in a boating accident in 1822?
A: Percy Bysshe Shelley. Caught in a sudden storm, his sailing boat, the Don Juan, sank in the Gulf of Spezia off the coast of Italy, - Q: Fragments of which statue did a farmer discover on the Greek island of Melos in 1820?
A: Venus de Milo (also known as the Aphrodite of Melos). Now famously housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris