The Arts 111025

The Arts 111025 is a selection of 10 questions. The Arts 111025 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 dancer choreographed and starred in the show ‘Lord of the Dance’?
A   Michael Flatley

2   What name do we give to paintings that show a visual likeness of someone’s face?
A   Portrait

3   In which long-running stage musical are Velma Kelly and Billy Flynn two of the leading characters?
A   Chicago

4   Which Hollywood star, best remembered for playing heroic roles, wrote an autobiography entitled ‘In the Arena’?
A   Charlton Heston

5   The line “Is this a dagger I see before me”, is from which of Shakespeare’s plays?
A   Macbeth

6   In which book, a work of scientific literature, did Charles Darwin expound the idea of evolution?
A   On the Origin of The Species (Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life)

7   What is the first book of the Old Testament?
A   Genesis (from Greek meaning “birth”, “origin”)

8   Which spaceman appeared on the front page of the original eagle comic?
A   Dan Dare

9   In Greek mythology, Heracles slain which many-headed monster and guardian of the underworld, as one of his twelve labours?
A   The (Lernaean) Hydra (for each head cut off it grew two more)

10   Dame Elizabeth Frink (1930-1993), was famous for which art form?
A   Sculpture