QUESTIONS

1. Where is William Shakespeare buried?
2. What is the plucking technique on a violin called?
3. What musical family is the piccolo part of?
4. Known for cutting his own ear off, the third known photo of which artist was discovered in 2015?
5. The Mona Lisa owns a mailbox in the Louvre to receive what kind of letters?
6. If you mix the colours blue and yellow what colour do you end up with?
7. Who wrote the Greek epic ‘The Odyssey’?
8. Which is not a letter on the musical staff? H, A, E or G
9. What is the only planet not named after a Greek or Roman God?
10. What is the term for a poem without a strict form, meter or rhyme scheme?
11. Who wrote ‘A Christmas Carol’?
12. Which UK City is the National Railway Museum in?
13. Who was the artist that drew the Vitruvian Man?
14. ‘The Starry Night’ by Van Gogh is a view from the window of what building?
15. Which famous painter could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time?
16. Where did Theseus fight the Minotaur?
17. In which Shakepeare play does Caliban remark that ‘this island is full of noises’?
18. Which composer was able to compose music in spite of becoming almost totally deaf in later life?
19. What was the name of the leader of the pigs, in the novel, Animal Farm, by George Orwell?
20. What colour do you make when you mix White and Black?
21. When was Leonardo da Vinci alive?
22. What nationality is Roman Polanski the movie director?
23. What musical contains songs such as ‘Summer Lovin’’, ‘Hopelessly Devoted’ and ‘Blue Moon’?
24. The famous sculpture of David was a fine piece of art by ____?
25. How many symphonies did Beethoven write?
26. Which British Prime Minister’s painting of ‘The Goldfish Pool’ was sold for £1.8 million in 2014?
27. What is the ending of the popular quote ‘I love you to the…’?
28. Who composed ‘Swan Lake’?
29. Who wrote the plays ‘End Game’ and ‘Waiting for Godot’?
30. What is the Zodiac symbol for Pisces?
31. Who is the author of ‘El Hombre de Arena’ (‘Sandman’)?
32. Which present day female actor share the name of William Shakespeare’s wife?
33. The device on which ceramic artists create pots is called what?
34. What’s the ballet term of a 360 degree turn on one foot?
35. What type of painting technique involves using small dots of paint to blur bright colours together? Splatting, Flicking, Dotillism or Pointillism
36. Who said ‘We think too much and feel too little?
37. ‘La Joconde’ is the French name for which famous painting?
38. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
39. Which famous artist was born in Malaga?
40. Which of these is not a type of paint or ink used by artists? Powder Paint, Printing Ink, Putty Paint or Acrylic Paint
41. What do the initials DIY usually stand for?
42. What style of art was used in the construction of Notre Dame?
43. What kind of instrument is a trumpet?
44. A five finger exercise is a piece of music written for the purpose of practicing on what instrument?
45. Which famous Art Gallery houses the Mona Lisa?
46. The novel Wuthering Heights charts the tragic love story of which two people?
47. Which artist famously cut of his own ear?
48. Who is famous for painting ‘Matchstick Men’?
49. Elizabeth and Mr Darcy can be found in which Novel written by Jane Austen?
50. Who wrote the book ‘1984’?
51. Who designed St Paul’s Cathedral?
52. Who painted The Hay Wain?
53. In which City would you find The Tate Gallery?
54. What did Samuel Taylor Coleridge hang around the neck of the Ancient Mariner?