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Test your knowledge and challenge your friends with this Music, Arts and Letters Trivia Quiz.
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Q What are the last names of the feuding families in Romeo and Juliet?
A Capulet and Montague
Q What is the final word of "The Raven"?
A Nevermore
Q How many keys are on a standard piano?
A 88
Q According to song, what train leaves from track 29 at Pennsylvania Station at about a quarter to four?
A Chattanooga Choo-Choo
Q What Shakespearean play features the character Shylock, a moneylender?
A The Merchant of Venice
Q What's the name of the title character in The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
A Quasimodo
Q In ballet, what is the bending-of-the-knees movement?
A Plié
Q What singer was named Robert Zimmerman at birth?
A Bob Dylan
Q What are the two cities in A Tale of Two Cities?
A London and Paris
Q Who wrote The Andromeda Strain?
A Michael Crichton
Q What three famous singers died in an airplane crash on February 3, 1959?
A Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson)
Q What is the third book of the Bible?
A Leviticus
Q What musical period came between the Renaissance and Classical periods?
A Baroque
Q What singer changed his name from Reginald Dwight?
A Elton John
Q What war is depicted in Pablo Picasso's Guernica?
A The Spanish Civil War
Q Which of the following titles is not a line from Shakespeare?
a) The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
b) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
c) Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
d) The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
A a) The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Q Simon Legree is the villian in what novel?
A Uncle Tom's Cabin
Q What best selling author sometimes writes under the pseudonym Richard Bachman?
A Stephen King
Q What musical is based on the story of Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin?
A Cabaret
Q What is the longest-running play in London?
A The Mousetrap (by Agatha Christie)
Q What is the longest-running show in Broadway history?
A Cats
Q How many syllables are typically in a haiku?
A 17
Q The mythical creature called the griffin is made up of what two animals?
A Eagle and lion
Q What singer led the Mothers of Invention?
A Frank Zappa
Q Who painted Impression: Sunrise, the painting that gave impressionism its name?
A Claude Monet
Q What rock star died in a bathtub in Paris on July 3, 1971?
A Jim Morrison
Q Who painted American Gothic?
A Grant Wood
Q Who holds the record for being on the most covers of People?
A Princess Diana
Q What is Tom Sawyer's aunt's name?
A Polly
Q What singing group had Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus as its members?
A Milli Vanilli
Q What mythological figure is condemned to roll a huge stone up a hill, only to have it roll down again each time?
A Sisyphus
Q Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is one of the best-known examples of what painting style?
A Pointillism
Q What was the name of the town through which Lady Godiva rode naked?
A Coventry, England
Q What magazine has regular departments that include "Letters and Tomatoes" and "Joke and Dagger"?
A Mad
Q Who is the author of the Goosebumps series of children's books?
A R.L. Stine
Q What science fiction story features the Morlocks and the Eloi?
A The Time Machine (by H.G. Wells)
Q Who created Sam Spade?
A Dashiell Hammett
Q What city is home to the Uffizi Gallery?
A Florence, Italy
Q What author set many of his novels in fictional Yoknapatawpha County?
A William Faulkner
Q Name the four other original "spices" besides Ginger Spice in the Spice Girls?
A Baby, Posh, Scary, and Sporty
Q Who was the third tenor, besides Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo, on the Three Tenors album?
A José Carreras
Q What's the name of the three-headed dog that guards the entrance to Hades?
A Cerberus
Q What is the name of the famous art museum in St. Petersburg, Russia?
A The Hermitage
Q Who wrote The Night of the Iguana?
A Tennessee Williams
Q What is the Greek name of the Roman god Minerva?
A Athena
Q What opera is the musical Rent based on?
A La Bohéme
Q In the Gustave Flaubert novel, what is the first name of Madame Bovary?
A Emma
Q Mitch McDeere is the main character in what best-selling novel?
A The Firm (by John Grisham)
Q Who wrote the book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
A Ian Fleming
Q What is the more commonly known name of Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor?
A The Unfinished Symphony
Q The words "or the Modern Prometheus" are usually dropped from the title when discussing what 1818 novel?
A Frankenstein
Q What was the name of the dictatorial pig that ruled in Animal Farm?
A Napoleon
Q What famous reporter wrote Wired, the biography of John Belushi?
A Bob Woodward
Q What Russian writer died at the small railway junction of Astapovo during a train journay?
A Leo Tolstoy
Q What modern dancer died when her scarf got caught in the tire of a moving car?
A Isadora Duncan
Q In what complex of buildings is the Metropolitan Opera located?
A Lincoln Center
Q What is the Mona Lisa called in Italian?
A La Gioconda
Q What's the name of the town in Thornton Wilder's Our Town?
A Grover's Corners
Q What novelist features the fictional writer Kilgore Trout in several of his novels?
A Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Q Who is the composer of Pictures at an Exhibition?
A Modest Mussorgsky
Q What was the London street address of Sherlock Holmes?
A 221B Baker Street
Q In the Sherlock Holmes stories, what is Dr Watson's first name?
A John
Q What are the names of King Lear's three daughters?
A Goneril, Regan and Cordelia
Q Who wrote The Little Prince?
A Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Q What well-known American poet was married to English poet Ted Hughes?
A Sylvia Plath
Q Vladimir and Estragon are the two main characters in what play?
A Waiting for Godot
Q Who's the creator of the private investigator Kinsey Millhone?
A Sue Grafton
Q Who wrote under the pen name Isak Dinesen?
A Karen Blixen
Q Who designed and sculpted Mount Rushmore?
A Gutson Borglum
Q Which Beethoven symphony is known as Eroica?
A Third
Q Who designed the cover of Billy Joel's River of Dreams album?
A Christie Brinkley
Q Who designed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum?
A I.M. Pei
Q What daily newspaper has the highest weekday circulation in the U.S.A.
A The Wall Street Journal
Q What actress rejected her 1996 Tony award nomination because her show wasn't nominated in any other category?
A Julie Andrews (in Victor/Victoria)
Q What farmer let his land be used for the Woodstock Festival in 1969?
A Max Yasgur
Q Who appeared on the first Rolling Stone magazine cover?
a) Mick Jagger
b) Elvis Presley
c) John Lennon
d) Jimi Hendrix
A c) John Lennon
Q In The World According to Garp, what first and middle initial did Garp go by?
A T.S.
Q What's the name of B.B. King's guitar?
A Lucille
Q In The Great Gatsby, what's the name of the Long Island town where Jay Gatsby lives?
A West Egg
Q What band has a bassist named Flea?
A The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Q Who is the Muse of history?
A Clio
Q What artist did several paintings of his wife, Gala?
A Salvador Dali
Q What three-letter name did Charles Dickens use as a pseudonym?
A Boz
Q Who designed the famous Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona, Spain?
A Atonio Gaudi
Q The character of Falstaff appears in three Shakespearean plays. Name two.
A Henry IV: Part I, Henry IV: Part II, and The Merry Wives of Windsor
Q What was Dr. Seuss's first published book?
A And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
Q What is Blondie Bumstead's maiden name?
A Boopadoop
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