# | Who wrote Paradise Lost? | John Milton | John Buchan | John Steinbeck | Joseph Hellier | Jonathan Swift | John Milton
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1 | Who wrote Anna Karenina? | Anton Chekhov | Leo Tolstoy | Henrik Ibsen | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Nikolai Gogol | Leo Tolstoy |
2 | Who wrote Northhanger Abbey? | Virginia Woolf | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Austen | Emily Bronte | Anna Sewell | Jane Austen |
3 | Which artist painted The Night Watch? | Van Gough | Monet | Gainsborough | Rembrandt | Lowry | Rembrandt |
4 | Who was Don Quixote's squire? | Tonto | Rio Tinto | Emile | cerveres | Sancho Panza | Sancho Panza |
5 | Who wrote The Rivals? | Richard Sheridan | William Shakespeare | Francis Bacon | Christopher Marlowe | Henrik Ibsen | Richard Sheridan |
6 | Which field of the arts was Barbara Hepworth noted for? | painting | sculpture | dancing | opera singing | acting | sculpture |
7 | What was Tarka in Henry Williamson's novel? | eagle | hound | otter | rabbit | fox | otter |
8 | Who wrote Silas Marner? | D.H. Lawrence | Jane Austen | T.S. Elliot | George Elliot | Thomas Hardy | George Elliot |
9 | Which famous Character did Edgar Rice Burroughs create? | Count Dracula | Frankinstein | Crocodile Dundee | Davey Crocket | Tarzan | Tarzan |
10 | What sort of creature was Captain Flint? | parrot | mongoose | snake | cat | dog | parrot |
11 | Who wrote the Importance of being earnest? | Rudyard Kipling | Oscar Wilde | J.M. Barrie | John Buchan | Walter De La Mare | Oscar Wilde |
12 | In which city is the Sistine Chapel? | Naples | Venice | Rome | Florence | Siena | Rome |
13 | On which island did Paul Gauguin paint many pictures? | Hawaii | Christmas Island | Easter island | Tahiti | Galapagos | Tahiti |
14 | Who wrote Jude The Obscure? | G.K. Chesterton | Charles Dickens | E.M. Forster | Sir Walter Scott | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy |
15 | Which playwright wrote The Cherry Orchard? | Anton Chekhov | Henryk Ibsen | Ben Jonson | Sean O'Casey | Henry Fielding | Anton Chekhov |
16 | Who painted The Laughing Cavalier? | Thomas Gainsborough | Frans Hals | Leonado Da Vinci | Francisco Goya | Peter Rubens | Frans Hals |
17 | Which English artist was famous for his pictures of horses? | Edward Landseer | Samuel Palmer | George Stubbs | Lord Leighton | Aubrey Beardsley | George Stubbs |
18 | Who founded Penguin paperback books? | Tom Lane | Tony Lane | Andrew lane | Allen Lane | Brian Lane | Allen Lane |
19 | Which Shakespeare play is set in Vienna? | The Merchant of Venice | Much Ado About Nothing | The Tempest | Twelfth Night | Measure For Measure | Measure For Measure |
20 | Which word describes the cracks on an old oil painting? | craquelure | gravure | eggshell | marbling | pointilism | craquelure |
21 | Which art movement developed at the Cabaret Voltaire? | Futurism | Dadaism | cubism | Post-Impressionism | Surrealism | Dadaism |
22 | How many lines are there in a sonnet? | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 14 |
23 | Who wrote the bell? | D.H. Lawrence | Graham Greene | G.K. Chesterton | Iris Murdoch | Kingsley Amis | Iris Murdoch |
24 | In which book does a character called Aragorn appear? | Titus Groan | Watership Down | Prince Caspian | The Hobbit | Lord of the Rings | Lord of the Rings |
25 | Who wrote the day of the Triffids? | John Windham | H.G. Wells | Arthur C. Clark | George Orwell | Kingsley Amis | John Windham |
26 | Who wrote East of Eden? | Joseph Heller | John Steinbeck | Tennessee Williams | Henry James | Arthur Miller | John Steinbeck |
27 | Which arts movement was launched in 1909 by Filippo Marinetti? | Cubism | Dadaism | Futurism | Post Impressionism | Modernism | Futurism |
28 | Who was Charles Dodgson better known as? | Charles Dickens | Oscar Wilde | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Lewis Carroll | Charles Kingsley | Lewis Carroll |
29 | In which Shakespeare play is Oberon a character? | The Tempest | The Taming of the Shrew | Twelfth night | The Merchant of Venice | Midsummer Night's Dream | Midsummer Night's Dream |
30 | Who wrote the Just so stories? | Rudyard Kipling | Ted Hughes | Oscar Wilde | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Lewis Carroll | Rudyard Kipling |
31 | In which town did the photographer Frank Meadow Sutcliffe Work? | Scarborough | Whitby | Robin Hood's Bay | Redcar | Filey | Whitby |
32 | Which fictional character had an Aunt Peggoty? | Oliver Twist | Nicholas Nickleby | David Copperfield | Martin Chuzzlewit | The Artful Dodger | David Copperfield |
33 | Where might one see an entrechat? | opera | art gallery | stage lighting rig | ballet | orchestra | ballet |
34 | Who painted Starry Night? | Rembrandt | L.S. Lowry | Monet | Picasso | Van Gough | Van Gough |
35 | What is the gamekeeper called in Lady Chatterley's Lover? | Mellors | James | Mitchell | Gordon | Squires | Mellors |
36 | Who is the most translated author after Shakespeare? | Charles Dickens | Agatha Christie | Ian Flemming | D.H. Lawrence | Barbara Cartland | Agatha Christie |
37 | Which animals became revolutionary leaders in animal Farm? | horses | cows | pigs | hens | sheep | pigs |
38 | Which artist painted Guernica? | Monet | Salvador Dali | Hockney | Picasso | Cezanne | Picasso |
39 | In which book did Catherine Earnshaw appear? | Jane eyre | Bleak House | Black Beauty | David Copperfield | Wuthering Heights | Wuthering Heights |
40 | Which fictional detective lived in Baker Street? | Sherlock Holmes | The Saint | Inspector Lockhart | Miss Marple | Maigret | Sherlock Holmes |
41 | What fictional character did W.E. Johns create? | Tarzan | Biggles | The Saint | James Bond | Flash Gordon | Biggles |
42 | What was Charles Dicken's unfinished novel called? | Martin Chuzzlewit | A Tale of Two Cities | Edwin Drood | Little Dorrit | Hard Times | Edwin Drood |
43 | Who painted The Blue Boy? | Turner | Constable | Reynolds | Gainsborough | Rubens | Gainsborough |
44 | Who wrote Lord of the Flies? | J.R. Tolkein | George Orwell | T.S. Eliot | John Buchan | William Golding | William Golding |
45 | Who was the artist Domenikos Theocopoulos better Known as? | El Greco | Pablo Picasso | Francisco Goya | John Constable | William Blake | El Greco |
46 | Who painted the anatomy lesson of Doctor Tulp? | Van Gough | Rembrandt | Van Dyke | Bruegel | Van der Weyden | Rembrandt |
47 | Who sculpted the lion statues in Trafalgar Square? | George Stubbs | Barbara Hepworth | Edwin Landseer | Henry Moore | Auguste Rodin | Edwin Landseer |
48 | Who created Count Dracula? | Mary Shelley | Edgar Allen Poe | Arthur Conan Doyle | Bram Stoker | H.G. Wells | Bram Stoker |
49 | In which village was the Bronte sisters' family home? | Oxenhope | Oakworth | Ingrow | Stanbury | Haworth | Haworth |
50 | How many self portraits did Rembrandt paint? | 60 | 50 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 60 |
51 | From what medical condition did Doestoevski suffer? | Bronchitis | epilepsy | eczema | asthma | arthritis | epilepsy |
52 | Which artist had blue and pink periods? | Monet | Manet | Picasso | Dali | Degas | Picasso |
53 | Which Shakespeare character offered his kingdom for a horse? | Henry V | Henry III | Falstaff | Richard III | Hamlet | Richard III |
54 | What term means exagerated importance or meaning? | simile | metaphore | irony | alliteration | hyperbole | hyperbole |
55 | Who wrote the children's book Prince Caspian? | C.S. Lewis | Enid Blyton | Roald Dahl | Philippa Pearce | Gillian Cross | C.S. Lewis |
56 | In which Shakespeare play does the character Banquo appear? | The Merchant of Venice | Macbeth | Hamlet | Othello | Anthony and Cleopatra | Macbeth |
57 | Who was poet laureate from 1972 to 1984? | John Masefield | Ted Hughes | Sir John Betjemin | Stephen Spender | Philip Larkin | Sir John Betjemin |
58 | Which real life castaway was Robinson Crusoe based upon? | Man Friday | Ben Gunn | Robert Cruise | Robin Johnson | Alexander Selkirk | Alexander Selkirk |
59 | Who created the land of Brobdingnag? | J.R. Tolkein | C.S. Lewis | Mervyn Peake | John Bunyan | Jonathan Swift | Jonathan Swift |
60 | Which of these people was not a futurist? | Picasso | Marinetti | Boccioni | Balla | Carra | Picasso |
61 | Who wrote Swallows and Amazons? | C.S. Lewis | Arthur Ransome | Enid Blyton | Ted Hughes | Rudyard Kipling | Arthur Ransome |
62 | Who was the creator of Doctor Finlay? | Robert McDougal | Charles Donaldson | A.J. Cronin | Robert Farquar | James Stewart | A.J. Cronin |
63 | How did the poet Shelley die? | killed in a pub brawl | poisoned | stabbed | drowned | hanged | drowned |
64 | Which form of art is associated with Victor Vasarely? | cubism | futurism | surrealism | pop art | op art | op art |
65 | In which field of the arts was jacob Epstein famous? | sculpture | painting | ballet | acting | engraving | sculpture |
66 | What was Sir Alfred Gilbert's most famous sculpture? | Queen Victoria | Eros | Lord Nelson | the Trafalger Square lions | Prince Albert | Eros |
67 | What was Emily Bronte's only novel? | Jane Eyre | The Professor | Wuthering Heights | Villette | Pride and Predudice | Wuthering Heights |
68 | Who created the character Tom Jones? | Daniel Defoe | Richard Sheridan | Joseph Addison | Henry Fielding | John Bunyan | Henry Fielding |
69 | In which book does the Dickens character Mr Winkle Appear? | David Copperfield | Oliver Twist | Martin Chuzzlewit | Our Mtual Friend | The Pickwick Papers | The Pickwick Papers |
70 | Which part of England is associated with Arnold Bennett? | The Potteries | The New Forest | Derbyshire | Wessex | The Pennines | The Potteries |
71 | Who created The Saint? | Agatha Christie | Leslie Charteris | Dick Francis | Ian Flemming | Jack Higgins | Leslie Charteris |
72 | What was Aldous Huxley's first novel? | Eyeless in Gaza | Brave New World | Crome Yellow | After Many a Summer | Point Counter Point | Crome Yellow |
73 | Which artist painted Flatford Mill? | Gainsborough | Reynolds | Stubbs | Constable | Turner | Constable |
74 | Canaletto was famous for paintings of what city? | Rome | Florence | Naples | Milan | Venice | Venice |
75 | What natinality was Titian? | Italian | Spanish | Belgian | Franch | Dutch | Italian |
76 | Who was M.A. Buonarotti better known as? | Raphael | Michelangelo | Renoir | Canaletto | Picasso | Michelangelo |
77 | Who wrote the poem A Farewell to Tobacco? | Robert Herrich | Sir John Betjemin | Charles Lamb | Rupert Brooke | John Masefield | Charles Lamb |
78 | Who wrote the poem The Ancient Mariner? | John Keats | Lord Byron | P.B. Shelley | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Dryden | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
79 | Why was the sculpter Torrigiano exiled from Florence? | for stealing | for committing rape | for forgery | for adultery | for breaking Michealangelo's nose | for breaking Michealangelo's nose |
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