Art & Literature50 randomly selected Art & Literature questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 13th April 2026 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | Horatio, Ophelia and Gertrude are characters in what William Shakespeare tragedy? |
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Hamlet | |
| 2. | Who wrote the 1955 play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof? |
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Tennessee Williams | |
| 3. | What measures 15 feet × 29 feet and can be found on the back wall of the refectory at the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy? |
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The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci) | |
| 4. | What American author's works include the Women's Murder Club series? |
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James Patterson | |
| 5. | What English author wrote the children's stories Adventures of the Wishing-Chair (1937) and The Wishing-Chair Again (1950)? |
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Enid Blyton | |
| 6. | Up until 2016, George Bernard Shaw was the only person to have received both a Nobel Prize in Literature and an Academy Award. Who is the second to achieve it? |
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Bob Dylan (2001 Academy Awards, Best Original Song - 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature) | |
| 7. | What is the most common type of oil used in oil paint? |
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Linseed / Flaxseed | |
| 8. | In Roald Dahl's 1968 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, who claimed to have been chewing the same piece of gum "for three months solid"? |
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Violet Beauregarde | |
| 9. | In the Shakespeare tragedy Romeo and Juliet, what is Juliet's family name? |
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Capulet | |
| 10. | What fictional character lives at 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging? |
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Harry Potter | |
| 11. | What is the name of this contemporary sculpture by Antony Gormley, located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England? |
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Angel of the North | |
| 12. | Who wrote the bestselling erotic romance trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed? |
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E. L. James (Erika Leonard) | |
| 13. | Who wrote the novels The Odessa File, The Fist of God, and The Kill List? |
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Frederick Forsyth | |
| 14. | Who wrote The Prince and the Pauper? |
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Mark Twain | |
| 15. | First published in 1890, what is the only novel written by Oscar Wilde? |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray | |
| 16. | In literature, Miss Felicity Lemon is the secretary of what famous detective? |
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Hercule Poirot | |
| 17. | What is the name of the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant Of Venice? |
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Shylock | |
| 18. | John, Susan, Titty, Roger, Peggy, and Nancy are characters from what 1930 children's adventure novel? |
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Arthur Ransome|Swallows and Amazons | |
| 19. | A collection of letters for his children from Father Christmas between 1920 and 1943, what famous author published The Father Christmas Letters in 1976? |
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J. R. R. Tolkien | |
| 20. | First published in 1952, who wrote The Old Man and the Sea? |
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Ernest Hemingway | |
| 21. | For what character is American author Edgar Rice Burrows best known? |
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Tarzan / John Clayton, Lord Greystoke | |
| 22. | Who wrote the Robert Langdon book series: Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, and Origin? |
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Dan Brown | |
| 23. | Collectively known as the Millennium Trilogy, who wrote The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005), The Girl Who Played with Fire (2006), and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (2007)? |
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Stieg Larsson | |
| 24. | What 1908 children's novel begins with Mole meeting Rat? |
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Kenneth Grahame|The Wind in the Willows | |
| 25. | Artists Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele were both born in what modern-day country? |
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Austria (Vienna) | |
| 26. | This is a self-portrait of what well known Italian painter? |
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Sandro Botticelli (1445 – 1510) | |
| 27. | What 14th century poet wrote The Canterbury Tales? |
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Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| 28. | What novel begins with the line, "The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail."? |
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Peter Benchley|Jaws (1974) | |
| 29. | Set during the French and Indian War in 1757, what is the title of American author James Fenimore Cooper's most famous novel, first published in 1826? |
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The Last of the Mohicans | |
| 30. | A prequel to his three previous books, and published in 2006, what is the title of the fourth book in the Hannibal Lecter series? |
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Hannibal Rising | |
| 31. | Edge of Eternity, Fall of Giants, A Dangerous Fortune, The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, Triple, Winter of the World, and World Without End are bestselling novels by what Welsh author? |
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Ken Follett | |
| 32. | What British politician wrote the 1938 non-fiction novel While England Slept, inspiring John F. Kennedy's 1940 Harvard thesis, Why England Slept? |
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Winston Churchill | |
| 33. | In the children's book by Beatrix Potter, what type of animal is Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle? |
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Hedgehog | |
| 34. | What 1864 Jules Verne novel was adapted into a 2008 film of the same name starring Brendan Fraser? |
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Voyage au centre de la Terre) | |
| 35. | The title character of what Old English poem killed Grendel and Grendel's mother? |
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Beowulf | |
| 36. | What fictional detective first appeared in the 1920 novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles? |
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Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie) | |
| 37. | What is the name of Captain Hook's ship in the J.M. Barrie play Peter Pan? |
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Jolly Roger | |
| 38. | What is the name of the game played on broomsticks by Harry Potter and his team mates? |
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Quidditch | |
| 39. | Which Ancient Greek wrote The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse? |
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Aesop (Aesop's Fables) | |
| 40. | For what character is English novelist Helen Fielding best known? |
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Bridget Jones | |
| 41. | What is the name of the fictional land in C. S. Lewis' The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe? |
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Narnia | |
| 42. | Complete the title of this 1960 Dr. Seuss novel: One Fish Two Fish ____ Fish ____ Fish? |
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Red Fish Blue Fish | |
| 43. | Written and illustrated between 1920 and 1942, and first published posthumously in 1976, what world famous English author wrote Letters from Father Christmas? |
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J. R. R. Tolkien | |
| 44. | Who wrote the 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls? |
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Ernest Hemingway | |
| 45. | First published in 1819, what American author wrote the classic short story Rip Van Winkle? |
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Washington Irving | |
| 46. | Who was married to William Shakespeare between 1582 and his death in 1616? |
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Anne Hathaway | |
| 47. | Who sculpted The Kiss in 1889? |
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Auguste Rodin | |
| 48. | What 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald features the characters of Nick Carraway and Tom and Daisy Buchanan? |
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The Great Gatsby | |
| 49. | Dean Moriarty is the reckless hero in what classic Jack Kerouac novel, first published in 1957? |
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On the Road | |
| 50. | What did Vincenzo Peruggia steal on 21st August 1911 and keep hidden in a trunk for two years? |
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Mona Lisa | |
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