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1. Who is the all-time best-selling fiction writer in the world, whose 78 crime novels have sold an estimated 2 billion copies?
   1.   Arthur Conan Doyle
   2.   Agatha Christie
   3.   Danielle Steel
   4.   Georges Simenon
2. Which of these painters was not left-handed?
   1.   Leonardo da Vinci
   2.   Michelangelo
   3.   Edvard Munch
   4.   Kazimir Malevich
3. Red and black-figure vases were a characteristic of what civilization?
   1.   Roman
   2.   Polynesian
   3.   African
   4.   Greek
4. What type of five-line poem with a strict meter was popularised by Edward Lear?
   1.   limerick
   2.   haiku
   3.   cinquain
   4.   tanka
5. What is Pablo Picasso’s style of artwork called?
   1.   abstract
   2.   romanticism
   3.   cubism
   4.   realism
6. The first example of cave painting was discovered in 1879. What country was it found in?
   1.   Spain
   2.   China
   3.   America
   4.   Africa
7. In 1495 Leonardo da Vinci began painting "The Last Supper" and designed …
   1.   a crane
   2.   a submarine
   3.   a pyramid-shaped parachute
   4.   a helicopter
8. Which famous twentieth-century artist painted "100 Cans"?
   1.   Piet Mondrian
   2.   Roy Lichtenstein
   3.   Andy Warhol
   4.   Jeff Koons
9. The renowned Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev was a Russian lyrical poet’s father-in-law. What was Mendeleev’s son-in-law’s name?
   1.   Alexander Blok
   2.   Vasily Zhukovsky
   3.   Nikolay Gumilev
   4.   Alexander Pushkin
10. Which type of paint dries the most quickly?
    1.   watercolour
    2.   gouache
    3.   oil
    4.   acrylic
11. Who painted 'The Scream' (the famous painting of a man screaming with a nuclear mushroom cloud behind him.)?
    1.   Egon Schiele
    2.   Oskar Kokoschka
    3.   Marc Chagall
    4.   Edvard Munch
12. How many paintings did Van Gogh sell in his lifetime?
    1.   one hundred
    2.   one
    3.   fifty-four
    4.   sixteen
13. “After all, tomorrow is another day!” was the last line in which Oscarwinning Best Picture?
    1.   Gone With the Wind
    2.   Harold and Maude
    3.   The Matrix
    4.   Great Expectations
14. What red-headed priest-composer taught music at an orphanage?
    1.   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    2.   Antonio Vivaldi
    3.   Frederic Chopin
    4.   Nicolo Paganini
15. The world-famous Louvre Museum and Art Gallery in Paris, France was built in 1190. What was it first used as?
    1.   a shop
    2.   a warehouse
    3.   a fortress
    4.   a library

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