Art and Literature

No. Question Answer 1 What English artist born in Lancashire in 1887 is famous for painting: L. S. Lowry ‘Going to the Match’, ‘Coming from the Mill’ and ‘Industrial Landscape’? 2 ‘A Study in Scarlet’ is the first appearance of what fictional detective? Sherlock Holmes 3 What Russian writer wrote ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 4 The Pietà depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Michelangelo Buonarroti crucifixion; it is housed in St Peter’s Basilica, who was the sculptor? 5 Charles Bingley marries Jane Bennet in what novel? Pride and Prejudice 6 ‘Number 17A’ and ‘ on Indian Red Ground’ are paintings by which American abstract expressionist famous for his drip technique? 7 Bill Sikes, Nancy and Fagin are all characters in which Victorian novel? Oliver Twist 8 The National Gallery of British Art, now Tate Britain, was built on the site of Millbank Prison which former prison? 9 What former politician wrote ‘Kane and Abel’ and ‘The Prodigal Daughter’? Jeffrey Archer 10 Rupert Bear is a children’s comic strip character created by British artist Daily Express Mary Tourtel, he first appeared in what newspaper on 8 November 1920? 11 Robert Galbraith is a pen name used by which British novelist? J. K. Rowling 12 ‘The Burghers of Calais’ is a sculpture that commemorates an event in the Auguste Rodin Hundred Year’s War when the English besieged Calais, what French sculptor produced it? 13 What art movement did Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque pioneer in the Cubism early part of the 20th century? 14 What novel by Gabriel García Márquez tells the multi-generational story of One Hundred Years of the Buendía family? Solitude 15 ‘Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)’ sold at auction in 2018 for David Hockney $90 million and was until recently the most expensive painting sold at auction by a living painter, what British artist painted it? 16 What painting by John Constable, finished in 1821, features: a farm The Hay Wain wagon, Willy Lott’s Cottage and the River Stour? 17 Eduardo Plarr and Charles Fortnum are prominent characters in what The Honorary Consul 1973 Graham Green novel? 18 What portrait painter became the first president of the Royal Academy of Joshua Reynolds Arts in 1768? 19 What John Buchan novel first appeared as a serial in ‘Blackwood’s The 39 Steps Magazine’ in 1915 and introduced the character Richard Hannay? 20 What controversial novel of 1955 features a man using the pseudonym Lolita (by Vladimir Humbert Humbert and is the story of his obsession with a 12-year-old girl? Nabokov) 21 ‘The Broken Column’, ‘Moses’ and ‘Without Hope’ are prominent works by Frida Kahlo what Mexican artist born in 1907? 22 ‘A Rake’s Progress’ is a series of eight paintings by which 18th-century William Hogarth English artist? 23 What statue in Washington D. C. did the Piccirilli Brothers under the The Lincoln Memorial supervision of sculptor Daniel Chester French carve? 24 What French artist, born 1860, was best known for his works in glass art? René Lalique 25 Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty appear in what Jack Kerouac novel? On the Road