Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2009 22:20:10 GMT
Culture VI
Here is another themed quiz with two subsections. 1pt for each answer unless stated otherwise.
"CULTURE VULTURES"
a)
1 Poet Seamus Heaney won the 1999 Whitbread Prize for his translation of which famous Anglo-Saxon work ?
2 By what name is the architectural piece Bartholdi's 'Liberty Enlightening the World' better known ?
3 What term is applied to the ceiling of a domed building, or an interior domed ceiling within a larger structure ?
4 Which saintly figure composed some of the earliest choral music on record ?
5 In which field did Ann Sofie Von Otter make her name ?
6 What nationality was the famous engraver and watercolourist, Hokusai ?
7 Which British architect, creator of the Pompidou Centre and the Millennium Dome, was charged with overseeing the design of Heathrow's Terminal 5 ?
8 Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg based his Peer Gynt Suite on a surreal play by which of his countrymen ?
9 Whose bizarre plans for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona remained incomplete on his death in 1926 ?
10 What is the common name given to Beethoven's 6th Symphony ?
11 Whose maid, Gabrielle, was the subject for many of his nude studies ?
12 Which museum, built on the site of a defunct railway station, was opened in 1986 by President Mitterrand in Paris ?
13 Tennyson's Idylls of the King are a narrative verse retelling of which classic tale ?
14 What is the highest male singing voice ?
15 Which famous impressionist painter was the granddaughter of Fragonard and married Edouard Manet's brother, Eugene ?
b) Match the painter to the work:
16 Sandro Botticelli
17 Claude Monet
18 JMW Turner
19 Rembrandt van Rijn
20 Wassily Kandinsky
21 Pablo Picasso
22 David Hockney
23 Vincent Van Gogh
24 Canaletto
25 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
a 'Still Life: Vase With Twelve Sunflowers'
b A Bigger Splash
c The Grand Canal and St Salute, Venice
d Guernica
e Water Lily Pond (Le Bassin Aux Nympheas)
f Dance at La Moulin de la Galette
g The Night Watch
h The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter)
i The Birth of Venus
j Rain, Steam and Speed
........bonus question.........
26 Lyrical Ballads (1798) was an influential volume of poetry published jointly by which two luminaries of the time ?
No more than 8 answers per person in any one 4-hour period, please. Good luck !
Here is another themed quiz with two subsections. 1pt for each answer unless stated otherwise.
"CULTURE VULTURES"
a)
1 Poet Seamus Heaney won the 1999 Whitbread Prize for his translation of which famous Anglo-Saxon work ?
2 By what name is the architectural piece Bartholdi's 'Liberty Enlightening the World' better known ?
3 What term is applied to the ceiling of a domed building, or an interior domed ceiling within a larger structure ?
4 Which saintly figure composed some of the earliest choral music on record ?
5 In which field did Ann Sofie Von Otter make her name ?
6 What nationality was the famous engraver and watercolourist, Hokusai ?
7 Which British architect, creator of the Pompidou Centre and the Millennium Dome, was charged with overseeing the design of Heathrow's Terminal 5 ?
8 Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg based his Peer Gynt Suite on a surreal play by which of his countrymen ?
9 Whose bizarre plans for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona remained incomplete on his death in 1926 ?
10 What is the common name given to Beethoven's 6th Symphony ?
11 Whose maid, Gabrielle, was the subject for many of his nude studies ?
12 Which museum, built on the site of a defunct railway station, was opened in 1986 by President Mitterrand in Paris ?
13 Tennyson's Idylls of the King are a narrative verse retelling of which classic tale ?
14 What is the highest male singing voice ?
15 Which famous impressionist painter was the granddaughter of Fragonard and married Edouard Manet's brother, Eugene ?
b) Match the painter to the work:
16 Sandro Botticelli
17 Claude Monet
18 JMW Turner
19 Rembrandt van Rijn
20 Wassily Kandinsky
21 Pablo Picasso
22 David Hockney
23 Vincent Van Gogh
24 Canaletto
25 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
a 'Still Life: Vase With Twelve Sunflowers'
b A Bigger Splash
c The Grand Canal and St Salute, Venice
d Guernica
e Water Lily Pond (Le Bassin Aux Nympheas)
f Dance at La Moulin de la Galette
g The Night Watch
h The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter)
i The Birth of Venus
j Rain, Steam and Speed
........bonus question.........
26 Lyrical Ballads (1798) was an influential volume of poetry published jointly by which two luminaries of the time ?
No more than 8 answers per person in any one 4-hour period, please. Good luck !
