Arts & Culture and Classical Music Trivia Quiz

Q1: Which composer wrote 'The Four Seasons'?

Answer: Antonio Vivaldi

Q2: What is the name of the famous ballet company based in New York City?

Answer: New York City Ballet

Q3: Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

Answer: Michelangelo

Q4: What musical term means to gradually decrease in volume?

Answer: Diminuendo

Q5: Which Shakespeare play features the characters Romeo and Juliet?

Answer: Romeo and Juliet

Q6: Who composed the opera 'The Magic Flute'?

Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Q7: What is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding called?

Answer: Origami

Q8: Which composer is known as the 'Father of the Symphony'?

Answer: Joseph Haydn

Q9: What ancient wonder of the world was located in Alexandria, Egypt?

Answer: The Library of Alexandria

Q10: Who wrote the epic poem 'The Divine Comedy'?

Answer: Dante Alighieri

Q11: What is the highest female singing voice called?

Answer: Soprano

Q12: Which artist created the painting 'The Persistence of Memory' featuring melting clocks?

Answer: Salvador Dalí

Q13: What is the name of the ancient Greek temple dedicated to the goddess Athena?

Answer: The Parthenon

Q14: Who composed 'Pictures at an Exhibition' originally for piano?

Answer: Modest Mussorgsky

Q15: What Baroque composer wrote 'The Art of Fugue'?

Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Q16: Which 20th-century composer wrote '4'33"' - a piece where performers sit in silence?

Answer: John Cage

Q17: What Renaissance artist designed the dome of Florence Cathedral?

Answer: Filippo Brunelleschi

Q18: Who wrote the libretto for Mozart's opera 'Don Giovanni'?

Answer: Lorenzo Da Ponte

Q19: What is the name of the ancient Chinese philosophical and artistic concept meaning 'the way'?

Answer: Tao or Dao

Q20: Which composer's Symphony No. 9 is known as the 'New World Symphony'?

Answer: Antonín Dvořák