Arts & Culture and Literature Trivia Quiz

Q1: Who painted the Mona Lisa?

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Q2: Which Shakespeare play features the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

Answer: Hamlet

Q3: What is the capital of the art world, home to the Louvre and Musée d'Orsay?

Answer: Paris

Q4: Who wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?

Answer: Harper Lee

Q5: Which artist is famous for painting 'The Persistence of Memory' with melting clocks?

Answer: Salvador Dalí

Q6: What is the name of the ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer about the Trojan War?

Answer: The Iliad

Q7: Which composer wrote the 'Moonlight Sonata'?

Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven

Q8: Who painted 'The Starry Night' while staying at an asylum in France?

Answer: Vincent van Gogh

Q9: Which author created the fictional detective Hercule Poirot?

Answer: Agatha Christie

Q10: What dance form originated in Argentina and is characterized by passionate, dramatic movements?

Answer: Tango

Q11: Who sculpted the famous statue of David during the Renaissance?

Answer: Michelangelo

Q12: Which Russian author wrote 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina'?

Answer: Leo Tolstoy

Q13: What is the name of the ancient Chinese art of paper folding?

Answer: Origami

Q14: Who composed the opera 'The Marriage of Figaro'?

Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Q15: Which 20th-century Irish playwright wrote 'Waiting for Godot'?

Answer: Samuel Beckett

Q16: What is the name of the Japanese art form that involves arranging flowers aesthetically?

Answer: Ikebana

Q17: Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost' about the fall of man?

Answer: John Milton

Q18: Which Baroque composer is known for the 'Four Seasons' violin concertos?

Answer: Antonio Vivaldi

Q19: What is the traditional Japanese theater form featuring elaborate makeup and stylized movements?

Answer: Kabuki

Q20: Who painted 'The Birth of Venus', a masterpiece of Renaissance art?

Answer: Sandro Botticelli