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Arts & literature quiz

Painters, writers, masterpieces and art movements: an arts and literature quiz to find out who wrote, painted or sculpted what.

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Sample questions

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Easy

  1. Who painted the Mona Lisa?

    Leonardo da Vinci

  2. Who wrote Les Misérables?

    Victor Hugo

  3. In which Paris museum is the Mona Lisa displayed?

    Louvre

  4. Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?

    William Shakespeare

Medium

  1. Who painted The Starry Night?

    Vincent van Gogh

  2. Who wrote Madame Bovary?

    Gustave Flaubert

  3. What is the name of the young Gascon hero of The Three Musketeers?

    d'Artagnan

  4. Which Spanish painter created Guernica?

    Pablo Picasso

Hard

  1. Who wrote In Search of Lost Time?

    Marcel Proust

  2. Which Impressionist painter painted the Water Lilies series?

    Claude Monet

  3. Which poet published The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal)?

    Charles Baudelaire

  4. Who wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude?

    Gabriel García Márquez

Expert

  1. Who painted The Raft of the Medusa?

    Théodore Géricault

  2. Who wrote Journey to the End of the Night?

    Louis-Ferdinand Céline

  3. Which art movement did André Breton found?

    Surrealism

  4. Who wrote Froth on the Daydream (L'Écume des jours)?

    Boris Vian

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