Trivia Time!
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Writers Painters and Poets
1. Who wrote The Divine Comedy?
2. Who is the Greek goddess of wisdom often depicted in art?
3. Which painting by Claude Monet gave the Impressionist movement its name?
4. Which dialect did Dante Alighieri use to write 'The Divine Comedy,' forming the basis of modern Italian?
5. Artemisia Gentileschi was the first woman to be admitted to which prestigious art academy?
6. Which 1907 painting by Picasso is considered a major precursor to the Cubist movement?
7. What percentage of Frida Kahlo's total paintings were self-portraits?
8. Which historical conflict serves as the backdrop for Leo Tolstoy's 'War and Peace'?
9. Which of Maya Angelou's memoirs was the first non-fiction bestseller by an African American woman?
10. What is the name of the technique where tiny dots of color are used to create an image?
11. Which historical art form inspired Gustav Klimt's use of gold leaf in his paintings?
12. Under what male pseudonym did Emily Brontë publish 'Wuthering Heights'?
13. Walt Whitman is known as the father of which poetic style that lacks rhyme or regular meter?
14. What kind of establishment did Haruki Murakami run before he became a full-time writer?
15. In which city did James Baldwin live for many years to gain perspective on American society?
16. Modigliani's signature style of elongated faces was heavily influenced by which type of art?
17. What punctuation mark is famously characteristic of Emily Dickinson’s poetic style?
18. Artemisia Gentileschi was the first woman to be admitted to which prestigious art academy?
19. What does Don Quixote famously mistake for giants in the most iconic scene of the novel?
20. James Baldwin's writing style was heavily influenced by his early experience in which role?