Trivia Time!
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Writers Painters and Poets
1. Who painted Girl with a Pearl Earring?
2. Which Shakespeare play features Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
3. Which playwright wrote A Streetcar Named Desire?
4. In what year was Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' first published?
5. What physical condition did John Milton suffer from while writing 'Paradise Lost'?
6. What did Salvador Dalí use as a recurring symbol for decay and death in his paintings?
7. How many Pulitzer Prizes did Robert Frost win during his career?
8. Which character, created by Edgar Allan Poe, is considered the first fictional detective?
9. Which French Impressionist artist was Mary Cassatt's close friend and mentor?
10. What pseudonym was used for Jane Austen's first published novel, 'Sense and Sensibility'?
11. What is the name of the technique where tiny dots of color are used to create an image?
12. What did Ernest Hemingway call his minimalist writing style that emphasized subtext over description?
13. Which historical art form inspired Gustav Klimt's use of gold leaf in his paintings?
14. What was the primary method of publication for most of Charles Dickens' novels?
15. In Edvard Munch's 'The Scream,' what is the figure actually doing with its hands?
16. What term did critic Harold Rosenberg use to describe Pollock's physical, movement-based style?
17. Besides being a world-famous novelist, Vladimir Nabokov was a leading expert in which scientific field?
18. What scientific concept of the early 19th century inspired Mary Shelley to use electricity to reanimate life in 'Frankenstein'?
19. What punctuation mark is famously characteristic of Emily Dickinson’s poetic style?
20. Who was the author of the 'Surrealist Manifesto' and the leader of the movement?