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Literature and Art
1. What American author created the detective Philip Marlowe?
2. Who wrote the play Oedipus Rex?
3. Who wrote the novel Frankenstein?
4. Which playwright wrote A Streetcar Named Desire?
5. Sir Thomas More's 'Utopia' literally translates from Greek roots to mean what?
6. Which painting by Claude Monet gave the Impressionist movement its name?
7. Who is the Russian author of the epic 19th-century novel 'War and Peace'?
8. How many of Shakespeare's plays made their first printed appearance in the 1623 First Folio?
9. In which 1863 exhibition was Manet’s scandalous 'Luncheon on the Grass' first shown?
10. Maya Angelou's 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' is the first volume of how many autobiographical books she wrote?
11. Which artistic movement focused on depicting the harsh realities of everyday life rather than idealized or heroic subjects?
12. In Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem, what is the single word repeated by the Raven?
13. From which part of a bird was a traditional quill pen most often made?
14. What is the primary reason the Voynich Manuscript is famous in literary history?
15. Who is credited with inventing the piano around the year 1700?
16. Approximately how many of Frida Kahlo's 143 paintings are self-portraits?
17. The word 'quixotic' describes an idealistic but impractical person; which literary character is it named after?
18. Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
19. Which real-life doctor and professor served as the primary inspiration for Sherlock Holmes?
20. How tall is Michelangelo's original 'David' sculpture?