Trivia Time!
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Writers Painters and Poets
1. Who is the author of the Harry Potter series?
2. Who wrote The Iliad?
3. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?
4. Who painted The Creation of Adam?
5. Approximately how many words is William Shakespeare credited with introducing to the English language?
6. How many of Emily Dickinson's nearly 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime?
7. Which character, created by Edgar Allan Poe, is considered the first fictional detective?
8. What literary concept did John Keats develop to describe the artist's comfort with mystery and doubt?
9. Under what male pseudonym did Emily Brontë publish 'Wuthering Heights'?
10. Over what period of time does the action in James Joyce's 'Ulysses' take place?
11. Which famous Modernist poem by T.S. Eliot begins with the line 'April is the cruelest month'?
12. What color was the original background of Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' before it faded to black?
13. Toni Morrison was the first African American woman to receive which prestigious international award?
14. What did Georgia O'Keeffe famously collect in the New Mexico desert to use as subjects for her paintings?
15. What physical phenomenon is mathematically represented in the swirling skies of Van Gogh's 'The Starry Night'?
16. In what famous 1497 event were many works of art, possibly including Botticelli's, destroyed in Florence?
17. What is the term for a novel, like 'The Color Purple,' that is written in the form of a series of letters?
18. Which French Impressionist was Mary Cassatt's close friend and mentor in Paris?
19. James Baldwin's writing style was heavily influenced by his early experience in which role?
20. In which famous English cathedral is Jane Austen buried?