1. The painting of a woman with a mysterious smile by Leonardo da Vinci is called:

2. Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?

3. What is the name of Sherlock Holmes’ assistant?

4. Which Russian author wrote War and Peace?

5. What literary technique is Virginia Woolf most famous for pioneering?

6. What happens to the paint on a Terracotta Warrior once it is exposed to modern air?

7. What medical condition caused Claude Monet's later paintings to appear more red and yellow?

8. In what year did Toni Morrison become the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

9. Which Greek-based linguistic pun did Thomas More use to name his fictional perfect society?

10. How many lightbulbs does the protagonist of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' use to light his basement?

11. The suicide of which friend triggered Picasso's somber 'Blue Period'?

12. What male pseudonym did Emily Brontë use to publish 'Wuthering Heights'?

13. Which U.S. President allegedly credited Harriet Beecher Stowe with 'starting' the Civil War?

14. What pseudonym did Sylvia Plath use when she first published 'The Bell Jar'?

15. What painting technique involves applying paint very thickly so it retains visible brush or palette knife marks?

16. What tragic 1967 event significantly delayed the completion of Ralph Ellison's second novel?

17. How did Frida Kahlo attend her first solo exhibition in Mexico in 1953?

18. In which African country is the historic literary center of Timbuktu located?

19. What is the specific rhyme scheme of the final two lines in a Shakespearean sonnet?

20. What is the mathematical term for the 'divine proportion' often used to create balanced compositions in art?