Academic League Practice Test

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• Which composer has more than one work in the list?
• West Side Story's music was composed by whom?
• Which author wrote 'Because I could not stop for Death'?
• What American poet wrote 'Because I could not stop for Death'?
• Which work by Grieg is listed in the material?
• Whose poetry includes his famous 'Ode To A Nightingale'?
• Who wrote Hermit Songs?
• Who wrote "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"?
• What painter of the American West is famous for A Dash for Timber?
• Which of the following best describes Margaret Fuller?
• Brother Jack and Supercargo are characters in which novel?
• Who wrote Native Son and Black Boy?
• Who painted Mr and Mrs Andrews?
• Norwegian painter famous for The Scream?
• Who wrote 'The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd'?
• The Last Tycoon was left unfinished due to the death of which author?
• Who wrote Rigoletto?
• Who wrote 'Birches' and 'Death of a Hired Man'?
• The Lady of Shalott was written by which author?
• The Prague Symphony is Symphony No. 38 by which composer?
• Who composed the Moonlight Sonata?
• Who composed the Goldberg Variations?
• Who wrote the line 'Tell all the truth, but tell it slant'?
• Who started Impressionism with Impression: Sunrise?
• Who wrote 'Why I Live at the P.O.'?
• The Color Purple was written by which author?
• Who painted Sunflowers?
• What German composer is famously prolific, credited with 106 symphonies and called The Father of the String Quartet?
• Which composer is celebrated for the Moravian Duets and the New World Symphony?
• Which poet wrote Paul Revere's Ride?
• Who wrote 'The Minister's Black Veil'?
• Ralph Waldo Emerson is a leading figure in which literary movement?
• What Dickens novel features 'the artful dodger'?
• Who painted The Sistine Madonna?
• In Huckleberry Finn, which character ran a scam selling tartar remover?
• Who wrote 'The Village Blacksmith'?
• Who wrote The People, Yes!?
• Which novelist hit fame with This Side of Paradise?
• Which author wrote the poem 'Birches' ?
• The Drowning Girl belongs to which art movement?
• In The Grapes of Wrath, which Joad daughter saves the life of a toothless old man?
• Post-Impressionist still lifes of bowls of fruits?
• The Calling of St. Matthew was painted by which Italian Baroque master?
• Peter Grimes is an opera by which composer?
• Which artist among the following is not Italian?
• In Lord of the Flies, who gets crushed by a rock?
• Who painted The Burning Giraffe?
• Swan Lake is a ballet composed by which composer?
• Who drew the Vitruvian Man?
• Which poet is noted for 'Fable for Critics' and 'First Snowfall'?
• Who wrote Red Badge of Courage?
• Birth of Venus was painted by?
• Which Spanish painter is known for 'La Maja Desnuda' and '3rd of May 1808'?
• Which Dutch artist is famous for Starry Night and being deaf on one side?
• Who wrote My Last Duchess?
• What German composer is famous for 'The Planets'?
• Which Impressionist French artist is associated with the painting Girl With Watering Can?
• The author who created Hawkeye and Chingachgook is?
• What symbol does Hester Prynne wear on her chest in The Scarlet Letter?
• Who wrote Everyday Use?
• Pictures at an Exhibition is a composition by which of the following?
• Who wrote 'The Rape of the Lock'?
• Beethoven's Heroic symphony?
• In Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, Falstaff serves as an alternate father to which character?
• In the video game Tempest, what is the name of the manipulative sprite?
• What is the nickname of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony?
• Which figure is linked to both transcendentalism and early American feminism?
• The Elements of Style was enhanced by which author?
• Which Shakespearean hero's ambition was thwarted by a man born via a C-section?
• Who wrote Bleak House?
• Which artwork is associated with Marcel Duchamp?
• The painting Starry Night is by which artist?
• The Resurrection is Symphony No. 2 composed by which composer?
• Rhapsody in Blue was composed in 1924 by which musician?
• Which of the following is a work by William Blake?
• Which poet wrote The World Is Too Much With Us?
• The author of The House on Mango Street is which of the following?
• What American painted Arrangement in Gray and White, a painting of his mother?
• Banqueting House at Whitehall was designed by which architect?
• Pudd'nhead Wilson was written by which author?
• Who started a poem with the line 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'?
• Who composed the Royal Fireworks Music?
• Who showed us the danger of quarantine in 'The Masque of the Red Death'?
• In Lord of the Flies, who are the rival leaders?
• Which Dutch artist painted 'Venus at the Mirror' and 'Susana and the Elders'?
• The festival of San Fermin in Pamplona is the backdrop of which Hemingway novel?
• The Tropics in New York is a poem by which author?
• Which artist is associated with the Mona Lisa?
• Which artist painted a work set in Montmartre?
• Which composer is linked with the 20th-century ballets Firebird and Rite of Spring?
• Which author hit fame with This Side of Paradise?
• The Birth of Venus was painted by?
• Who wrote Otello?
• Who composed The Firebird?
• Who sculpted The Penitent Magdalene?
• Who wrote In the Hall of the Mountain King?
• Which Twentieth Century Russian composer is famous for his 'Firebird Suite' and 'Rite of Spring'?
• Who wrote the sonnet "Ozymandias"?
• Which composer wrote the Nocturne?
• The painting Girl with Pearl Earring was created by which artist?
• Which author wrote Oliver Twist?
• Who wrote Eugene Onegin?
• Who composed Fidelio (with Carl Maria von Weber)?
• Robert Jordan is the hero of which novel set during the Spanish Civil War?
• Who wrote 'To A Mouse'?
• The Marble Fawn is a work by which author?
• Who wrote 'The Chambered Nautilus'?
• The opera Otello was composed by which of the following?
• Who wrote the short story The Yellow Wallpaper?
• Which British landscape painter is associated with Salisbury Cathedral in his works?
• Who painted The Death of Marat?
• Which Leatherstocking Tale was the first published novel in Cooper's Leatherstocking series?
• Which poet authored The Faerie Queene?
• Who created Rip Van Winkle?
• The Tempest was written by which author?
• Whose later works include Maine Woods?
• Beethoven's Pastoral symphony?
• The Maine Woods was written by which author?
• Who painted Luncheon of the Boating Party?
• Who wrote the essay 'American Scholar'?
• Who wrote Porgy and Bess?
• The Calling of St. Matthew was painted by which artist?
• Which poet wrote "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?
• Who wrote 'The Story of an Hour'?
• The Drowning Girl demonstrates the influence of comic art by which artist?
• The Taming of the Shrew was written by which author?
• Who painted The Garden of Earthly Delights?
• Which composer is associated with both The Firebird and The Rite of Spring?
• Who created Hawkeye and Chingachgook?
• Who wrote 'Lord Jim'?
• Which composer wrote the song cycle Winterreise?
• Which author wrote 'The Fall of the House of Usher'?
• Starbuck is a character in which novel?
• The Flea and Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God were written by which poet?
• Who wrote Il Trovatore?
• Which British Romantic wrote 'Daffodils'?
• Scheherazade was composed by?
• Who wrote 'The Lady of Shalott'?
• Which Faulkner novel centers on the Compson family?
• St. Pauls Suite was composed by which composer?
• Melancholia was created by which artist?
• Who wrote 'A Psalm of Life'?
• Desdemona is a character in which Shakespeare play?
• Which author wrote Absalom, Absalom!
• In Billy Budd, what is the name of the ship's master-at-arms whom Billy Budd fatally strikes?
• The Color Purple is a novel by which author?
• Which author wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
• Who composed Verklarte Nacht?
• Piano Quintet in A is nicknamed The Trout?
• Who designed the Louvre Pyramid?
• The Bardi Chapel was painted by?
• Which painting did Paul Cézanne create?
• My Last Duchess was written by which poet?
• Which Shakespeare character reminds Shylock that 'the quality of mercy is not strain'd'?
• Who painted The Kiss?
• Which Fireside Poet was a Quaker and abolitionist?
• Which opera was composed by Stravinsky?
• Which composer wrote the Academic Festival Overture?
• Which English painter is known for the artwork depicting a steam train rushing past a river and steelworks, illustrating the Industrial Revolution?
• Who painted The Burial of The Count of Orgaz?
• The Marble Fawn was written by which author?
• Who composed Das Lied von der Erde?
• Which essayist authored 'The American Scholar'?
• Death Comes for the Archbishop was written by which author?
• The World Is Too Much With Us. Which poet wrote this work?
• Who described Chicago as 'the city of the big shoulders'?
• Who wrote the short story 'The Killers'?
• Which composer delighted royal audiences with 'Water Music'?
• What German composer, dead at thirty-one, is noted for his song cycle Winterreise?
• The Sound and the Fury centers on which family?
• Who painted Large Bathers?
• Which work is by Willa Cather?
• Which composer wrote Hermit Songs (second appearance)?
• In Lord of the Flies, which character is killed by a rock?
• Who painted Landscape with the Fall of Icarus?
• Which Polish born composer is noted for his Nocturnes?
• Who composed The Well-Tempered Clavier?
• Heart of Darkness was written by which author?
• Las Meninas was painted by which artist?
• A Dash for Timber was painted by which American artist?
• Which author wrote 'Lord Jim'?
• Which Impressionist painted Poppies?
• The Statue of Liberty was sculpted by which artist?
• Who is famous for The Brandenburg Concertos?
• Who painted The Elevation of the Cross?
• Vitruvian Man was drawn by?
• Which Italian artist is noted for the Mona Lisa?
• In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the feud is between which families?
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro was written by which author?
• Who wrote Don Carlo?
• Which Richard Strauss work is a famous tone poem often used in space-related film openings?
• Who painted The Portrait of Innocent X?
• Fanfare for the Common Man was composed by which American composer?
• Which painting is attributed to Botticelli?
• Which French Romantic painter is famous for Liberty Leading the People?
• Which artist is known for posters featuring Moulin Rouge: La Goulue?
• Whose 'Wife of Bath's Tale' is often censored?
• Which author wrote the short stories 'A Perfect Day For Bananafish' and 'For Esme, With Love and Squalor'?
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro was written by which author?
• Who painted Bathers at Asnieres?
• Who is the Polish-born composer famous for his 'Etudes'?
• Which painting did Degas create?
• Till Eulenspiegel is a work by which composer?
• Who painted The School of Athens?
• Who painted The Milkmaid?
• Aida is an opera composed by which of the following?
• Which painting was created by Rembrandt?
• Who composed Also Sprach Zarathustra?
• Who wrote Leda and the Swan?
• In Moby-Dick, which character's name is taken from Jezebel's husband?
• Which novel satirizes small-town Midwestern life and was written by Sinclair Lewis?
• Heart of Darkness is narrated by which character?
• Which composer is associated with the Mass in B minor?
• Benito Cereno was written by which author?
• In Billy Budd, who is the ship's captain who orders Billy Budd's execution?
• Which composer is associated with both the Prague and Jupiter symphonies?
• Which opera was composed by Verdi?
• The Sun Also Rises is a novel by which author?
• Which 18th-century preacher is famous for the sermon 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'?
• Who painted Saturn Devouring Himself?
• Who painted The Dance Class?
• Who memorialized Shakespeare with "To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare"?
• Who wrote Wozzeck?
• Who composed Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District?
• Who wrote Nixon in China?
• Which California-born novelist is famous for Alaska tales including 'To Build A Fire'?
• Avila Morning painter?
• Dubliners is a collection of short stories by which author?
• Which British Romantic wrote 'Xanadu'?
• Thanatopsis was written by which author?
• Dutch painter whose name sounds like a sandwich?
• Bartleby, the Scrivener was written by which author?
• Which British artist is noted for the portrait 'Blue Boy'?
• What novel follows the Joads as they head to California?
• Which character seems poised to inherit Denmark at the end of Hamlet?
• Which American poet followed Whitman's tradition with The People, Yes!?
• Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun was composed by which composer?
• Who wrote the short story 'A&P'?
• The Wyrd Sisters are described as what in Macbeth?
• Who wrote 'Civil Disobedience'?
• Who wrote "A Journal of the Plague Year"?
• Who wrote Beloved?
• Which work is composed by Rimsky-Korsakov?
• Who wrote 'A Clean, Well-Lighted Place'?
• The Nocturne is most closely associated with which composer?
• Original campus of the University of Virginia was designed by which architect?
• The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is set in which city?
• Which play by Shakespeare features Henry V and includes the Battle of Agincourt?
• Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
• Who composed the Ring Cycle?
• Rhapsody in Blue was composed by which American?
• Which early Renaissance Italian artist is associated with the Scrovegni Chapel?
• The Bauhaus Dessau was designed by which architect?
• Which composer has both Romeo and Juliet and the Pathetique?
• Who designed the Disney Concert Hall?
• Which composer wrote a work based on One Thousand and One Nights?
• Surrealist Spaniard The Persistence of Memory?
• Who composed The Marriage of Figaro?
• Which Transcendentalist author welcomed Walt Whitman with the phrase 'I greet you at the beginning of a great career'?
• Which poet is associated with the poems 'Fable for Critics' and 'First Snowfall'?
• Who wrote Clair de lune for piano?
• What composer is noted for biblical oratorios St. Paul and Elijah?
• Who wrote Parsifal?
• Whose Symphony No. 94 is called the Surprise Symphony?
• Who composed Erlkonig?
• Who composed The Goldberg Variations?
• Who sculpted The Statue of Liberty?
• Oath of the Horatii painter?
• Swan Lake is a ballet by which composer?
• Who designed the Farnsworth House?
• Which artist painted Boy in Red Vest?
• Which British Romantic poet wrote 'Child Harold's Pilgrimage'?
• Which artwork was painted by Donatello?
• Venus of Urbino was painted by?
• Petrushka is a ballet composed by which composer?
• Which architect designed Bauhaus Dessau?
• The Liebestraum is a famous piano piece by which composer?
• Which American artist painted portraits of Lady Agnew and Theodore Roosevelt?
• In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, where does Huck hide the gold?
• An American in Paris was composed by which American composer?
• Which Shakespeare play features Toby Belch?
• Which author wrote the short story 'Why I Live at the P.O.'?
• Who wrote Tosca?
• Who wrote 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love'?
• The Pioneers marked a breakthrough for which American author?
• The Milkmaid is painted by which Dutch master?
• The Red Pony was written by which author?
• Which work is a poem by Yeats?
• The Kiss is a famous work by which artist?
• Who painted The Potato Eaters?
• Hester Prynne is the central character in which novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne?
• Which stuttering title character was executed for fatally punching his ship's master-at-arms, John Claggart?
• Who wrote 'The Open Boat'?
• Which author is described as an early feminist and transcendentalist?
• La Bohème was written by which composer?
• This Russian composer is rightly noted for his '1812 Overture'.
• Which artist is associated with The Hay Wain?
• Crossing Brooklyn Ferry was written by which poet?
• Who wrote 'Young Goodman Brown'?
• Who wrote the short story 'The Open Boat' ?
• Which author wrote both 'Aftermath' and 'A Psalm of Life'?
• Which painting was created by Mary Cassatt?
• Which Shakespearean heroine dies by eating fire?
• Who designed Barcelona's Sagrada Familia?
• Venus of Urbino was painted by?
• Who wrote Carmen?
• Who painted A Bar at the Folies-Bergere?
• Ode To A Nightingale was written by which poet?
• Who sowed seeds of jealousy in Othello?
• Which composer wrote Gaspard De La Nuit?
• Who is Hamlet's love interest?
• Who wrote Salome?
• The Carnival of the Animals was composed by?
• Who composed Symphonie Fantastique?
• The composer associated with the twelve-tone technique has which nationality?
• Which poem was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
• Who wrote 'Old Ironsides'?
• Which Shakespeare play centers on an aging father and his three daughters?
• Liberty Leading the People was painted by which French Romantic artist?
• Which Anglo-American painter is known for portraits of Paul Revere and Samuel Adams?
• Which composer wrote the biblical oratorio Elijah?
• Which artist is associated with the Helga Paintings?
• Which British Romantic poet wrote 'Child Harold's Pilgrimage'?
• Pastoral symphony nickname?
• Who wrote 'Auspex'?
• The Louvre Pyramid was designed by which architect?
• Whose travels led him to Lilliputia, Brobdingnag, and Laputa?
• The line 'I greet you at the beginning of a great career' was spoken by which transcendentalist?
• Florence Cathedral was designed by which architect?
• Which of the following is Brunelleschi's dome on the Florence Cathedral?
• Which composer is responsible for both the Academic Festival Overture and the Tragic Overture?
• Which English poet sought to justify the ways of God to man?
• Who wrote La Traviata?
• Which painting did Salvador Dalí create?
• Who painted Mont Sainte-Victoire?
• Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun was composed by which composer?
• Which Puritan minister wrote Wonders of the Invisible World about the Salem Witch Trials?
• What was the name of the former preacher in Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath?
• Which author wrote Beloved?
• Avila Morning was painted by which Mexican muralist?
• Who taught us the danger of wine cellars in his 'Cask of Amontillado'?
• Which poet memorialized his favorite president with the poem 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryards Bloomed'?
• What American is noted for his drip paintings?
• Which author created Ichabod Crane?
• Which work is a poem by Matthew Arnold?
• Which painting was created by Vincent van Gogh?
• Who painted American Gothic?
• Who wrote 'Aftermath'?
• Who painted The Jewish Bride?
• Wife of Bath's Tale is by which author?
• Who wrote 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love'?
• Whose Symphony No. 100 is called the Military Symphony?
• This Italian composer was noted for being the greatest violinist of his day.
• Humoresques were written by which composer?
• Who was the first colonial poet to be published in Europe?
• Main Street was written by which author?
• What French Impressionist is noted for poster art like Moulin Rouge: La Goulue?
• Time traveling soldier/ ophthalmologist Billy Pilgrim is the featured character of what Kurt Vonnegut novel?
• The Mill on the Floss is a novel by which author?
• Who is Romeo's "spiritual advisor" in Romeo and Juliet?
• Which author wrote The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men?
• In order to trick the Cyclops, what name does Odysseus adopt?
• Which author wrote the short stories 'A Perfect Day For Bananafish' and 'For Esme, With Love and Squalor'?
• Which poet wrote the poem widely known as 'I'm Nobody'?
• Who wrote Lohengrin?
• Which artwork was painted by Raphael?
• Which French composer is noted for 'La Mer'?
• Which Pointillist French artist is famous for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grand Jatte?
• In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, what is the last plantation Huck visits?
• Which work is written by Mark Twain?
• A Midsummer Night's Dream was composed by which composer?
• What American is famous for her flower paintings and Ram's Head, White Hollyhock, and Little Hills?
• Who wrote Elektra?
• Who wrote 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers'?
• Who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
• In A Midsummer Night's Dream, which character is transformed into a donkey?
• A Rose for Emily was written by which author?
• Who painted Rain, Steam, and Speed?
• Which O. Henry short story features a man, his wife, some hair combs, and a watch fob?
• Which 19th-century poet wrote 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryards Bloomed'?
• Who composed The Barber of Seville?
• Who compiled the first dictionary of the English Language?
• The Liebestraum is a well-known piano piece by which composer?
• Whose story parallels Lear's in King Lear?
• Who wrote The Waste Land opening with 'April is the cruelest month'?
• Le déjeuner sur l'herbe painter?
• The Mending Wall was written by which poet?
• Which novelist wrote the work Black Boy?
• Dubliners is a collection of short stories by which author?
• Who wrote 'A Narrow Fellow In The Grass'?
• The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa is a sculpture by which early Baroque Italian sculptor?
• View of Toledo is a painting by which artist?
• Which transcendentalist was jailed for refusing to pay taxes to support the Mexican War?
• Who kills Hamlet in a sword fight?
• Who wrote Madama Butterfly?
• Who sculpted The Thinker?
• What animal is hunted in "The Most Dangerous Game"?
• Shakespeare's Henry V centers on an unlikely British victory in which battle?
• Which poet opened The Waste Land with the line 'April is the cruelest month'?
• Which Dutch artist painted The Night Watch?
• Which artist created Boy in Red Vest?
• Which precursor of Shakespeare is noted for his play Doctor Faustus?
• Peter Grimes is an opera by which composer?
• Which short story features a wife with hair combs and a watch fob?
• Who composed Peter and the Wolf?
• Who prophecies the success and demise of Macbeth?
• Who composed The Rite of Spring?
• Robert Jordan is the hero of which novel set in the Spanish Civil War?
• Isle of the Dead was composed by which composer?
• Who wrote The Creation?
• Who composed Short Ride in a Fast Machine?
• In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck helps which character escape?
• Who painted 'La Primavera'?
• Who composed Boris Godunov?
• In Oedipus Rex, which seer visits Oedipus with cryptic warnings?
• Bolero composer?
• Who tells Macbeth to 'screw his courage to the sticking point'?
• Le déjeuner sur l'herbe painter?
• Which of the following is a poem by Longfellow?
• Who told of the grace of the Almighty in 'Upon A Wasp Chill'd With Cold'?
• Ophelia is a character in which Shakespeare play?
• Who painted 'Danae' and 'Venus and Adonis'?
• Which Puccini opera is included in this list: La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Turandot?
• Which work did Mahler compose?
• Which composer is renowned for his 'Hungarian Rhapsodies'?
• Beethoven's Heroic symphony nickname?
• Which of the following works was created by Michelangelo?
• Whose poetry includes 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry'?
• Which artist is best known for drip paintings?
• Which composer is famous for his 'Hungarian Rhapsodies'?
• Who wrote To His Coy Mistress?
• Which Puritan wrote poetry about the burning of her house?
• The Mill on the Floss was written by which author?
• The composer of Parsifal is which of the following?
• Who sculpted Bicycle Wheel and Fountain?
• David at Bargello was sculpted by which Italian artist?
• Who is the author of Rip Van Winkle?
• Who wrote the poem "Ozymandias"?
• The Tropics In New York is a poem by which author?
• Which poet is largely responsible for the myth of Paul Revere?
• Who painted Girl with Pearl Earring?
• Who is the last person to die in The Great Gatsby?
• The ship Pequod appears in which novel?
• Jim Casy is a former preacher in which novel?
• Who sculpted Apollo and Daphne?
• Clarisse McClellan and Guy Montag are characters in which novel?
• Who wrote 'The Tell-tale Heart'?
• Who wrote The Encantadas?
• Which Shakespeare play features King Lear and his three daughters?
• Which painting is by Jan Van Eyck?
• Nach der Überschwemmung was painted by which German artist?
• Which composer is often called the Father of the String Quartet?
• Henry V is generally classified as which type of Shakespearean drama?
• What American novelist is famed for tales of the prairies like My Antonia?
• Who wrote 'Huswifery'?
• A Night on Bald Mountain was composed by?
• The Mill on the Floss was written by which author?
• Which author is associated with the line 'My mistress' eyes' in classic poetry?
• In Henry IV, Part One, which character does Prince Hal kill in battle at the climax?
• Who drew the Vitruvian Man?
• Which composer wrote the contemplative 'Adagio for Strings' often used in films?
• Who wrote Tristan Und Isolde?
• Whose Symphony No. 6 is nicknamed Pathetique?
• Who composed St. Matthew's Passion?
• Who wrote The Faerie Queene?
• Who wrote Porgy and Bess?
• Which British Romantic wrote 'She Walks in Beauty'?
• Which artwork was painted by Velasquez?
• What epic hero met his doom in his last battle, with a dragon, having already killed both Grendel and Grendel's Mother?
• Which author wrote the Alaska-set tale 'To Build A Fire'?
• The soothsayer warns Julius Caesar about which date?
• Who painted The Hay Wain?
• Who painted The Boulevard of Montmartre at Night?
• Which of the following is a short story by Alice Walker?
• Who painted The Birth of Venus?
• Isle of the Dead composer?
• Which Shakespeare comedy features Hero?
• Which author wrote 'A Clean, Well-Lighted Place'?
• Which painting was created by Henri Matisse?
• Which composer wrote Boris Godunov?
• What British Landscape artist is noted for a painting of Salisbury Cathedral?
• Which composer developed the twelve-tone technique and experimented with atonal music?
• Which artwork was painted by El Greco?
• Which novel features Hester Prynne and is widely studied for its symbols and social critique?
• Turandot is an opera by which composer?
• Who wrote Absalom, Absalom!
• In which play does Bottom get transformed into a donkey?
• Which author is associated with the Romantic era and wrote 'Daffodils'?
• Which mate on the Pequod was described as 'no crusader after perils'?
• Who composed the Mandolin Concerto?
• What Czech composer is noted for his 'Moravian Duets' and the 'New World Symphony'?
• In which Shakespeare comedy does Don John hatch a plot to defame a woman?
• Which Shakespeare play features a magician and his daughter stranded on an island?
• Who wrote Dover Beach?
• What Austrian-Bohemian composer earned his living as a conductor and left his tenth symphony unfinished at death?
• Who painted The Arnolfini Portrait?
• Which poet wrote "The Cross of Snow"?
• Which composer wrote The Carnival of the Animals?
• Who composed Fidelio?
• In Fahrenheit 451, what is the task of the firemen?
• Who wrote 'The Purloined Letter'?
• Which Arthur Miller play features Willy Loman and his two sons Biff and Happy?
• Who composed Mass in B minor?
• In Huckleberry Finn, who shoots Boggs, the town drunk?
• Memory, the Heart was painted by which artist?
• Which composer wrote Jupiter, Symphony No. 41?
• Who painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?
• Ram's Head, White Hollyhock, and Little Hills are famous works by which American artist?
• The Encantadas is a work by which author?
• Easter Wings was written by which poet?
• The Tell-tale Heart was written by which author?
• Who is the unyielding king in Sophocles' Antigone?
• Which artist painted Oath of the Horatii?
• East of Eden centers on the Trask family. Who wrote it?
• Which German artist is noted for his woodcuts such as 'Rhinoceros' and 'Man of Sorrows'?
• Till Eulenspiegel is a work by which composer?
• Which mate on the Pequod is described as 'happy go lucky'?
• Which author wrote The Tropics In New York?
• Which artist is linked to a major 14th-century fresco cycle in a Padua chapel?
• A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra was composed by which composer?
• What American Pop Artist painted Campbell's Soup Can?
• Who painted Olympia?
• Who exploded on the literary scene after World War II with his novel Invisible Man?
• Which French Post-Impressionist is famous for The Dance and Blue Nude?
• Who penned The Crucible?
• Which composer, born in Poland, is famous for Nocturnes?
• Which composer is often associated with the 'Lullaby'?
• Beatrice and Benedick are reluctantly linked together in what Shakespeare play?
• Who is famous for the Helga Paintings?
• Gaspard De La Nuit was composed by which composer?
• In Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, what is the name of the boss's son who keeps one of his hands protected in a glove?
• Who painted Nighthawks?
• Who wrote the short story 'That Evening Sun Go Down'?
• Who wrote Ode on a Grecian Urn?
• Which fictional family is central to JD Salinger's Franny and Zooey, Raise High the Roof-Beams, Carpenters, and Seymour: An Introduction?
• Which novel follows the Joads to California?
• Who wrote Tannhauser?
• Which play ends with Prospero renouncing his magical powers?
• Who wrote 'Snowbound'?
• The Norwegian composer who wrote Peer Gynt is which artist?
• Melancholia was created by?
• What was the alternate title of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?
• The Rake's Progress is an opera composed by which composer?
• What sculptor is famous for his Pieta and his David?
• Who started his American epic with 'I celebrate myself, and sing myself'?
• Memory, the Heart painter?
• Who composed 'Four Seasons'?
• The painter of The Garden of Earthly Delights belongs to which artist?
• Who wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God?
• Which early feminist and transcendentalist is often cited as the model for Hester Prynne in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter?
• Which painter is associated with the famous British portrait 'The Blue Boy'?
• The Disney Concert Hall was designed by which designer?
• In which novel do Ralph and Jack appear as rival leaders?
• Which poet wrote The Mending Wall?
• Which work features the characters Christian, Evangelist, Pliable, and Obstinate?
• The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd was written by which author?
• Who penned "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?
• Gulliver's Travels was written by which author?
• Which poet, associated with the Fireside Poets, was also a Quaker and abolitionist?
• French Impressionist famous for dancers and performers?
• Which novel led to the establishment of the FDA?
• Which author wrote "A Journal of the Plague Year"?
• Who designed Falling Water and Taliesin?
• Who painted Woman with a Hat?
• Who wrote 'The Masque of the Red Death'?
• Who wrote 'The Fall of the House of Usher'?
• Las Meninas was painted by which artist?
• Portia is a character in which Shakespeare play?
• Who painted The Boating Party?
• What southern writer laments 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find'?
• Which play features a shipwrecked magician on a remote island?
• Who composed Romeo and Juliet?
• Who wrote Billy Budd?
• Which author is credited with welcoming Whitman to a great career?
• Which American artist painted portraits of Lady Agnew and Theodore Roosevelt?
• Which author wrote the poem Thanatopsis?
• Which architect is credited with designing Falling Water and Taliesin?
• The Tropics In New York is a work by which author?
• Who wrote East of Eden?
• Which play features Petruchio wooing Katharina?
• Which work was written by James Russell Lowell?
• Who painted Guernica?
• Which artwork was painted by Rembrandt?
• Who wrote A Narrow Fellow In The Grass?
• Which composer from the Romantic era is associated with the 'New World Symphony'?
• Who composed 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'?
• What is the occasion of the meeting of the storytellers in The Canterbury Tales?
• An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge was authored by whom?
• Which poet wrote the poem commonly associated with Xanadu?
• Petrushka was composed by which composer?
• Who wrote the poem Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey?
• View of Toledo was painted by which artist?
• Which artist is associated with German Expressionism and Cubism?
• Which poet is famous for lines 'Tyger, Tyger burning bright'?
• In which street is the house in The House on Mango Street located?
• Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?
• In The Grapes of Wrath, what is the alternate nickname for Rose of Sharon?
• Which composer wrote the 1812 Overture?
• Who painted The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp?
• Who painted Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe?
• What Hungarian composer is famous for his six string quartets?
• The painting The Dance and Blue Nude are associated with which artist?
• Who wrote 'We Wear The Mask'?
• The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa is an example of which art period?
• Which author wrote The Cask of Amontillado?
• Which artist is well known for paintings of dancers and performers?
• What happens directly AFTER Sir Gawain chops off the Green Knight's head?
• Who composed Appalachian Spring?
• Which church is associated with Raphael, Michelangelo, and Bernini in its design?
• The author of Slaughterhouse-Five is?
• Who was the architect responsible for the design of St. Paul's Cathedral in London?
• Who wrote Wineburg, Ohio?
• Which painting is by Manet?
• Bolero was composed by which composer?