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