Basic Miscellanea

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1. Which author is considered the father of the 'Ecole Naturaliste' (literature, mainly)? Rimbaud Balzac Zola Darwin

2. What did Max Brod do? Marry Virginia Woolf Write a violin concerto Disobey Kafka Turn into a bug

3. Where is 'The Lady and The Unicorn' displayed? Museo del Prado, Madrid The Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Musee Cluny, Paris

4. Which was a group of mainly homosexual Cambridge intellectuals? The CIE The Cambridge Circle The Pickwick Club The Apostles

5. Where was Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' written? Ireland Scotland Dentist's waiting room France

6. 'We will always have Paris' is quoted by Woody Allen in what film? Mighty Aphrodite E.T. Manhattan Annie Hall

7. Which of these women was married to Roman Emperor Claudius? Cleopatra Lucrecia Minerva Messalina

8. Who painted them fatter, Rubens or Botero? Answer: (The answer is either Rubens or Botero)

9. Which one of these prizes does not exist? Booker Goncourt Pritzker Seoane

10. How many children did Bach have? 7 3 14 21

11. When did the Ottoman Empire fall? XVII Century XX Century Early XVI Century XVIII Century

12. 'Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent' is THE classical quotation of which book? Wittgenstein's Tractatus Kant's Critique of Pure Reason Aquinas' Summa Theologica Tocqueville's Democracy in America

13. Which one of these historical events is NOT currently being questioned? Shakespeare's actual existence Adolf Hitler's birthplace Van Gogh's 'ear' episode God's 'fiat'

14. Which one of these couples did NOT have any major fights? Sartre and De Beauvoir Freud and Jung Voltaire and Rousseau Wittgenstein and Popper

15. Gala left which of these fellows for Dali? Iker Zubizarreta Paul Verlaine Paul Eluard Pablo Picasso

16. Who was considered the most important poet of the symbolist movement? Rimbaud Proust Verlaine Mallarme

17. According to Stravinsky, who was better at chess than he was at composing? Claude Debussy Pyotr Illich Tchaikovsky Sergei Prokofiev W.A. Mozart

18. Dante's muse. Beatrice Portinari Eleanor of Aquitaine Laura Pausini Catherine de Medici

19. Which one of these remarkable fellows did NOT die somewhat handicapped? Louis XVI Jorge Luis Borges Homer Francisco de Goya

20. Which of the following is NOT true? Leonardo, left-handed, used to write backwards Before 1492, the earth was believed to be flat The Vatican holds the world's largest art collection Mozart had a hard time trying to find a 'job' in Paris