Basic Miscellanea

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Seoane Pritzker Goncourt

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

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? Aquinas' Summa Theologica Tocqueville's Democracy in America Kant's Critique of Pure Reason Wittgenstein's Tractatus

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? Wittgenstein and Popper Voltaire and Rousseau Sartre and De Beauvoir Freud and Jung

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

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

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

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

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? Mozart had a hard time trying to find a 'job' in Paris 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