In this Adventure in Authoring quiz I was required to write a quiz on "Truth". Now Australians like me love to spin a yarn. We don't let the facts get in the way of a good story. So how many of the following Australian place name stories are true? 
Sometimes they're the focus, and sometimes they are peripheral, but dogs have a habit of sneaking into many artistic works. Here are just some of our canine friends in art. 
Using the picture provided, identify the Roman god or goddesses. 
Jupiter, the king of the gods, is in a terrible temper. After Castor & Pollux pulled their last practical joke on him, he had them confined to the dungeons, but SOMEONE set them free. The question is, which god did it? 
A quiz about statues and sculptures from around the world. Use the photo clues to guide you. 
Our tour of the world's great galleries returns to Paris for a visit to the Musée d'Orsay. Opened in 1986, it has become a major tourist attraction with more than 3 million visitors annually.
Our tour of the world's great galleries moves to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, home to more than 2,000 paintings from the Dutch Golden Age. Identify the artist from a famous works housed here. 
These ten questions are about "Hamilton", the hit musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda. 
In ancient Greece and Rome ladies were seen dancing at night to loud music, while playing cymbals, flutes, and tambourines. Come and dance with the maenads of mythology! 
A quiz on the Tony Award, Grammy Award, and Pulitzer Prize winning musical "Hamilton" by Lin-Manuel Miranda. 
Recently I had the good fortune to take a tour of a Usonian house. I enjoyed it so much, I just had to share what I learned with you! 
We continue our tour at one of the world's oldest great galleries and home to one of the most famous collections of Old Master paintings, the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, Germany. Can you identify some of the most famous works housed there? 
The average Australian male sometimes seem to speak a different language entirely to the rest of the world. Can you figure out what they mean with these following terms? Happy Translating. 
The Gothic style flourished in Europe between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries and saw the creation of some of the most beautiful works of art ever created. Every selection in this challenge quiz has a connection with the word 'egg' in the title. 
Here are ten Goddesses of Dawn. They come from different locations and times. Let's see how many of them you remember. 
As I walk down a tranquil English lane, I notice an old stone wall snaking across distant fields as far as the eye can see. I follow the wall to see where it will take me, learning its secrets as I go along. Come and join me on my voyage of discovery. 
Perhaps no creature has pervaded folklore over the centuries moreso than the vampire. Sink your teeth into these ten questions exploring the history and cultural variations of these creatures of the dead. Good luck! 
One of the largest museums in North America, the National Gallery of Art is situated on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Can you identify some of the most famous works housed there? (A reminder that you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them.) 
So you want to join the Vampire Hunters International? Well, the VHI don't accept just anyone. Prove you have the right stuff by passing this quiz on different vampires from all over the world. 
Alaska is a huge land, plenty of room for diverse place names from many cultures. 
My creativity has come to life by adding children's characters to some form of literary technique, all depending on style, rhythm or play on words. It is up to you to decide which type of style I have used. 
While researching events about the life of the Leonardo, interesting information about his paintings can also be found. What do you know about this great man's works? 
Founded as the National Gallery of British Art in 1897, it was renamed the Tate Gallery in 1932 and Tate Britain in 2000. Here are some of the most famous works of art you can see there. (A reminder that you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them.) 
Lots of hobbies and leisure activities have their own special language. The performing arts are no different. Can you decipher some of the unique theater language from the clues? 
We continue our tour at the world's most famous gallery, The Louvre Museum in Paris. Can you identify ten of the many famous works housed there? (A reminder that you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them.) 
One of the world's most visited museums, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City houses the largest art collection in the U.S. Can you identify some of its most famous works?
We continue our tour of the world's great galleries at one of the world's most-visited museums, the National Gallery in London. Can you identify some of the most famous works housed there? (A reminder that you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them.) 
I've just had fun making these images in Microsoft Paint. Do they help you answer the questions about these idioms and proverbs? 
Some of the phrases we use today may bear no resemblance to their meanings in the past. Here's a look at the origins of some of them. 
You don't need to be an expert on Australian geography to play my quiz. The pictures should give lots of hints. 
Since didymous means occurring in pairs, this quiz (using a slightly ungrammatical title proposed by Plodd) will take a look at some of my personal favorite (yes, I know) examples of tautologies in common everyday use (again, I know). 
We start this tour of the world's great galleries at one of the very best, 'Galleria degli Uffizi' in central Florence. Here are some of the most famous works of art you can see there. (A reminder that you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them.) 
The next room in our virtual art gallery concentrates not on a specific genre but on a period or style of painting. Color, light and shadows are features of Baroque art from the late 16th century to the early 18th. 
This is a quiz about artists and their self-portraits. How we see ourselves and how others see us is usually quite different. How these artists saw themselves can sometimes be seen in their self-portraits. 
Effectively, this is the third room of biblical paintings but the works here all specifically depict one or more of the various saints. 
Test your knowledge about various traditional and non-traditional punctuation marks. I will be using names and explaining functions according to Standard American English, unless otherwise noted. 
There are hundreds of punctuation marks. Some are archaic and rarely seen, while others are seen almost every day. How much do you know about the marks you use to get your point across? 
In the first room of this section of our virtual gallery, we looked at paintings depicting the life of Christ. Now we move on to other Biblical stories and people... 
Animals have been a popular topic for artwork throughout history. Many different styles and artists have been inspired by their beauty. Animals were a common theme in chalk and pencil drawings also. 
The next subject at our virtual art gallery, biblical paintings (or sacred art) is perhaps the most extensive, so it will fill two rooms even at the first pass through. These are the first ten examples for you to admire and identify. 
A theater company is defined as "the cast and crew of a show and any other staff who work on the show". Can you identify these members of a theater company? 
Like theatre? Do you know these theatrical terms? 
Here are ten marble sculptures and questions about them. Some of the world's most famous sculpture are made from the luminescent stone known as marble. 
The next room in our virtual art gallery is the home of 'allegorical art'. Here the artist tells a story, often biblical. 
Can you work out this collective nouns from the photo clues given? Good luck. 
If you were born with "two-right feet" like me then dancing might as well be brain surgery. So let's go slow, you know "one small step" at a time. I'll give you written clues and pictures, and you tell me what type of dance I am performing poorly.
The next room in our virtual art gallery is the home of 'history painting'. Covering a wide range of artistic styles, history paintings depict a specific moment in a narrative story. 
Ballroom dancing is a professional, highly skilled and beautiful art. Can you name ten of those dances from the photo clues given? 
The photos in each question should remind you of a common idiom or saying. I will provide clues to help you figure out the answer, which is to be written in the blank. 
These cheesy puns and word play are full of holes but they are interesting in their own whey!
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