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Basic Miscellanea Trivia Quiz

You don't need to be a dictionary to know this stuff.

A multiple-choice quiz by asquare. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
asquare

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
72,304

Updated
Jan 28 23

# Qns
20

Difficulty
Very Difficult

Avg Score
7 / 20

Plays
4433

Last 3 plays: parrotman2006 (9/20), DCW2 (20/20), colbymanram (19/20).

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Question 1 of 20

1. Which author is considered the father of the 'Ecole Naturaliste' (literature, mainly)? Hint

Balzac

Zola

Darwin

Rimbaud

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Question 2 of 20

2. What did Max Brod do? Hint

Write a violin concerto

Disobey Kafka

Turn into a bug

Marry Virginia Woolf

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Question 3 of 20

3. Where is 'The Lady and The Unicorn' displayed? Hint

Museo del Prado, Madrid

Musee Cluny, Paris

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

The Art Institute of Chicago

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Question 4 of 20

4. Which was a group of mainly homosexual Cambridge intellectuals? Hint

The CIE

The Apostles

The Pickwick Club

The Cambridge Circle

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Question 5 of 20

5. Where was Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' written? Hint

France

Dentist's waiting room

Ireland

Scotland

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Question 6 of 20

6. 'We will always have Paris' is quoted by Woody Allen in what film? Hint

Manhattan

Annie Hall

E.T.

Mighty Aphrodite

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Question 7 of 20

7. Which of these women was married to Roman Emperor Claudius? Hint

Cleopatra

Messalina

Minerva

Lucrecia

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Question 8 of 20

8. Who painted them fatter, Rubens or Botero?

Answer: (The answer is either Rubens or Botero)

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Question 9 of 20

9. Which one of these prizes does not exist? Hint

Goncourt

Booker

Seoane

Pritzker

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Question 10 of 20

10. How many children did Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) have? Hint

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Question 11 of 20

11. When did the Ottoman Empire fall? Hint

XVII Century

XX Century

Early XVI Century

XVIII Century

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Question 12 of 20

12. 'Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent' is THE classical quotation of which book? Hint

Tocqueville's Democracy in America

Aquinas' Summa Theologica

Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

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Question 13 of 20

13. Which one of these historical events is NOT currently being questioned by academic experts? Hint

God's 'fiat'

Shakespeare's actual existence

Adolf Hitler's birthplace

Van Gogh's 'ear' episode

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Question 14 of 20

14. Which one of these couples did NOT have any major fights? Hint

Voltaire and Rousseau

Sartre and De Beauvoir

Freud and Jung

Wittgenstein and Popper

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Question 15 of 20

15. Gala left which of these fellows for Dali? Hint

Paul Verlaine

Iker Zubizarreta

Pablo Picasso

Paul Eluard

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Question 16 of 20

16. Who was considered the most important poet of the symbolist movement? Hint

Rimbaud

Mallarme

Verlaine

Proust

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Question 17 of 20

17. According to Stravinsky, who was better at chess than he was at composing? Hint

Sergei Prokofiev

W.A. Mozart

Pyotr Illich Tchaikovsky

Claude Debussy

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Question 18 of 20

18. Dante's muse. Hint

Laura Pausini

Beatrice Portinari

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Catherine de Medici

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Question 19 of 20

19. Which one of these remarkable fellows did NOT die somewhat handicapped? Hint

Francisco de Goya

Homer

Louis XVI

Jorge Luis Borges

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Question 20 of 20

20. Which of the following is NOT true? Hint

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

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

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

Answer: Zola

For those who answered Balzac: Zola is considered the author who pushed Balzac's realism to its limits.

2. What did Max Brod do?

Answer: Disobey Kafka

Who could blame him? (For those who might not know, he was told to burn all of Kafka's unpublished fiction by the author himself)

3. Where is 'The Lady and The Unicorn' displayed?

Answer: Musee Cluny, Paris

Lovely set of paintings, wonderful wonderful museum.

4. Which was a group of mainly homosexual Cambridge intellectuals?

Answer: The Apostles

Among others, Keynes and Strachey. For those who thought of the 'circle', it was Viennese, not English.

5. Where was Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' written?

Answer: France

Most of his work was actually written in French.

6. 'We will always have Paris' is quoted by Woody Allen in what film?

Answer: Manhattan

If you didn't know this, you should either see this movie or go and see it again. It's just wonderful.

7. Which of these women was married to Roman Emperor Claudius?

Answer: Messalina

This woman was pure evil.

8. Who painted them fatter, Rubens or Botero?

Answer: Botero

And probably no one painted them fatter than he did.

9. Which one of these prizes does not exist?

Answer: Seoane

Booker is, well, for books. As is Goncourt. The Pritzker is awarded to architectural works.

10. How many children did Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) have?

Answer: 20

He had seven children with his first wife, but only four survived infancy. He had 13 children with his second wife, of whom six survived to become adults.

11. When did the Ottoman Empire fall?

Answer: XX Century

12. 'Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent' is THE classical quotation of which book?

Answer: Wittgenstein's Tractatus

He wrote most of it while a POW in the Great War.

13. Which one of these historical events is NOT currently being questioned by academic experts?

Answer: Adolf Hitler's birthplace

14. Which one of these couples did NOT have any major fights?

Answer: Sartre and De Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir sat all night by Sartre's coffin when he died.

15. Gala left which of these fellows for Dali?

Answer: Paul Eluard

Hope you did not even think of Zubizarreta...

16. Who was considered the most important poet of the symbolist movement?

Answer: Mallarme

Proust didn't have the time, really.

17. According to Stravinsky, who was better at chess than he was at composing?

Answer: Sergei Prokofiev

He must have been REALLY good at chess.

18. Dante's muse.

Answer: Beatrice Portinari

In his 'Divine Comedy', it is Beatrice who guides him through Paradise.

19. Which one of these remarkable fellows did NOT die somewhat handicapped?

Answer: Louis XVI

His head was allegedly working fine until he lost it. Homer and Borges went blind, Goya went deaf.

20. Which of the following is NOT true?

Answer: Before 1492, the earth was believed to be flat

Ptolemy, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Plato...Ah, all those Greeks already knew it.

Source: Author asquare

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