Hi Trivia colleagues
Need your help for the answers to the following 20 questions
Subject : Arts & Humanities
1.Who was Giuseppe Verdi's publisher?
2.Who was appointed architect to the Florence Cathedral in 1334?
3.Who wrote over 1775 poems and yet all but 7 were published posthumously?
4.The title character of which drama has a lover, Jean, who is her father's valet?
5.In what novel does the hero attempt to write a biography of an 18th century European politician but is overcome by a "sweetish sickness"?
6.Who suggested that the guardians of the ideal state should be educated as philosophers?
7.Rip Van Winkle is based upon a folk tale from what country?
8.What was the first symphony to include trombones?
9.What is the name of the Off Broadway play where the work takes place entirely in a 500 gallon aquarium?
10.Who has won more National Book Awards for fiction than any other writer?
11.Which book's subtitle is JFK in the White House?
12.What is meant by "Deity E" and "Diety J"?
13.What was George Tessman's special academic interest in Hedda Gabler?
14.What ballet company celebrates its 227th anniversary in the year 2000?
15.Who are the only 2 lawgivers in the Old Testament?
16.In what novel will you find the characters Piani and Ettore Moretti?
17.For Whom the Bell Tows is an allusion to lines from what poem?
18.In about 600 BC, what Indian text appeared that stressed mysticism and asceticism?
19.Who illustrated the first edition of A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle?
20.After being named Poet Laureate, which English poet never wrote a line of poetry?
thanks in advance
Arsen

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1.Who was Giuseppe Verdi's publisher?

Giulio Ricordi

8.What was the first symphony to include trombones?

Beethoven's Fifth

11.Which book's subtitle is JFK in the White House?

A Thousand Days
by Arthur Schlesinger jnr

14.What ballet company celebrates its 227th anniversary in the year 2000?

the Royal Swedish Ballet Company was founded by King Gustav III in 1773 (it's the fourth oldest ballet company after Paris, Copenhagen and St. Petersburg)

19.Who illustrated the first edition of A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle?

when first published in the Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, DH Friston was the illustrator ... when published in book form by Ward Lock & Coy, Charles Doyle (Sir Arthur’s father) did the illustrations

2.Who was appointed architect to the Florence Cathedral in 1334?

Giotto di Bondone

3.Who wrote over 1775 poems and yet all but 7 were published posthumously?

Emily Dickinson

4.The title character of which drama has a lover, Jean, who is her father's valet?

Miss Julie

5.In what novel does the hero attempt to write a biography of an 18th century European politician but is overcome by a "sweetish sickness"?

Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
?

6.Who suggested that the guardians of the ideal state should be educated as philosophers?

Plato

7- Germany
9- Symphonie Fantastique
10- Would appear to be Saul Bellow with 3
16- A Farewell To Arms

[This message has been edited by makebeleaffan (edited 07-17-2000).]

18)- Avesta?

avesta was Persian sorry- there were 4 books from India- Upanhishad looks like the right answer or even maybe the Mahabharta?

arsen

Here are a few more answers for you:

15. Who are the only 2 lawgivers in the Old Testament?
Answer: Moses (10 Commandments), King Josiah of Judah (Deuteronomic Code)

17. “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is an allusion to lines from what poem?
Answer: Devotions on Emergent Occasions (1624) by John Donne

18. In about 600 BC, what Indian text appeared that stressed mysticism and asceticism?
Answer: Aranyakas

20. After being named Poet Laureate, which English poet never wrote a line of poetry?
Likely: Rev. Laurence Eusden “British poet who, by flattering the Duke of Newcastle, was made poet laureate in 1718. He became rector of Coningsby and held the laureateship until his death. Alexander Pope satirized him frequently and derisively.” - the complete listing for Rev. Eusden in the Encyclopedia Britannica. No work of poetry is ascribed to him. My point is that he apparently also didn’t write any poetry before he became Poet Laureate.

Cordially,

Russ