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The Wright Stuff Trivia Quiz

Frank Lloyd Wright changed American architecture forever.

A multiple-choice quiz by tjoebigham. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
tjoebigham

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
58,833

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

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Average

Avg Score
10 / 15

Plays
860

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 15

1. What nationality was Wright? Hint

Welsh

Irish

Scottish

English

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Question 2 of 15

2. Where was Frank Lloyd Wright born? Hint

Michigan

Wisconsin

Illinois

Ohio

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Question 3 of 15

3. After the birth of two sisters, Wright's parents divorced.

True

False

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Question 4 of 15

4. Who was the first architect Wright worked for? Hint

Stanford White

H.H. Richardson

J.L. Silsbee

Julia Morgan

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Question 5 of 15

5. What axiom of Louis Sullivan, Wright's prime influence, guided Wright in his early career? Hint

Form Follows Function

Ornament Is A Crime

Less Is More

If You Build It, He Will Come

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Question 6 of 15

6. What was the first building Wright designed by himself? Hint

The Winchester House

The Wang Theatre

The Wilson House

The Winslow House

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Question 7 of 15

7. What was the style of Wright's early buildings called? Hint

Desert

Plains

Wilderness

Prairie

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Question 8 of 15

8. What building of Wright's was the first to be totally made of poured concrete? Hint

Monadnock Building

Saint Patrick's Church

Unity Temple

The Robie House

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Question 9 of 15

9. What name did Wright give the private residence he designed for himself? Hint

Valhalla

Taliesin

Shangri-La

Xanadu

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Question 10 of 15

10. Where did Wright build the earthquake-proof Imperial Hotel? Hint

San Francisco

San Diego

Los Angeles

Tokyo

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Question 11 of 15

11. What Central American civilization influenced the buildings Wright made in 1920s California, Mayan or Incan?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 12 of 15

12. What house did Wright build over a waterfall?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 13 of 15

13. For what company did Wright create an office building with mushroom-shaped columns? Hint

Ford Motor Co.

Anhauser-Busch

Firestone Rubber

Johnson Wax

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Question 14 of 15

14. What building of Wright's was completed nine years after his death? Hint

Solomon R. Guggenheim

Norman Lykes House

Beth Shalom Synagogue

Marin County Civic Center

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Question 15 of 15

15. What author based a fictional architect on Wright? Hint

Anya Seton

Vera Caspary

Ayn Rand

Upton Sinclair

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What nationality was Wright?

Answer: Welsh

Wright was of Welsh descent.

2. Where was Frank Lloyd Wright born?

Answer: Wisconsin

He shared his native state with Orson Welles, another larger-than-life American.

3. After the birth of two sisters, Wright's parents divorced.

Answer: True

After their divorce, Wright lived with his uncle.

4. Who was the first architect Wright worked for?

Answer: J.L. Silsbee

Over his uncle's objections, Wright quit college and worked in Silsbee's Chicago firm. Morgan made William Randolph Hearst San Simeon. White is best known for his murder at the hands of Harry Thaw over the affair White had with Thaw's wife Evelyn Nesbit.

5. What axiom of Louis Sullivan, Wright's prime influence, guided Wright in his early career?

Answer: Form Follows Function

'Less Is More' is the credo of Mies van der Rohe, German architect. Adolf Loos hated ornament, and I got the last from a certain baseball movie...

6. What was the first building Wright designed by himself?

Answer: The Winslow House

The Winslow House was the one that started him on his long and often controversial career.

7. What was the style of Wright's early buildings called?

Answer: Prairie

The style's horizontality was perfectly suited to the Midwest's flatness.

8. What building of Wright's was the first to be totally made of poured concrete?

Answer: Unity Temple

Wright loved experimenting with different materials. The Temple's inside is mostly of wood and glass, though! He didn't design the Monadnock Building in Chicago or a Catholic church, but he did build a Greek Orthodox church and synagogue.

9. What name did Wright give the private residence he designed for himself?

Answer: Taliesin

In Wright's ancestral tongue Taliesin means 'shining brow'; Taliesin was a real-life Welsh language bard whose life became mythologised through the tales of King Arthur. Taliesin burned down twice. There was also Taliesin West, the studio he built in Scottsdale, Arizona.

10. Where did Wright build the earthquake-proof Imperial Hotel?

Answer: Tokyo

In his only work outside the U.S., Wright designed the hotel to withstand earthquakes. It did survive a devastating 1923 quake.

11. What Central American civilization influenced the buildings Wright made in 1920s California, Mayan or Incan?

Answer: Mayan

Many of those 1920s building look as though they were made by the Mayan.

12. What house did Wright build over a waterfall?

Answer: Fallingwater

After tough times in the Depression, this project for publisher Edgar Kaufman revived Wright's career. It still stands in rural Pennsylvania, an icon of modern American architecture. (and it contains all of Wright's initials!)

13. For what company did Wright create an office building with mushroom-shaped columns?

Answer: Johnson Wax

In his native Wisconsin, Wright's building blazed a new path for office architecture.

14. What building of Wright's was completed nine years after his death?

Answer: Norman Lykes House

Though designed in 1959, the year of his death, Wright's house for Norman Lykes, in Phoenix, Arizona, wasn't built until 1968. The Synagogue and Guggenheim Museum were built shortly after Wright's death, and the Civic Center was completed two years later, in 1962.

15. What author based a fictional architect on Wright?

Answer: Ayn Rand

Wright was the inspiration for Rand's Howard Roark in her 1940s bestseller 'The Fountainhead'. Gary Cooper played Roark in the movie version, scripted by Rand (who personally chose Cooper to play her character).

Source: Author tjoebigham

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