Varsity Fine Arts Questions

Performing Arts

Q: Which long-running TV show was set during the Korean War and included characters
nicknamed Hot Lips, Radar, and Hawkeye?

A: M*A*S*H

Q: Which film and television awards are given by the Hollywood Foreign Press
Association? The 2005 Awards were presented in January.

A: Golden Globe Awards

Q: Who portrays Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?

A: Ralph Fiennes

Q: In the 2005 version of King Kong, who has the dual roles of Lumpy the cook and Kong?

A: Andy Serkis

Q: What American actor and director created the characters of Harry Lime and Charles
Foster Kane on the big screen?

A: Orson Welles

Q: What is the name of the current Broadway musical “lovingly ripped off” of the 1975 film
Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

A: Spamalot

Q: What is the term for the Bombay based movie industry? Mostly popular melodramatic
musicals, the movies produced here have become popular in part of Britain and the U.S.

A: Bollywood

Q: What 2005 movie’s tagline is “The eighth wonder of the world”?

A: King Kong

Q: What is the name of the animation studio headed by Hayao Miyazaki? It has produced
such films as Princess Mononoke and My Neighbor Totoro.

A: Studio Ghibli
Q: Which modern musical is a retelling of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly? In the modern
version, the American is a Marine and the woman is a young Vietnamese girl named
Kim.

A: Miss Saigon

Q: Aaron Copland’s music for which ballet includes sections entitled The Open Prairie and
Gun Battle? The section called Billy’s Death comes at the end of the performance.

A: Billy the Kid

Q: Which band won the 2006 American Music Award for Favorite Pop or Rock Album?
They beat the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the cast of High School Musical to win the
award.

A: Nickelback

Q: The play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead was written by which author?

A: Tom Stoppard

Q: The musical Carmen Jones is based on which popular opera?

A: Carmen

Q: Which opera is the musical Rent based on? Only the name Mimi appears in both shows.

A: La Boheme

Q: The actors Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett have portrayed what fictional detective?

A: Sherlock Holmes

Q: In which town did Richard Wagner build a Theater for his works? The Ring Cycle was
first performed here in 1876.

A: Bayreuth
Q: Identify the following people:

1. Composer of Little Shop of Horrors. 1. Alan Menken

2. Lyricist of Sweeney Todd. 2. Stephen Sondheim
3. Composer of Sweet Charity. 3. Cy Coleman
4. Lyricist of West Side Story. 4. Stephen Sondheim

Q: Identify the actors who portrayed these movie characters:

1. George Bailey 1. Jimmy Stewart

2. Lex Luthor 2. Gene Hackman or Kevin Spacey
3. Elrond 3. Hugo Weaving
4. General Veers 4. Julian Glover
5. the White Witch 5. Tilda Swinton
6. Dr. Otto Octavius 6. Alfred Molina
7. Magneto 7. Ian McKellan
8. Severus Snape 8. Alan Rickman

Q: Identify the actor or actress who appeared in each list of films:

1. It’s a Wonderful Life; Rear Window, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
2. Superman, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Wall Street
3. Anastasia, Gaslight, Casablanca
4. Splash, Blade Runner

1. Jimmy Stewart
2. Terrence Stamp
3. Ingrid Bergman
4. Daryl Hannah

Q: Identify Rocky Balboa’s opponent in the climactic fights in these movies:

1. Rocky 1. Apollo Creed

2. Rocky II 2. Apollo Creed
3. Rocky III 3. Clubber Lang
4. Rocky IV 4. Ivan Drago

Q: Identify the actors who originally portrayed these movie characters:

1. Dr. Strangelove 1. Peter Sellers

2. Rhett Butler 2. Clark Gable
3. Han Solo 3. Harrison Ford
4. Rick Blaine 4. Humphrey Bogart
Q: Identify the American filmmakers who directed the following films.

1. Taxi Driver 1. Martin Scorcese

2. Sullivan’s Travels 2. Preston Sturges
3. Touch of Evil 3. Orson Welles
4. Wings 4. Howard Hawks

Q: Identify the movies which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, given
the year:

1. 2002 1. Spirited Away

2. 2003 2. Finding Nemo
3. 2004 3. The Incredibles
4. 2005 4. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Q: Identify the movie for which these directors won the Oscar for Best Director:

1. 1993, Steven Spielberg 1. Schindler’s List

2. 1997, James Cameron 2. Titanic
3. 1995, Mel Gibson 3. Braveheart
4. 1990, Kevin Costner 4. Dances With Wolves
Architecture

Q: Who founded the Bauhaus Movement?

A: Walter Gropius

Q: Felix Candela designed the Sports Palace for the 1968 Olympic Games in which city?

A: Mexico City

Q: Who designed the former Pan Am Building in New York City? He also designed the
Bauhaus School in Dessau, Germany.

A: Walter Gropius

Q: Who designed the Rotunda at the University of Virginia? This former United States
president also designed his own home, Monticello.

A: Thomas Jefferson

Q: Who designed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland?

A: I.M. Pei
Q: Identify the country in which these buildings are located:

1. Neuschwanstein Castle 1. Germany

2. Horyu-ji or the Temple of Flourishing Law 2. Japan
3. Hall of Supreme Harmony 3. China
4. Independence Hall 4. United States
5. Notre Dame du Haut 5. France
6. Virupaksha Temple 6. India
7. Itsukushima Shrine 7. Japan
8. Speyer Cathedral 8. Germany

Q: Identify the architects who designed the following structures:

1. Wainwright Building, St. Louis

2. Banqueting House in Whitehall, London
3. Seagram Building, New York
4. TWA Terminal, Kennedy Airport, New York
5. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
6. Banqueting House, Westminster, England
7. the Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany
8. J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles, United States

1. Louis Sullivan
2. Inigo Jones
3. Ludwig Miles van der Rohe
4. Eero Saarinen
5. Frank Gehry
6. Inigo Jones
7. Walter Gropius
8. Richard Meier

Q: Identify the nationality of the following architects:

1. Eero Saarinnen 1. Finnish

2. Charles Rennie Mackintosh 2. British
3. Antonio Gaudi 3. Spanish
4. Cesar Pelli 4. Argentinian or American
Music

Q: Pete Best was the original drummer for what rock band?

A: The Beatles

Q: What early rock-and-roller’s backing band was the Crickets?

A: Buddy Holly

Q: W.C. Handy established what famous Memphis street as the birthplace of the Blues?

A: Beale St.

Q: Which jazz legend received a Special Citation from the Pulitzer committee in 2006 for
“a body of distinguished and innovative musical composition that has had a significant
and enduring impact of the evolution of jazz”?

A: Thelonius Monk

Q: Composer Mikhil Glinka wrote the national anthem for which country?

A: Russia (not Soviet Union)

Q: Banjo Patterson wrote the words to what song, Australia’s best known folk tune? It
briefly was Australia’s co-national song, and was played for Australian athletes in the
1976 Summer Olympics.

A: Waltzing Matilda

Q: Identify the composer of A Lincoln Portrait?

A: Aaron Copeland

Q: Identify the composer of Hungarian Rhapsodies?

A: Franz Liszt

Q: Identify the composer of Songs Without Words?

A: Felix Mendelssohn

Q: Which composer’s Symphony No. 9 is called From the New World?

A: Antonin Dvorak
Q: Who composed Libestraum?

A: Franz Liszt

Q: Who composed the Mephisto Waltz?

A: Franz Liszt

Q: Who composed the work for the piano called Pictures at an Exhibition?

A: Modest Mussorgsky

Q: Who composed the music for the musicals, Oh, Kay! and Girl Crazy?

A: George Gershwin

Q: Identify the composer who created the characters of Tamino and Pamina in his opera
The Magic Flute?

A: Wolfgang Mozart

Q: What is the German title of the Johann Strauss opera which translates in English as
The Bat?

A: Die Fledermaus

Q: Identify the opera by Richard Strauss which centers on the delivery of a silver rose as a
token of betrothal?

A: Der Rosenkavalier

Q: Which of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas was subtitled “The Lass that Loved
a Sailor”?

A: HMS Pinafore

Q: Antonio Salieri is a legendary rival to which Austrian composer? That composer’s

Requiem was unfinished at his death.

A: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Q: Who wrote the incidental music to Johann Goethe’s play Egmont? The Egmont Overture
is one of his more popular pieces.

A: Ludwig von Beethoven

Q: Who composed the Academic Festival Overture in response to receiving an honorary
Doctorate in Music from the University of Breslau in 1979? Ten years earlier his
German Requiem received its first full performance.

A: Johannes Brahms

Q: Who composed the orchestral work Music for Royal Fireworks?

A: George Frederic Handel

Q: Who composed the piano work Pavane for a Dead Princess?

A: Maurice Ravel

Q: Who composed Orpheus in the Underworld?

A: Jacques Offenbach

Q: Who composed Night on Bald Mountain?

A: Modest Mussorgsky

Q: Who composed the orchestral piece La Mer?

A: Claude Debussy

Q: Who composed the opera The Queen of Spades? He is better known as a composer
of ballets.

A: Peter Tchaikovsky

Q: Who composed the opera Die Fledermaus?

A: Johann Strauss, Jr.

Q: Who wrote the opera The Elixir of Love?

A: Gaetano Donizetti

Q: Who composed the oratorios The Creation and The Season?

A: Franz Joseph Haydn

Q: Who composed Sea Pictures and The Enigma Variations?

A: Edward Elgar
Q: Who composed the opera The Pearl Fishers?

A: Georges Bizet

Q: Which poet wrote the lyrics to India’s national anthem? Some of his other works are
The Genius of Valmiki and The Flight of Cranes.

A: Rabindranath Tagore

Q: Identify the first opera in Wagner’s Ring Cycle. This work tells how the dwarf Alberich
creates the ring.

A: Das Rheingold

Q: What is the third opera in Wagner’s Ring Cycle?

A: Siegfried

Q: What is the last opera in Wagner’s Ring Cycle?

A: Gotterdammerung

Q: Which comic operetta’s title comes from a costume worn by one of the characters before
the action of the work takes place? The plot follows the “flying mouse’s” attempts to get
revenge after a joke.

A: Die Fledermaus

Q: Which of Wagner’s operas is a retelling of the legend of the Swan Knight? The
traditional Bridal Chorus is from this work.

A: Lohengrin

Q: Which planet described in Holst’s suite The Planets is called “Bringer of Jollity”?

A: Jupiter

Q: Which Rossini opera features the characters of Gesler and Hedwige? It is rarely
performed today, but the overture is ubiquitous to sporting events across the country.

A: William Tell or Guillaume Tell

Q: Aram Khachaturian composed the music to which ballet about a rebellious Roman slave?

A: Spartacus
Q: What is the general term for musical notes such as arpeggio, trill, or mordent?

A: ornament

Q: What is another name for a half note?

A: minim

Q: What is the term for the action of plucking the strings of a violin?

A: pizzicato

Q: What does mp stand for in a musical score?

A: mezzo piano or moderately quiet

Q: What instrument was developed at the request of John Phillip Sousa in the 1890s to
replace the tubas used by the Marine band?

A: sousaphone

Q: Which percussion instrument consists of a cylinder with skins stretched across the open
ends and a cluster of cables on the bottom to produce a vibration when the top is struck
creating a snapping sound?

A: Snare drum

Q: What is the name of the percussion instrument, similar to a xylophone, which uses metal
bars with motorized resonators underneath to produce distinctive sounds?

A: vibraphone

Q: What is the next largest orchestral string instrument after the violin?

A: viola

Q: Lionel Hampton introduced what instrument to the jazz world?

A: vibraphone

Q: Which brass instrument can have valves or a slide to create the notes?

A: trombone
Q: What instrument is jazz musician Oscar Peterson known for playing?

A: piano

Q: Which brass instrument looks like a large cornet and has a more mellow tone? It is
considered by some to be the alto member of the Keyed bugle family.

A: flugelhorn

Q: What instrument did Jimi Hendrix play?

A: guitar

Q: Finish the line of this song from The Pirates of Penzance: “But still, in matters vegetable,
animal, and mineral, I am the very model of _________”.

A: a modern Major-General
Q: How many sharps are in the following scales:

1. A 1. 3
2. F 2. 0
3. G 3. 1
4. B 4. 5

Q: Identify the number of flats designated for these major keys:

1. B flats 1. 2
2. F 2. 1
3. E Flat 3. 3
4. A flat 4. 4

Q: Identify the four sharps in the key of E major:

1. F
2. C
3. G
4. D

Q: Identify the four clefs in common use:

1. treble
2. bass
3. alto
4. tenor

Q: Identify the instrument family into which these non-traditional instruments would
be classified:

1. sitar 1. string
2. serpent 2. brass
3. crumhorn 3. woodwind
4. claves 4. percussion

Q: Identify the name of the following note lengths:

1. half note 1. minim

2. one sixteenth note 2. semiquaver
3. whole note 3. semibreve
4. one quarter note 4. crochet
Q: Identify the range of the following singers:

1. Samuel Ramey 1. bass

2. Marian Anderson 2. contralto or alto
3. Paul Robeson 3. bass
4. Renee Fleming 4. soprano

Q: Identify the musical range of the following opera singers:

1. Cecilia Bartoli 1. mezzo-soprano

2. June Anderson 2. soprano
3. Leontyne Price 3. soprano
4. Marian Anderson 4. contralto
5. Nellie Melba 5. Soprano
6. Robert Merrill 6. Baritone
7. Enrico Caruso 7. Tenor

Q: Identify the instrument played by the following musicians:

1. Jan Paderewski 1. piano

2. Glenn Gould 2. piano
3. James Galway 3. flute
4. Jean-Pierre Rampal 4. flute
5. Fats Navarro 5. trumpet
6. Art Tatum 6. piano
7. Ornette Coleman 7. saxophone
8. Ray Charles 8. piano

Q: Identify the following musical symbols:

1. A curved line between two notes to combine the length of the notes.
2. The pair of numbers, one on the top of the other, placed at the beginning of a
music staff.
3. A symbol shaped like the pound sign to indicate raising the pitch of a note by a
semitone.
4. A curved line with a dot under it to indicate a lengthening of the note at the
discretion of the performer.

1. tie
2. time signature
3. sharp
4. fermata
Q: Give the definition of these musical terms:

1. molto 1. much or very

2. adagio 2. slow
3. presto 3. very fast
4. dolce 4. sweetly
5. feroce 5. fierce
6. andante 6. “going” at a moderate pace
7. grave 7. slow or solemn
8. leggiero 8. light
9. pizzicato 9. plucked
10. a tempo 10. in time or reverting to original speed
11. con fuoco 11. with fire
12. dolente 12. sadly
13. grazioso 13. graceful

Q: Identify the German title of these operas:

1. The Cavalier of the Rose 1. Der Rosenkavalier

2. The Magic Flute 2. Die Zauberflote
3. The Flying Dutchman 3. Die Fliegende Hollander

4. The Free Shooter 4. Der Freishutz

Q: Identify the composers of the following operas:

1. Othello 1. Giuseppe Verdi

2. Der Rosenkavalier 2. Richard Strauss
3. Lohengrin 3. Richard Wagner
4. Il Trovatore 4. Giuseppe Verdi
5. Cosi Fan Tutte 5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
6. Boris Gudunov 6. Modest Mussorgsky
7. The Bartered Bride 7. Bedrich Smetana
8. Rigoletto 8. Giuseppe Verdi
9. Der Rosenkavalier 9. Richard Strauss
10. Fidelio 10. Ludwig von Beethoven

Q: Finish the titles of these operas:

1. The Damnation of ______ 1. Faust

2. The Bartered _____ 2. Bride
3. Orpheus in the ________ 3. Underworld
4. Lucia di ______ 4. Lammermoor
Q: Identify the city in which most of the events of the following operas occur:

1. Tosca 1. Rome
2. Carmen 2. Seville
3. La Boheme 3. Paris
4. The Marriago of Figaro 4. Seville
5. Turandot 5. Beijing
6. Aida 6. Memphi, Egypt
7. Madame Butterfly 7. Nagasaki
8. Falstaff 8. Windsor, England

Q: Identify the composers of the following works:

1. Songs Without Words 1. Felix Mendelssohn

2. St. Matthew Passion 2. Johann Sebastian Bach
3. The Flying Dutchman 3. Richard Wagner
4. The Abduction From the Seraglio 4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
5. Rhapsody in Blue 5. George Gershwin
6. Siegfried Idyll 6. Richard Wagner
7. A Lincoln Portrait 7. Aaron Copland
8. Tosca 8. Giacomo Puccini
9. Fantasia on the Theme of 9. Ralph (Rafe) Vaughan Williams
Thomas Tallis
10. An American in Paris 10. George Gershwin
11. Appassionata Sonata 11. Ludwig van Beethoven
12. Variations and Fruge on a 12. Johannes Brahms
Theme by Handel
13. Der Freischutz 13. Carl Maria von Weber
14. Trout Symphony 14. Franz Schubert
15. Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini 15. Sergei Rachmaninov
16. HMS Pinafore 16. Arthur Sullivan
17. Porgy and Bess 17. George Gershwin
18. Nixon in China 18. John Adams
19. Elvira Madigan 19. Ludwig van Beethoven
20. Goldberg Variations 20. Johann Sebastian Bach
21. Pathetique Symphony 21. Peter Tchaikovsky
22. Tales from the Vienna Woods 22. Johann Strauss, Jr.
23. The Four Seasons 23. Antonio Vivaldi
24. Bolero 24. Maurice Ravel
25. Billy the Kid 25. Aaron Copeland
26. Spartacus 26. Aram Khachaturian
27. Mephisto Waltz 27. Franz Liszt
28. Gran Partita Serenade 28. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Q: Identify the operas with the following characters:

1. Papageno 1. The Magic Flute

2. Mimi 2. La Boheme
3. Lieutentant B.F. Pinkerton 3. Madame Butterfly
4. Don Jose 4. Carmen
5. Rodolfo 5. La Boheme
6. Escamillo 6. Carmen
7. Amneris 7. Aida
8. Sportin’ Life 8. Porgy and Bess

Q: Identify the composers of the following oratorios:

1. Elijah 1. Felix Mendelssohn

2. Samson 2. George Frederic Handel
3. Christmas 3. Johann Sebastian Bach
4. The Season 4. Joseph Haydn
5. The Creation 5. Joseph Haydn
6. Solomon 6. George Frederic Handel
7. St. Matthew Passion 7. Johann Sebastian Bach
8. Belshazzar 8. George Frederic Handel

Q: Identify the conductors of these orchestras:

1. New York Philharmonic 1. Lorin Maazel

2. Chicago Symphony Orchestra 2. Daniel Barenboim
3. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 3. Maris Jansons
4. Boston Symphony Orchestra 4. James Levine

Q: Identify these famous conductors:

1. Italian conductor who directed the NBC Symphony Orchestra from 1937 to 1954
performing live on radio.
2. American composer and conductor who conducted Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
at a celebration for the fall of the Berlin Wall.
3. Hungarian conductor who was also music director of the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra from 1969-1992.
4. English-born conductor who is featured in Disney’s Fantasia.

1. Arturo Toscanini
2. Leonard Bernstein
3. Georg Solti
4. Leopold Stokowski
Q: Identify these types of Jazz:

1. Fast tempo with complex improvised techniques, developed in the 40s, and
popularized by Dizzy Gillespie.
2. Heavily uses brass instruments, developed in New Orleans in the early 20th
century, and popularized by Louis Armstrong.
3. Understated and subtle jazz, developed in the late 40s, and popularized by George
Shearing and Miles Davis.
4. Not strictly jazz, but a mix of jazz, gospel, and popular music that developed in
the 40s.

1. bebop
2. Dixieland
3. Cool Jazz
4. Rhythm and blues

Q: Identify the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta given the following songs:

1. “A British Tar is a Souring Soul”

2. “Three Little Maids from School are We”
3. “The Major Generals’ Song”
4. “Behold the Lord High Executioner”

1. H.M.S. Pinafore
2. The Mikado
3. Pirates of Penzance
4. The Mikado

Q: Identify the artist who won Grammy for Best Album given the following:

1. 2003, Come Away with Me

2. 1993, The Bodyguard-Original Soundtrack Album
3. 1983, Thriller
4. 1973, Innervisions

1. Norah Jones
2. Whitney Houston
3. Michael Jackson
4. Stevie Wonder
Q: Identify the famous pianists:

1. This Russian also composed works for piano that are difficult for anyone with
small hands to play.
2. This Hungarian virtuoso of the Romantic era was one of the earliest musical
superstars.
3. This Polish prodigy innovated the musical forms of the etude and nocturne,
among others.
4. This American performer of popular music in the mid 20th century was known for
his flamboyant showmanship.

1. Sergei Rachmaninoff
2. Franz Liszt
3. Frederic Chopin
4. Liberace
Visual Art

Q: In what city is the Uffizi Gallery?

A: Florence, Italy

Q: The Wilton Diptych depicts kings of which nation? Two of them are shown as saints and
the third is kneeling before Mary and a flag of St. George.

A: England

Q: What is the term for clay that has been watered to a pudding-like consistency and is used
to join more solid pieces of clay?

A: slip

Q: What pottery term refers to the glassy medium fired onto items for decoration and
waterproofing?

A: glaze

Q: What is the term for Alexander Calder’s moveable installations?

A: mobiles

Q: Which American artist has a museum in Slovakia near the hometown of his mother?
There is also a museum dedicated solely to this self-promoting figure in his hometown of
Pittsburg, PA.

A: Andy Warhol

Q: In 1503 Pope Julius II commissioned which artist to create a tomb? Though he worked
on it for forty years it was never completed, however, in the mean time he did finish the
ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

A: Michelangelo

Q: Whose painting of the adoration of the Magi not only includes a self portrait but also
portraits of three members of the Medici family?

A: Sandro Botticelli

Q: Who painted The Sistine Madonna?

A: Raphael
Q: Which artist served as an engineer and designed to the Duke of Milan from 1482-1499?
It was during this period he drew the famous Vitruvian Man.

A: Leonardo da Vinci

Q: What Spanish painter created Saturn Devouring One of His Children?

A: Francisco Goya

Q: What French Impressionist spent time in the southern United States and painted The
Cotton-Brokers Office? He returned to France and began painting images of ballet
dancers.

A: Edgar Degas

Q: Who painted The Cotton Exchange Office in New Orleans while living in the city with
relatives? He later returned to Paris, France and began painting dancers among other
subjects.

A: Edgar Degas

Q: Lorenzo Gihiberti created the bronze doors for the Baptistry of the Cathedral in which
Italian city? These sculptures are considered some of the first works of the Renaissance

A: Florence

Q: Identify the artist who created Melancholia and Knight, Death, and the Devil?

A: Albrecht Durer

Q: Who painted Las Meninas?

A: Diego de Velasquez

Q: Who painted Liberty Leading the People?

A: Eugene Delacroix

Q: Identify the artist who created Massacre at Chios?

A: Eugene Delacroix

Q: Who painted The Dream and The Sleeping Gypsy?

A: Henri Rousseau
Q: Who painted Death of General Wolfe?

A: Benjamin West

Q: Identify the artist who created Massacre at Chios?

A: Eugene Delacroix

Q: Who painted Funeral at Ornans?

A: Gustave Courbet

Q: who painted the portrait known as The Girl with the Pearl Earring?

A: Jan Vermeer

Q: Identify the artist who painted Demoiselles d’Avignon?

A: Pablo Picasso

Q: Who painted Window at Night and Nighthawks?

A: Edward Hopper

Q: Who painted Symphony in White before Arrangement in Grey and Black?

A: James McNeill Whistler

Q: Who created the etching known as the Hundred Guilder Print? The subject of the work is
Christ healing the sick and was created a year after the painting of The Militia Company
of Captain Frans Banning Cocq

A: Rembrandt van Rijn

Q: Which American artist exhibited with the Impressionists and was a friend of Edgar Degas
and Berthe Morisot? Most of her paintings were of women and children.

A: Mary Cassatt

Q: Jan Van Eyck painted a famous portrait of a newlywed couple. What was the surname of
the couple?

A: Arnolfini
Q: What artist created a Portrait of Emile Zola and Olympia?

A: Edouard Manet

Q: Which Impressionist made a series of paintings of Rouen Cathedral which were

exhibited in 1895?

A: Claude Monet

Q: Which American artist created a miniature wire circus with which he could perform a
show? His later, more abstract sculptures would still involve balance and movement,
such as Red Mobile.

A: Alexander Calder

Q: Which American sculptor created giant soft sculptures of food and household objects,
such as “Lipstick on Caterpillar Tracks”?

A: Claes Oldenburg

Q: Which American artist was called “Jack the Dripper”?

A: Jackson Pollock

Q: What Rococo artist painted The Swing?

A: Jean-Honore Fragonard

Q: By what name is the artist Domenikos Theotokopoulos better known?

A: El Greco

Q: Which American artist sued critic John Ruskin in 1878 over his comments on the
painting Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket? The artist won a farthing,
and there is no word on what his mother thought about it.

A: James MacNeill Whistler

Q: Identify the nationality of the artists:

1. Jan Vermeer 1. Dutch

2. Dante Gabriel Rossetti 2. English
3. Diego de Velasquez 3. Spanish
4. Albrecht Durer 4. German

Q: Identify the sculptor who created the following:

1. The Burghers of Calais 1. Auguste Rodin

2. Hanging Mobile 2. Alexander Calder
3. The Thinker 3. Auguste Rodin
4. Josephine Baker 4. Alexander Calder

Q: Identify these sculptors:

1. Inventor of mobiles and stabiles.

2. Sculptor of The Burghers of Calais.
3. Irish-American who designed coins for the United States Mint, leading member of
the American Renaissance of the early 20th Century
4. This Renaissance painter really preferred to work in stone; created a statue of
Moses and the Pieta.

1. Alexander Calder
2. Auguste Rodin
3. Augustus St.-Gaudens
4. Michaelangelo

Q: Identify these art terms:

1. A picture on two hinged panels.

2. Painting in gray tones often suggesting a carving in low relief.
3. A site specific environment, set up as an artwork, usually multimedia.
4. Powdered pigment mixed with wax or paraffin and formed into a stick for
drawing.

1. diptych
2. grisaille
3. installation
4. crayon
Q: Identify the general color produced by these pigments:

1. alizarin 1. red
2. titanium dioxide 2. white
3. sienna 3. brown
4. cerulean 4. blue
5. carmine 5. red
6. ultramarine 6. blue
7. carbon 7. black
8. ochre 8. red or yellow
9. gamboge 9. yellow
10. viridian 10. green or blue-green
11. umber 11. brown
12. verdigris 12. green

Q: Identify the artist who painted the following:

1. The Garden of Earthly Delights 1. Hieronymous Bosch

2. Alba Madonna 2. Raphael
3. Las Meninas 3. Diego de Velasquez
4. The Third of May 4. Francisco Goya
5. Landscape with the Father 5. Claude Lorraine
of psyche sacrificing to Apollo
6. The Prodigal Son 6. Rembrandt
7. The Art of Painting 7. Jan Vermeer
8. The Grande Odalisque 8. Jean Dominique Ingres
9. The Family of Charles IV of Spain 9. Francisco Goya
10. The Raft of the Medusa 10. Theodore Gericault
11. The House of the Hanged Man 11. Paul Cezanne
12. Feast in the House of Levi 12. Paolo Veronese
13. Conestabile Madonna 13. Raphael
14. Olympia 14. Edouard Manet
15. Women of Algiers 15. Eugene Delacroix
16. The Abduction of Europa 16. Titian
17. Madame X 17. John Singer Sargent
18. Nude Descending a Staircase 18. Marcel Duchamp
19. Arnolfini Wedding 19. Jan Van Eyck
20. Girl with a Pearl Earring 20. Jan Vermeer
21. Luncheon of the Boating Party 21. Pierre Auguste Renoir
22. Bathers at Asniers 22. Georges Seurat
23. Portrait of Dr. Gachet 23. Vincent van Gogh
24. Yellow Christ 24. Paul Gauguin
25. Mt. Sainte-Victoire 25. Paul Cezanne
26. Portrait with a Green Stripe 26. Henri Matisse
27. The Nightmare 27. Henry Fuseli
28. The Absinthe Drinker 28. Paul Cezanne
29. A Rake’s Progress 29. William Hogarth
30. Twittering Machine 30. Paul Klee
31. The Burial of Count Orgaz 31. El Greco
32. The Burial at Ornans 32. Gustave Courbet
33. Birth of Venus 33. Sandro Botticelli
34. The Temptation of St. Anthony 34. Hieronymous Bosch
35. Max Schmitt in a Single Scull 35. Thomas Eakins
36. Sky Above Clouds 36. Georgia O’Keefe
37. Brillo Boxes 37. Andy Warhol
38. The Gulf Stream 38. Winslow Homer
39. Christina’s World 39. Andrew Wyeth
40. Daughters of Revolution 40. Grant Wood
41. Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam 41. Han Holbein
42. The Third-Class Carriage 42. Honore Daumier
43. Guernica 43. Pablo Picasso
44. Allegory of Painting 44. Johannes Vermeer
45. Surrender of Breda 45. Diego Velazquez
46. The Laughing Cavalier 46. Fans Hals
47. The Gross Clinic 47. Thomas Eakins
Dance

Q: What is the term for any high jump in ballet?

A: elevation

Q: Which ballet dancer’s most famous piece was The Dying Swan? She also has a desert
named for her.

A: Anna Pavlova

Q: Which famous Russian ballet dancer was the principle partner of ballerina
Margot Fonteyn?

A: Rudolf Nureyev

Q: What type of dance, originating in Austria, was one of the earliest ballroom dances
performed by couples? Viennese, Hesitation, and American are three styles.

A: waltz

Q: Which type of social dance developed in Bohemia in the 1830’s and uses a 2/4 beat?
The Polish-style is associated with the Chicago area while the Slovenian-style is
associated with Cleveland.

A: Polka

Q: Identify the following types of dances:

1. Dance which creates rhythms with the steps but without metal studs on soles.
2. Dance style created in the early 20th century using personal interpretation to create
the movements.
3. Dances created and performed by the inhabitants of specific regions.
4. Dance involving specialized moves and considerable athleticism and is highly
choreographed with specially written music.

1. softshoe
2. modern or free
3. folk
4. ballet
Q: Identify the following ballet terms:

1. A pose in which the dance is standing on one leg, the other leg is raised behind, to
side or in front of the body with the knee bent.
2. The numbered position in which the dancer stands with heels touching and toes
extending to the left and right, making a straight line.
3. The dancer spins around on demi-pointe or pointe on one leg.
4. Fingers of both arms are almost touching to form an oval shape, with both hands
just in front of the dancer’s hips.

1. attitude
2. First Position
3. pirouette
4. Bras bas

Q: Identify the composers of these ballets:

1. Scheherazade 1. Nicolai Rinsky-Korsakov

2. The Walk to the Paradise Garden 2. Frederick Delius
3. The Sleeping Beauty 3. Peter Tchaikovsky
4. Billy the Kid 4. Aaron Copeland
5. Romeo and Juliet 5. Sergei Prokofiev
6. Onegin 6. Peter Tchaikovsky
7. Les Sylphides 7. Fredric Chopin
8. The Rite of Spring 8. Igor Stravinsky
9. Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun 9. Claude Debussy
10. Cinderella 10. Sergei Prokofiev
11. The Three-Cornered Hat 11. Manuel de Falla
12. Petrushka 12. Sergei Prokofiev
13. The Firebird 13. Sergei Prokofiev
14. Swan Lake 14 Peter Tchaikovsky
15. Rodeo 15. Aaron Copeland
16. The Prince of the Pagodas 16. Benjamin Britten
17. Giselle 17. Adolph Adam
18. Coppelia 18. Leo Delibes

Q: Identify the composers of these operatic works:

1. I Lombardi 1. Giuseppe Verdi

2. Semiramide 2. Gioacchino Rossini
3. Turandot 3. Giacomo Puccini
4. Der fliegende Hollander 4. Richard Wagner