Art & Architecture trivia questions and answers
The Quickfire pack has 50 Art & Architecture questions, all written in English and Spanish. Here are 15 of them. Hosts get the full set, ready to put on a TV with players answering on their phones.
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Which Dutch post-impressionist painted 'The Starry Night' in 1889?Very easy
Answer: Vincent van Gogh (Van Gogh)
Which Mexican painter, famous for her self-portraits, was married to the muralist Diego Rivera?Very easy
Answer: Frida Kahlo
Which Madrid museum houses Velázquez's painting 'Las Meninas'?Very easy
Answer: The Prado (Museo del Prado)
Which Renaissance artist painted 'The Last Supper' on a wall of the Santa Maria delle Grazie convent in Milan?Easy
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci (Leonardo, da Vinci)
Which art movement of the 1950s and 1960s drew on advertising, comics and consumer products, with Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein among its stars?Easy
Answer: Pop Art
Which Japanese artist created the woodblock print 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'?Easy
Answer: Katsushika Hokusai (Hokusai)
Which medieval architectural style, with pointed arches, ribbed vaults and flying buttresses, is exemplified by Chartres Cathedral?Intermediate
Answer: Gothic
In which Russian city is the Hermitage Museum?Intermediate
Answer: Saint Petersburg (St Petersburg)
What do the letters of 'MoMA', the famous New York museum, stand for?Intermediate
Answer: Museum of Modern Art
Which German school of art, design and architecture, founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919, gave its name to a modernist style?Hard
Answer: The Bauhaus (Bauhaus)
Which French painter developed pointillism, seen in his 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'?Hard
Answer: Georges Seurat (Seurat)
Which of the classical Greek architectural orders, with plain, cushion-like capitals, was used for the columns of the Parthenon in Athens?Hard
Answer: Doric
In which town in Provence was Van Gogh staying in an asylum when he painted 'The Starry Night' in 1889?Very hard
Answer: Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (Saint-Rémy)
Which architect designed New York's Chrysler Building, completed in 1930?Very hard
Answer: William Van Alen (Van Alen)
Which Japanese architect designed the Church of the Light near Osaka, a concrete chapel with a cross of light cut into its wall?Very hard
Answer: Tadao Ando (Ando)
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