Factburst Quiz
Can you connect celebrated works to their creators without confusing a composer, painter or poet? This ten-question arts and literature quiz brings together La Traviata, Swan Lake, The Raven, the Sistine Chapel and the Mona Lisa. A Welsh instrument, Jerusalem landmarks, a lottery term and computer-related wordplay add variety. Use the question wording to decide whether it asks for authorship, an object, a place or the meaning of a term.
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Correct answer: Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi composed La traviata, which premiered in Venice in 1853. The opera is based on Alexandre Dumas fils’s play La Dame aux camélias and centres on the tragic relationship between Violetta and Alfredo.
Further reading: www.metopera.org ↗
Correct answer: Musical instrument
A crwth is a traditional Welsh stringed musical instrument played with a bow. Museum Wales preserves an example made by Richard Evans.
Correct answer: MacIntrash
“MacIntrash” is a disparaging wordplay combining “Macintosh” with “trash” to criticize Apple hardware.
Correct answer: Jerusalem
The Temple Mount, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and Western Wall are major religious landmarks in Jerusalem.
Correct answer: Michelangelo
Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512.
Correct answer: Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, generally dated to the early 16th century. The portrait is renowned for its subtle modelling, atmospheric background and the sitter’s famously ambiguous expression.
Further reading: www.louvre.fr ↗
Correct answer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed the music for Swan Lake, first staged in Moscow in 1877. The ballet’s story of Odette, a princess transformed into a swan, helped make it one of the best-known works in the classical ballet repertoire.
Further reading: www.bolshoi.ru ↗
Correct answer: Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe’s poem The Raven was published in 1845. Its repeated refrain, strong rhythm and atmosphere of grief helped make it one of the most widely recognised poems in American literature.
Further reading: www.poetryfoundation.org ↗
Correct answer: A type of lottery
A tombola is a lottery or raffle in which numbered tickets are drawn for prizes.
Correct answer: Robert Browning
Robert Browning wrote the companion poems “Meeting at Night” and “Parting at Morning.”
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