The Arts - 1 point
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
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| Painting | Which Italian city was heavily connected to the Renaissance under the patronage of Federico da Montefeltro, and was the birthplace of the painter Raphael? | Urbino | 2023/04/14 |
| Painting | The Sala di Costantino, Stanza di Eliodoro, Stanza della Segnatura, and the Stanza dell'Incendio del Borgo are four rooms in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace painted by which Renaissance painter and his workshop? | Raphael *The rooms are collectively known as the Raphael Rooms. | 2023/04/14 |
| Painting | Practiced by French artist George Seurat, what name is given to the painting technique in which a picture is created from numerous coloured dots? | Pointillism | 2024/04/09 |
| Painting | Which French artist, who died in 1901 at the age of 36, was famous for paintings of racy life in Montmartre and his posters commissioned for the Moulin Rouge cabaret? | Toulouse Lautrec *Toulouse Lautrec's full name was Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa. | 2024/04/18 |
| Sculpture | All housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the statues David, Apollo and Daphne, and the Rape of Proserpina are all works by which sculptor? | Gian Lorenzo Bernini | 2024/04/07 |
| Sculpture | Produced in the 1960s, the Equivalent series saw American artist Carl Andre produce eight sculptures by placing 120 of what item on the floor in different formations? | Bricks *Equivalent VIII currently resides in the Tate Modern gallery in London. | 2024/12/19 |
| Theatre | Which letter of the alphabet completes the title of the 2004 Tony Award winner for best musical Avenue...? | Q | 2023/04/14 |
| Theatre | What do Rosaline from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Godot from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, and Abigail from the Mike Leigh film Abigail's Party have in common? | Unseen characters | 2023/04/14 |
| Theatre | Which puppet show, with roots in 17th century Italian commedia dell'arte, generally involves the side characters of a baby and a crocodile, and the props of a stick, frying pan and a string of sausages? | Punch and Judy | 2023/04/22 |
| Theatre | Bunraku and kabuki are traditional Japanese forms of what type of theatre performance? | Puppet | 2024/12/27 |
| Musical Theatre | In Act 2 of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, the Siamese king's household impresses its British visitors with an adaptation of which American anti-slavery novel? | Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe *The household's performance of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas' is also a message to the king about his keeping of unhappy wives. | 2024/05/02 |
| Musical Theatre | 'I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair', 'I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy', 'Happy Talk', and 'There Is Nothing Like a Dame' are songs from what musical? | South Pacific | 2024/10/22 |
| Musical Theatre | In the musical adaptation of Les Misérables, with score and book by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, which character sings the solo 'On my Own'? | Éponine | 2024/11/18 |
| Musical Theatre | In the musical Cats, what is the name of the railway cat? | Skimbleshanks | 2024/12/07 |
| Musical Theatre | Which musical theatre star described ‘On My Own’ from the musical Les Misérables as the song that changed her life, it having been the first song she performed as a 17-year old at the 1988 Miss Saigon original cast auditions where she won the part of Kim, and the solo she performed when cast as Éponine in the Broadway Les Misérables production four years later? | Lea Salonga | 2024/12/07 |
| Photography | For what do the letters S, L, and R stand when describing an SLR camera? | Single-lens reflex | 2024/10/31 |
| Fashion | American hairdresser Jheri Redding is credited with inventing what hairstyle, popular in the 1980s? | Jheri curl | 2024/12/07 |
| Comedy | ‘Who’s on first?’ is a famous sketch by which comedy double act? | Abbott and Costello *The sketch involves a baseball commentator describing a game involving players with names such as Who, What, Why, Because, and I Don’t Know. | 2024/12/19 |
| Architecture | Mullion, jamb, transom, casement and stay are all elements of what common architectural feature? | Window | 2024/12/07 |
| Architecture | What futuristic American architectural style which was popular in the 1950s, named for a coffee shop in Los Angeles that was an early example of it, and is only one letter different from the name of a major technology company, makes use of roofs that sweep upwards, geometric shapes, and symbols such as atoms and flying saucers? | Googie | 2025/01/09 |
| Magic | What magic trick was alluded to by 9th century Hindu philosopher Adi Shankaracharya, reportedly performed by Chinese jugglers in the 17th century, and sporadically seen by uncorroborated witnesses at the start of the 20th century, but is often labelled a myth as no modern knowledge exists of how the trick was performed? | Indian Rope Trip *The trick involves a rope rising straight up in the air and then being climbed, after which the climber disappears (or, in some accounts, is hacked into pieces) before reappearing at the bottom of the rope. | 2024/12/27 |
| Philosophy | What is the name of the philosophical theory founded by Jeremy Bentham that argues ethics should be guided by actions which maximise happiness across a group? | Utilitarianism | 2025/01/01 |
| Galleries and Museums | The State Hermitage Museum, founded in 1764 and believed to be the second largest museum in the world, can be found in which city? | Saint Petersburg | 2024/04/07 |
| Galleries and Museums | The Talbot Rice Gallery, The Fruitmarket Gallery, and Jupiter Artland are all contemporary art exhibition spaces in which UK city? | Edinburgh | 2024/04/09 |
| Scotland | What is the name of the Scottish Celtic arts festival that has traditionally been held each October in a designated host town, most frequently Oban, since its inception 1892? | Royal National Mòd (or The Mòd) | 2023/04/14 |
| Prizes | For which art form is the UK's Bruntwood Prize awarded? | Playwrighting | 2023/04/28 |
| Connections | What profession is practiced by fictional characters Atticus Finch, Elle Woods, Annalise Keating, and Lionel Hutz? | Lawyer *Finch appears in To Kill a Mockingbird; Woods is the main character in Legally Blonde; Keating is the protagonist in TV series How to Get Away with Murder; and Hutz is the hopeless lawyer in The Simpsons. | 2024/10/22 |
| Miscellaneous | Assemblé, Grande Jeté, and Plié are all terms associated with what art form? | Ballet | 2024/12/07 |
| Miscellaneous | Now kept at the Tate Modern, one of three commissioned versions of which famous piece of art once resided in the town hall of the East Sussex town of Lewes, but was covered and then returned to the man who commissioned it because it was deemed too erotic? | The Kiss, by Auguste Rodin | 2024/12/14 |
| Miscellaneous | In 2008, which comic and cartoon character was named Japan’s first ever anime ambassador? | Doraemon | 2024/12/19 |
The Arts - 3 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
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| Architecture | Which three European Union countries were the only ones outside the UK to have buildings that won the architectural Stirling Prize prior to the 2015 rule change that said entries must be in the UK? | Germany, Spain, Italy *The Stuttgart Music School won in 1997; Barajas Airport Terminal 4 in Madrid won in 2006; Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach won in 2007; and the National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome won in 2010. | 2024/12/07 |
| China | In traditional Chinese culture, which three arts are known as ‘the three perfections’? | 1. Painting 2. Poetry 3. Calligraphy | 2024/12/19 |
The Arts - 5 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Updated |
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| Galleries and Museums | In terms of area, what are the five largest art museums in the world? | 1. Louvre (Paris) 2. State Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg) 3. National Museum of China (Beijing) 4. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) 5. Vatican Museums (Vatican City) | 2024/04/07 |
The Arts - 6 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
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| Comedy | The Cellar Tapes, by the Cambridge Footlights, won the first ever Perrier Award at the 1981 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Which six comedians, all also amongst the show’s nine-person writing team, performed the show? | 1. Hugh Laurie 2. Stephen Fry 3. Emma Thompson 4. Tony Slattery 5. Paul Shearer 6. Penny Dwyer | 2025/01/01 |