Arts and Literature Trivia Questions and Answers.

Arts and Literature trivia questions and answers.

What did Robert Browning use to wean and cure his wife, Elisabeth Barrett Browning, from her addiction to laudanum?
A: Chianti.

Whose painting of a sunset gave the Impressionist school of art its name?
A: Claude Monet's. The painting was called "Impression: Sunrise." The first use of the term Impressionist came in 1874 in a satirical article ridiculing Monet and his artist friends.

What two great writers died on the same day--April 23, 1616?
A: Shakespeare and Cervantes.

What American novelist was challenged to a duel and beaten by a woman he later married?
A: Jack London. His duel with Charmian Kittredge was with foils, face masks and breast plates.

Whose autobiography is entitled What's It All About?
A: Actor Michael Caine. The book title was taken from the first line in the title song of Caine's first big movie, Alfie. The line is: "What's it all about, Alfie?"

What sexually explicit novel banned as obscene in the U.S. and E gland for 30 years was originally called Tenderness by its author?
A: Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. Before it was given its final name, it also was known as john Thomas and Lady Jane.

What novel is set in the year 632AF (for After Ford)?
A: Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.

What famous novel is set in Thornfield Hall?
A: Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.

Whose life story is told in the 1974 biography Shooting Star?
A: John Wayne's.

Who wrote the popular children's poem The Pied Pipe r of Hamelin?
A: Robert Browning.

What was the medical specialty of Sherlock Holmes's creator, Arthur Conan Doyle?
A: He was an ophthalmologist or eye doctor.

What sinister fictional killer was introduced to movie audiences in the 1986 film Manhunter?
A: Hannibal Lecter, whom most moviegoers became acquainted with in the 1991 Academy Award-winning film Silence of the Lambs. Both films were based on Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon.

What was the name of the Indian chief referred to in the title of James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans?
A: Uncas.

Which book did Americans rate as their favorite--second only to the Bible in 1900?
A: The Sears Roebuck catalog.

What famous French dramatist, as a 20-year-old, served Louis XIII as valet-tapissier du roi--maker of the king's bed?
A: Moliere.