Arts and Literature trivia

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• Architecture and Famous BuildingsAbout 250 questions Famous buildings and the people who designed them: Greek columns and Gothic cathedrals, Baroque, Art Deco, Bauhaus and Brutalism, Wright, Gaudí, Le Corbusier, Hadid, Gehry, Pei, Erickson and Safdie, the parts of a building, great bridges, the race to build the tallest skyscraper, and Canadian landmarks from Parliament Hill to the CN Tower and Habitat 67.
• Art and ArtistsAbout 250 questions Painting and sculpture from cave art to street art: Renaissance masters, Impressionists and modern rebels, famous paintings and where to see them, sculpture and architecture icons, art movements, techniques and colours, art heists and record sales.
• Ballet and DanceAbout 250 questions Everything that moves to music: the great ballets and their composers, pliés and pirouettes, legendary dancers and choreographers from Nijinsky to Karen Kain, ballet companies from the Bolshoi to the Royal Winnipeg, dance styles from tango to tap, ballroom glitz and the best dancing on film.
• Books and BestsellersAbout 250 questions The books people actually read: Harry Potter and other blockbuster series, Stephen King and the great thriller writers, children's and young adult favourites, comics, graphic novels and manga, book prizes, pen names, and publishing records.
• Canadian LiteratureAbout 250 questions Great Canadian books and the people who wrote them: Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Leonard Cohen, Michael Ondaatje, Yann Martel, Mordecai Richler, Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence, Farley Mowat, L.M. Montgomery, Stephen Leacock, Gabrielle Roy, Thomas King, Louise Penny, Miriam Toews and Esi Edugyan, plus the Giller Prize, the Governor General's Awards, CBC's Canada Reads and the publishers behind it all.
• Children's BooksAbout 250 questions The books we grew up with and read to our kids: Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl, Beatrix Potter, Robert Munsch and L. M. Montgomery, classic picture books and bedtime stories, beloved children's novels and series, the illustrators behind them, and the Caldecott and Newbery medals.
• Classical Music and OperaAbout 250 questions Classical music and opera from Bach and Vivaldi to Stravinsky and Gershwin: composers' lives, symphony nicknames, opera plots, the instruments of the orchestra, tempo markings and musical forms, great conductors and performers like Glenn Gould, famous opera houses, and the classics hiding in films and commercials.
• Classic LiteratureAbout 250 questions The great books and the people who wrote them: Austen and the Brontës, Dickens and Tolstoy, Shakespeare's plays, Gothic horror and adventure classics, American and world literature, famous poets, and the characters everyone knows.
• Comics and Graphic NovelsAbout 250 questions The funny pages and beyond: Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes, Garfield, For Better or For Worse and The Far Side, superhero history from Siegel, Shuster, Lee and Kirby, first appearances, alter egos and villains, Canada's comic heroes, Maus, Persepolis and Watchmen, manga, Tintin and Asterix, the Eisner Awards and the language of comics.
• Famous PaintingsAbout 250 questions The stories behind the world's most famous paintings: who painted them, what they show, where they hang now, wild thefts and attacks, botched and brilliant restorations, record sales, the paints and techniques behind them, hidden details, and Canada's own masterpieces from the Group of Seven to Alex Colville.
• Fantasy and Science Fiction BooksAbout 250 questions The great books of other worlds: Tolkien's Middle-earth, Narnia, Earthsea and Discworld, Hogwarts and Westeros, Frankenstein, Verne and Wells, Asimov's robots, Dune, Bradbury, Orwell and Atwood, Philip K. Dick and cyberpunk, the Hugo and Nebula awards, and the words these writers invented.
• Museums and GalleriesAbout 250 questions The world's great museums and their treasures, from the Louvre, British Museum and the Met to the Prado, Uffizi, Hermitage, Rijksmuseum and Smithsonian, Canada's own ROM, National Gallery, Royal Tyrrell and Museum for Human Rights, the architects behind the buildings, daring heists and some truly odd little museums.
• Mystery and Crime FictionAbout 250 questions Whodunits from Poe's Dupin to today: Sherlock Holmes and Watson, Agatha Christie's Poirot and Miss Marple, Maigret, Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, hardboiled private eyes like Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade, Jack Reacher, Inspector Gamache, Kinsey Millhone, Scandinavian noir, the Edgar Awards and the language of crime fiction.
• Poetry and PoetsAbout 250 questions Poems and the people who wrote them, from Sappho and Li Bai to the Romantics, the Beats and Instagram poets: famous lives and deaths, poem titles and their authors, forms and terms like the sonnet, haiku, limerick and free verse, poet laureates, prizes, and Canada's own poets from John McCrae to Leonard Cohen.
• ShakespeareAbout 250 questions All things Shakespeare: the tragedies, comedies, histories and late romances, the characters and plots, the sonnets, the Globe, his life in Stratford and London, the First Folio, the words and phrases he gave us, great actors and film adaptations, and Ontario's Stratford Festival.
• Theatre and MusicalsAbout 250 questions Life on the stage, from Broadway and the West End to Stratford and Niagara-on-the-Lake: classic and modern musicals and the people who wrote them, record-breaking runs, great plays and playwrights, the Tonys and Oliviers, backstage lingo and superstitions, and Canada's own theatre stars.