Arts & Literature Trivia
Painters and poets, novels and plays, sculpture and art movements. This category runs from the Renaissance masters to modern bestsellers — the questions you'd want on your team at a quiz night.
No multiple choice: you name the artist, the author or the work yourself. Each question comes with a short fact about the art or the person behind it.
- 292questions
- 82easy
- 100medium
- 110hard
What's covered
- Painters
- Novels & authors
- Poetry
- Theater
- Art movements
- Sculpture
Arts & Literature Trivia: sample questions
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- easy
What is the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes such as a crane, without cutting or glue, called?
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Origami
Folding 1,000 paper cranes, known as senbazuru, is a traditional wish for healing or good luck, popularized by the story of Sadako Sasaki.
- easy
What is the name for the traditional Japanese poetic form written in three lines following a 5-7-5 syllable pattern, often about nature or the seasons?
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Haiku
The 17th-century poet Matsuo Basho is considered the form's greatest master, famous for a poem about a frog jumping into an old pond.
- medium
Which American author wrote 'The Grapes of Wrath', following the Joad family's journey from the Dust Bowl to California during the Great Depression?
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John Steinbeck
The novel won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted into a 1940 Hollywood film starring Henry Fonda; the film won two Academy Awards, Best Director (John Ford) and Best Supporting Actress (Jane Darwell).
- medium
Which medieval Italian poet, born in Florence around 1265, wrote a three-part narrative poem describing a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise?
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Dante Alighieri
His poem helped establish the Tuscan dialect as the basis for the modern standardized Italian language.
- hard
Which German-language writer authored the novella in which traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a giant insect?
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Franz Kafka
Kafka was so protective of the story's imagery that he insisted the insect itself never be depicted on the book's cover.
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