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Famous Paintings Quiz

The Mona Lisa, The Starry Night, The Scream, Guernica: this quiz is about the paintings everyone has seen somewhere and the artists who made them. It moves from the world's most famous portrait to melting clocks, water lilies and soup cans, so art lovers and the merely curious can both play.

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  1. 1.Who painted the Mona Lisa?

    • AMichelangelo
    • BRaphael
    • CLeonardo da Vinci
    • DTitian
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    Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci began the Mona Lisa in the early 1500s and kept working on it for years.

  2. 2.Who painted The Starry Night?

    • AVincent van Gogh
    • BPaul Gauguin
    • CClaude Monet
    • DPaul Cézanne
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    Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh painted The Starry Night in 1889 while staying at an asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France.

  3. 3.In which museum does the Mona Lisa hang?

    • AThe Uffizi, Florence
    • BThe National Gallery, London
    • CThe Prado, Madrid
    • DThe Louvre, Paris
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    The Louvre, Paris. The Mona Lisa hangs in the Louvre in Paris, where it is seen by millions of visitors every year.

  4. 4.Which artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

    • ADonatello
    • BMichelangelo
    • CBotticelli
    • DCaravaggio
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    Michelangelo. Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Vatican between 1508 and 1512.

  5. 5.Who painted The Scream?

    • AGustav Klimt
    • BEgon Schiele
    • CEdvard Munch
    • DWassily Kandinsky
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    Edvard Munch. Norwegian artist Edvard Munch made several versions of The Scream, the first in 1893.

  6. 6.The Night Watch was painted by Rembrandt.

    True or false?

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    True. Rembrandt finished The Night Watch in 1642. It hangs in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

  7. 7.Which artist painted a long series of pictures of water lilies in his garden at Giverny?

    • AClaude Monet
    • BÉdouard Manet
    • CPierre-Auguste Renoir
    • DEdgar Degas
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    Claude Monet. Claude Monet painted around 250 works of the water lilies in the pond he created at Giverny, France.

  8. 8.Who painted Guernica, a response to the bombing of a Spanish town in 1937?

    • ASalvador Dalí
    • BJoan Miró
    • CFrancisco Goya
    • DPablo Picasso
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    Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in 1937. It is now in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.

  9. 9.Which artist painted The Persistence of Memory, with its melting clocks?

    • ARené Magritte
    • BSalvador Dalí
    • CMax Ernst
    • DMarc Chagall
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    Salvador Dalí. Salvador Dalí painted The Persistence of Memory in 1931, one of the best-known Surrealist works.

  10. 10.The painter Frida Kahlo was from Spain.

    True or false?

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    False. Frida Kahlo was Mexican. She was born and lived in Coyoacán, Mexico City.

  11. 11.Which artist is famous for paintings of Campbell's Soup Cans?

    • ARoy Lichtenstein
    • BJackson Pollock
    • CAndy Warhol
    • DKeith Haring
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    Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol showed his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans in 1962, a landmark of Pop Art.

  12. 12.Who painted Girl with a Pearl Earring?

    • AJohannes Vermeer
    • BFrans Hals
    • CJan van Eyck
    • DPeter Paul Rubens
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    Johannes Vermeer. Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer made it around 1665. It hangs in the Mauritshuis in The Hague.

  13. 13.Who painted The Birth of Venus, showing the goddess arriving on a scallop shell?

    • ARaphael
    • BTitian
    • CGiotto
    • DSandro Botticelli
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    Sandro Botticelli. Sandro Botticelli painted The Birth of Venus in the 1480s. It is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

  14. 14.Claude Monet's painting Impression, Sunrise gave its name to which art movement?

    • ACubism
    • BImpressionism
    • CExpressionism
    • DSurrealism
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    Impressionism. A critic mocked the 1874 exhibition after Monet's title, and the name Impressionism stuck.

  15. 15.Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque developed which art movement together?

    • APop Art
    • BArt Nouveau
    • CRomanticism
    • DCubism
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    Cubism. Picasso and Braque developed Cubism in Paris from around 1907, showing objects from several viewpoints at once.

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