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2020 Arts and Culture Quiz

2020 Year-End Quiz: 12 Arts and Culture related Questions, No time-limit. A fun-fact follows each entry. How smart are you this year?

1 / 12

Who painted the original piece Banksy used in this painting?

Image: sothebys.com

Claude Monet.

Vincent van Gogh.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Édouard Manet.

2 / 12

Who are Clara, Uncle Drosselmeyer, the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Mouse King?

Photo: RickDikeman / CC0

Characters from The Nutcracker.

Characters from Dance of the Hours.

Characters from The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

Characters from The Rite of Spring.

3 / 12

Israeli actress Gal Gadot is under attack for agreeing to play the character of Egyptian queen Cleopatra, mainly for her skin-tone. What was Cleopatra’s actual historic national background?

Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA

Egyptian.

Persian.

Greek.

Roman.

4 / 12

In which century did artist Sandro Botticelli paint this?

Image: Sandro Botticelli / Public domain

15th Century.

18th Century.

20th Century.

21st Century.

5 / 12

Who is the first-ever male to star solo on the cover of US Vogue?

Richard Gere

George Clooney

Justin Bieber

Harry Styles

6 / 12

Did the founding father of the United States of America, Alexander Hamilton, own slaves?

Image: John Trumbull, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

No.

His family did, but he didn’t.

He freed his slaves upon marriage.

Yes. He owned slaves until his last day.

7 / 12

Who wrote the poem The Snake, that Donald Trump recited in his rallies as a cautionary tale against immigrants?

A civil rights activist.

A KKK leader.

Steve Bannon.

50 Cent.

8 / 12

Douglas Stuart won the prestigious Booker award for his first novel. What was he doing before his first novel?

A fashion designer.

A journalist.

An academic researcher.

A screenwriter.

9 / 12

What’s unorthodox about the 2020 National Book Award winner for a fiction novel, Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown?

It’s written in the format of a screenplay.

It’s written with no punctuation at all.

It’s rhymed.

It’s written in tongues.

10 / 12

What is David Bowie’s Stardust persona’s first name?

Photo: HBO’s David Bowie: The Last Five Years

Iggy

Ziggy

Eddie

Tom

11 / 12

How old would John Lennon be in 2020?

Image: johnlennon.com

100

12 / 12

Which musical instrument did legendary musician and civil rights activist, Nina Simone, teach herself as a young girl in the 1930s?

Photo: Fotopersbureau de Boer / CC0

Piano

Guitar

Pan Flute

Vibraphone

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