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Praxis Fine Arts 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Rogers and Hammerstein wrote the musical 'Showboat' with the help of what famous songwriter?
Jerome Kern
Sergei Prokofiev
Stephen Sondheim
Peter Tchaikovsky
2. What Spanish artist painted 'Maids of Honor?'
Bas relief
Diego Velasquez
Thespis
D.W. Griffith
3. This man directed the movies 'Maltese Falcon' and 'African Queen.'
Andy Warhol
Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec
John Gay
John Huston
4. What famous songwriter wrote 'Alexander's Ragtime Band?'
Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Jackson Pollack
Irving Berlin
5. This man wrote the lyrics to Leonard Bernstein's 'West Side Story.'
Irving Berlin
Michelangelo
Bas relief
Stephen Sondheim
6. This Giuseppe Verdi opera's title translates to 'The Lost One.'
Harmonica
La Traviata
Giacomo Puccini
Stephen Sondheim
7. This artist is best known for his paintings of Campbell's Soup Cans.
Andy Warhol
Sergei Prokofiev
La Traviata
Giacomo Puccini
8. This American artist famous for her Southwestern landscapes married photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
9. What is the subtitle of Anton Dvorak's Symphony Number 9?
Irving Berlin
La Traviata
Jerome Kern
From the New World
10. What is the nickname of musician William Basie?
11. What is the more famous name of the painting 'Arrangement in Gray and Black?'
12. This actor won an Academy Award for his starring role in 'The King and I.'
Cello
Yul Brynner
Bas relief
John Huston
13. This man composed 'The Beggars Opera.'
From the New World
John Gay
Richard Wagner
Stephen Foster
14. What Jazz musician was nicknamed 'Satchmo?'
Louis Armstrong
Andy Warhol
Marcel Duchamp
'Count'
15. What artist painted 'Nude Descending a Staircase?'
Louis Armstrong
Marcel Duchamp
Sergei Prokofiev
Aaron Copland
16. This American artist pioneered the 'action painting' genre.
Jackson Pollack
Aaron Copland
Dmitri Shostakovich
Modest Mussorgsky
17. This man composed the opera 'Boris Godunov.'
Modest Mussorgsky
Richard Wagner
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
John Gay
18. This songwriter wrote 'Beautiful Dreamer.'
Claude Debussy
Sergei Prokofiev
Stephen Foster
Monteverdi
19. What pair wrote the musical 'The King and I?'
Rogers and Hammerstein
Marcel Duchamp
Georgia O'Keefe
Hector Berlioz
20. This artist painted the famous 'At the Moulin Rouge.'
Irving Berlin
Yul Brynner
Cello
Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec
21. What instrument is Pablo Cassals famous for playing?
Scott Joplin
Andy Warhol
Modest Mussorgsky
Cello
22. What Russian composed 'Peter and the Wolf?'
Sergei Prokofiev
Hector Berlioz
Dmitri Shostakovich
Stephen Foster
23. Who composed the 'Moonlight Sonata?'
Leonard Bernstein
Louis Armstrong
Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
24. Who composed the musicals 'Candide' and 'On the Town?'
Aaron Copland
Leonard Bernstein
Philip Glass
Georgia O'Keefe
25. What instrument did Larry Adler popularize in the classical music scene?
Engelbert Humperdinck
Harmonica
Peter Tchaikovsky
Buonarroti
26. This composer wrote the operas 'Lohengrin' and 'Tannhauser.'
John Huston
Scott Joplin
Edvard Grieg
Richard Wagner
27. This man directed the classic movie 'Birth of a Nation.'
Marcel Duchamp
D.W. Griffith
Cello
John Constable
28. What American composer wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning 'Appalachian Spring?'
D.W. Griffith
Whistler's Mother
Louis Armstrong
Aaron Copland
29. What Russian composer wrote the ballets 'The Wedding' and 'The Firebird?'
D.W. Griffith
Bas relief
Whistler's Mother
Igor Stravinsky
30. Picasso was influential in this geometric art style of the early 20th century.
Cubism
Philip Glass
Hector Berlioz
Fidelio
31. This artist is best known for his frescos on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Jackson Pollack
D.W. Griffith
Buonarroti
Michelangelo
32. What was the last name of famed artist Michelangelo?
Buonarroti
Stephen Foster
Diego Velasquez
Cello
33. This American artist painted 'Breaking Storm' and 'Gulf Stream.'
Stephen Sondheim
Rogers and Hammerstein
Sergei Prokofiev
Winslow Homer
34. What composer wrote the opera 'Benvenuto Celini?'
Hector Berlioz
Igor Stravinsky
Whistler's Mother
John Gay
35. This artist painted the 'Haywain.'
Richard Wagner
La Traviata
D.W. Griffith
John Constable
36. What French composer wrote 'Nocturne' and 'La Mer?'
Claude Debussy
Peter Tchaikovsky
Hector Berlioz
Beethoven
37. This Italian composed the operas 'Tosca' and 'La Boheme.'
Jerome Kern
Sergei Prokofiev
Giacomo Puccini
Modest Mussorgsky
38. This Russian composer wrote the '1812 Overture.'
Peter Tchaikovsky
Diego Velasquez
Engelbert Humperdinck
Whistler's Mother
39. This man composed the opera 'Hansel and Gretel.'
Andy Warhol
Hector Berlioz
Cello
Engelbert Humperdinck
40. What Russian composer wrote the opera 'Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk?'
Dmitri Shostakovich
Andy Warhol
Rogers and Hammerstein
Bas relief
41. This kind of sculpture is slightly raised from its flat background and literally translates as 'low relief.'
Hector Berlioz
Bas relief
Richard Wagner
Engelbert Humperdinck
42. He composed the operas 'Orfeo' and 'The Return of Ulysses.'
Bas relief
Winslow Homer
Monteverdi
Modest Mussorgsky
43. He composed the opera 'Einstein on the Beach.'
Andy Warhol
Philip Glass
Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
44. What French composer wrote 'Damnation of Faust?'
Hector Berlioz
Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec
Stephen Sondheim
Whistler's Mother
45. He composed the operas 'Billy Budd' and 'Peter Grimes.'
Benjamin Britten
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Engelbert Humperdinck
Giacomo Puccini
46. This songwriter composed 'Maple Leaf Rag.'
Modest Mussorgsky
John Huston
Scott Joplin
Dmitri Shostakovich
47. Who composed the opera 'The Marriage of Figaro?'
Claude Debussy
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Igor Stravinsky
Beethoven
48. This Greek actor was the actor to be known by name.
Thespis
Buonarroti
Engelbert Humperdinck
John Constable
49. This composer wrote 'Holberg Suite.'
Diego Velasquez
Philip Glass
Edvard Grieg
Cubism
50. What is the name of the only opera that Beethoven composed?
Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec
Fidelio
Philip Glass
Scott Joplin