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