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Trivia Quiz (Art & Music)

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Last Supper (L'Utima Cena) is a late 15th-century mural painting by an Italian artist. Who painted this piece of art?

a)

Leonardo da Vinci

b)

Pablo Picasso

c)

Michelangelo

d)

El Greco

2.

In Music, what does 'forte' mean?

a)

soft

b)

slow

c)

fast

d)

loud

3.

Who am I? I was born in the 18th century in Salzburg. I was a composer of the classical period. Unfortunately, I died young, but during my final years in Vienna, I composed many well-known symphonies, concertos and operas.

a)

Johan Sebastian Bach

b)

Johann Strauss II

c)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

d)

Frederic Chopin

4.

TRUE or FALSE.

Romantic music is a stylistic movement in Western Classical Music associated with the period of the 18th century.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

5.

Musical instruments are grouped into families, defined by how instruments produce their sounds. Trumpets, French horns, and tubas belong to the same family of musical instruments. Which family do these instruments belong to?

a)

String instruments

b)

Brass instruments

c)

Pluck instruments

d)

Piano instruments

6.

Who am I? I am an American cellist, but I was born in Paris to Chinese parents. I was known as a child prodigy as I started to play the cello when I was 4.5 years old. I have recorded more than 90 albums and received 18 gramy awards.

a)

Hao Huang

b)

Yo-Yo Ma

c)

Chi Cheng

d)

Alan Chang

7.

I am an instrument most commonly seen with six strings. However, many harder rock groups tend to use a version of me that has seven strings for a deeper tone. What am I?

a)

Guitar

b)

Violin

c)

Banjo

d)

Cello

8.

I have four strings, I'm played with a bow, and I'm typically tuned, in order, to G, D, A, E. Several different styles exist for playing me, though I'm most common in country and western music when used outside a symphony.

a)

Guitar

b)

Violin

c)

Banjo

d)

Sitar

9.

Which of Picasso’s famous paintings was inspired by the bombings of civilians during the Spanish War?

a)

Monalisa

b)

The American Gothic

c)

Guernica

d)

The Last Supper

10.

Claude Monet is most known for his paintings of what?

a)

Water lily paintings

b)

Mural

c)

Realism objects

d)

None of the above

11.

Who painted the famous painting 'Starry Night'?

a)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

b)

Pablo Picasso

c)

Leonardo da Vinci

d)

Vincent Van Gogh

12.

Who was the first living person to have their art displayed in The Louvre?

a)

Cindy Sherman

b)

Georges Braque

c)

Liu Wei

d)

Miquel Barcelo

13.

The sitar, a stringed instrument commonly used in Indian classical music, found recognition in the West through the works of multiple Grammy Award winner, Pandit Ravi Shankar and made its way into the music of popular bands like "The Beatles". Which other band used it on their chart-topping hit, "Paint It Black"?

a)

Westlife

b)

The Rolling Stones

c)

Bon Jovi

d)

Green Day

14.

"Never Enough" is a song from which movie?

a)

Les Miserables

b)

The Greatest Showman

c)

Beauty and the Beast

d)

Wizard of Oz

15.

Who am I? I am an English singer and songwriter and I am also one of the world's best-selling music artists (more than 120 million records)? I also release the single 'Skyfall' in 2012 for James Bond.

a)

Adele

b)

Sam Smith

c)

Ed Sheeran

d)

Olly Murs