| Name the famous Russian ballerina famous for "the dying swan", a three minute solo? This person was born in 1881. | Anna Pavlova |
| Name the 3 Italian artists considered to be the 3 "greatest masters of the High Renaissance of the 16th century." These 3 are known respectively for Adoration of the Three Kings, The Last Judgement, and the School of Athens? | Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael |
| What art period is characterized by subjective emotions rather than objective realities it is also characterized by deliberately distorted forms and intense colors, which artists use to express emotional reactions to terrifying, painful, or otherwise, overwhelming events? | Expressionism (example Edward Munch The Scream) |
| What art style is broken down into facets tilting toward the plane of the canvas. It usually contains several geometric shapes arranged in different patterns to give the drawing perspective and depth? | Cubism founded by Pablo Piccaso |
| What art style uses touches of brilliant color straight from the paint tube to give life to their compositions, and they defined shapes without resorting to a firm contour line. The artists free handling, with its visible brushstrokes, intially provoked criticism, for it make art look unfinished? | Impressionism |
| What art style means hobbyhorse in French that is characterized by the artists focusing on spontaneous and the haphazard. These artists sowed confusion by mixing up artistics genres producing images resembling written mainfestos and accompanying poetry readings with bizarre sound effects? | Dadaism |
| What style of modern art started in the late 1940's as a reaction to the horrors of WWII which involved the technique of dripping and pouring to generate skeins of paint over large canvases placed on the floor? | Abstract Expressionism |
| What art sytle is characterized by the artists effort to liberate thought from the control of reason, regardless of the aesthetic or moral consequences. These artists became the media for expression of the subconscious? | Surrealism |
| Which art movement started in the 1960's that focused on the growing consumer society/materialism and called for a return to realism? | Pop Art |
| Who is the artist that developed the collage technique? | Pablo Picasso |
| Who wrote the songs God Bless America and White Christmas? | Irving Berlin |
| FF in written music means what? | Fortissimo or louder |
| With which art movement is Andy Warhol associated? | Pop Art |
| The category of music that generates music by striking and instrument wit force? | Percussion |
| Who was the Italian composer for opera Aida? | Giuseppe Verdi |
| His broadway shows Evita and Cats were musical triumphs. His latest show Phantom of the Opera Opened in 1988. Name this superstar of musical theater? | Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick star as Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom in this muscial made movie in 2005? | The Producers |
| Principle female singer of an opera is called a what? | Diva |
| William Handy is the father of what style of music? | Blues |
| Award given for the best blues song in a single year is called what? | WC Handy Award |
| What band director and American composer is known as the "march king"? | John Philp Sousa |
| Name the band whos song "walk this way brought hip hop to a mainstream audience? | Run DMC |
| What is the name of the muscial composition in which the same melody repeats with sightly different compostion? | Fugue |
| What angles were depicted in Renassiance art as rosy cheeked babies? | Churibs |
| Austrian composer of the 1787 opera Don Giovanni? | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Identify the legendary lover of European folklore who had his beginnings as the statue of a dead man who accepts a libertine's invitation to dinner. This hero has often been identifed as a young nobleman of Seville? | Don Juan |
| Identify the Russian Composer whose orchestral composition entitled Romeo and Juliet contains the famous "Love Theme" | Peter Illich Tchaikovsky |
| What is the term for a woodworking joint that is made by making matching, opposing notches in two pieces so they can be joined at a ninety degree angle? | Saddle Joint |
| What is the name of the famous painting known as the "La Gioconda" | Mona Lisa |
| What stage performance written by Paul Green is performed nightly at Fort Raleigh on Roanoke Island? | Lost Colony |
| What does the Italian word for tempo mean when used to describe music? | the speed at which a composition is to be played |
| In rehearsing a play, what is the term for establishing the movement of the performer? | Blocking |
| Pablo Casals played what instrument? | Cello |
| Painting that shows inanimate objects are called what? | Still life |
| Name the composer of the Opera Madame Butterfly? | Puccini |
| Which Opera by Wagner has the famous Bridal March or Bridal Chorus used in most weddings today? | Lohengrin |
| Who designed the Guggenheim Museum in New York City? | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Of the woodwind instruments which is the largest and the lowest pitched? | Contrabasson |
| What style of architecture dominated Europe from the 9th - 12th century? | Romanesque |
| What jazz pianoist, band leader, and composer had an aristocratic nickname? | Count Basie or William Basie |
| Who wrote the William Tell Overture also known as the Lone Ranger Theme? | Giacchino Rossini |
| What is the French term used in dance to signify a section in a ballet chorographed for only two persons? | Pas De Deux (pah deh duh) |
| What does the musical ter adagio mean? | Slower or Slowly |
| In architecture, what is the term for a series of columns set in a row usually at even spaced distances | Colonnade |
| Name the artist on whose painting a novel and movie "A Girl with a Pearl Ear Ring is based?" | Johanes Vermer |
| Name the style of design popular in the 1920's & 1930's that is characterized by geometric shapes, smooth lines, and streamline forms? | Art-Deco |
| Name the folk singer who wrote this land is your land? | Woodie Guthrie |
| What musical notation indicated passages to be performed by all voices or instruments? | Tuti |
| What is the semi-circular part of a church where the alter is usually placed? | Apse |
| Who was one of the most important influences on the musical life of Mexico in the 1900's? Several of his compositions use native Mexican folk instruments? | Carlos Chavez |
| What famous mural artist became a controversial figure because of his radical political beliefs and his attacks on the church and clergy? | Diego Rivera |
| Who was a Mexican painter famous for his vigorous and colorful murals on political themes? Many of his murals deal with Mexican and Latin American history? | David Siqueiros |
| Who is Mexico's best-known fiction writer? Critics praise his imaginative adn complex narratives that reflect a keen intellectual awareness of history and the workings of power? | Carlos Fuentes |
| What Mexican created paintings that are mostly self-portraits, reflecting her physical and emotional suffering? | Frida Kahlo |
| Give the nickname for Joseph Haydn's Symphony No 43 in E flat that is shared by a chemical element, A roman god, and one of the terrestial planets? | Mercury |
| What is the name for the oldest horn in continual use, an ancient Hebrew one made from a curved ram's horn? | Shofar |
| The symphony orchestra is divided into 4 families of instruments, which family includes the English horn? | Woodwinds |
| Identify the famous Greek marble statue of Aphrodite found on the island of Melos in 1820 and now a great treasure of the Louve? | Venus de Milo (Venus de Melos) |
| Which English architect, who redesigned many churches after the Great Fire of London in 1666, is honored with this inscription of St Paul Cathedral: "If you seek his monument, look around you"? | Sir Christopher Wren |
| Which Italian term is used i music to mean "agitated" or "emotional"? It is used to describe a restless or hurried movement and designates a very fast tempo? | Agitato |
| What is the musical term for designating the difference i pitch between two tones? | Interval |
| What is the musical term for a musical composition for voice in which a story is told but not acted out? | Cantata |
| Italian word for "merry" or "lively" used to designate a "quick, lively tempo"? | Allegro |
| What is teh musical term for any simultaneous combination of 3 or more notes in harmony? | Chord |
| Name given to a play set to music in which the characters sing, rather than speak, all or most of the lines? | Opera |
| German composer and organ virtuoso who brought baroque music to its peak and is known as "The Father of Modern Music"? | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Italian phrase for "without instrumental accompaniment"? | A Cappella |
| Italian phrase used in music for "with spirit" with great life and vivacity? | Con Brio |
| Identify the Italian term, literally meaning "clear dark," introduced in the Renaissance to designate the balance used of light and shadow in a picture? | Chiaroscuro |
| In 1997, the National Gallery of Art held a major exhibit to honor the 100th anniversary of the birth of which American artists-engineer whose moblie hanging in the central hall of its East Building is kept moving by natural currents of air? | Alexander Calder (the museum was given 35 calder works in 1997) |
| Which American artist late in her career painted mothers and children in family situations? Famous in both the US and France, she was the only American artist ever to be exhibit with the Impressionists, and she is known for The Bath (1891-1892) and After the Bath (1901)? | Mary Cassatt |
| Name the Japanese dance drama in which literary means "ability or capacity" and was developed mainly in the 14th century with choral music and dancing, using set themes, elaborately dressed actors, and stylized acting? | No (or Noh, Nogaku) |
| Name the Japanese dance drama in which literary means "music and dancing spirit" and was developed mainly in the 17th century with singing and dancing performed in a highly stylized manner and with elaborately costumed men playing female roles? | Kabuki |
| Using Ukiyo-e (woodblocking printing technique) this famous artist was responsible for creating several print series that focused on landscapes, his most famous sketch is callled the "Great wave of Kanagawa" and is contained in the sketch book called Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, named this Japanese artist? | Hokusai |
| Hokusai also produced a series of fifteen sketchbooks that depicted humorous everyday characters of Japan what was the Japanese name given to these sketchbooks? | Manga |
| Give the Russian word for "large" or "great" that is also the name of the famous Moscow -based ballet? | Bolshoi |
| What are the words of an Opera called? | Libretto |
| In what city is the famous Bolshoi Theater located? | Moscow, Russia |
| Who was the tough guy actor who starred in films such as The African Queen and Casablanca? | Humphrey Bogart |
| Who is the jazz singer described in the book Lady Sings the Blues? | Billy Holiday |
| Who wrote the songs White Christmas and God Bless A America? | Irving Berlin |
| Name the composer who dominated Italian Opera during the late 19th century with works such as Aide, Rigoletto, and La Traviata? | Giuseppe Verdi |
| The Winged Victory of Samonthrace is a statue of what Greek Goddess? | Nike |
| Vibraphone, symbols, and bongos, are all members of what family of instruments? | Percussion |
| What American city is considered the cradle of Jazz? | New Orleans |
| What American architect designed the Geodesic dome? | Richard Buckminister Fuller (Buck Fuller or Buckminister Fuller) |
| Name the auditoria composed by George Fredrick Handel, first performed in 1742, that has become a Christmas favorite? | The Messiah |
| What is the Latin literary term for characters in a drama, novel, or poem? | Dramatus Personna |
| Notre Dame Cathedral and Salisbury Cathedral are examples of what type of architecture? | Gothic |
| Give the term in ballet in which one completes an entire circle by using one foot? | Pirouette |
| Name the impressionist artist known for his paintings of dancers? | Edward Degas |
| Hank Ketchum was the creator of what famous cartoon, movie, and television character? | Dennis the Menance |
| What is the name of the first popular method of photography named by a Frenchmen who practiced the process in 1837? | Daguerreotype (Process created in 1837 in which an image was recorded on a silver plate made light sensitive with iodine. The plate was then developed in mercury vapor) |
| The familiar painting "Arrangements in Gray and Black" is better known by what name? | Whistler's Mother |
| Which French artist had so many works rejected by the critics and the public that Napoleon III established a Salon de Refuses (Salon of rejects) in order to display his paintings? The artist even built a pavilion at his own expense at the 1867 Universal Exposition in Paris to exhibit his works after they had been rejected by the jury for official display? | Edouard Manet |
| What instrument does Yo Yo Ma play? | Cello |
| Name the artist of 100 Campbell soup cans? | Andy Warhol |
| A Jamican coin reflects what Reggie musicians image? | Bob Marley |
| Name the American painter who gained fame for her paintings of the desert region of the southwest? | Georgia O'Keeffe |
| Name the experience of emotional release and purification often inspired by or through art? | Cartharsis |
| Name the plucked six stringed instrument popular with medieval troubadours which contained a paired shaped body and a freight board, with a peg box set at an angle? | Lute |
| Name the playwrite of "Waiting for Godot" | Samuel Beckett |
| What popular Italian Renaissance Comedy form, spread to France, Spain, and throughout Europe and featured predictable characters including the Harlequin? | The Commedia Dell'arte |
| What name is given to the movement in art, music, and literature that reflects the principles of the 5th to 4th centuries B.C. in Greece and the 1st centuries B.C. and A.D. in Rome? | Classicism |
| What name is used to designate a revival of classical taste and style in English and French literature and art during the years 1750-1830? | NeoClassicism |
| What was the first modern opera composed by Claudio Monteverdi in 1607? | Orfeo |
| The opera the Barber of Seville was composed by who? | Gioacchio Rossini |
| The opera Aide was composed by Who? | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Sergi Prokofiev was a Russian composer who created a famous symphonic Fairy Tale? Name this symphonic Fairy Tale? | Peter and the Wolf |
| Pop artist who said, "in the future everyone will be world famous for fifteen minutes"? | Andy Warhol |
| Identify the American composer whose signature tune, The Maple Leaf Raf, was the first piece of music in America to sell a million copies? | Scott Joplin |
| Scot Joplin was given a nickname what was it? | King of Ragtime |
| What film featured Scott Joplin's musical rags, especially "the entertainer" as its background music? | The Sting |
| Give the Russian word for "large" or "great" that is also the name of famous Moscow-based ballet company? | Bolshoi |
| Name the musical based on the Edna Ferber book with the same name? | Showboat |
| Name the composer of the Baroque piece "Well Tempered Clavier"? | Johann S. Bach |
| What name, derived from the photographer character in director Federico Fellini's 1960 movie La Dolce Vita, designates the freelance, celebrity-pursuing photographers who allegedly were hounding Princess Di and her boy friend at the time of the 1997 car accident? | Paparazzi |
| What is the text of an opera called? | Liberetto |
| What is an elaborate vocal solo that can express a characters feelings? | Aria |
| What is a small group of singers called? | Ensemble |
| What is a melodicous recitative or shor declamatory aria, or the type developed by Giuseppe Verdi? | Arioso |
| Which term designates the horizontal molded projection above the frieze first developed in Minoan Palaces? | Cornice |
| The middle section of the Classic entablature; a panel below the upper molding or cornice of a wall is called a what? | Frieze |
The lowest of the 3 main parts of an entablature that rests directly on top of a column is called a what
| Architrave |
In classical architecture, the top of an Order, horizontally divided into cornice, frieze, and architrave, supported by a colonnade is called a what
| Entablature |
A range of columns supporting either arches or an entablature and usually one side of a roof is called a what?
| Colonnade |
| Which of the following does German Romanticist Caspar David Friedrich depict in many of his paintings; landscapes, small towns, insects, or animals? | Landscapes |
| What name is given to the gigantic statue of Apollo (Helios) at the entrance to the harbor of Rhodes? | Colossus of Rhodes |
| Which term is used in art to designate "a painting in which scenes from everyday life are treated realistically? | Genre Painting |
| What George Gershwin Opera includes the song "Summertime"? | Porgy and Bess ( most famous American Opera) |
| What is the common name of the Michelanglo statue of Mary Mourning the death of Christ located in St. Peters Basilica? | Pieta |
| Who was the composer of Don Giovanni? | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| What art movement is associated with a Dali and a Cocteau? | Surrealism |
| Name the American known for his dramatic black and white photographs of the American West that often includes landscapes? | Ansel Adams |
| What country did Old (Auld) Lang Syne originate? | Scotland |
| What do we call the male singing voice between base and tenor? | Bartone |
| Name the composer who collaborated with Oscar Hammerstein on the his musical Oklahoma? | Richard Rogers |
| For which of the arts has Naginski become famous? | Ballet |
| Whose eight symphony is also called the "Unfinished Symphony"? | Schubert |
| In what Austrian city did opera houses originate? | Vienna |
| What is the name of the occupation that arranges the movement of a dance or ballet? | Choreographer |
| With what geographic area of the US is artist Frederick Rememington Associated? | The American West |
| What American artist who careful work, mobiles, move about in space as air flows through them? | Alexander Calder |
| What word originally meaning "hobbyhorse" that was adopted as the name for an art movement? | Dada |