Arts Trivia Quiz

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Which famous mural lost part of its lower center in 1652, when a doorway was cut through the wall it was painted on?

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Which famous mural lost part of its lower center in 1652, when a doorway was cut through the wall it was painted on?

Correct answer: The Last Supper.

Leonardo da Vinci painted "The Last Supper" on a convent dining-hall wall in Milan; the later doorway removed the section that had shown Jesus' feet.

In Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville," what is the barber's name?

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In Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville," what is the barber's name?

Correct answer: Figaro.

Figaro, the quick-witted barber, also stars in Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro," the sequel Beaumarchais wrote to the play Rossini later set to music.

Who posed as the pitchfork-holding man in Grant Wood's painting "American Gothic"?

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Who posed as the pitchfork-holding man in Grant Wood's painting "American Gothic"?

Correct answer: his dentist.

Wood used his dentist, Byron McKeeby, as the male model and his sister, Nan Wood Graham, as the woman beside him.

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