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IQuiz 4
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Composer of opera Giulio Cesare | Handel |
| Composer of opera Serse (Xerxes) | Handel |
| Composer of opera Orfeo ed Eurydice | Christoph Willibald Gluck |
| Composer of opera The Elixir of Love | Donizetti |
| Composer of opera Don Carlos | Verdi |
| Composer of opera Der Freischutz (The Marksman) | Carl Maria von Weber |
| Composer of opera Les Troyens (The Trojans) | Hector Berlioz |
| Composer of opera Manon | Jules Massenet |
| Composer of opera Pelleas et Melisande | Claude Debussy |
| Composer of opera Boris Gudunov | Mussorgsky |
| Composer of opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk | Shostakovich |
| Composer of opera The Rake's Progress | Stravinsky |
| Composer of opera Jenufa | Leos Janacek |
| Composer of opera Bluebeard's Castle | Bela Bartok |
| Composer of opera Wozzeck | Alban Berg |
| Composer of opera King Priam | Michael Tippett |
| Composer of opera Kata Kabanova | Leos Janacek |
| Composer of opera Hary Janos | Zoltan Kodaly |
| Composer of opera The Makropoulos Case (or The Makropulos Affair) | Leos Janacek |
| Artist who did The Beheading of St John The Baptist | Caravaggio |
| Artist who did Landscape with the Fall of Icarus | Pieter Bruegel the Elder |
| Artist who did Composition VIII | Kandinsky |
| Artist who did The Flower Carrier | Diego Rivera |
| Artist who did No 1 (Royal Red and Blue) | Mark Rothko |
| Artist who did Portrait of Madame Recamier | Jacques-Louis David |
| English artist who did collage "Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?" - considered first Pop Art work | Richard Hamilton |
| US female sculptor known for her wooden wall box sculptures, such as Tropical Garden II | Louise Nevelson |
| Artist of 1959 painting Die Fahne Hoch!, considered precursor to minimalism | Frank Stella |
| Public art installation (and its artist) in Manhattan from 1981 to 1989, 120-foot long and 12-foot high plate of rusted steel, hated by public and removed | Tilted Arc, by Richard Serra |
| US portrait artist who was partner of Christopher Isherwood for over 30 years, both feature in a painting by David Hockney | Don Bachardy |
| US artist best known for cast life-size figures (usually in white), eg. the work Gay Liberation (1980) | George Segal |
| British sculptor who won the Turner Prize in 1988 | Tony Cragg |
| Considered the greatest Haitian painter, died in 1986 | Philome Obin |
| US feminist artist known for The Dinner Party and International Honor Quilt | Judy Chicago |
| African-American photographer known for her Kitchen Table series | Carrie Mae Weems |
| French artist who did 19th century painting Still Life with Ham | Philippe Rousseau |
| Cuban-American visual artist who had AIDS known for his "Untitled" series including Untitled (Portrait of Marcel Brient) | Felix Gonzales-Torres |
| US sculptor who did the Spiral Jetty on Great Salt Lake, Utah in 1970 | Robert Smithson |
| Traditional Japanese tattoos | Irezumi |
| 11th/12th century French abbot known as the Mellifluous Doctor | Bernard of Clairvaux |
| City home to the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MUCEM) | Marseille |
| Museum in Vienna that has a very large print room, and home to Durer's Young Hare | Albertina |
| City home to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum | Glasgow |
| Museum in Moscow home to Malevich's Black Square and Kandinsky's Composition VII | Tretyakov Gallery |
| Venezuelan who has disputed the office of President with Nicolas Maduro since January 2019 | Juan Guaido |
| President of Nigeria since 2015, had previously been President from 1983 to 1985 | Muhammadu Buhari |
| Comic actor who became President of Guatemala in 2016 | Jimmy Morales |
| President of Brazil since January 1st, 2019 | Jair Bolsonaro |
| Tendency for a highly competent person to be more appealing if they make a mistake (opposite occurs if person isn't competent) | Pratfall effect |
| Trophy given to MVP in regular season of the NBA | Maurice Podoloff Trophy |