Literature
Which British author became famous worldwide after publishing the adventures of a young sorcerer in 1997?
J.K.Rowling.
This book was written by Margaret Atwood in 1985 and was turned into a famous TV series by Brice Miller in 2017. What is its title?
The Handmaid's Tale.
What is the name of the famous anonymous British street artist who is also a political activist?
Banksy.
What was the name of the royal family who ruled over Britain from 1485 to 1603?
The Tudors.
What is the name of the stylistic device when the author gives human characteristics to an object or an animal?
Personification.
Who is Frankenstein?
The doctor who created a monster using human body parts.
Beetlejuice (1988)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Sleepy Hollow (1999=)
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
Norman Rockwell is an American painter. True or False?
True.
When was slavery abolished in the British Empire?
1789? 1833? 1898? 1923?
1833.
What word corresponds to an expression that describes a person or object by referring to something that is considered to have similar characteristics to that person or object?
ex: the mind is an ocean. the city is a jungle.
a metaphor.
What famous detective was created by Agatha Christie?
Hercule Poirot.
What musical inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds?
West Side Story by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise (1961)
What is the name of the most popular museum of modern art in London?
The Tate Modern.
When did India become independent?
1916? 1947? 1968?
1947.
What is blank verse?
poetry that lacks rhyme but follows a specific pattern or beat.
He was born in 1812 and he died in 1870. A British writer and social critic, he portrayed the Victorian society and underclass. He is considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Who is he?
Charles Dickens.
Who directed "A Space Odyssey" and "The Shining"?
Stanley Kubrick.
When was the first woman elected to the Royal Academy of Arts, founded in 1768?
1813 ? 1895? 1922?
1922.
In which country did the Easter Rising take place?
Ireland.
BANG, the little drummer takes a solo, reaching his young hands all over traps and kettles and cymbals and foot-peddle BOOM in a fantastic crash of sound. Jack Kerouac.
What do you act the act of creating or using words that include sounds that are similar to the noises the words refer to?
an onomatopeia.
Who wrote Hamlet?
William Shakespeare.
Who is the lead actor in Oppenheimer?
Cillian Murphy.
Where can you admire the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon?
in the British Museum, London.
In which English-speaking country did the government apologize to its Native people in 2008 for all the wrongs past governments inflicted on them for more than two centuries?
Australia.
What do you call the following stylistic device?
I wasn't unhappy to see you.
an understatement or litotes.