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This Italian artist painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This author created Harry Potter and the wizarding school Hogwarts.
Who is J. K. Rowling?
This keyboard instrument typically has 88 keys and is played using both hands and foot pedals.
What is a piano?
This nickname refers to the Hindi-language film industry centred in Mumbai.
What is Bollywood?
This Lebanese singer is closely associated with the songs “Nassam Alayna El Hawa” and “Li Beirut”.
Who is Fairuz?
This Dutch artist painted The Starry Night.
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
This English playwright wrote Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
Pliés, pirouettes, and dancing en pointe are associated with this dance form.
What is ballet?
Studio Ghibli, the animation studio behind My Neighbour Totoro, comes from this country.
What is Japan?
Known as the Star of the East, this Egyptian singer performed “Enta Omri”.
Who is Umm Kulthum?
Salvador Dalí’s dreamlike scenes and melting clocks are associated with this art movement.
What is Surrealism?
This author wrote the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, featuring Big Brother.
Who is George Orwell?
This composer’s Ninth Symphony includes the famous “Ode to Joy” theme.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
The 2019 film Parasite was made in this country.
What is South Korea?
This Egyptian novelist became the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1988.
Who is Naguib Mahfouz?
This Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
This Spanish author wrote Don Quixote.
Who is Miguel de Cervantes?
In the usual classification of adult female singing voices, this is the highest voice type.
What is a soprano?
The Palme d’Or is the top prize at the film festival held in this French city.
What is Cannes?
This Lebanese-born writer published The Prophet in English in 1923.
Who is Kahlil Gibran?
This large, mainly black-and-white painting by Picasso responds to the bombing of a Spanish town in 1937.
What is Guernica?
This Colombian author wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Who is Gabriel García Márquez?
This Russian composer wrote the music for Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.
Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
This Japanese director made the 1954 film Seven Samurai.
Who is Akira Kurosawa?
This Palestinian poet wrote “Identity Card”, famous for its opening call to record that he is an Arab.
Who is Mahmoud Darwish?