Famous Paintings
The background of this painting shows tan colored mountains based on the landscapes of Catalonia. A dead tree grows out of a platform in the left of this painting, next to a group of ants covering an orange clock. Name this painting by surrealist artist Salvador Dali that features soft clocks and a "monster" in the center.
The Persistence of Memory
This home was originally supposed to face Bear Run, but was instead cantilevered over it, to the displeasure of Edgar Kaufmann. This building was nicknamed “Rising Mildew” due to mold damage, and many steel beams were painted with it's architect's custom Cherokee red to evoke the ore they originated from. Name this building in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
Fallingwater
This artist was commissioned to work on “The Mural Project,” in which one work depicts the Snake River in Grand Teton National Park. This man worked on a project later entitled Born Free and Equal, chronicling Japanese-Americans’ experiences at Manzanar internment camp. This artist creator of the “zone system” of exposure founded the group f/64. Name this photographer of Moon and Half Dome and many other photos at Yosemite National Park.
Ansel Adams
This artist included scenes such as “Green Car Crash” in his series Death and Disaster. In 1968, Valerie Solanas attempted to kill this artist at his New York City studio which he called The Factory. This man used silkscreen printing to make re-colored pictures of famous figures, including Marilyn Monroe in his Marilyn Diptych. Name this Pop artist who created 32 silkscreen canvases depicting Campbell's soup cans.
Andy Warhol (or Andrew Warhola)
One character in this opera finds solace in watching the Dance of the Moorish Slaves, which concludes with the assertion that the protagonist’s “grief is sacred.” The title character of this opera shouts “Ritorna vincitor!” along with a chorus to express her love for her country, father, and Radamés. Name this opera by Giuseppe Verdi set in Egypt, about an Ethiopian princess.
Aida
This central figure's feet of this painting were removed when the lower portion was cut to make room for a doorway. This painting, which is housed in the Santa Maria delle Grazie, includes a man spilling a salt cellar, a betrayer holding a knife, and three windows in the background. Name this painting depicting Jesus’s final meal with his twelve apostles, made by Leonarda da Vinci
The Last Supper
This building was designed by the architects Ictinus and Callicrates, and it includes many sculptures created by Phidias, including the Elgin Marbles which are stored in the British Museum. A 1687 ammunition explosion severely damaged the ceiling of this building, which was built at the peak of the Acropolis in Athens. Name this temple, commissioned by Pericles for the Greek goddess Athena.
The Parthenon
This photograph was for the Farm Security Administration and depicted a woman whose two children are hiding their faces from the camera. This photo’s caption mistakenly stated that the subject sold her car’s tires for food. This photo features Florence Owens Thompson during the Great Depression in California. Name this photograph taken by Dorothea Lange in 2936
Migrant Mother
This artist painted a low-angle view of his son and his wife in his garden, and executed numerous plein-air studies of the Rouen Cathedral in various seasons and lighting. This man lived at Giverny where he had a Japanese garden and painted haystacks and water lilies. This artist's depiction of a harbor in the early morning lent its name to the Impressionist movement. Name this French artist who painted Impression, Sunrise and over 250 depictions of water lilies.
(Oscar-) Claude Monet
This opera’s heroine sings “Tra la la” after she is arrested for trying to stab another woman. This character claims she will dance the Seguidilla at her friend Lilia Pastia’s inn as she seduces a soldier, and eventually finds herself attracted to a character who sings the Toreador Song, Escamillo. In this opera, the singer of the “Habanera” is stabbed by Don José. Name this opera by Georges Bizet about the title Spanish gypsy girl.
Carmen
In this painting, a sign at the top advertises the price of Phillies Cigars as five cents. This painting was parodied in Gottfried Helnwein's Boulevard of Broken Dreams, which replaces this painting’s figures with Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. A woman dressed in red sits next to one of the two men dressed in fedoras. Name this painting by Edward Hopper which shows a diner and empty street.
Nighthawks
This building features an exterior of pink granite and is built near the Harbour Bridge on Bennelong Point. The designer of this building hired Höganäs to create similar clay tiles to match both his vision and his “Spherical Solution” for the roof of this building. This building was designed by Jørn Utzon with white, sail-like, interlocking arches. Name this building where music and theater are performed in the largest city in Australia
Sydney Opera House
This artist of the subjectless Equivalents series depicted tracks in the snow directing the eye back to a horse-drawn carriage on Fifth Avenue. This man collaborated with Edward Steichen to make the gallery 291. This photographer is the creator of the journal titled "Camera Work" and co-founder of Photo-Secessionism. Name this photographer of The Steerage who married Georgia O'Keeffe.
Alfred Stieglitz
This artist illustrated his sister’s illness in Death in the Sickroom and depicted a nun, a nude woman, and a “dreamer” in white in Woman in Three Stages. The eruption of Krakatoa may have inspired the red sky in this artist’s most famous work. That work depicts a bald, twisted figure that holds its hands to its face and performs the title action. Name this Norwegian Expressionist artist of The Scream and The Sick Child.
Edvard Munch
The uniting of one couple in this opera leads to stuttering in the duet "Pa, pa, pa." In this opera's aria "O zittre nicht," Pamina is pledged to be wed to one character if she can be saved from Sarastro, while another aria, "Der Hölle Rache," contains four high F notes. Name this opera in which Tamino is given the title musical instrument, by Mozart.
The Magic Flute (or Die Zauberflöte)
In this painting, a young woman is held by a floating winged man, identified as the wind god Zephyrus. This painting depicts the Hora of Spring reaching to cover the title contrapposto figure with an embroidered pink cloak. Name this painting that depicts the central Roman goddess arriving on a seashell.
The Birth of Venus
This museum holds the law code of Hammurabi, and its Daru staircase holds the Winged Victory of Samothrace. In 1911, this museum's most famous artwork was stolen by one of its employees who had a failed attempt to return it to its creators homeland. It's Napoleon Courtyard has a modern entrance which includes a glass pyramid designed by I.M. Pei. Name this art museum in Paris, France where a heist occurred on October 19, 2025.
The Louvre
In Nick Ut's “The Terror of War,” a naked girl runs toward the camera fleeing a bombing during this war. A photographer who died during this conflict, Dickie Chapelle, was depicted receiving last rites by fellow photographer Henry Huet. Just before this conflict, Malcolm Browne photographed a man at an intersection committing self-immolation. Name this war whose end is shown in a photograph of the fall of Saigon.
Vietnam War
This artist co-founded an art movement with Georges Braque in which its name was coined by Louis Vauxcelles. Two of five women wear African masks in this artist's painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. A flower grows from a severed hand in a monochromatic work by this artist in which a light bulb inside an eye appears above a screaming horse. This man had "Rose" and "Blue" periods and was known for pioneering Cubism. Name this Spanish Cubist painter known for Guernica and The Old Guitarist.
Pablo Picasso
In this work, one character leases a house for 999 years. In the duet "Tutti i fior," this operatic title character wishes to "bring spring inside" upon the re-arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln. Earlier in the opera, she sings the aria "Un bel di," waiting for "one beautiful day" when Lieutenant Pinkerton will return, but when he returns with an American wife, she commits suicide. Name this Giacomo Puccini opera about Cio-Cio San, a Japanese woman known by an insect nickname.
Madame Butterfly
Marcel Duchamp added a goatee and mustache to this painting's central figure in his postcard L.H.O.O.Q., and this woman is the subject of of the silkscreen Thirty are Better Than One by Andy Warhol. This painting's background shows a winding road and an arched bridge and the subject’s hands are folded on the arm of her wooden chair. Over cleaning is blamed for her missing eyebrows and the transparency of her delicate black veil. Name this painting by Leonardo da Vinci which depicts the wife of Francesco del Giocondo with an enigmatic smile.
The Mona Lisa
This architect designed a building named after a pair of dancers in Prague and a smashed guitar inspired his design for Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture. A music venue in Millennium Park designed by this architect incorporates a huge metal trellis intended to support its soundsystem. This man uses curved sheets of metal in many of his designs, including for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Name this Canadian-American architect, designer of the Guggenheim Bilbao.
Frank Gehry [or Frank Owen Goldberg]
In a photo of a gang from this city, a man in a bowler hat stands at the side of a building and an old woman leans her head out a window. In this city, Diane Arbus took a photo of a child holding a toy hand grenade. Charles Ebbets’s photograph Lunch atop a Skyscraper depicts construction workers eating a meal while working on the Empire State Building. Name this city, where Alfred Eisenstadt photographed a sailor kissing a stranger in Times Square
New York City
Many images of the Venus de Milo appear in one painting by this artist dedicated to his wife Gala. An array of brick-like objects appears in a painting by this artist named for the “Disintegration” of one of his previous paintings. In a painting by this artist inspired by Camembert cheese, melting clocks appear in a Catalonian landscape. In another one of this artist's paintings, spindly trees frame three swans whose reflections mimic elephants. Name this Spanish Surrealist artist of The Persistence of Memory, the Sacrament of the Last Supper, and Lobster Telephone.
Salvador Dali
An original title for this opera was The Malediction, or The Curse which refers to the curse placed on the title character and his employer by Count Monterone. One famous aria in this opera is “La Donna e Mobile” sung by that employer, the Duke of Mantua. The main character’s daughter is killed in the end by the assassin, Sparafucile, whom the main character hired to kill the Duke. Name this opera about the problems of the titular hunchback jester, an opera by Giuseppe Verdi.
Rigoletto