Old
Post 20th Century Names
Comic Knowledge
Miscellaneous Mystery
Photography Phacts
100

This art movement that came after Baroque is characterized by lighter colors, asymmetry, and beautiful flowy styles.



Rococo.

100

A former College Humor property. Nathan Yaffe, Julia Lepetit, Jacob Andrews, Karina Farek, and David Clarke all work on this YouTube channel.

Drawfee

100

Creator of Kimba, "the Father of Manga".

Osamu Tezuka

100

The TMNT gangs Four namesakes.

Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael

100

The parts of the Exposure Triangle.

ISO, Shutter, and Aperture

200

How Leonardo Da Vinci gained a detailed understanding of human anatomy.

Dissecting corpses to understand bone and muscle structure.

200

Known for her paintings of flowers, She once told art critic Emily Genauer: "I hate flowers--I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move."

Georgia O'Keeffe

200

This legendary figure of American comics shares part of his name with Nintendo’s “Super Tuff Pink Puff”


Jack Kirby

200

The Oxford English Dictionary offers this many different meanings for the noun ‘art’.

12

200

The first commercially successful photographic process.

Daguerreotype (duh·geh·ruh·tipe )

300

A painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya that depicts the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus.


"Saturn Devouring His Son"

300

Who walked his anteater in New York?

Salvador Dali

300

The now legendary collaboration between artist Brian Bolland and writer Alan Moore published by DC in 1988.

The Killing Joke

300

12 Hasselblad cameras were used to document the Apollo 11 mission, those cameras are now located here.  

The moon.  

Extra space was needed for rock samples.

300

True or False

The first selfie was taken in 1939 

False

The first known selfie was taken in 1839 by Robert Cornelius

400

This voluptuous sculpture was discovered near Willendorf, Austria, and is dated around 25000 BC.

"The Venus of Willendorf"

400

He took the most viewed photo in human history.

  Charles O’Rear

 The image titled “Bliss” was the default background for Windows XP computers

400

He is now known as one of the best comic artists of the modern age and partnered when with Chris Claremont in the 90’s, the pair created the X-Man “Gambit”

Jim Lee

400

This former US President died while sitting through a portrait session with Elizabeth Shoumatoff.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 

the unfinished canvas was aptly named “The Unfinished Portrait of FDR”.

400

In 1907 this was the closest thing to drone footage.

Pigeon Photography

500

His revolutionary approach to oil was such that a myth, perpetuated by Giorgio Vasari, arose that he had invented oil painting.

Jan van Eyck

500

“I have finally freed myself from the sticky medium of paint, and am working directly with light itself.” Said this early 20th century artist, who shares a name with an enemy of SpongeBob.

 Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)

500

In 1965 a redrawn American adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's "Astro Boy" was published in the US. This was the first manga brought to America with its original art in 1978.

 Keiji Nakazawa's “Barefoot Gen”

500

These two artists made 8 of the 21 most expensive paintings sold at auction, 4 by one and 4 by the other.

van Gogh and Picasso

500

Kodak engineer Steven Sasson invented the first digital camera in 1975, it weighed this much

Eight Pounds