LITERARY DEVICES: Books and arts

1. a) Dance b) astronomy c) history.

2. a) The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan b) The Secret History by Donna Tartt c) The Color Purple by Alice Walker d) The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.

3. a) Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes b) Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell c) London Fields by Martin Amis d) The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid.

4. a) Agatha Christie b) Benjamin Franklin (he used a variety of pen names) c) C. S. Lewis d) Anne Brontë.

5. a) El Greco b) Caravaggio c) Mark Chagall d) Donatello.

6. a) Seamus Heaney b) Dario Fo c) Doris Lessing d) Derek Walcott.

7. a) Dave Eggers b) Haruki Murakami c) David Foster Wallace d) Thomas Pynchon.

8. a) Harlan Coben b) Lee Child c) James Patterson d) Michael Connelly.

9. a) Sweden b) Norway c) Denmark.

10. a) Jo Nesbo b) Henning Mankell c) Karin Fossum.

11. a) Cornelius Vanderbilt—the author of the winner in 2010 was T. J. Stiles. b) Andrew Jackson—Jon Meacham won the prize in 2009. c) Robert Oppenheimer—Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin were the joint winners in 2006.

12. a) John Rawls. The book argued that if people had to choose a society through a “veil of ignorance” (not knowing what their position in society would be) they would choose a system based on political liberty and equality of opportunity. b) Francis Fukuyama. As the Berlin Wall fell, Fukuyama argued that liberal democracy had “won” the argument as to the best form of society. c) Edward Said. Said argued that western depictions of eastern society were patronising and designed to demonstrate the superiority of the western model.

13. a) Children’s literature b) science fiction and fantasy c) poetry, specifically American poets. At $100,000, the Ruth Lilly prize is one of the most lucrative literary awards.

14. Albert Camus. De Beauvoir won for Les Mandarins in 1954, Proust for A l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs in 1919 and Houellebecq for La Carte et le Territoire in 2010.

15. a) William Faulkner b) Harper Lee c) Anthony Trollope.

16. a) Edward Estlin b) Vidiadhar Surajprasad c) Antonia Susan d) Thomas Stearns.

17. Don Quixote, with around 500 million copies sold. Miguel de Cervantes’s satire about a deluded knight was first published in 1612 and is still regarded as one of the best novels ever written.

18. a) Hereford cathedral b) the Shrine of the Book, Israel Museum, Jerusalem c) Trinity College, Dublin.

19. a) The Diary of Anne Frank b) The Beatles c) Lord of the Flies by William Golding d) À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust.

20. a) 101 Dalmatians b) The Sound of Music c) The Sixth Sense (bit of a spoiler, this one) and d) The Matrix.

21. Sylvester Stallone and Madonna.

22. a) John Alcott—the film is noted for the early use of Steadicam. Stanley Kubrick directed. b) Gunnar Fischer—a long-time collaborator with Ingmar Bergman. c) Gregg Toland—the look of this Orson Welles classic is one reason why it is often voted the greatest movie of all time.

23. Italy with 11.

24. Nigeria. The term may have been coined by a writer at The Economist, Matt Steinglass, when at the New York Times. The industry is the second-largest employer in Nigeria, with 1 million workers.

25. Gone with the Wind, from back in 1939. Avatar is the top-grossing film in nominal terms. James Cameron (Avatar and Titanic) and Steven Spielberg (ET and Jaws) each have two of the top 10.

26. e) Twister, which starred Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt.

27. a) Greer Garson b) Keira Knightley c) Jennifer Ehle.

28. Bridget Jones’s Diary, an adaptation of Helen Fielding’s novel of the same name.

29. a) Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. The film, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, was a troubled production; a documentary called Heart of Darkness was later made about it. b) Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. The novel was adapted into a cartoon by Posy Simmonds, which was turned into the film. c) Emma by Jane Austen.

30. a) Cheers b) Breaking Bad c) Beverly Hills 90210.

31. a) Sanford and Son b) All in the Family c) Three’s Company.

32. a) The Louvre, Paris b) The Prado, Madrid c) The Uffizi, Florence d) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

33. a) Film b) painting c) ceramics/pottery.

34. St Petersburg in 1904. He graduated from the Imperial Ballet School before leaving for Paris in 1921 and eventually moving to the United States in 1933.

35. The Blue period.

36. a) Vincent van Gogh b) Henri Matisse c) Paul Cézanne.

37. a) Johannes Vermeer. The artist was played by Colin Firth. b) Michaelangelo. Charlton Heston played the artist as he painted the Sistine Chapel. c) Vincent van Gogh, who was played by Kirk Douglas while Anthony Quinn won an Oscar for playing Paul Gauguin.

38. a) Alexander Calder b) Marcel Duchamp c) Henry Moore.

39. a) Renzo Piano b) Frank Gehry c) Zaha Hadid.

40. a) Rococo b) Baroque c) Gothic.

41. The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre.

42. a) Christian and Gospel b) Music of Black Origin c) Latin music.

43. a) A Midsummer Night’s Dream b) Measure for Measure c) The Winter’s Tale.

44. a) Antony and Cleopatra b) Twelfth Night c) As You Like It.

45. a) Macbeth as directed by Akira Kurosawa; the plot is transferred to feudal Japan. b) The Taming of the Shrew. The Cole Porter musical is set among the cast of Shakespeare’s play and includes the song “Brush Up Your Shakespeare”. c) Twelfth Night is remade in this movie as a college-based romcom.

46. a) Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein b) John Kander and Fred Ebb c) Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.

47. a) The Barber of Seville by Rossini b) Rigoletto by Verdi c) La Bohème by Puccini.

48. a) “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel b) “Young Americans” by David Bowie c) “Money’s Too Tight to Mention” by Simply Red.

49. The soundtrack of West Side Story, the musical, was number 1 for 54 weeks.

50. Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd with a remarkable 928 weeks, or almost 18 years, had the longest run, and the Rolling Stones with 37 had the most. To show the American public’s diverse taste, Barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra had 34 and 33 top 10 albums respectively.