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Bing Art Quiz: 15 Questions on Famous Paintings and Artists
When the Bing homepage features a museum, a cathedral or an artist's birthday, the quiz turns to art. This art quiz has 15 questions on famous paintings, sculptures, artists and the museums that hold them, each with a short explanation.
You do not need to be an art historian. Most answers come down to a handful of very famous names and works.
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Pick A, B or C for each question. The right answer turns green and a short fact explains it.
All 15 questions and answers
Every question with its answer and explanation. Open “Show answer” after you guess.
1 Who painted the Mona Lisa?
- A Michelangelo
- B Raphael
- C Leonardo da Vinci
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✓ Answer: C. Leonardo da Vinci
Did you know? Leonardo worked on it in the early 1500s. It hangs in the Louvre in Paris.
2 Which artist painted The Starry Night in 1889?
- A Claude Monet
- B Paul Gauguin
- C Vincent van Gogh
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✓ Answer: C. Vincent van Gogh
Did you know? Van Gogh painted it from his room at the asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
3 Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
- A Leonardo da Vinci
- B Michelangelo
- C Botticelli
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✓ Answer: B. Michelangelo
Did you know? Michelangelo painted it between 1508 and 1512 for Pope Julius II.
4 Which art movement was named after Claude Monet's painting Impression, Sunrise?
- A Cubism
- B Impressionism
- C Expressionism
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✓ Answer: B. Impressionism
Did you know? A critic used the painting's title mockingly in 1874, and the name stuck.
5 Pablo Picasso co-founded which art movement?
- A Cubism
- B Pop Art
- C Surrealism
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✓ Answer: A. Cubism
Did you know? Picasso and Georges Braque developed Cubism in the years around 1907 to 1914.
6 Which Spanish artist painted melting clocks in The Persistence of Memory?
- A Salvador Dalí
- B Francisco Goya
- C Joan Miró
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✓ Answer: A. Salvador Dalí
Did you know? Dalí painted it in 1931. It is now in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
7 Who painted The Birth of Venus?
- A Sandro Botticelli
- B Titian
- C Caravaggio
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✓ Answer: A. Sandro Botticelli
Did you know? The painting is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
8 Frida Kahlo is best known for paintings of what?
- A Battle scenes
- B Self-portraits
- C Landscapes
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✓ Answer: B. Self-portraits
Did you know? About a third of Kahlo's paintings are self-portraits.
9 Which museum is home to Rembrandt's The Night Watch?
- A The Rijksmuseum
- B The Louvre
- C The Prado
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✓ Answer: A. The Rijksmuseum
Did you know? The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam built a special gallery for it.
10 Who painted The Scream?
- A Edvard Munch
- B Gustav Klimt
- C Egon Schiele
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✓ Answer: A. Edvard Munch
Did you know? Munch made several versions, in paint and pastel, from 1893 onwards.
11 Which artist is famous for paintings of Campbell's Soup cans?
- A Andy Warhol
- B Roy Lichtenstein
- C Keith Haring
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✓ Answer: A. Andy Warhol
Did you know? Warhol's 32 Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) became a symbol of Pop Art.
12 Who sculpted The Thinker?
- A Bernini
- B Donatello
- C Auguste Rodin
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✓ Answer: C. Auguste Rodin
Did you know? The figure was first designed around 1880 for Rodin's larger work, The Gates of Hell.
13 Girl with a Pearl Earring was painted by which Dutch artist?
- A Frans Hals
- B Johannes Vermeer
- C Rembrandt
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✓ Answer: B. Johannes Vermeer
Did you know? It hangs in the Mauritshuis in The Hague.
14 Which Japanese artist made the woodblock print The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
- A Hiroshige
- B Utamaro
- C Hokusai
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✓ Answer: C. Hokusai
Did you know? Hokusai made it around 1831 as part of his series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.
15 In which city is the Prado Museum?
- A Lisbon
- B Barcelona
- C Madrid
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✓ Answer: C. Madrid
Did you know? The Prado holds major works by Velázquez, Goya and El Greco.
Tips for art questions
Art questions usually test the link between a famous work, its artist and where it is today: the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, The Starry Night in New York's Museum of Modern Art, The Night Watch in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. Learning a few of those trios covers a lot of ground.
Art movements are the other common theme. Impressionists (Monet, Renoir) painted light and everyday scenes, Cubists (Picasso, Braque) broke objects into geometric shapes, and Surrealists (Dalí, Magritte) painted dream-like images.
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