Arts & Literature Daily Quiz

📅Sunday, February 8, 2026•🌐America/New York•🇺🇸 US

Today's Arts & Literature Quiz Questions & Answers

Test your knowledge with these arts & literature trivia questions. Try to answer all 10 questions correctly! Updated daily.

Question 1: Which classic starts 'Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know'?

Correct Answer: The Stranger
  • The Myth of Sisyphus
  • The Fall
  • The Stranger (Correct Answer)
  • The Plague

💡 Albert Camus's 1942 absurdist novel introduces Meursault's detachment.

Question 2: Who imagined 'red wheelbarrows' and 'white chickens'?

Correct Answer: William Carlos Williams
  • Ezra Pound
  • E.E. Cummings
  • William Carlos Williams (Correct Answer)
  • Wallace Stevens

💡 Williams was a full-time pediatrician who wrote poems on prescription pads

Question 3: Which fantasy creature is known for kidnapping children and leaving changelings?

Correct Answer: Fairy
  • Fairy (Correct Answer)
  • Goblin
  • Vampire
  • Troll

💡 While changeling myths often explained developmental differences in historical times, directly linking them to specific modern conditions like autism is an oversimplification of complex folklore.

Question 4: What sister wrote as Ellis Bell to hide her gothic moor tales?

Correct Answer: Emily Brontë
  • Anne Brontë
  • Charlotte Brontë
  • Emily Brontë (Correct Answer)
  • Mary Evans

💡 Bells hid gender to skirt bias. Source: Pan Macmillan Famous Female Authors with Male Pseudonyms

Question 5: What was the original purpose of the room where Leonardo painted 'The Last Supper'?

Correct Answer: Monastery dining hall
  • Monastery dining hall (Correct Answer)
  • Church altar
  • Private chapel
  • Library

💡 The refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie was where monks ate their meals in silence. (Source: Santa Maria delle Grazie)

Question 6: Roald Dahl wrote 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' for which relative?

Correct Answer: His son
  • Nephew
  • His son (Correct Answer)
  • Godchild
  • Daughter

💡 Family letters: Theo Dahl, who suffered brain injury in 1960 accident.

Question 7: Which author won the Booker Prize for *The Sense of an Ending* in 2011?

Correct Answer: Julian Barnes
  • Hilary Mantel
  • Richard Flanagan
  • Julian Barnes (Correct Answer)
  • Yann Martel

💡 Julian Barnes's novel explores memory and regret.

Question 8: Who is the 'Catcher in the Rye' that Holden wants to be?

Correct Answer: Holden himself
  • Mr. Antolini
  • Phoebe
  • Holden himself (Correct Answer)
  • Allie

💡 The title references Burns' poem about childhood innocence

Question 9: Which coming-of-age story ends with its protagonist's reflection: 'As I walked along, I thought about Papa and the bomb and the world, and I knew that I would never again be able to put it back together the way it was.'?

Correct Answer: Farewell to Manzanar
  • The Kite Runner
  • Farewell to Manzanar (Correct Answer)
  • A Separate Peace
  • The Catcher in the Rye

💡 This memoir about Japanese American internment ends with the lasting psychological impact of the experience.

Question 10: Which artist created 'The Light of the Spirit' by drawing with fire on the walls of a cave?

Correct Answer: James Turrell
  • Robert Smithson
  • Michael Heizer
  • Walter De Maria
  • James Turrell (Correct Answer)

💡 The 1999 work at the Hess Collection winery used controlled explosions to create delicate carbon markings. (Source: The Hess Collection)

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