OQA Session Quiz

1. “ART IS HEAVY” QUIZ

2. Q1
• The story is so improbable, so marvelous, that it feels more like the
remnant of a dream, or a half-remembered myth, rather than
something that unfolded within living memory. . . .
• September 12, 1940. A warm afternoon in Dordogne, in
southwestern France. Four boys and their dog, Robot, walk along a
ridge covered with pine, oak and blackberry brambles.
• When Robot begins digging near a hole beside a downed tree, the
boys tell each other that this might be the entrance to a legendary
tunnel running beneath the Vézère River, leading to a lost treasure
in the woods of Montignac. The youngsters begin to dig, widening
the hole, removing rocks—until they’ve made an opening large
enough for each to slip through, one by one. They slide down into
the earth—and emerge into a dark chamber beneath the ground.
• Which site of European heritage was discovered in such manner?

4. Q2
• In 2012, Therese Frare told Life that David's father Bill
expressed the family's feelings on the use of the
picture by Benetton when he told her "Listen, Therese.
Benetton didn’t use us, or exploit us. We used them.
Because of them, your photo was seen all over the
world, and that’s exactly what David wanted.“
• Fallout from the Ad campaign came from many
sources, including the Catholic Church which felt that
the image was an inappropriate allusion to a historical
imagery.
• Which historical imagery was the Church not happy
with?

6. • Fallout from the
campaign came from
many sources, including
the Catholic Church which
felt that the image was an
inappropriate allusion to
the historical imagery of
The Virgin Mary
comforting Jesus
Christ after the
crucifixion.

7. q3
• A spoof campaign for a virtuously eco-friendly
car portrays three immoral scenes – murder,
prostitution and adultery- bearing the tagline
'Well, at least he drives a ____'.
• FITB

9. q4
• Bearing the slogan 'Fair
trial, my arse,' this
Agent Provocateur
advert bears a cheeky
message. Having
teamed up with human
rights campaigners
Reprieve.
• What did they
campaign for/against?

10. • The sheer orange undies were part of a wider
campaign against the illegal detention of
prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.

11. q5
• Fashion designer
Kenneth Cole's 'We all
have ____' ad campaign
caused ripples because
the posters so closely
resembled normal
fashion ads.
• What was so unusual
about them?

12. • The tagline 'We're all potential carriers' refers
not to the bag the model is brandishing, but
to Aids.

13. q6
• Which famous Ace pilot
of the Luftwaffe once
said, “ I like Mickey
Mouse. I always have.
And I like cigars, but I
had to give them up
after the war”.

14. Adolf Galland

15. q7
• Composer Igor Stravinsky told an interviewer, “In 1937 or 1938, I received a
request from the Disney office in America for permission to us ‘____’ in a
cartoon film. The request was accompanied by a gentle warning that if
permission were withheld, the music would be used anyway. (‘____’, being
Russian, was not copyrighted in the United States).
• But as owners of the film wished to show it abroad (in the Berne Copyright
countries), they offered me $5,000, a sum I was obliged to accept, although,
in fact, the ‘percentage’ of a dozen intermediates reduced it to about
$1,200. I saw the film with George Balanchine in a Hollywood studio at
Christmastime 1939.
• The order of the piece had been shuffled and the most difficult of them
eliminated…although this didn’t help the musical performance, which was
execrable. I will say nothing about the visual complement for I do not wish
to criticize an unresisting imbecility, but the musical point of view of the
film involved a dangerous misunderstanding.”
• Identify the movie and the musical score being discussed on here.

16. • A- Fantasia, B- Le Sucre

17. q8
• Ever since the Oscars were embarrassed in 1972 when
Marlon Brando sent Sacheen Littlefeather to accept his
award, the Academy instituted a policy not to allow
anybody except the actual winner to collect the award.
• Istvan Dosai, of the delegation for “Confidence”,
another Hungarian movie, a nominee in the Best
Foreign Language film category, that it lost, accepted
the award for Best Animated Short Film(1981), on
pretending to be Ferenc Rorusz.
• Rorusz was the producer of the movie that won the
award, but couldn’t make it to the ceremony due to
visa issues.
• Which famous movie won the said award that year?

18. • The Fly ( A Legy)

19. q9
• On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn
McHale wrote a note. “He is much better off without me. . . . I
wouldn’t make a good wife for anybody,” she wrote. Then she
crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the
Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the
street, 86 floors below. Then she jumped. In her desperate
determination she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a
United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the
street a photography student heard an explosive crash. Just
four minutes after Evelyn McHale’s death he got this picture
of death’s violence and its composure.
• What famous work thus resulted?

20. • “The Most beautiful
suicide”, by Robert
Wiles.

21. q10
• The act began in 1950 when the girls were taught “Ole
Buttermilk Sky” and “Candy and Cake” by U.S. troops in
Korea.
• Min Ja sang off-key and Ai Ja chewed gum while she
sang, but to the GIs they were the Orient’s answer to
the Andrews Sisters.
• In 1959 an ex-GI named Bob McMackin, who had heard
them in Seoul, brought the Kims over [to the States].
The girls learnt their songs by rote since they know
little English.
• Which pioneering act? What did they start?

22. • The Kim Sisters,
started K-Pop.

23. q11
• Identify

24. • Henri Matisse

25. q12
• The _____ year is the year at the end of seven cycles
of shmita (Sabbatical years), and according
to Biblical regulations had a special impact on the
ownership and management of land in the Land of Israel.
• There is some debate whether it was the 49th year (the last
year of seven sabbatical cycles, referred to as the Sabbath's
Sabbath), or whether it was the following (50th) year.
• The concept of the ______ is a special year of remission
of sins and universal pardon. In the Biblical Book of
Leviticus, a _____ year is mentioned to occur every fiftieth
year, in which slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts
would be forgiven and the mercies of God would be
particularly manifest.
• What word common in parlance wrt achievements in filmdom?

26. Jubilee

27. q13
• In L.H.O.O.Q. the objet trouvé("found object") is a cheap
postcard reproduction of ____ onto which Duchamp drew a
moustache and beard in pencil and appended the title.
• The name of the piece, L.H.O.O.Q., is a pun; the letters
pronounced in French sound like "Elle a chaud au cul", "She is
hot in the arse“;
• "avoir chaud au cul" is a vulgar expression implying that a
woman has sexual restlessness.
• In a late interview (Schwarz 203), Duchamp gives a loose
translation of L.H.O.O.Q. as "there is fire down below".
• What was the actual subject of Marcel Duchamp’s painting?

28. • Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa

29. q14
• Part of the problem was due to the introduction
of flush toilets, replacing the chamber-pots that most
Londoners had used. These dramatically increased the
volume of water and waste that was now poured into
existing cesspits. These often overflowed into street
drains designed originally to cope with rainwater, but
now also used to carry outfalls from factories,
slaughterhouses and other activities, contaminating the
city before emptying into the nearby river.
• The summer of 1858 was unusually hot. The warm
weather encouraged bacteria to thrive.
• This is the description of the circumstances just before
what event?

30. • The Great Stink.
• Michael Faraday giving
his card to Father
Thames, caricature
commenting on a letter
of Faraday's on the
state of the river in The
Times in July 1855 in
which he describes
using torn pieces of
white cards to gauge
the Thames's "degree
of opacity"

31. q15
• Françoise Gilot, left _____ in 1953, and in 1964 she
wrote a tell-all memoir of their time together. With its
less-than-flattering tales of his incessant affairs and
titanic insecurities, her book so angered ______ that he
spitefully refused to see their children ever again,
which is well documented.
• By 1970, Gilot had married another world-famous
genius: American virologist Jonas Salk, developer of the
polio vaccine.
• To whom was she a lover, organizer, muse, conversation
partner, hostess, artist, and an art critic?

32. • Pablo Picasso

33. q16
• When it first came in prominence, Iowans were furious at their
depiction as "pinched, grim-faced, puritanical Bible-thumpers".
• Nan Wood Graham, one of the models, apparently embarrassed at
being depicted as the wife of someone twice her age, began telling
people that the painting was of a man and his daughter, which the
painter seems to confirm in his letter to a Mrs. Nellie Sudduth in
1941.
• Another interpretation sees it as an "old-fashioned mourning
portrait... Tellingly, the curtains hanging in the windows of the
house, both upstairs and down, are pulled closed in the middle of
the day, a mourning custom in Victorian America. The woman
wears a black dress beneath her apron, and glances away as if
holding back tears. One imagines she is grieving for the man
beside her...“.
• What painting is being talked of here?

34. American Gothic by Grant Wood

35. q17
• It is said that Manet derived inspiration from
Dieogo Velazquez’s painting Las Meninas. It was his
last major work of sorts, dealing with mirrors and
intentional play on perspective.
• Initial reviews trashed Manet for his ignorance and
taking the science of reflection for a ride.
• Along with the Victorian Paris it depicts what you’re
to find in a Paris Salon during that time.
• <image next>

36. Which famous artwork/ what were the
scientific anomalies observed in it?
Las Meninas, by Diego Velazquez
The Bar, by John Brack parodies
Manet’s painting.

37. A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

38. q18
• While the Bathers at
Asnières, one of
Seurat’s early
masterpieces, depicts
the working class of
1880s Paris in one of
those summer heat
waves, the next painting
<image next>…

39. • A Sunday Afternoon on the
Island of La Grande Jatte,
represents the Parisian
bourgeois of the same time.
• Seurat uses a particular
method to attach a shimmer
appearance at the surface,
which represents the
saturated light and heat.
• A very basic application of the
science of light interference
lead to this method,
otherwise known as what?

40. • Pointillism
• The use of dots to blend in
objects with surroundings.

41. q19
• Although this <image> came first, its was the artist’s later
painting that stood out.
• The painting is a prominent motif in the 1999 art heist
remake of The Thomas Crown Affair. In this film, a copy of
the painting is prominently displayed in the home of the
protagonist.
• The love interest takes note of it as "the stereotypical
faceless businessman". The protagonist of the film uses
numerous accomplices, all dressed like the subject of the
painting, to confuse the police while he enters the museum
to apparently return the painting he stole earlier in the film.
• The bowler-hatted men all carry identical briefcases full of
copies of the painting.

42. • What painting are
we discussing on,
belonging to the
same guy who
painted this?

43. • Son of Man
by Rene Magritte

44. q20
• The overall scene is within a room where, at an open end on
the left, a wide-eyed bull stands over a woman grieving over a
dead child in her arms.
• The centre is occupied by a horse falling in agony as it had just
been run through by a spear or javelin. The large gaping
wound in the horse's side is a major focus of the painting.
• To the upper right of the horse, a frightened female figure,
who seems to be witnessing the scenes before her, appears to
have floated into the room through a window. Her arm, also
floating in, carries a flame-lit lamp. The lamp is positioned
very close to the bulb, and is a symbol of hope, clashing with
the lightbulb.
• The newspaper print used in the painting reflects how the
painter learned of the massacre.
• Which famous painting?

45. Guernica, by Picasso

46. q21
• Marcell Duchamp’s
designed urinal, he
submitted to a NY art
exhibition, today is
regarded as one of the
pioneering acts of an
Art type.
• What type (of art) is
synonymous with this
image?

47. Dadaism

48. Give the Funda
q22
Yves Heck Cole Porter
Alison Pill Zelda Fitzgerald
Tom Hiddleston F. Scott Fitzgerald
Corey Stoll Ernest Hemingway
Marcial Di Fonzo Bo Pablo Picasso
Adrien Brody Salvador Dalí
David Lowe T. S. Eliot
Vincent Menjou Cortes Henri de Toulouse-
Lautrec

49. Credits of ‘Midnight in Paris’

50. Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist
painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of
the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions
before nature. Most of his paintings from 1883 until his
death 40 years later were of scenes within 3 kilometres of
his home.
X is one of his most famous works. It is a series of 25
canvasses, with X in different settings to depict the
differences in perceptions of light across various times of a
day, seasons and weather. The series began in the end of
summer of 1890 and continued through the following
spring, using that year's harvest.
X?
q23

51. Haystacks

52. q24
• The pronunciation of the name James is often
corrupted to sound more like Haa-mesz in
many Latin based languages as is seen with
that of James Rodriguez, WC 2014 golden ball
player.
• Taking a note from above, how does a certain
Battle of Maiwand veteran relate to this?

53. • Dr. John Hamish Watson

54. q25

55. Antilia

56. q26
This novel follows a group a
group of expatriate
Americans and Britons from
Paris to attend a festival held
in honor of the co-patron of
Navarre, where the festival
takes place. Which festival?

57. The festival of San Fermín
(the running of the bulls in Pamplona is the most
famous event in the festival)

58. q27
This profession is controlled by a guild, which issues a
limited number of licenses granted after periods of
training and apprenticeship, and a major
comprehensive exam which tests knowledge of
history and landmarks, foreign language skills etc. In
August 2010, Giorgia Boscolo became the first lady
to be granted a license for this profession. What
profession?

59. Gondolier

60. q28
This city’s metro system, called the ‘tunnelbana’, is well
known for its decoration of the stations. It is
sometimes called the longest art gallery in the world.
Which city?

61. Stockholm

62. q29
• Here you see a Picasso
painting called Two
Characters , also
implemented into his
Google Doodle.
• What other more
prominent feature from
the world of technology
borrows lineage from this
painting?

63. Mac Finder