Academic Quiz team
Known as the father of African literature; raised in Nigeria by Christian convert parents; prevalent theme in his work is the intersection of African tradition and modernity, especially as embodied by European colonialism; author of Arrow of God, Beware Soul Brother and Other Poems, and Things Fall Apart
Achebe
Known as the Father of Tragedy of 90 plays at the great Athenian festivals of Greek drama; wrote The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliants, The Oresteia, The Liberation Bearers, and The Eumenides; most famous work is Prometheus Bound, which tells the myth of the Titan punished by Zeus for giving humanity the gift of life
Aeschylus
South African postmodernist writer; influenced by his family's religious convictions and the Old Testament; best known for his first novel Cry, The Beloved Country, a tale of racial injustice that brought international attention to the problem
Alan Paton
French novelist, essayist, and playwright; awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. The Myth of Sisyphus, The Rebel. The Stranger, The Plague and The Fall.
Albert Camus
wrote his first plays in 1825 and 1826; penned Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
He possessed a strong poetic power, which his readers often attributed to his "Englishness" and masculinity's His most famous works are In Memoriam, The Idylls of King and Maud, and The Charge of the Light Brigade, "Cannon to the left, Cannon to the right"
Alfred Tennyson
which dance company was founded by alvin ailey
American Dance Theater
Most famous writer of Old Comedy plays in ancient Greece and his surviving works are the only example of that style; known as the father of comedy; known for The Clouds, The Wasps, The Birds, Lysistrata, The Women at the Thesmophoria, Festival, and The Frogs.
Aristophanes
what islamic dynasty drove the last crusaders out of palestine
Ayyubid
among his major plays are the comedies Every Man in His Humor, Volpone, Epicocene, The Silent Woman, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair; major poems include Song to Celia; fought in a Dutch war against Spain
Ben Johnson
Canada's westernmost province, located within the Rocky Mountain range; only province in the Pacific Ocean; this province joined Confederation because the Canadian government agreed to pay off the colony's loans and to build a railway that would link it to the four provinces in the East of Canada; capital is Victoria
British Columbia
Dichloromethane
CH2Cl2
what opera by Bizet has the main character working in a cigarette factory
Carmen
what court case dealt with the death of robert farquhar
Chisholm vs Georgia
British author, poet, and pamphleteer best known as the author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders
Defoe
Welsh writer; writing is famous for its opaque poetic style, comic exuberance, rhapsodic lilt, and pathos; main themes of his work are nostalgia, life, death, and lost innocence; best known for the poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night and the play Under Milk Wood.
Dylan Thomas
Name this author of 40 books of poetry and prose, best remembered for a sequence of 200 free-verse epitaphs depicting American life spoken from a town cemetery, the Spoon River Anthology. He also wrote Silence, Alfred Moir, George Gray, A.D Blood, Fiddler Jones, Anne Rutledge, Amanda Barker, and Alexander Throckmorton.
Edgar Lee Masters
who wrote the play the faerie queen
Edmund Spenser
Who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
English Victorian poet who was the eldest of twelve children and wrote poetry since eleven, reputation rests chiefly upon her love poems, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Aurora Leigh and How Do I Love Thee.
Elizabeth Browning
Who wrote The Rhinoceros?
Eugene Ionesco
A playwright who wrote about 90 tragedies and included strong female characters and smart slaves; most famous works include Medeia, which cemented his reputation for clever dialogues, fine choral lyrics, and a gritty realism in both his text and stage presentation
Euripides
French literature, remembered primarily for his stylistic precision and dispassionate rendering of psychological detail in his piece Madame Bovary, wrote Sentimental Education, Salammbo, Three Tales, A Simple Heart, and Bouvard and Pecuchet,
Flabert
who composed the damnation of faust
Hector Berloiz
Who wrote Phenomenology of the Spirit?
Hegel
Who composed the opera the fairy queen
Henry Purcell
English poet and Jesuit priest during the Victorian era whose work wasn't published in collected form until 1918; known best for his manipulation of prosody, particularly his invention of sprung rhythm, and his use of imagery established him post death as an innovative writer of verse
Hopkins
One of this Norwegian author's best known plays tells the story of Gregers Werle, a young man who returns to his hometown after an extended exile and is reunited with his boyhood friend Hjalmar Ekdal; his work explored how his art could advocate for social justice and women's rights; best known plays are A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Peer Gynt, The Wild Duck, Brand, and Rosmersholm
Ibsen
South African novelist who won a Nobel Prize for literature about the effects of colonization; author of two fictionalized memoirs Boyhood and Youth and The Lives of Animals, Disgrace, and Waiting for the Barbarians
J.M. Coetzee
American novelist who was drafted into WWIl in 1942, where he served as an interrogator, questioning them in English and French. He had a successful and distinguished military career, landing at Utah Beach on D-Day and fighting in the Battle of the Bulge near the end of the war. His book won critical acclaim and devoted admirers, especially among the post WWII generation of college students, The Catcher in the Rye.
JD Salinger
best known for his biography of his friend and older contemporary English writer Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography in English language.
James Boswell
Author of this 1813 novel set in England, name the author of Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
This poet wrote with great insight and emotion about art and beauty, love and loss, suffering, and nature; most famous works are Ode on a Grecian Urn and La Belle Dame Sans Merci
John Keats
English Romantic poet and satirist who became famous for his autobiographical poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and his satirical realism of Don Juan; he lived in various parts of Italy for Greece to help the Greeks in their struggle to free themselves from Turkish rule; Calvinist; died of a fever
Lord Byron
Egyptian author and playwright known for The Cairo Trilogy, which depicts the lives of three generations of different families in Cairo from WWI until after the 1952 military coup that overthrew King Farouk; pioneered in OBGYN
Mafouz
who composed the song of the earth
Mahler
Who painted the "Fifer" and "Luncheon on the grass"?
Manet
French playwright and Elizabethan poet; known especially for his establishment of dramatic blank verse; known for saying "Here will I dwell, for heaven is on these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena" ; first play was Tamburlaine the Great; wrote 48 poems in All Ovid Elegies; known as the father of English tragedy; stabbed to death by his roommate who found "heretical papers"
Marlowe
Who painted The Red Studio?
Matisse
This author was involved in the anti-apartheid movement early on and some of her books were banned by the apartheid regime; major themes of her work were exile and alienation; won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991; famous for her novel entitled The Conservationist
Nadine Gordimer
which dance company was founded by balanchine
New York City Ballet
This is the most populous Canadian province that borders 4 Great Lakes, where the national capital is located; capital is Toronto Alberta
Ontario
Who painted The Card Players?
Paul Cezanne
What was Jane Austen's final novel
Persuasion
Who painted The Massacre of the Innocents?
Peter Paul Rubens
who wrote the opera la traviata
Piave
who wrote book of three virtues
Pizan
who wrote the opera madame butterfly
Puccini
which artist was known for his "combines"
Rauschenberg
Who painted Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette?
Renoir
English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humor, social commentary, historical settings, and a challenging vocabulary and syntax. His most noted works were The Ring and the Book, a story of a Roman murder trial, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and My Last Duchess. Started writing poetry at 21
Robert Browning
what islamic dynasty ruled iran from 1502-1736
Safavid
English writer who conceived the first British dictionary; his works include a verse drama, longer serious poems, several prologues, many translations, and light occasional poetry
Samuel Johnson
This poet's most famous works are The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Christabel, which all featured supernatural themes and exotic images, perhaps affected by the use of drugs; partnered with William Wordsworth; co-founder of Romanticism in English literature; one of the Lake poets
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
who choreographed bring in da noise bring in da funk
Savion Glover
Name this American composer and pianist that was known as the "king of ragtime" at the turn of the 20th century. He wrote a couple operas: A Guest of Honor and Treemonisha, along with classic piano music, Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer.
Scott Joplin
what was Jane Austen's first novel
Sense and Sensibility
This author's most notable work is Winesburg, Ohio, and in his memoir he wrote "Hands", in the opening story, which was the first "real" story he ever wrote. This writer is best known for subjective and self-revealing works.
Sherwood Anderson
Most famous for his 108 love sonnets and known as the second greatest Elizabethan sonneteer after Shakespeare; courtier, statesman, soldier, poet, and patron of scholars and poets that wrote Astrophel and Stella, The Defense of Poesy and The Countess of Pembroke's Acadia;
Sir Phillip Sydney
British novelist whose romantic vision of a feudal society made him highly popular in the South; known as the father of Scottish literature; works consisted of poetic romances such asThe Lady of the Lake, Quentin Duward, The Talisman, set in Palestine during the Crusades, The Waverley Novels
Sir Walter Scott
"Some enchanted evening" is from what musical
South Pacific
American poet, novelist, and short story writer that won the O. Henry Story Prize and two Pulitzer prizes for the posthumously-published Western Star, the first part of an epic poem based on American history. He suffered a heart attack and died at 44. He was best known for John Brown's Body, a narrative poem on the Civil War.
Stephen Vincent Bennet
which dancer was married to balanchine
Tallchief
was founded as a national theatre for Ireland by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory in 1904.
The Abbey Theater
The Last Day of a Condemned Man, Demain des l'cube, Toilers of the Sea, History of a Crime, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
Classical Roman poet best known for three major works- The Bucolics, The Georgics, and The Aeneid; regarded by Romans as their greatest poet
Virgil
His most famous works included the fictitious Lettres Philosophiques and the satirical novel Candide
Voltaire
Who wrote of the character Rip Van Winkle in Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
This poet is considered to be one of the greatest visionaries of the early Romantic era. In addition to writing such poems as "The Lamb" and "The Tyger," he was primarily occupied as an engraver and watercolor artist. Some of his most famous works is a book called Songs of Innocence and Experience, The Book of Thel, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Jerusalem.
William Blake
This English poet known as the father of Romantic poetry is best known for lyrical ballads co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and The Prelude, an autobiographical Romantic epic poem chronicling the "growth of a poet's mind." He was also known for the poem "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" and "Daffodils"
Wordsworth
who wrote White Teeth
Zadie Smith
from which opera is the character nanki poo
of the Mikado
