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Helen Keller dedicated her autobiography The Story of My Life to what individual who was an inventor and considered himself a teacher of the deaf?
Alexander Graham Bell
Authors | Scientists / Inventors
Arts and Culture
Which 1963 hit for Kyu Sakamoto was the first US no. 1 to be sung entirely in Japanese and made Sakamoto the first Asian singer to have a no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100?
Sukiyaki'/'Ue o Muite Aruk' I Look Up as I Walk'
World Music
Arts and Culture
Born in Barcelona in 1964, which author - possibly the most popular contemporary Spanish writer of fiction - wrote the 2001 international best-seller "La sombra del viento", or "The Shadow of the Wind"?
Carlos Ruiz
Authors | World Literature
Arts & Culture
Which art museum in Saint Petersburg, among the largest in the world, was founded in 1764 when Catherine the Great purchased a large collection of paintings that had been intended for Frederick II of Prussia, who refused it?
The State Hermitage Museum
Museums & Galleries | Unelected Leaders
arts-culture
"Portrait of Fraulein Lieser", which was found in Vienna in January 2024 having been lost of around 100 years, is the work of which artist?
Gustav Klimt
Artists
Arts & Culture
What is the name of the character, a religious hypocrite, who provides the title of a 1664 play by Molière?
Le TARTUFFE [Le Tartuffe; ou, l’imposteur - “Tartuffe; or, The Imposter”]
Theatre
arts-culture
Due to be published in 2025, 'The City' is is intended to be a take on Dante's 'Divine Comedy' with a magical realism and sci-fi twist. With multiple points of view and interlocking stories, this book will be structured in a similar way to the author's 2013 novel 'The Son'. 'The City' is the third novel by which US author, whose other two novels have been adapted for television?
Philipp MEYER
Authors | Modern Literature | Sci-fi & Fantasy
Arts & Culture
Which 1836 opera, composed by Nicola Vaccai, was based on the final days of a nine-day queen of England?
Giovanna Gray - based on the last days of Lady Jane Grey
NQT | Opera
arts-culture
Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger wrote a manifesto for which art movement, whose members include Georges Braques and Marie Vorobieff?
CUBISM (or CUBIST)
Movements
arts-culture
What happened to the artwork 'Comedian' in November 2024, a couple of days after it was bought for $6.2 million?
It was EATEN by the owner