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Which British author wrote the fantasy series Gormenghast?

Mervyn PEAKE

Arts & Culture

According to legend, which survivor of the battle of Camlann flung Excalibur into the lake in accordance with the dying King Arthur's instructions?

Sir BEDIVERE / Acc. Sir BEDWYR

Mythology & Folk Tales

arts-culture

Which Russian city is home to The Motherland Calls, once the tallest statue in the world?

VOLGOGRAD (Yevgeny Vuchetich)

scuplture

Arts and Culture

Which 1830 painting by the French artist Eugene Delacroix, commemorates the July Revolution of the same year that toppled King Charles X of France?

Liberty Leading the People

Artworks

Arts and Culture

Which insect, in the guise of a weathervane, sits atop the Royal Exchange building in London? It was the emblem of Thomas Gresham, a prominent 16th century merchant who founded the first Royal Exchange.

Grasshopper

General Knowledge

Arts and Culture

Esther Summerson is a major character in which Charles Dickens novel?

Bleak House

Dickens

Arts & Culture

Considered one of the innovators of creative nonfiction via New Journalism, what American author's best-known work "The Executioner's Song" won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for fiction? This author also ran in the Democratic primary for NYC's mayoral race of 1969 with a platform including the secession of New York City as the 51st US state.

Norman Mailer

Authors

arts-culture

Inspired by translated Chinese poetry, Das Lied von der Erde is an early twentieth-century orchestral song cycle by which composer?

Gustav MAHLER

Classical Music | Composers

Arts & Culture

Allowing women and slaves to join; the Athens school of which Greek philosopher was known as 'The Garden'? He promoted simple pleasures, comfort, and high living, with a certain nicety of style.

EPICURUS (EPICURIANISM)

Ancient Greece | Philosophy & Sociology

Arts and Culture

Which German author wrote the novels Steppenwolf and The Glass Bead Game?

Hermann Hesse

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