Quiz  /  Paris at Random Quiz

  • 1. 
    What is the name of the painting style Picasso and Braque invented after Picasso moved to Paris?

  • Cubism
  • Collage
  • Futurism
  • Pentimento

  • 2. 
    Who led the Fauves, a group of artists who rejected traditional renderings of three-dimensional space?

  • Henri Matisse
  • Suzanne Valadon
  • Gabriele Münter
  • Maurice de Vlaminck

  • 3. 
    What two Russian painters studied Cubism in Paris with Le Fauconnier and Metzinger?

  • Sergey Eisenstein and Andrey Tarkovsky
  • Anton Chekhov and Leo Tolstoy
  • Sonia and Robert Delaunay
  • Lyubov Popova and Nadezhda Udaltsova

  • 4. 
    What ballet by Igor Stravinsky caused the audience to riot on its opening night in Paris?

  • The Firebird
  • Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
  • The Rite of Spring
  • The Love for Three Oranges

  • 5. 
    Which Irish writer lived much of his life in Paris and won the Croix de Guerre for his resistance work during World War II?

  • James Joyce
  • W.B. Yeats
  • Seamus Heaney
  • Samuel Beckett

  • 6. 
    Which Parisian singer who was reared in a house of prostitution popularized the French ballad or chanson?

  • Maurice Chevalier
  • Joni Mitchell
  • Edith Piaf
  • Jacques Brel

  • 7. 
    Which American writer regularly sent a “Letter From Paris” that was published in The New Yorker?

  • Janet Flanner
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Julia Child
  • Jean Genet

  • 8. 
    Which French actress and dancer made her debut in An American in Paris?

  • Cyd Charisse
  • Leslie Caron
  • Brigitte Bardot
  • Capucine

  • 9. 
    Which of the following is NOT a memoir of Paris?

  • Nana
  • The Paris Edition
  • Memoirs of Montparnasse
  • Paris to the Moon

  • 10. 
    Who flew an airship or dirigible around the Eiffel Tower?

  • Amelia Earhart
  • Alberto Santos-Dumont
  • Ferdinand, Graf von Zeppelin
  • the Wright brothers
Report Question
warning
access_time
  Time