• 1. 
    Which English artist, inspired by Japanese woodcuts, illustrated the 1894 edition of Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé?

  • Aubrey Beardsley
  • Augustus Egg
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Ford Madox Brown
  • 2. 
    Which English children’s author and mathematician wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?

  • Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
  • Beatrix Potter
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • Flora Annie Steel
  • 3. 
    Which popular cartoonist drew cartoons for Punch magazine and illustrations for the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel?

  • George Cruikshank
  • James Gillray
  • John Nash
  • John Tenniel
  • 4. 
    What chemical used by clothing manufacturers of the Victorian era easily burns when near a flame?

  • iridium
  • arsenic
  • strontium
  • rhodium
  • 5. 
    In the Victorian era, socks were made with what material that inflamed men’s feet and gave garment workers sores and even bladder cancer?

  • quinine
  • aniline dyes
  • cochineal
  • kermis
  • 6. 
    Who started the Arts and Crafts movement in the 1860s, rebelling against industrialization?

  • Charles Bentley
  • Robert Palmer Jones
  • William Morris
  • Louis Bretagne
  • 7. 
    Which husband-and-wife comedy duo had their origins in 17th-century Italian commedia dell’arte and was still popular in the late 19th century, especially in puppetry?

  • Mathilde and Harry
  • Columbina and Brighella
  • Mama and Papa
  • Punch and Judy
  • 8. 
    Marie Duval created which popular comic-strip character who was impecunious, pompous, and dressed in shabby old-fashioned attire?

  • Buster Brown
  • Ally Sloper
  • Desperate Dan
  • Alf Tupper
  • 9. 
    Which type of portraiture was popular in Victorian times?

  • boudoir
  • abstract
  • silhouette
  • surreal
  • 10. 
    Which libel suit resulted in one of the most notorious trials in the history of art?

  • Hoepker v. Kruger
  • Rogers v. Koons
  • Whistler v. Ruskin
  • Wojnarowicz v. American Family Association
  • 11. 
    Which science-fiction author wrote The Invisible Man?

  • H.G. Wells
  • William Wordsworth
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • Lewis Carroll
  • 12. 
    Which Victorian artist, admired for his draftsmanship, produced depictions of Classical antiquity that were a central source of inspiration for the film Gladiator (2000)?

  • J.M.W. Turner
  • Kate Greenaway
  • John Everett Millais
  • Lawrence Alma-Tadema
  • 13. 
    Who was married to Queen Victoria for 21 years?

  • Prince Rupert
  • Prince Philip
  • Prince Oswald
  • Prince Albert
  • 14. 
    Whose serialized novels, such as The Pickwick Papers and Nicholas Nickleby, led people to associate the author’s name with the poor conditions in which the Victorian lower classes lived?

  • William Wordsworth’s
  • William Makepeace Thackeray’s
  • Anthony Trollope’s
  • Charles Dickens’s
  • 15. 
    Which event, lasting from 1845 to 1849, was responsible for approximately one million deaths and mass emigration?

  • the Great Fire
  • the Great Stink
  • the Black Death
  • the Great Famine
  • 16. 
    Where was the first international exhibition, or world’s fair, held, presenting new technology and cultural exhibits from around the world?

  • Olympia Place
  • Crystal Palace
  • Alexandra Palace
  • Buckingham Palace
  • 17. 
    Which prominent feature of London was installed as part of the great clock of Westminster in 1859?

  • sculpture of Viscount Palmerston
  • Big Ben
  • St. Stephen’s Chapel
  • Jewel Tower
  • 18. 
    Who wrote On the Origin of Species, which was published in 1859?

  • Charles Darwin
  • Michael Faraday
  • Lord Kelvin
  • James Clerk Maxwell
  • 19. 
    Which group, formed in 1848 by young British artists including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais, opposed the Royal Academy of Art’s artistic practices and sensibilities?

  • Symbolists
  • Romantics
  • Pre-Raphaelites
  • Arts and Crafts movement
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