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This infamous painting by Ilya Repin shows what monarch cradling the son whom he just murdered in his rage?
Ivan the Terrible
Henry VIII
Maximilian
Philip II of Spain
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What Russian composer wrote the frightening piece of music "Night on Bald Mountain" that evoked a black sabbath as witches conjured the souls of the damned to attack the living?
Gustav Holst
Edvard Grief
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Modest Mussorgsky
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One of the largest but most mysterious pieces of American art is City, an artificial urban center built in the isolated desert of what state?
California
Nevada
Utah
Montana
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What is the name of this ghastly painting by Edvard Munch?
An Afternoon in the Park
Twilight
The Scream
Vernon
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What famous da Vinci painting baffled researchers when it was discovered that all of the loaves of bread and hands in the picture were actually musical notes spelling out a mysterious melody?
The Vitruvian Man
The Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
The Last Temptation of Christ
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What infamous story by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu introduced the legend of the vampire to western Europe as it described the deep psychological horror of being manipulated by someone who claimed to love you?
Carmilla
Dracula
Nosferatu
Red
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What French astronomer allegedly predicted the future in his book Les Prophites?
Dante
Nostradamus
Archimedes
Salazar
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What is the name of the famous poem by Robert Herrick that describes the nightmarish existence of a sadistic witch and begins with the following lines?
The Hag is astride,
This night for to ride;
The Devill and shee together:
Through thick, and through thin,
Now out, and then in,
Though ne'r so foule be the weather.
The Hag is astride,
This night for to ride;
The Devill and shee together:
Through thick, and through thin,
Now out, and then in,
Though ne'r so foule be the weather.
Mid-Night
The Hag
Specter
The Beast on the Moor
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Rene Magritte painted many mysterious images featuring what obscured figure whose identity and face were never revealed?
The Standard Man
The Man in a Bowler Hat
Mr. Bill
The Unknown
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What famous Mexican painter created the frightening image Girl with Death Mask (She Plays Alone)?
Diego Rivera
Emilia Ortiz
Salvador Dali
Frida Kahlo
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What grim poem by Allen Ginsberg related the mad things that he heard people say while in a mental institution?
Howl
Burn
Storming
Fight
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In 1562, Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted what infamous panorama that depicted a wave of the dead reaping humankind?
The Triumph of Death
Paradise Lost
Toil and Trouble
The Garden of Earthly Delights
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The author H. P. Lovecraft was an American who wrote about what tentacled god who invaded the dreams of men to let them know how small and insignificant they were in the cosmic order?
Jigsaw
Vorneas
Cthulhu
Demiurge
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The famous opera Don Giovanni features an infamously macabre scene where a primary character is dragged against his will into Hell. What famous classical composer wrote Don Giovanni?
Wagner
Purcell
Beethoven
Mozart
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Stonehenge, the massive and mysterious sculpture, is located in what country?
The U.S.A.
Canada
Australia
The U.K.
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What Camille Saint-Saens song whose name roughly means "Dance of Death," has been a staple of horror music for centuries?
Danse Macabre
Chanson D'Amour
Passa Doble
Stanza Morte
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What trilogy of books by the Italian poet Dante saw the main character navigate Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory as he came face to face with supernatural horrors beyond his comprehension?
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
The Arbiter
The Gatherer Saga
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Crawling Death is just one of the many nightmarish paintings created by what Polish artist who was inspired by his experiences during World War Two?
Carrus
Stytka
Ruveyina
Beksinski
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What infamous painting by Francisco Goya shows a titan ravenously eating its offspring?
Saturn Devouring His Son
Chronos in Bedlam
Father
Chaos Redeemed
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Saturn Devouring His Son is an example of what collection of artworks that Francisco Goya hid in his walls for unknown reasons?
Los Cerebras
The Dark Paintings
Mon Assacrits
The Attic Collection
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What Picasso artwork captured the visceral and mad final moments of a farm as it was bombed during the Spanish Civil War?
Guernica
Guitara
Solidad
Trinidad
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What painting by the artist Caravaggio is the only artwork that the creator ever signed, and he signed it in the blood of its primary subject?
The End of St. Peter
The Passion of St. Sebastian
The Beheading of John the Baptist
The Death of St. Michael
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Heinrich Schliemann was an archaeologist who passed a stolen artifact off as the burial mask of what king from the Trojan War's mythology?
Agamemnon
Xerxes I
Darius
Argus
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What famous American horror writer authored stories like "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Pit and the Pendulum"?
Edgar Allen Poe
O. Henry
Jack London
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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Giuseppes Tartini wrote what famous piece of violin music that he claimed was an attempt at reproducing a melody that a demon played for him in his sleep?
The Devil's Trill Sonata
The Island of the Dead
The Dance of the Knights
Hungarian Dance No. 5
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What famous artist painted the mad triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights?
El Greco
Peter Bruegel the Younger
Giuseppe Verdi
Hieronymus Bosch
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The mysterious geoglyph artworks called the Nazca Lines are found in what South American country?
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Peru
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The story Futility: or The Wreck of the Titan remains a historical curiosity because of claims that it predicted what tragedy?
The Titanic
The Hindenburg
The Donner Party
The Jonestown Massacre
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The painting Bacchus has been widely studied by art historians because of an unconfirmed belief that, hidden in the painting's wine glass, there is actually a self-portrait of what artist who created Bacchus?
Rembrandt
Cezanne
Monet
Caravaggio
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Archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the resplendent sarcophagus of what famous Pharaoh whose curse is believed by some to have killed multiple diggers and administrators involved in the excavation?
Tutankhamun
Atem
Snefru
Khufu
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