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Famous Paintings — Daily trivia Tuesday, October 13, 2026: questions and answers
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Q 01Which museum reopened to crowds staring at the empty wall where the stolen Mona Lisa had hung?
- AThe Louvre
- BThe Uffizi
- CThe Prado
- DThe Rijksmuseum
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The Louvre
The Louvre. Police even questioned Pablo Picasso, but the culprit was a handyman who had helped build the painting's glass case, and the headlines made it world-famous.
Q 02Which bumbling character is sent to unveil Whistler's Mother, then sneezes all over it?
- AInspector Clouseau
- BAustin Powers
- CMr. Bean
- DAce Ventura
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Mr. Bean
Mr. Bean. In the film Bean, wiping off his sneeze leaves an inky stain, and every fix he tries makes the damage worse.
Q 03Which painter made his Sunflowers to decorate the house he hoped to share with a fellow artist?
- AClaude Monet
- BVincent van Gogh
- CPaul Cézanne
- DEdgar Degas
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Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh. The artist was Paul Gauguin, and after a heated argument between them, Van Gogh cut off part of his own ear.
Q 04Obama hung Norman Rockwell's painting of which girl, walking to school between US marshals, outside the Oval Office?
- ALinda Brown
- BElizabeth Eckford
- CClaudette Colvin
- DRuby Bridges
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Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges. At six she integrated an all-white New Orleans school, and when she viewed the painting with Obama, he told her he might not be president without people like her.
Q 05Friars cut a doorway into the wall bearing Leonardo's The Last Supper. What did Jesus lose?
- AHis feet
- BHis hands
- CHis halo
- DHis face
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His feet
His feet. The friars wanted a shortcut to the kitchen, and the bricked-up arch still shows below the table.
Q 06Washington Crossing the Delaware shows a flag that didn't exist yet that night. Which one?
- AThe Grand Union Flag
- BThe Stars and Stripes
- CThe Gadsden flag
- DThe Pine Tree Flag
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The Stars and Stripes
The Stars and Stripes. Congress didn't adopt that design until the following June, months after that winter crossing of the icy Delaware.
Q 07In David's The Death of Marat, why is the murdered revolutionary working from a bathtub?
- ATo hide from his enemies
- BTo keep warm in winter
- CTo soothe a skin disease
- DTo recover from a wound
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To soothe a skin disease
To soothe a skin disease. His killer, Charlotte Corday, made no attempt to flee and was guillotined four days later.
Q 08In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Cameron stares into which painting until a girl's face dissolves into dots?
- AAmerican Gothic
- BNighthawks
- CLa Grande Jatte
- DThe Bedroom
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La Grande Jatte
La Grande Jatte, Seurat's Sunday park scene. John Hughes made the museum sequence as an ode to a place he loved.
Q 09Whose Goya portrait, stolen the year before, hung in the villain's lair in the Bond film Dr. No?
- AKing Charles IV
- BThe Duchess of Alba
- CKing Ferdinand VII
- DThe Duke of Wellington
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The Duke of Wellington
The Duke of Wellington. A bus driver later handed it back, and a jury convicted him only of stealing the frame.
Q 10Who wrote the tiny pencil note on The Scream saying only a madman could have painted it?
- AAn art critic
- BA rival painter
- CA gallery visitor
- DMunch himself
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Munch himself
Munch himself. Infrared photos helped experts confirm his handwriting, and he likely wrote it after a medical student publicly questioned his sanity.
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