Q 01/05

Goya's farmhouse near Madrid was nicknamed for an earlier owner with which condition, one Goya shared?

A) Blindness

B) Deafness

C) Epilepsy

D) Lameness

Answer · why

B) Deafness

Deafness gave the Quinta del Sordo its name, but the name honoured a previous owner. Goya had lost his own hearing to a mystery illness in the winter ...

Q 02/05

When Francisco Goya's body was exhumed in France for reburial in Madrid, which part of him was missing?

A) His skull

B) His right hand

C) His heart

D) His left leg

Answer · why

A) His skull

His skull was gone when the grave was opened. Told of the problem by the consul, officials in Madrid wired back: "Send Goya, with or without head."

Q 03/05

Which Roman god is said to be the wild-eyed figure eating his own child in one of Goya's Black Paintings?

A) Jupiter

B) Neptune

C) Saturn

D) Vulcan

Answer · why

C) Saturn

Saturn, fearing a prophecy that one of his children would overthrow him, ate them as they were born. Goya painted the scene in his dining room, and in...

Q 04/05

Francisco Goya's portrait of which British commander was stolen from London's National Gallery in 1961?

A) Sir John Moore

B) Lord Cornwallis

C) The Duke of Marlborough

D) The Duke of Wellington

Answer · why

D) The Duke of Wellington

The Duke of Wellington sat for Goya in Madrid in 1812, fresh from victory at Salamanca. The stolen portrait came back four years later, and a jury con...

Q 05/05

Gerald Holtom said the despairing peasant in Goya's The Third of May 1808 helped inspire which 1958 emblem?

A) The peace sign

B) The smiley face

C) The Olympic rings

D) The red cross

Answer · why

A) The peace sign

The peace sign also combines the semaphore signals for N and D, for nuclear disarmament. Holtom said he drew himself in despair, palms outstretched li...