Q 01/05

Which sculptor is renowned for creating 'The Thinker'?

A) Auguste Rodin

B) Gian Lorenzo Bernini

C) Donatello

D) Constantin Brâncuși

Answer · why

A) Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin first called the figure The Poet and conceived it in 1880, about 70 cm tall, to crown a doorway commission; the monumental bronze the wo...

Q 02/05

The marble block for Florence's famous Renaissance David was quarried near which Tuscan town?

A) Carrara

B) Volterra

C) Siena

D) Pietrasanta

Answer · why

A) Carrara

Carrara's quarries supplied the block in the 1460s; an earlier sculptor barely roughed it out, and it lay neglected in the cathedral workshop yard for...

Q 03/05

Anish Kapoor's mirror-polished Cloud Gate, nicknamed 'The Bean', reflects the skyline of which American city's Millennium Park?

A) Chicago

B) Seattle

C) New York City

D) Philadelphia

Answer · why

A) Chicago

Chicago's 'Bean' was inspired by liquid mercury; visitors can walk under its 12-foot arch and see themselves stretched and warped in the mirrored unde...

Q 04/05

The Great Sphinx of Giza, a reclining lion with a human head, was carved from a single piece of which stone?

A) Granite

B) Basalt

C) Limestone

D) Sandstone

Answer · why

C) Limestone

Limestone bedrock was carved where it lay; drifting sand later buried the Sphinx to its shoulders, and a prince who cleared it away, the future Thutmo...

Q 05/05

The monumental 'Christ the Redeemer' statue overlooks which Brazilian city?

A) Rio de Janeiro

B) Belo Horizonte

C) Brasília

D) São Paulo

Answer · why

A) Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro's statue stands on the summit of Corcovado, where lightning strikes it often; a bolt in January 2014 chipped a piece off its right hand...