Q 01/05

Marcel Breuer's steel-tube Model B3, later renamed the Wassily after Kandinsky, is which piece of furniture?

A) A chair

B) A table

C) A lamp

D) A bed

Answer · why

A) A chair

A chair, and Kandinsky never commissioned it: he simply admired the finished design at the Bauhaus, so Breuer made him a copy. An Italian maker gave i...

Q 02/05

A deep crater near the north pole of which world was named after Kandinsky by astronomers in 2012?

A) Mars

B) The Moon

C) Mercury

D) Venus

Answer · why

C) Mercury

Mercury has the Kandinsky crater, whose floor lies in permanent shadow. Radar and spacecraft images suggest that the shadow hides a deposit of water i...

Q 03/05

Kandinsky painted a 1916 tribute to his future wife Nina's voice after first hearing it through which device?

A) The phonograph

B) The telephone

C) The radio

D) A dictaphone

Answer · why

B) The telephone

The telephone carried Nina Andreevskaya's voice to him before the two had met, and he answered with a picture titled as a tribute to an unknown voice....

Q 04/05

Which subject was Kandinsky teaching at a Russian university before he quit at 30 to study painting in Munich?

A) Music

B) Botany

C) Law

D) Latin

Answer · why

C) Law

Law was his field: he lectured on it after graduating and was offered a professorship in 1896. He turned the post down and took a train to Germany to ...

Q 05/05

In his writing on colour and sound, Kandinsky compared bright yellow to the blast of which brass instrument?

A) Tuba

B) Trumpet

C) Trombone

D) Cornet

Answer · why

B) Trumpet

Trumpet was his match for yellow, a colour he found aggressive and earthly. Blue sat at the other extreme, and he likened it to the heavenly sound of ...