What is considered the first skyscraper built with a steel frame?
Answer
Home Insurance Building
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
In what architectural style is Fallingwater built?
Answer
Organic architecture
Which architect designed the Seagram Building in New York?
Answer
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
What is the nickname of the 30 St Mary Axe building in London?
Answer
The Gherkin
Which architect designed the Seattle Space Needle?
Answer
John Graham Jr.
Which city is home to the Bauhaus Archive museum?
Answer
Berlin
What is the name of the glass pyramid entrance to the Louvre Museum?
Answer
Louvre Pyramid
Which female pharaoh had herself depicted with a beard in statuary?
Answer
Hatshepsut
What type of stone are the Colossi of Memnon carved from?
Answer
quartzite sandstone
Which pharaoh is primarily credited with building the Luxor Temple?
Answer
Amenhotep III
What is the name of the capstone that topped obelisks?
Answer
pyramidion
What type of stone are canopic jars often carved from?
Answer
Alabaster
The Rosetta Stone was inscribed during the reign of which pharaoh?
Answer
Ptolemy V
Which pharaoh commissioned the Colossi of Memnon?
Answer
Amenhotep III
Under what signature did Hokusai publish The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
Answer
Hokusai aratame Iitsu
What is the name of the small boats shown in The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
Answer
Oshiokuri-bune
What synthetic blue pigment was used in The Great Wave off Kanagawa?
Answer
Prussian blue
What is the name of the path or road depicted in the foreground of 'The Scream'?
Answer
Valhallveien
What art movement is Edvard Munch's "The Scream" considered a precursor to?
Answer
Expressionism
For how much money (in US dollars) did a pastel version of "The Scream" sell in 2012?
Answer
$119.9 million
What is the height of the painting in inches?
Answer
9.5 inches
What surrealist technique did Dalí use to create the imagery?
Answer
Paranoiac-critical method
What is the title of Dalí's 1954 reworking of this painting?
Answer
The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory
In what year did MoMA acquire the painting?
Answer
1934
In what year was the painting first exhibited?
Answer
1932