94 Salvador Dali Trivia Questions with Answers
94 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which Spanish painter’s distinctive moustache did Salvador Dalí famously emulate?
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Diego Velázquez
Which 1954 Salvador Dalí painting presents the Crucifixion using a four-dimensional hypercube?
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Corpus Hypercubus
Which 1937 Salvador Dalí painting shows flaming giraffes in a barren landscape?
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The Burning Giraffe
Which ballet did Salvador Dalí design sets and costumes for in 1939?
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Bacchanale
Which 1942 Salvador Dalí autobiography describes his early life and artistic development?
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The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
Which 1936 Salvador Dalí painting is known in English as Soft Construction with Boiled Beans?
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Soft Construction with Boiled Beans
Which 1939 Salvador Dalí painting is titled The Enigma of Hitler?
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The Enigma of Hitler
Which 1958 Salvador Dalí painting presents Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas?
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The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus
Where is Salvador Dalí buried?
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The Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres
Which museum in Scotland houses Salvador Dalí’s painting Christ of Saint John of the Cross?
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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Which artist painted the 1937 Salvador Dalí work Swans Reflecting Elephants?
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Salvador Dalí
What was Gala’s birth name before she became Salvador Dalí’s wife and muse?
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Elena Ivanovna Diakonova
Which 1950 Salvador Dalí painting shows a Madonna with a floating atom-like sphere?
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The Madonna of Port Lligat
Which Spanish region contains Salvador Dalí’s hometown of Figueres?
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Catalonia
Which surrealist group leader expelled Salvador Dalí in 1939?
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André Breton
Which academy expelled Salvador Dalí in 1926?
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Royal Academy of San Fernando
What was the name of Salvador Dalí’s 1936 artwork featuring a telephone and a lobster?
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Lobster Telephone
Who was Gala’s first husband before she married Salvador Dalí?
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Paul Éluard
Which 1929 film did Salvador Dalí co-create with Luis Buñuel?
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Un Chien Andalou
Which Salvador Dalí museum opened in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1982?
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The Dalí Museum
Which Spanish king granted Salvador Dalí the title Marqués de Dalí de Púbol?
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Juan Carlos I
Which Spanish castle did Salvador Dalí give to Gala as a private retreat?
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Púbol Castle
Which confectionery brand received a logo designed by Salvador Dalí in 1969?
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Chupa Chups
Who designed the geodesic dome over Salvador Dalí’s Theatre-Museum in Figueres?
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Emilio Pérez Piñero
Which 1929 Salvador Dalí painting contains the phrase “The Great Masturbator” in its title?
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The Great Masturbator
Which Salvador Dalí painting depicts the Virgin Mary with a rhinoceros in the background?
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The Madonna of Port Lligat
Which 1970 Salvador Dalí painting features a bullfighter multiplied across a landscape?
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The Hallucinogenic Toreador
Which 1926 Salvador Dalí painting shows a basket of bread on a table?
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The Basket of Bread
What structure crowns the Salvador Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres?
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A glass geodesic dome
Which 1934 Salvador Dalí painting depicts a ghostly figure of Vermeer that functions as a table?
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The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table
Which 1946 Salvador Dalí painting depicts Saint Anthony facing temptations led by a horse and elephants?
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The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Which 1943 Salvador Dalí painting shows a child watching the birth of a new human figure?
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Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man
What is the title of Salvador Dalí’s 1929 painting showing a distorted self-image and ants?
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The Great Masturbator
Which Salvador Dalí painting from 1955 depicts the Last Supper inside a transparent dodecahedron?
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The Sacrament of the Last Supper
What technique did Salvador Dalí name for transforming obsessive images into artworks?
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Paranoiac-critical method
What was Salvador Dalí’s first published novel, released in 1944?
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Hidden Faces