The Bivalent Quiz

THE BIVALENT
QUIZ
R O H A N & S A R A S WAT

RULES
• 15 questions, one written round and one long connect
• 8 questions clockwise and 7 questions anti-clockwise
• Infinite Bounce and Infinite Pounce.
• +10/0 on direct.
• +10/-5 on pounces.
• Have fun!

1
• ID the person.
o Mother died a month after birth
o Father remarried at four
o Began an affair with someone already married
o Faced ostracism, debt and death of their first born
o Spent a summer in Geneva, 1816 with John William Polidori, Lord Byron and Claire
Clairmont
o Death of second and third born child
o Birth of only surviving child
o Death of spouse by drowning during a storm near Viareggio
o Death at 53, possibly due to a brain tumour

2
• The origins of this poem may be traced at least as far back as to the following lines written
in 1590 by Sir Edmund Spenser from his epic “The Faerie Queene” (Book Three, Canto 6,
Stanza 6):
It was upon a Sommers shynie day,
When Titan faire his beames did display,
In a fresh fountaine, farre from all mensvew,
She bath’d her brest, the boyling heat t’allay;
She bath’d with _____ ___, and _______ ____,
And all the ________ _______,
That in the _______ ____.
• ID the poem.

ROSES ARE RED, VIOLETS ARE BLUE

3
• I Capture the Castle is the first novel by the British author Dodie Smith, written during
the Second World War when she and her husband Alec Beesley were living in
California. In it, she longs for home and wrote of a happier time unspecified in the
novel. J. K. Rowling has mentioned that it is one of her favorite books on several
occasions, and her official website features a review of it as well.
• Dodie Smith, however, is probably much better known to us for her other literary
classic X (or “The Great ___ Robbery”), which was adapted to the big screen in 1961
and became one of the highest grossing films of the year.
• ID X.

THE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIONS

4
• X's attitude towards his most famous creation was ambivalent. In November 1891 he
wrote to his mother: "I think of slaying Y ... and winding him up for good and all. He
takes my mind from better things." His mother responded, "You won't! You can't! You
mustn't!" In an attempt to deflect publishers' demands for more Y stories, he raised his
price to a level intended to discourage them, but found they were willing to pay even
the large sums he asked. As a result, he became one of the best-paid authors of his
time.
• Give X and Y.

X – SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Y – SHERLOCK HOLMES

5
• The Inklings were an informal literary discussion group associated with the University
of Oxford, England for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949.
• The Inklings were literary enthusiasts who praised the value of narrative in fiction and
encouraged the writing of fantasy.

• Some of their regular members
included
• Owen Barfield
• J. A. W. Bennett
• Lord David Cecil
• Nevill Coghill
• Hugo Dyson
• Adam Fox
• Roger Lancelyn Green
• Robert Havard
• X
• Warren _____
• Y
• Christopher _______
• Charles Williams

• X and Y were great friends and brought to us worlds of fantasy that most book lovers
would find inseparable from fiction as we know it.
• While both X and Y sought to integrate reason with imagination in the telling of a myth,
Y eventually grew to resent X’s popularization of theology in his works, since he felt
that it should be left to the professionals. Y also criticized X’s work Z as theologically
heavy-handed and artistically slap-dash, yet it is probably the only work of X that most
people will recognize even today.
• ID X, Y and Z.

X – C. S. LEWIS
Y – J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Z – THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA

6
• This particular writer X has been criticized repeatedly for views on various issues
including Kashmiri separatism, the US foreign policy and War in Afghanistan, India’s
nuclear weaponry program, the attack on Parliament in 2001, Anna Hazare’s campaign
and perhaps most popularly Y, towards which X donated a significant amount of money
earned from X’s most well-known work, Z, which tells the childhood experiences of
fraternal twins, whose lives are destroyed by the “Love Laws”, that lay down “who
should be loved, and how. And how much.”.
• ID X, Y and Z.

X – ARUNDHATI ROY
Y – NARMADA BACHAO ANDOLAN
Z – THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
BYE-BYE BIRDIE

8
• Throughout his school years, X and his brother were sent to stay during the holidays
with various aunts and uncles from both sides of the family. In the Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography, Iain Sproat counts twenty aunts and considers that they played an
important part not only in X’s early life but thinly disguised, in his mature novels, as the
formidable aunts who dominate the action in his stories. The boys had fifteen uncles,
four of whom were clergymen. Sproat writes that they inspired X’s “pious but fallible
curates, vicars, and bishops, of which he wrote with friendly irreverence but without
mockery”.
• ID X.

9
• X was an English author, comic radio dramatist and musician. He is best known as the
author of a five part series, to which a sixth part was later added in tribute by another
famous Irish author Y, whose fantasy novels many of us have read as pre-teens. X was
known to some of his fans as Bop Ad (after his illegible signature), or by his initials,
which mean something completely different to us in medical college, since it’s the stuff
of life.
• In addition to this series, X also wrote or co-wrote three stories of the famous English
science fiction TV series Z, and also served as the script editor during its seventeenth
season.
• ID X, Y and Z.

X – DOUGLAS ADAMS
Y – EOIN COLFER
Z – DOCTOR WHO

10
• X was first published on 25 April 1719, and initially was credited to the work’s
protagonist (also X), leading many readers to believe that he was a real person and
that the book was a travelogue of true incidents. It is generally seen as a contender for
the first English novel. It went on to become one of the most widely published books in
history, spawning so many imitations, not only in literature but also in film, television
and radio, that its name is used to define a genre, the ___________.
• In Jules Verne’s L’école des _________, the castaways recue an African man on their
island who says his name is Carefinotu. T. Artelett proposes to call him Y, “as it is
always done in the islands with _________”, but his master Godfrey prefers to keep
the original name.
• ID X and Y.

X – ROBINSON CRUSOE
Y – MERCREDI/WEDNESDAY

11
• The novel is set in a suburban West Country town called Pagford and begins with the death of
beloved Parish Councillor Barry Fairbrother. Subsequently, a seat on the council is vacant and a
conflict ensues before the election for his successor takes place. Major themes in the novel are class,
politics, and social issues such as drugs, prostitution and rape. The book went on to receive mixed
reviews, and eventually faded away from the public’s memory.
• Within hours of the book's release, it had reached Number 1 position on the Amazon Book Chart in
the United States. It was the second biggest adult opening of all time in the United Kingdom, falling
short of Dan Brown's 2009 novel, The Lost Symbol, which sold 550,946 copies. Within the first three
weeks the book's total sales topped one million copies in English in all formats across all territories,
including the US and the UK. The book also set a Goodreads record for the all-time biggest "started
reading" day.
• ID the novel and the author.

THE CASUAL VACANCY BY J.K.
ROWLING

12
• Oulipo (Ouvroir de littératurepotentielle) is a loose gathering of (mainly) French-
speaking writers and mathematicians who seek to create works using constrained
writing techniques. It was founded in 1960 by Raymond Queneau and François Le
Lionnais.
• “A Void” is an example of one such work. Translated from the original French “La
Disparition” (The Disappearance), it is a 300-page novel written in 1969 by Georges
Perec, with an interesting constraint X.
• “Les Revenentes”, written in 1972 by the same author, is considered to be a fitting
reply to “A Void”, with the constraint Y.
• ID X and Y.

X – NO ‘E’
Y – ONLY VOWEL IS ‘E’

13
o A speech to the House of Commons on 9 September 1941 by Winston Churchill
o Nelson Mandela’s incarceration at Robben Island
o Nobel laureate and Burmese State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, in a speech about
the inspiration behind the freedom struggle
o US POWs in North Vietnamese prisons
o The front cover of the December 14, 2013 issue of the Economist
• Connect to a famous literary work.

INVICTUS, BY WILLIAM ERNEST
HENLEY

14
• In late 1926, Archie asked X for a divorce. He was in love with Nancy Neele, who had
been a friend of Major Belcher, director of the British Empire Mission, on the promotional
tour a few years earlier. On 3 December 1926, the couple quarrelled, and Archie left their
house, Styles, in Sunningdale, Berkshire, to spend the weekend with his mistress
at Godalming, Surrey. That same evening, around 9:45 pm, X disappeared from her home,
leaving behind a letter for her secretary saying that she was going to Yorkshire. Her car,
a Morris Cowley, was later found at Newlands Corner, perched above a chalk quarry, with
an expired driving licence and clothes.
• Her disappearance caused an outcry from the public. The Home Secretary, William
Joynson-Hicks, pressured police, and a newspaper offered a £100 reward. Over a
thousand police officers, 15,000 volunteers, and several aeroplanes scoured the rural
landscape. Y even gave a spirit medium one of X’s gloves to find the missing woman.
• ID X and Y.

X – AGATHA CHRISTIE
Y – SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

15
• Poem by English poet Elizabeth
Jennings, 1987 about a famous
painter’s work:
You are confronted with yourself. Each
year
The pouches fill, the skin is uglier.
You give it all unflinchingly. You stare
Into yourself, beyond. Your brush’s care
Runs with self-knowledge. Here
Is a humility at one with craft.
There is no arrogance. Pride is apart
From this self-scrutiny. You make light drift
The way you want. Your face is bruised and hurt
But there is still love left.
Love of the art and others. To the last
Experiment went on. You stared beyond
Your age, the times. You also plucked the past
And tempered it. Self-portraits understand,
And old age can divest,
With truthful changes, us of fear of death.
Look, a new anguish. There, the bloated nose,
The sadness and the joy. To paint’s to breathe,
And all the darknesses are dared. You chose
What each must reckon with.
•ID

REMBRANDT’S LATE SELF PORTRAIT

WRITTEN ROUND
• Six famous first lines.
• Identify the novels.
• +10 for each correct answer.
• Additional +10 for getting all six.

1
• “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to
remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

2
• “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good
fortune must be in want of a wife.”

3
• “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the
age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the
season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the
winter of despair.”

4
• “You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The
Adventures of Tom ______, but that ain’t no matter.”

5
• “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I
didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”

6
• “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I
was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied
and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel
like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”

THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY
FINN

LONG CONNECT
• Five questions, +10/0 for each correct answer on the pounce
• Some information relevant to the long connect is provided at the top of each slide
• Pounce for the long connect at any time
• Points indicated

USSR (1955-1988) (+50/-40)
• A novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy. The novel is named after
its protagonist, Yuri _______, a physician and poet, and takes place between
the Russian Revolution of 1905 and World War II.

FRANCE (1956-1958) (+40/-30)
• A1955 novel, notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable
narrator—a middle-aged literature professor called Humbert Humbert—is obsessed
with the 12-year-old Dolores Haze, with whom he becomes sexually involved after he
becomes her stepfather.

CHINA (1960-1991) (+30/-20)
• This is one of Seuss's "Beginner Books", written in a very simple vocabulary for
beginning readers. The vocabulary of the text consists of just 50 words and was the
result of a bet between Seuss and Bennett Cerf, his publisher, that Seuss (after
completing The Cat in the Hat using 236 words) could not complete an entire book
without exceeding that limit.

USSR (1950-1990) (+20/-10)
• A dystopian novel published in 1949. Set in Airstrip One, formerly Great Britain, a
province of the superstate Oceania, whose residents are victims of perpetual
war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation. The tyranny is
ostensibly overseen by a mysterious leader known as Big Brother, who enjoys an
intense cult of personality. The Party "seeks power entirely for its own sake. It is not
interested in the good of others; it is interested solely in power."

LEBANON (2004-PRESENT) (+10/0)
• A 2003 mystery thriller novel following a "symbologist" and a cryptologist after a
murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris causes them to become involved in a battle
between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus Christ having
been a companion to Mary Magdalene.

RULES
• 20 questions and one long connect
• 10 questions clockwise and 10 questions anti-clockwise
• Infinite Bounce and Infinite Pounce.
• +10/0 on direct.
• +10/-5 on pounces.
• Pouncing for a part of the answer is allowed. +5/-5 on part pounces.
• If a question is completely unanswered, a hint will be given, and another round of
pounces will be taken.
• Have fun!

1
• X was a subject of numerous anecdotes, but the most famous one is from an editorial
in The Guardian, which goes as follows-
“In occupied Paris, a Gestapo officer who had barged his way into X’s apartment
pointed at a photo of the mural, asking: 'Did you do that?' 'No,' X replied, 'you did', his
wit fizzing with the anger that animates the piece.“
• Give X and name the mural/piece mentioned.

2
• On 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia exploded in one of the most
massive volcanic eruptions ever. The eruption had a long lasting effect on the world,
causing a particular phenomenon almost daily, which continued till February 1884.
• One of the most famous artists of that period managed to reproduce this phenomenon
in one of his paintings, which has now become one of the most recognised paintings in
Europe.
• Name the painting and the painter. What was the unusual phenomenon?

THE SCREAM BY EDVARD MUNCH
RED TWILIGHTS

3
• X is a 1434 oil painting on oak panel, depicting an Italian merchant and his wife. It is
considered one of the most original and complex paintings in Western art, because of
its beauty, complex iconography, geometric orthogonal perspective, and expansion of
the picture space with the use of a mirror.
• In the painting, above the mirror is a Latin graffiti, which translates as ‘___ ___ ____
was here 1434’.
• Name the painting X and FITB.

X- THE ARNOLFINI PORTRAIT
JAN VAN EYCK

4
• Perhaps X's most famous work, The Blue Boy is thought to
be a portrait of Jonathan Buttall, the son of a wealthy
hardware merchant, although this has never been proven. It
is a historical costume study as well as a portrait: the youth in
his seventeenth-century apparel is regarded as X's homage
to Anthony van Dyck, and in particular is very close to Van
Dyck's portrait of Charles II as a boy.
• The painting also served as an inspiration for the costume of
the titular character in a critically acclaimed 2012 movie.
• Name the painter X, and the movie.

X- THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH
DJANGO UNCHAINED

5
• The German artist Albrecht Dürer was one of the greatest
figures of the Northern Renaissance. As a draughtsman and
painter, he rivaled his elder contemporary Leonardo Da
Vinci, and his masterful woodcuts and engravings of
mythical and allegorical scenes made him famous across
Europe.
• In the first half of his life, Dürer made a series of exquisite
self-portraits. The second of Dürer's three painted self-
portraits was made in 1498. In the portrait, he depicts
himself as something of a dandy, with flamboyant dress and
a haughty bearing.
• This painting served as an inspiration for an even more
famous painting by one of the greatest artists ever.
• Name the painting and the painter.

SELF PORTRAIT BY REMBRANDT VAN
RIJN

6
• Combining Art Nouveau style with earlier paintings, this
world famous piece by X is one of the few paintings
where the artist used gold and silver leaf painting, apart
from oil.
• The two figures in the painting are situated at the edge
of a patch of flowery meadow that ends under the
woman's exposed feet. The man wears a robe printed
with geometric patterns and subtle swirls. He wears a
crown of vines while the woman wears a crown of
flowers. She is shown in a flowing dress with floral
patterns.
• In February 2013 Syrian artist Tammam Azzam
superimposed an image of the painting onto a bombed
building in an unidentified part of Syria, in a work
called Freedom Graffiti, to call attention to the plight of
war in his country.
• Name the painter X, and the painting.

7
• The artist made more than 70 preliminary sketches to depict this common practice
during the 1880s in a particular city. He finished the final painting in 1886, which
stressed on simplified geometric forms.
• During this period, he was also developing the pointilliste technique of applying colour
in dots that were intended to fuse when seen from a distance, so this famous painting
became the first example of this technique. This feature is quite apparent on seeing
the painting.

A SUNDAY AFTERNOON ON LA GRANDE
JATTE
GEORGES SEURAT

8
• In the year 1800, X painted this painting, named
Naked Maja, one of his most famous works, and his
most controversial work. It created quite an uproar, as
it portrayed a low class maja (gypsy) in a blatant and
sexually alluring pose.
• It was made for a nobleman named Manuel Godoy,
who owned a collection of female nudes, and this was
considered his most obscene possession.
• In 1805, X did something in order to restore his image
and stop the outrage against him in the art world, but
in spite of that, he was interrogated by the Inquisition
and stripped off his role as court painter in 1815.
• Name the painter X. What did he do in 1805 to restore
his image?

X- FRANCISCO GOYA
HE PAINTED THE CLOTHED MAJA

9
• X and his first wife used to move around a lot, mostly to avoid angry landlords, during
the initial part of their married life. In 1883, while on a train in Normandy with his
second wife, X looked out and spotted the village of Y, and soon became a permanent
resident.
• The village of Y became the primary subject of his works, and a specific feature of his
residence was the major one, and featured in his most famous paintings.
• Name the painter X, the village Y, and his famous series of paintings.

X- CLAUDE MONET
Y- GIVERNY
WATER LILIES SERIES

10
• This painting from the late 1660s depicts an artist painting a woman dressed in blue
posing as a model in his studio. The subject is standing by a window and a large map
of the Low Countries hangs on the wall behind. X obviously liked the painting; he never
sold it during his lifetime. According to a historian, "it stands as a kind of summary and
assessment of what has been done.“
• The most remarkable thing about this painting is that X has painted himself, as seen
from behind, a most unique kind of self portrait.
• This painting comments on a painter’s art and his role in the society- a painting about
painting. The detailed light effects and compositional planning are characteristic of X’s
paintings.
• Name X and the painting.

X- JOHANNES VERMEER
THE ART OF PAINTING

11
• Dutch painter Piet Mondrian escaped to New York after the
outbreak of WWII, and painted one of his most famous works
in 1942-43.
• He was fascinated by American jazz, particularly ______-
______, finding its syncopated beat, irreverent approach to
melody, and improvisational aesthetic akin to what he called, in
his own work, the "destruction of natural appearance; and
construction through continuous opposition of pure means—
dynamic rhythm."
• In this painting, his penultimate, Mondrian replaced the black
grid that had long governed his canvases with predominantly
yellow lines that intersect at points marked by squares of blue
and red. These atomized bands of stuttering chromatic pulses,
interrupted by light gray, create paths across the canvas
suggesting the other thing that fascinated him about the city.
• Name the painting, which is a three worded portmanteau term
combining his two fascinations.

12
• In this 1888 painting, X showed most of the items in pairs- pillows, chairs, pictures,
jackets. X had just moved to Arles in France, when he painted this, and was expecting
to start a new chapter in life.
• He had asked his brother Theo to persuade Y to join him at Arles, and had rapidly
painted a series of pictures to hang on the walls and create a welcoming atmosphere
for his guest. To a large extent, these paintings were designed simply as decorations
for the house, but X also wanted to show that his own works could bear comparison
with those of Y’s, whose talent he was in awe of.
• Give X, Y, and the painting.

X- VINCENT VAN GOGH
Y- PAUL GAUGIN
THE BEDROOM AT ARLES

13
• On May 1606, X was accused of murder and fled from Rome to distant lands (Naples,
Sicily, Malta) to escape the price that had been placed on his head. His self-portrait as
________ _______ ____, was sent to the papal court in 1610 as a kind of painted
petition for pardon. In fact pardon was granted, but did not reach X before he died in
Porto Ercole.
• The painting he made as a plea for his pardon was not in fact a portrait, but a depiction
of a well known mythological event, in which he somehow managed to insert his own
face, thus making it a self portrait as well.
• Name X and the painting. How was it a plea for pardon?

X- CARAVAGGIO
DAVID WITH THE HEAD OF GOLIATH
HE PAINTED HIS OWN HEAD AS GOLIATH’S
SEVERED HEAD

14
• These are two recreations of an
extremely famous 1656 painting by
X.
• One is by an artistic team named
Equipo Cronica in 1970, and the
other is by Pablo Picasso in 1957.
• The painting shows X on the left
along with the family of King Philip IV.
The original painting currently resides
in the Prado Museum in Madrid.
• Name X and the original painting.

X- DIEGO VELAZQUEZ
LAS MENINAS

15
• Inspired by Italian masters of the High Renaissance such as Michelangelo, X was
considered a master within the accomplished artistic circles of 16th century Venice.
• As a prolific portraitist, he created fascinating likenesses of the Pope, the Emperor and so
on. Despite the range of his prestigious commissions, _____ __ ______ is arguably his
masterpiece.
• In his 1880 travel diary, A Tramp Abroad, Mark Twain described the painting as “the foulest,
the vilest, the most obscene picture the world possesses.” X’s breathtaking talent and his
bold depiction of female sexuality through a goddess is why this painting is often cited as
the grandmother of many of Western art’s most controversial images. Allegorical touches,
such as the clothed female figures in the background and the puppy asleep at _____’s feet,
have lead to thorough iconographic readings.
• Name the painter X, and this famous painting.

16
• Described as "one of the most written about, and most controversial paintings in the
world", and also "one of the most popular paintings in Western art“, the painting depicts a
group of figures from classical mythology in a garden. Most critics agree that the painting is
an allegory based on the lush growth of ______.
• Various interpretations of the figures have been set forth, but it is generally agreed that at
least at one level the painting is "an elaborate mythological allegory of the burgeoning
fertility of the world.” One aspect of the painting is a depiction of the progress of ______,
reading from right to left. The wind blows on the land and brings forth growth and flowers,
presided over by Venus, goddess of April, with Mercury, the god of the month of May in an
early Roman calendar, at the left, chasing away the clouds. The woman in the flowered
dress may be called _________ (a personification of ______).

17
• HMS _________ was a 98-gun second-rate warship of the Royal Navy which is famous for its heroic
performance in the1805 Battle of Trafalgar between U.K. and the combined fleets of French and
Spanish Navies.
• In this painting, X depicted the warship, years after its glorious days, being pulled by a tugboat, to be
broken into scraps. The painting paid a tribute to sailing ships as they were going to be replaced by
steam-powered vessels. X used symbolism, like the setting sun, to suggest the demise of the subject
and its mortality despite its heroic past. X was known for his expressive colourisation,
imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.
• Painted by X at the prime of his career, it is his most famous painting and the one he referred to as
his “darling”. In 2005, it was voted as “Britain’s favourite painting” in a poll organized by the BBC.
• This painting was shown in a 2012 film (part of a bigger film franchise) where the protagonist (an
iconic fictional character) meets his new ___________ at the National Gallery in London, in front of
this painting. Some say that this was symbolism of sorts, where the lead character is the HMS
_________, while the man he meets is his tugboat.
• Name the painter X, the painting, and the 2012 film.

X- J.M.W. TURNER
THE FIGHTING TEMERAIRE
SKYFALL

18
• Collaborations between famous artists was common in 17th century Flanders. This
particular series of five paintings, representing the five senses, named Allegory of
Senses, was commissioned by the Spanish regents of Netherlands, Archduke Albert
and Archduchess Isabella.
• The human figures in the painting were contributed by X, who was a master at that
craft, while the landscape and setting were done by Jan _______, son of the famous Y.
Jan was known as “Velvet _______” for his subtle and detailed rendering of surfaces.
Incidentally, X and Y had the same first names.
• ID X and Y.

X- PETER PAUL RUBENS
Y- PIETER BRUEGHEL THE ELDER

19
• Dancers, theater, the circus, horse races and bars- seedy subjects of the 1800s were
the primary subjects of the paintings by the French artist X.
• Originally called In a café, this famous painting acquired the title _________, which
refers to an alcoholic drink depicted in the painting.
• When it was first displayed at the Grafton Gallery, London in 1893, it caused a massive
stir, as it affronted Victorian morals- “How could what was obviously an alcoholic
prostitute (drinking ________) and her equally depraved sidekick (drinking a hangover
cure) in a backstreet Paris bar possibly be a fit subject for a painting?”
• Name X and the painting.

20
• This particular room, amongst the 4 by the artist X
represents theology, philosophy, jurisprudence and
poetic arts in the form of 4 frescoes.
• This painting, named Disputation of the Holy
Sacrament, represents jurisprudence, and was the first
composition executed by X. It represents the church as
spanning heaven and earth.
• Just on the opposite wall is the fresco depicting
philosophy, considered to be the best work by X, and
one of the prime examples of Italian High Renaissance.
• Name the painter X, and the famous painting on
philosophy. Also name the place where the X Rooms
are located.

X- RAPHAEL
THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS
VATICAN MUSEUMS

LONG CONNECT
• 5 clues for the long connect.
• No points for individual slides.
• Long connect can be guessed after any of the clues. Infinite number of guesses
allowed.
• Points will be indicated on every slide.

2- +40/-30
• ____ __________
• Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan
• Cecilia Gallerani, mistress of Ludovico Sforza
• Caterina Sforza, Countess of Forli
• Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua
• Constanza d’Avalos, Duchess of Francavilla
• Leonardo Da Vinci

4- +20/-10
• Palace of Fontainebleau
• Palace of Versailles
• Napoleon’s bedroom in Tuileries Palace
• ______ ______
• Brest Arsenal
• Chateau d’Amboise
• Loc-Dieu Abbey
• Chateau de Chambord
• Ingres Museum in Montauban
• ______ ______

5- +10/0
• Doctor Who episode “City of Death”
• Monty Python’s Flying Circus episode “Spam”
• Boston Legal episode “The Nutcrackers”
• MS-DOS game “Mario’s Time Machine”
• The Ballad of ____ ____ by Panic! at the Disco (American Rock band)
• Mr. Peabody and Sherman (2014)
• Ever After (1998) starring Drew Barrymore
• The Da Vinci Code (2006)

MONA LISA
• Clue 1- Girl With A Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer:
Also known as the “Mona Lisa of the North”.
• Clue 2- List of people who have been alleged to have
been the subject of the painting. Lisa Gherardini is
blanked out.
• Clue 3- Jocund. The French (La Joconde) and Italian
(La Gioconda) names are derived from this word.
• Clue 4- Places where the painting has been kept down
the years. Louvre Museum is blanked out.
• Clue 5- Pop culture references to the painting.

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