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The world's great museums quiz — Arts & literature

The “The world's great museums” quiz — Arts & literature. It has 25 questions in five categories: Museum Passport, On the Walls, Buildings with Stories, How They Began, Treasures on View. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: The world's great museums

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Museum Passport

  1. 100

    You have a ticket to the Louvre. Which city are you visiting?

  2. 200

    A day at The Met starts beside Central Park on Fifth Avenue. Which city are you in?

  3. 300

    Which city would you…

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  4. 400

    The Getty Center sits…

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  5. 500

    The Museum of Islamic…

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On the Walls

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What painting is shown here: Leonardo's half-smiling sitter who draws crowds at the Louvre?

  2. 200

    Which Van Gogh canvas at MoMA turns a night sky into a swirl of stars?

  3. 300

    What painting is shown…

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  4. 400

    At the Art Institute…

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  5. 500

    What painting is shown…

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Buildings with Stories

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What museum is shown here: a modern-art destination inside the former Bankside Power Station on the Thames?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Which architect made the Guggenheim's spiral ramp, shown here, the centre of a museum visit?

  3. 300

    Who designed the glass…

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  4. 400

    Who designed the Bilbao…

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  5. 500

    The Vasari Corridor links…

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How They Began

  1. 100

    In which year did the Louvre open to the public as a museum, after the French monarchy had fallen?

  2. 200

    Which physician's vast collection helped launch the British Museum?

  3. 300

    A British scientist who…

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  4. 400

    Before art filled the…

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  5. 500

    Which Kyiv couple's private…

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Treasures on View

  1. 100

    What is the slab whose three scripts helped scholars read Egyptian hieroglyphs?

  2. 200

    What do we call the clay soldiers buried near the tomb of China's first emperor?

  3. 300

    Which Egyptian temple, rescued…

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  4. 400

    What is the carved…

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  5. 500

    What is the Assyrian…

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