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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.
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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 100 You have a ticket to the Louvre. Which city are you visiting?
200 A day at The Met starts beside Central Park on Fifth Avenue. Which city are you in?
300 Which city would you…
In the game400 The Getty Center sits…
In the game500 The Museum of Islamic…
In the gameOn the Walls 100 What painting is shown here: Leonardo's half-smiling sitter who draws crowds at the Louvre?
200 Which Van Gogh canvas at MoMA turns a night sky into a swirl of stars?
300 What painting is shown…
In the game400 At the Art Institute…
In the game500 What painting is shown…
In the gameBuildings with Stories 100 What museum is shown here: a modern-art destination inside the former Bankside Power Station on the Thames?
200 Which architect made the Guggenheim's spiral ramp, shown here, the centre of a museum visit?
300 Who designed the glass…
In the game400 Who designed the Bilbao…
In the game500 The Vasari Corridor links…
In the gameHow They Began 100 In which year did the Louvre open to the public as a museum, after the French monarchy had fallen?
200 Which physician's vast collection helped launch the British Museum?
300 A British scientist who…
In the game400 Before art filled the…
In the game500 Which Kyiv couple's private…
In the gameTreasures on View 100 What is the slab whose three scripts helped scholars read Egyptian hieroglyphs?
200 What do we call the clay soldiers buried near the tomb of China's first emperor?
300 Which Egyptian temple, rescued…
In the game400 What is the carved…
In the game500 What is the Assyrian…
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