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• Which writer created the detective Sherlock Holmes?World literature
• Which German writer wrote Demian?World literature
• Which English writer wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?World literature
• Who wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust?World literature
• Which English writer wrote Wuthering Heights?World literature
• Which American writer wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?World literature
• Which Brazilian writer wrote The Alchemist?World literature
• Who wrote the Harry Potter series?World literature
• Which English writer wrote The Lord of the Rings?World literature
• Which American writer wrote The Great Gatsby?World literature
• The Lord of the Rings was written by J.R.R. Tolkien.World literature
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a children's book by a French writer.World literature
• The writer who created the detective Sherlock Holmes was Agatha Christie.World literature
• Demian and Beneath the Wheel were written by Hermann Hesse.World literature
• Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther were written by Goethe.World literature
• Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Bronte.World literature
• To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Ernest Hemingway.World literature
• Paulo Coelho, who wrote The Alchemist, is a Russian writer.World literature
• The Harry Potter series was written by J.K. Rowling.World literature
• The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.World literature
• Which French writer wrote Les Miserables?World literature
• Which Russian writer wrote Crime and Punishment?World literature
• In which country is Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet set?World literature
• Which Spanish novel tells of a man who read so many books of chivalry that he mistook them for the world?World literature
• Which French writer wrote The Little Prince?World literature
• Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?World literature
• Which prize is counted as the most respected in the world for a writer?World literature
• Which of these is not one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth)?World literature
• Who wrote The Metamorphosis, which opens with its hero waking up turned into an insect?World literature
• Which Russian writer wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?World literature
• The writer of War and Peace and Anna Karenina is Tolstoy.World literature
• Les Miserables was written by Balzac.World literature
• The Metamorphosis is a Kafka story that opens with its hero waking up turned into an insect.World literature
• Shakespeare was a Spanish playwright.World literature
• The Little Prince was written by the French writer Saint-Exupery.World literature
• Don Quixote is a novel by the Spanish writer Cervantes.World literature
• Romeo and Juliet was written by Cervantes.World literature
• The most respected international prize in writing is the Pulitzer Prize.World literature
• Haiku traditionally follows a 5-7-5 syllable form.World literature
• Ancient Greek tragedy always ends happily.World literature
• In which country did the Impressionist movement in painting take hold in the late 19th century?Western art
• Which painter, born in Spain, led Cubism?Western art
• Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, and The Last Judgment on its altar wall?Western art
• In which museum is the Mona Lisa on show?Western art
• Who painted the Sunflowers series?Western art
• Who painted the Mona Lisa?Western art
• Who painted The Scream, with its figure holding its face in both hands?Western art
• Who made the sculpture The Thinker?Western art
• Which Impressionist painter made Impression, Sunrise?Western art
• Who painted The Starry Night?Western art
• Cubism is bound up with Picasso, Braque, and others.Western art
• Picasso was a painter born in France.Western art
• The sculpture The Thinker was made by Michelangelo.Western art
• Van Gogh's paintings sold well in his lifetime and left him a rich man.Western art
• The Mona Lisa is on show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.Western art
• Vincent van Gogh is also known for the episode in which he cut off part of his own ear.Western art
• The Mona Lisa is on show at the Louvre in France.Western art
• The painter of the Sunflowers series is Van Gogh.Western art
• The painter of The Scream is Picasso.Western art
• The Renaissance began on a great scale in Italy.Western art