passive quiz

PASSIVE QUIZIES Escultor

Juan de

Villanueva

4th ESO Bil. B2/C2016-17

1Who was penicillin discovered by?

a. Alexander Fleming

b. Marie Curie

2Who were modern digital computers

developed?

a. John Atanasoff

b. Graham Bell

c. René Leduc

3Who was a kind of submarine invented

by?

a. Isaac Peral

b. Christiaan Huygens

c. Roger Bacon

4Who were x-rays discovered by?

a. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

b. King Camp Gillette

c. Louis and August Lumière

5Who was the vacuum cleaner invented

by?

a. Valdemar Poulsen

b. Wilbur and Orville Wright

c. Hubert Cecil Booth

6Who was the first modern air-

conditioning system invented by?

a. Elmer Ambrose Sperry

b. W. H. Carrier

c. Jacques Edwin Brandenberger

7Who was ‘The Birth of Venus’ painted

by?

a. Munch

b. Picasso

c. Botticelli

8When was ‘The Mona Lisa’ finished?

a. 1517

b. 1620

c. 1765

9When was the first photograph taken?

a. 1826

b. 1850

c. 1900

10Where was the first photograph taken?

a. Germany

b. The United States

c. France

11When was ‘La Sagrada Familia’

started?

a. 1882

b. 1895

c. 1913

12Who is portrayed in Picasso’s painting

‘The Actor’?

a. A waiter

b. An acrobat

c. A dancer

13When was ‘The Actor’ painted by

Picasso?

a. 1904

b. 1912

c. 1924

14Which of these men is not considered

a Renaissance artist?

a. Leonardo da Vinci

b. Vincent van Gogh

c. Michelangelo

15When was the Human Camera born?

a. 1974

b. 1975

c. 1976

16What can be seen in the woman

portrayed in ‘The Mona Lisa’?

a. Eyebrows

b. Eyelashes

c. Both a and b

17When was ‘The Mona Lisa’ stolen?

a. 1901

b. 1911

c. 1921

18Who was the mop invented by?

a. Iván Cervantes

b. Manuel Jalón

c. Miguel Loredo

19Who was ‘The Kiss’ painted by?

a. Van Gogh

b. Picasso

c. Gustav Klimt

d. Diego Velázquez

20Who was photography invented by?

a. Leonardo da Vinci

b. Archimedes

c. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

21Where is ‘La Sagrada Familia’ located?

a. Madrid

b. Murcia

c. Barcelona

22Who was ‘La Sagrada Familia’ started

by?

a. Gaudí

b. Calatrava

c. Leonardo da Vinci

23What material was used by Picasso to

paint ‘The Actor’?

a. Watercolour

b. Oil

c. Charcoal

24Who is considered one of the best

Renaissance artists?

a. Nuremberg

b. Raphael

c. Alfonso d’Este

25Who was ‘The Mona Lisa’ painted by?

a. Leonardo da Vinci

b. Vincent van Gogh

c. Picasso

26Is a national photography award given

in Spain?

a. Yes

b. No

27Is a Donatello considered a

Renaissance artist?

a. Yes

b. No

28Where was Stephen Wiltshire (known

as the Human Camera) born?

a. New York

b. Dublin

c. London

PASSIVE QUIZ

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