IS IT A ROMANTIC POET
OR
A 20TH CENTURY ROCK STAR?
1. Which two creative partners forged a close bond after they both lost their mothers during adolescence?
a. Lennon and McCartney b. Percy Shelley and John Keats
2. Which artist created one of his most famous works under the haze of opium?
a. Jim Morrison b. Samuel Taylor Coleridge c. Lord Byron
3. Who abandoned his wife and child for an avant-garde artist?
a. Kurt Cobain b. John Lennon c. Percy Bysshe Shelley
4. Who became a political activist after a series of scandals, and while journeying to a foreign country to help in its struggle for independence, contracted a deadly disease? The news of this artist’s death was met by cries of anguish from hordes of distraught women.
a. John Lennon b Lord Byron c. Percy Bysshe Shelley
5. Which artist scandalized society by abandoning his pregnant wife and child to run off with a sixteen year old girl?
a. Jerry Lee Lewis b. Percy Bysshe Shelley c. John Keats
6. After being voted the “Ugliest Man on Campus”, which humiliated artist left the university town to seek fame and fortune in a glittering city?
a. William Wordsworth b. Janis Joplin c. John Keats
7. Which artist was condemned in his later years by another artist for the abandoning of his progressive liberal ideas of his youth, and his embracing of conservatism?
a. John Lennon b. William Wordsworth c. Lord Byron
8. Which artist was disowned by his prominent family, and after a few hard years of boozing and drugging, died of a heart attack at the age of twenty-seven? Fans born years after his death are still scrawling graffiti on his grave in Paris.
a. John Keats b. Jim Morrison c. Samuel Taylor
9. Which two artists formed one of the most powerful alliances in history, producing a work of power and majesty that revolutionized the art form?
a. Wordsworth and Coleridge b. Lennon and McCartney
c. Snoop Dog and Little Bow Wow d. Both a and b
10. Which artist, plagued by extreme poverty, produced his own works and whose eccentricities were so pronounced - even claiming to see angels in trees - that many of his staunchest admirers couldn’t say if he was a genius or a madman or a little of both?
a. Kurt Cobain b. William Blake c. Jimi Hendrix
11. Which artist, battling his own demons of drugs and depression, committed suicide at the height of his career? Many of his fans, however, are convinced that he was murdered by his ambitious wife.
a. Percy Bysshe Shelley b. Kurt Cobain c. Jimi Hendrix
12. Which artist perfected his astounding technique while in military service, found fame in a foreign country before he became successful in his own, and died of a drug overdose at the age of twenty-seven?
a. Jimi Hendrix b. William Blake c. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
13. Which artists did not die in his/her twenties?
a. Jimi Hendrix b. John Keats c. Janis Joplin d. Percy Shelley
e. Jim Morrison f. Lord Byron and Billie Holiday
14. Which artist was the sole support of his younger siblings after the early death of his parents, and who, realizing the imminence of his own death while caring for his terminally ill brother, produced some of the most beautiful works ever written in a feverish blaze of creativity just months before his death?
a. John Keats b. Kurt Cobain c. William Blake
15. Which artist drowned in a boating accident? His body washed ashore ten days later with a copy of his friend’s book in his pocket. His body was burned in a funeral pyre on the shore while another artist, who in a few short years would also be dead, swam out to sea to watch and pay homage to his friend.
a. Shelley b. Keats c. Jimi Hendrix
16. Which artist was picked on at school?
a. Shelley b Janis Joplin c. Both Shelley and Joplin
17. Which artist was inspired in his own art by the hallucinogenic beauty of William Blake’s poetry and art?
a. John Lennon b. Jim Morrison c. Samuel Taylor Coleride
OR
A 20TH CENTURY ROCK STAR?
1. Which two creative partners forged a close bond after they both lost their mothers during adolescence?
a. Lennon and McCartney b. Percy Shelley and John Keats
2. Which artist created one of his most famous works under the haze of opium?
a. Jim Morrison b. Samuel Taylor Coleridge c. Lord Byron
3. Who abandoned his wife and child for an avant-garde artist?
a. Kurt Cobain b. John Lennon c. Percy Bysshe Shelley
4. Who became a political activist after a series of scandals, and while journeying to a foreign country to help in its struggle for independence, contracted a deadly disease? The news of this artist’s death was met by cries of anguish from hordes of distraught women.
a. John Lennon b Lord Byron c. Percy Bysshe Shelley
5. Which artist scandalized society by abandoning his pregnant wife and child to run off with a sixteen year old girl?
a. Jerry Lee Lewis b. Percy Bysshe Shelley c. John Keats
6. After being voted the “Ugliest Man on Campus”, which humiliated artist left the university town to seek fame and fortune in a glittering city?
a. William Wordsworth b. Janis Joplin c. John Keats
7. Which artist was condemned in his later years by another artist for the abandoning of his progressive liberal ideas of his youth, and his embracing of conservatism?
a. John Lennon b. William Wordsworth c. Lord Byron
8. Which artist was disowned by his prominent family, and after a few hard years of boozing and drugging, died of a heart attack at the age of twenty-seven? Fans born years after his death are still scrawling graffiti on his grave in Paris.
a. John Keats b. Jim Morrison c. Samuel Taylor
9. Which two artists formed one of the most powerful alliances in history, producing a work of power and majesty that revolutionized the art form?
a. Wordsworth and Coleridge b. Lennon and McCartney
c. Snoop Dog and Little Bow Wow d. Both a and b
10. Which artist, plagued by extreme poverty, produced his own works and whose eccentricities were so pronounced - even claiming to see angels in trees - that many of his staunchest admirers couldn’t say if he was a genius or a madman or a little of both?
a. Kurt Cobain b. William Blake c. Jimi Hendrix
11. Which artist, battling his own demons of drugs and depression, committed suicide at the height of his career? Many of his fans, however, are convinced that he was murdered by his ambitious wife.
a. Percy Bysshe Shelley b. Kurt Cobain c. Jimi Hendrix
12. Which artist perfected his astounding technique while in military service, found fame in a foreign country before he became successful in his own, and died of a drug overdose at the age of twenty-seven?
a. Jimi Hendrix b. William Blake c. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
13. Which artists did not die in his/her twenties?
a. Jimi Hendrix b. John Keats c. Janis Joplin d. Percy Shelley
e. Jim Morrison f. Lord Byron and Billie Holiday
14. Which artist was the sole support of his younger siblings after the early death of his parents, and who, realizing the imminence of his own death while caring for his terminally ill brother, produced some of the most beautiful works ever written in a feverish blaze of creativity just months before his death?
a. John Keats b. Kurt Cobain c. William Blake
15. Which artist drowned in a boating accident? His body washed ashore ten days later with a copy of his friend’s book in his pocket. His body was burned in a funeral pyre on the shore while another artist, who in a few short years would also be dead, swam out to sea to watch and pay homage to his friend.
a. Shelley b. Keats c. Jimi Hendrix
16. Which artist was picked on at school?
a. Shelley b Janis Joplin c. Both Shelley and Joplin
17. Which artist was inspired in his own art by the hallucinogenic beauty of William Blake’s poetry and art?
a. John Lennon b. Jim Morrison c. Samuel Taylor Coleride
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