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Arts & Culture explores visual expression, music, and cultural traditions. This first round builds the vocabulary for looking at art: distinguish shape from form, recognise texture and negative space, and see how artists use colour and value to guide your attention.

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Major Arts & Culture subtopics

  • Visual arts
  • Music and dance
  • Festivals
  • Cultural heritage

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Arts & Culture questions and answers

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  1. Visual artseasy

    1. In visual art, is a shape two-dimensional or three-dimensional?

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    Answer: Two-dimensional

    A shape has height and width.

    Source: J. Paul Getty Museum: elements of art

  2. Visual artsmedium

    2. What art term describes an object with height, width, and depth?

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    Answer: Form

    Form adds a third dimension, unlike a flat shape.

    Source: J. Paul Getty Museum: elements of art

  3. Visual artseasy

    3. What does texture describe in art?

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    Answer: The surface quality of an object

    It can be physically felt or visually suggested.

    Source: J. Paul Getty Museum: elements of art

  4. Compositionmedium

    4. What is negative space?

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    Answer: The space around or between objects

    These surrounding areas can help define the objects.

    Source: J. Paul Getty Museum: elements of art

  5. Colourmedium

    5. What does value describe in relation to colour?

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    Answer: How light or dark it is

    Changes in value can suggest depth or create mood.

    Source: J. Paul Getty Museum: elements of art

  6. Coloureasy

    6. What is hue?

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    Answer: The name of a colour

    Names such as red and blue identify hues.

    Source: J. Paul Getty Museum: elements of art

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  1. Arts & CultureMixed

    1. What state holds the worlds largest international hot air balloon festival?

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    Answer: New Mexico

  2. Arts & CultureMixed

    2. According to Matthew and Luke, in what city was Jesus born?

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    Answer: Bethlehem

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    3. What does the term Chabad, as in Chabad Hasidism, mean?

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    Answer: It stands for wisdaom, understanding and knowledge

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    4. Which word means extravagance in cooking and/or serving?

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    Answer: abliguration

  5. Arts & CultureMixed

    5. Which Shakespearean tragic hero had a run in with cannibals?

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    Answer: Othello

  6. Arts & CultureMixed

    6. What does film maker Dan Bell typically focus his films on?

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    Answer: Abandoned Buildings and Dead Malls

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    7. In what book of The New Testament was John the Baptist beheaded?

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    Answer: Matthew

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    8. Where does Roland first meet Jake in the novel The Gunslinger?

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    Answer: An abandoned way station

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    9. What do Jews do when the case which houses the Torah is opened?

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    Answer: Stand up

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    10. Which of these word means a large group?

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    Answer: bevy

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