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1
Name the literary style that mixes realistic and supernatural elements.
2
Name the most influential video artist.
3
Name the architecture and design style that uses industrial techniques and whose roots stretch back to the Crystal Palace and Eiffel Tower.
4
What American composer of the opera Einstein on the Beach has returned exuberance to music and draws on classical Indian music, African drumming, and rock and roll?
5
Who is the well known performance artist responsible for works such as Songs and Stories from "Moby Dick"? She is a gifted violinist.
6
Name the author of The Color Purple.
7
Name the artist who designed the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
8
Name the architect who designed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio.
9
Which nation's "favorite son" became Pope John Paul II?
10
Which nation is home to Gabriel García Márquez, the first Latin American novelist to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature?
11
Which nation (now known under a new name) is the setting for Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being?
12
Name the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
13
Name the Chinese-American author whose autobiographical works are intended to show that the Chinese have the right to belong through their labor in building the country and supporting themselves.
14
Name the first Turkish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
15
Name the artist who devoted many years of her career to painting a single subject: the horse.
16
Name the remote volcanic island where poet Derek Walcott spent much of his youth.
17
Name the artist who created multicolored soaked and stained canvases, draping and wrapping them in space, and shaping them into three-dimensional sculptural works.
18
Name the artist, known as the art world's chameleon because of his style-shifting images, whose works include the portrait of a woman whose face is hidden from the artist's and the viewer's gaze.
19
Name the Colombian artist who paints human and animal shapes, making each figure grossly overweight.
20
Name the American minimalist composer who wrote such operas as Nixon in China and Doctor Atomic.







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