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1. The Detroit Institute of Art is one of the largest museums in the United States. With the expansion and renovations that were completed in 2007, the museum had about how many individual galleries?
2. The museum was founded by Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner. In which country was he born?
3. In 1932 Edsel Ford, a member of the board of directors, commissioned Diego Rivera to paint five frescos for the museum. Rivera was married to another famous painter. Who was his wife?
4. The museum was the first U.S. collection to include a Vincent Van Gogh painting.
5. The Detroit Institute of Art got its first painting in 1883. By 2007, when the museum was completely restored, it had about how many works?
6. Detroit is known worldwide as the Motor City. During the 1970s, family members connected to two of the three major auto manufacturers in the city donated more than $1 million each to open new displays at the museum. One of the companies was Ford; which was the other?
7. In 2012, the Detroit Institute of Art was dealt a huge blow when the city filed for bankruptcy. Since the city owned the building and had paid for parts of the collection over the previous hundred years, creditors forced the museum to sell nearly $1 billion worth of art.
8. While many art historians ranked the Detroit Institute of Art as one of the world's top 10 collections at the turn of the 21st century, the museum routinely ranked outside of the top ____ in worldwide attendance from 2000 to 2012. (What number fits closest to the missing digits?)
9. Which character in the 2005 film adaptation "Be Cool" was named after a famous Detroit Institute of Art employee?
10. Calvin Coolidge was president, William Taft was leading the Supreme Court film studio MGM was founded, the Washington Senators were the World Series champions and the cornerstone was laid for the Detroit Institute of Arts building in what year?
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