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Andy Warhol Trivia Quiz

The artist Andy Warhol. Warhol is the seventh of nineteen focus artists featured in the 2001-2002 US Academic Decathlon curriculum and his featured work is Mao.

A multiple-choice quiz by SuperRo. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
SuperRo

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
67,523

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. Where were Warhol's parents from? Hint

Czechoslovakia

Romania

Yugoslavia

Poland

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Question 2 of 10

2. When Andy Warhol was in grade school, what serious disease did he contract? Hint

St. Vitus's disease

rheumatic fever

mononucleosis

Lyme disease

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Question 3 of 10

3. What magazine did Warhol NOT create ads for early in his career? Hint

Glamour

Harper's

Life

Vogue

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Question 4 of 10

4. What piece of work did Warhol NOT create? Hint

Lincoln

Death and Disaster

Marilyn Monroe

Renaissance Paintings

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Question 5 of 10

5. What was the nickname of Warhol's studio? Hint

The Assembly Line

The Factory

The Warehouse

The Back Room

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Question 6 of 10

6. What was Warhol's first film? Hint

The Chelsea Girls

Nude Restaurant

My Hustler

Sleep

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Question 7 of 10

7. This 1964 work had to be painted over because certain people were offended by it. What was it? Hint

Thirteen Most Wanted Men

Hammer and Sickle

Marilyn Monroe

Mao

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Question 8 of 10

8. Warhol was the producer of the first album of what underground rock band?

Answer: (Three Words)

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Question 9 of 10

9. To speed up the process of creating art, what method did Warhol famously adopt? Hint

Laser printing

Lithography

Silk screen printing

Frescography

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which feminist shot Andy Warhol in 1968?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Where were Warhol's parents from?

Answer: Czechoslovakia

Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola, on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

2. When Andy Warhol was in grade school, what serious disease did he contract?

Answer: St. Vitus's disease

This left him in bed for over a month. He would later refer to this as his 'first nervous breakdown.'

3. What magazine did Warhol NOT create ads for early in his career?

Answer: Life

In high school, Warhol was so talented that the other members of the Art Club excluded him - for being much better than them.

4. What piece of work did Warhol NOT create?

Answer: Lincoln

'Lincoln' was by Robert Rauschenberg.

5. What was the nickname of Warhol's studio?

Answer: The Factory

Here, Warhol was a type of king, manipulating his followers and playing them off against one another. People would come into the Factory group and quickly be discarded, all at Warhol's will.

6. What was Warhol's first film?

Answer: Sleep

It was a six-hour movie of a man sleeping. Most of his movies were like 'Sleep' in that they were plotless, boring, and extremely LONG.

7. This 1964 work had to be painted over because certain people were offended by it. What was it?

Answer: Thirteen Most Wanted Men

It cause offense because most of the men were Italian.

8. Warhol was the producer of the first album of what underground rock band?

Answer: The Velvet Underground

He also painted the cover to their first album, entitled 'The Velvet Underground and Nico.' Many of the songs were considered daring, shocking or even a shade kinky.

9. To speed up the process of creating art, what method did Warhol famously adopt?

Answer: Silk screen printing

His 1973 portrait of Mao is one of the best known examples of his use of this process.

10. Which feminist shot Andy Warhol in 1968?

Answer: Valerie Solanas

Valerie Solanas was an ardent feminist. She was one of the many who felt that Warhol was abusive and controlling (and she wasn't wrong there). She thought that he deserved to die. Warhol was at one point pronounced dead, but was revived and slowly recovered. Some called him a martyr, and others felt that he got what he deserved. He recovered and lived till 1987.

Source: Author SuperRo

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