The In Crowd Trivia Quiz

Answer: Clive Bell

Arthur Clive Heward Bell, commonly known as Clive Bell, was known as an art critic. Bell's family made their fortune through coal mining, and, as such, Bell had a privileged upbringing. In his book, "Art" (1914), Bell described the theory of significant form in terms of using different lines, shapes, and colors to bring about an emotion response. Although a founding member, Bell's upbringing did not give him the admiration of the group, and at times he was thought of as a snob, womaniser, bigot and social pacifist.

Answer: E.M. Forster

E.M. Forster was probably best known for his novel "A Passage to India", published 1924, but other memorable novels were "Howards End", published in 1910 and "A Room With A View", published in 1908. During Forster's lifetime he published five novels and one further novel was released after his death.

Answer: Duncan Grant

Duncan Grant was foremost a painter, but he was also a designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets, and costumes. Grant, by way of Roger Fry, was involved in the design of the dining room at the Borough Polytechnic, which is now London South Bank University.

The theme of the redecoration was "London on Holiday", whereby Grant completed the paintings "Bathing" (1911) and "Football"(1911), which were examples of that theme.

Answer: Desmond MacCarthy

Desmond MacCarthy was born in 1877, in Plymouth, Devon, and was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. MacCarthy was also a member of the Cambridge Apostles, an intellectual secret society, from 1896. Interestingly, MacCarthy worked for Naval Intelligence during WWI. He joined the "New Statesman" in 1917 as a drama critic and in 1920 became its literary editor. In 1928 MacCarthy became the first editor of "Life and Letters" and became a literary critic for the "Sunday Times" newspaper.

The Cambridge Apostles were named because the original members were 12 Cambridge University students, either graduates or undergraduates. The main purpose of the group was to serve as a discussion forum, where weekly they would have a topic which one member would present and the others would then discuss it.

Answer: Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf was a writer who was considered to be a political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant. Having been rejected from military service, Woolf concentrated on political matters and was heavily involved with the "New Statesman" magazine. Later, together with Virginia, his wife, they started a small printing press business called Hogarth Press, which over time became an influential publisher.

Answer: Vanessa Bell

Vanessa Bell was the sister of Virginia Woolf, and a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group. Bell was an English painter and interior designer and her work was exhibited in London and Paris during her lifetime. "The Tub", a pictures of a bather, was painted in 1917 and was intended by Bell to be displayed in Charleston Farmhouse, a property shared by Duncan Grant, David Garnett, and Bell.

It was never displayed and had been stored folded up by Bell, until discovered in the 1970s by enthusiasts of the Bloomsbury Group.

Answer: Roger Fry

Roger Fry was a painter that expressed himself as a scholar of the Old Masters and an advocate in French painting, specifically Post-Impressionism. Fry became interested in post-impressionism and raised the issue to the English painters of the possibility of falling behind in this new art form. One of Fry's well known paintings is "Virginia Woolf", a portrait done in 1917.

Answer: John Mayard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes was an English economist who joined the Bloomsbury Group. Keynes' ideas were instrumental in changing the theory and practice of micro-economics. These ideas influenced the economic policies of governments. Keynes background was in mathematics which he developed into economic theories.

During the time of the Depression Keynes believe that the uncertainty of people and their businesses stopped them from investing in the future, and thereby caused the halting of the economy. In turn the government should invest and spend, restarting the halting economy.

Answer: Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey was an author of renown with the Victorian people. He came up with a biography using psychology, adding his incredible wit and irreverence to general society. Strachey was known specifically for his biography of Queen Victoria, published in 1920.

The James Tait Black Memorial Prize was founded by Janet Coats Black as a memorial for her husband in 1919, and was based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, United Kingdom.

Answer: Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf has the fame of her suicide by weighing herself down with stones and walking into the River Ouse. Woolf's suicide note to her husband is interesting reading. Before her death, Woolf was famous for numerous novels. She was probably best known for "Mrs Dalloway", published in 1925 and "To the Lighthouse", published in 1927. Woolf was also a pioneer of the "stream of consciousness" which relates to the idea exploring the novel through the thoughts of the narrator.