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Gothic NightmaresFuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination, 15 February - 1 May 2006
Gothic Nightmares

Gothic Quiz

Pit your wits, and your pendulum, against the Gothic Quiz-Meister on all things scary in art, literature and film.

1. What was the name of Horace Walpole’s neo-Gothic house built between 1747 and 1792?
Fonthill Abbey    
Stawberry Hill    
Headlong Hall

2. In which year was the novel Frankenstein adapted as a talking movie?
1929     1930     1931

3. Which ancient hero from Greek mythology is the subject of many works in the exhibition?
Ulysses     Prometheus     Philoctetes

James Northcote, Henry Fuseli, 1778.  Oil on canvas, 778 x 645 mm. Lent by the National Portrait Gallery, London
James Northcote,
Henry Fuseli, 1778.
Lent by the National Portrait Gallery, London

4. What career did Henry Fuseli train for before becoming a painter?
Lawyer    
Priest    
Doctor

5. Who wrote the gothic horror novel The Mummy in 1827?
Jane C. Loudon     Mary Shelley     John Polidori

Henry Fuseli, Satan Starting from the Touch of Ithuriel's Spear (Satan flieht, von Ithuriels Speer beruht), 1779

6. Which angel's spear protects Adam and Eve in Room 3?
Gabriel    
Jophiel    
Ithuriel

7. Which horror film had the following lines as it promotional slogan: ‘In her eyes…desire! In her veins…the blood of a monster!’?
Black Sunday (1960)     Blood of Dracula (1957)     Countess Dracula (1971)

Photograph by Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
Photograph by Henry Fox Talbot
(1800-1877)

8. Which very haunted Cambridge college, recently described by Alan Bennett as ‘Gothick’, has the head of Oliver Cromwell buried in a secret location?
Sidney Sussex     Pembroke     Emmanuel

James Gillray, Tales of Wonder!, 1 February 1802
James Gillray,
Tales of Wonder!, 1 February 1802

9. Which famous 'Gothic' novel is satirised by James Gillray in Room 4?
The Monk    
The Castle of Otranto    
The Mysteries of Udolpho

Thomas Phillips, William Blake, 1807. National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Phillips,
William Blake, 1807.
National Portrait Gallery, London

10. In which London location did William Blake famously have visions of angels?
Berwick Street    
Marylebone Fields    
Peckham Rye

11. In the 1963 film The Haunting which room is ‘the cold, rotten heart of the house’?
The library     The kitchen     The nursery

Theodore Von Holst,
Bertalda Frightened by Apparitions, circa 1830-1835

12. Who is Bertalda frightened by in Room 6?
Apparitions    
Ghouls    
Vampires

James Gillray, James Gillray, circa 1800.  National Portrait Gallery, London
James Gillray,
James Gillray, circa 1800.
National Portrait Gallery, London

13. In which religious sect was the caricaturist James Gillray brought up?
The Quakers    
The Moravians    
The Muggletonians

14. Which famous horror movie director’s work is parodied in the recent British comedy film Shaun of the Dead?
Wes Craven     John Carpenter     George A. Romero

William Blake, The House of Death, 1795/circa 1805
William Blake,
The House of Death, 1795/circa 1805

15. William Blake's The House of Death is taken from which famous work of literature?
Macbeth    
Paradise Lost    
The Odyssey

 
 

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