Reverent Quizzes

P A I N T I N G	True art or a fake? Try to tell if a picture is a masterpiece of abstract art, or not. Famous or unknown artist? Try to tell if a painting was created by a famous artist or by an unknown one. An artist or an ape? Try to tell if a picture was painted by an abstractionist or by a monkey. Pollock or birds? Try to tell if an image is of Pollock's masterpiece or of bird droppings.	P A I N T I N G
L I T E R A T U R E	Great prose or not? Try to tell the worst writer in history of letters from Charles Dickens. Machine translation or Faulkner? Try to tell the prose, which won a Nobel prize, from one that needs editing. An artist or a hack? Try to tell the prose of a great writer from that of a commercial writer. Poetry, or parody? Try to tell modernistic poems from ridiculous parodies. Poe-tical, or not? Try to tell the poems by Edgar Poe from those by James Riley.	L I T E R A T U R E
M U S I C	Mozart or Salieri? A quiz to tell music by Mozart from that by Salieri. Famous or unknown musician? A quiz to tell performance of famous musicians from that of unknown ones. MIDI or Virtuoso? A quiz to tell if a sound clip is played by human or computer.	M U S I C
D E S I G N	Donald Judd, or Cheap Furniture? Try to tell a masterpiece of minimalism from affordable furniture.	D E S I G N
L I B E R A L I S M	Stupid or clever? Try to tell the difference between the college grades of Bush and Kerry. Coulterism or Simkinism? Try to tell if a joke was invented by Ann Coulter or by the author of the quiz. Franken or Simkin? Try to tell if a joke was invented by Al Franken or by the author of the quiz. Dr. Savage or Dr. Simkin? Try to tell if a joke was invented by Michael Savage or by the author of the quiz.	L I B E R A L I S M

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Sokal & Bricmont or Lenin?
Try to tell if a quote is from Fashionable Nonsense or from Lenin.

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These quizzes were designed by Mikhail Simkin. The PHP code was borrowed from Quiz-o-matic

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