# 🖼️ The Louvre Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. In which city is the Louvre located?  
**Answer:** Paris  
**Taglines:**  
- Oui, the art is strong here  
- Paris: home of croissants and cultural overwhelm  
- Not just for Eiffel selfies  
- The Louvre? More like the walk-thru-hell  
- Where "just one more room" means four more hours  

### 2. What famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci is housed in the Louvre?  
**Answer:** Mona Lisa  
**Taglines:**  
- Smirking since the Renaissance  
- Smile like you know a secret—and a backup escape route  
- The original influencer  
- Smaller than expected, smugger than ever  
- Probably judging you  

### 3. What structure serves as the main entrance to the Louvre?  
**Answer:** Glass Pyramid  
**Taglines:**  
- Pharaoh vibes, Paris style  
- Louvre’s fancy skylight  
- Da Vinci Code’s favorite prop  
- Pointy and proud  
- What happens when France gets futuristic  

### 4. What was the Louvre before it became a museum?  
**Answer:** A royal palace  
**Taglines:**  
- From royalty to roped-off exhibits  
- Kingly crib turned art Airbnb  
- Palace? Nah—museum now  
- From crown jewels to guided tours  
- Monarchs out, Mona in  

### 5. What river flows near the Louvre?  
**Answer:** The Seine  
**Taglines:**  
- Wet and worldly  
- Art on one side, baguettes on the other  
- River with museum-side service  
- Flowing past culture since forever  
- The Louvre’s liquid neighbor  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. The Louvre is the world’s most ______ art museum.  
**Answer:** Visited  
**Taglines:**  
- Everyone’s been there—yes, even your ex  
- Tourists per square inch: alarming  
- Art lovers and selfie fiends unite  
- Visited more than your grandma  
- Louvre: where crowd control cries  

### 2. The museum’s name in French is "Musée du ______."  
**Answer:** Louvre  
**Taglines:**  
- Fancy French for "bring good shoes"  
- Same name, more syllables  
- Say it with flair, still mispronounce it  
- Musée du “don’t touch that!”  
- Louvre, but with a little baguette energy  

### 3. The Mona Lisa is protected behind ______ glass.  
**Answer:** Bulletproof  
**Taglines:**  
- She's not just smug, she’s safe  
- Try your worst, she’s laughing  
- Da Vinci built the mystique, we built the shield  
- Nothing gets through—especially your phone pics  
- Mona: smiling behind the glass  

### 4. The Louvre’s art collection includes over ______ works.  
**Answer:** 35,000  
**Taglines:**  
- Enough art to break your soul and your feet  
- 35K reasons to never finish your tour  
- Every piece says “stay a while”  
- More masterpieces than snacks  
- Louvre’s hoarding art, not feelings  

### 5. The Louvre became a public museum after the ______ Revolution.  
**Answer:** French  
**Taglines:**  
- Vive la art!  
- Heads rolled, paintings stayed  
- From guillotines to galleries  
- When France said “we want the Mona, too”  
- Art for the people, guillotine optional  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What is the most famous sculpture in the Louvre?  
A) Venus de Milo ✅  
B) The Thinker  
C) David  
D) Discobolus  
**Taglines:**  
- Armless, but not charmless  
- Venus de fashion  
- Greek statue, French address  
- She's not waving—she can't  
- Icon status unlocked  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] What period of art does the Louvre *not* primarily focus on?  
A) Ancient Greek  
B) Renaissance  
C) Impressionist ✅  
D) Egyptian  
**Taglines:**  
- For Monet, go elsewhere  
- Louvre: too old school for the new school  
- You want brushstrokes? Try the Musée d’Orsay  
- Impressionists: denied at the door  
- Van Gogh’d elsewhere  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] In what year did the Louvre officially open as a museum?  
A) 1492  
B) 1683  
C) 1793 ✅  
D) 1848  
**Taglines:**  
- Opened during the revolution—talk about a soft launch  
- Storm the Bastille, stroll the halls  
- Art for everyone…eventually  
- 1793: the birth of line queues  
- First paintings, then patrons  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] Who commissioned the glass pyramid entrance?  
A) Napoleon  
B) François Mitterrand ✅  
C) Louis XIV  
D) Charles de Gaulle  
**Taglines:**  
- Mitterrand: lover of glass and drama  
- Presidential pyramid plans  
- He gave us angles and entry  
- Louvre’s new triangle guardian  
- Yes, it’s political—what isn’t?  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] How many main wings does the Louvre have?  
A) 2  
B) 3 ✅  
C) 4  
D) 5  
**Taglines:**  
- Denon, Sully, and Richelieu walk into a museum...  
- Three wings, zero chance you’ll see it all  
- Just pick one and cry  
- Louvre’s trinity of leg pain  
- Triple threat of masterpieces
