- 1. Which artist painted Saint George and the Dragon in 1620?
A) Gustave Moreau
B) Salvator Rosa
C) Edward Burne-Jones
D) Peter Paul Rubens
- 2. Where is Mattia Preti's 1678 painting, Saint George Triumphant over the Dragon, located?
A) State Library of Victoria
B) The National Gallery, London
C) St George's Basilica, Victoria
D) Palace of Westminster
- 3. Which artist created the Saint George and the Dragon oil on canvas housed in The National Gallery, London?
A) Giorgio de Chirico
B) Uroš Predić
C) Gustave Moreau
D) Briton Rivière
- 4. In what year did Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm create his bronze Saint George and the Dragon sculpture?
A) 1952
B) 1920
C) 1889
D) 1947
- 5. Where is the sculpture of Saint George and the Dragon by Salvador Dalí located?
A) Open Air Museum in Cosenza
B) Victory Park, Moscow
C) Regent Street, London
D) Tbilisi
- 6. What is the title of the abstract sculpture by Marcus Canning and Christian de Vietri in Perth?
A) St George Killing the Dragon
B) Ascalon
C) Saint George Triumphant
D) Saint George for England
- 7. Edward Poynter's mosaic 'Saint George for England' is located in which building?
A) The National Gallery, London
B) Church of St. George in Staraya Ladoga
C) Palace of Westminster
D) St George's Cathedral, Perth
- 8. Which artist created the silver automobile mascot of Saint George and the Dragon for the British monarch in 1952?
A) Edward Seago
B) Alexander Fisher
C) Benedetto Pistrucci
D) Zurab Tsereteli
- 9. What did Benedetto Pistrucci engrave in 1817?
A) Automobile mascots
B) Coin dies
C) Maiolica panels
D) Banknotes
- 10. Which bank issues banknotes that have featured the image of Saint George?
A) Bank of England
B) State Library of Victoria
C) Central Bank of Russia
D) Liberty's store
- 11. What subject matter appears on the kopecks issued by the Central Bank of Russia?
A) Elizabeth II
B) Saint George
C) Britannia
D) George V
- 12. Where is the sculpture by Zurab Tsereteli created in 2005 located?
A) Tbilisi
B) Stanway
C) London
D) Moscow
- 13. The iconography of Saint George as a horseman is a continuation of which Roman-era type?
A) Gallic knight
B) Thracian horseman
C) Byzantine centurion
D) Persian archer
- 14. Which other military saints are grouped with George in the Thracian horseman iconography?
A) Peter and Paul
B) Anthony and Sebastian
C) Theodore and Demetrius
D) Michael and Gabriel
- 15. What animals were commonly depicted being speared by horsemen in Roman-era stelae?
A) Lions and bears
B) Stags and bulls
C) Wolves and eagles
D) Serpents and boars
- 16. In the Krupac carving, which figures are shown as Thracian horsemen besides a serpent-entwined tree?
A) Castor and Pollux
B) Mars and Jupiter
C) Apollo and Asclepius
D) Hercules and Perseus
- 17. Which figures are depicted on a stele killing a boar with spears alongside a serpent-entwined tree?
A) The Titans
B) The Dioscuri
C) The Romans
D) The Centaurs
- 18. Who edited the Coptic version of the Saint George legend in 1888?
A) Dadianus
B) The Krupac researchers
C) The Louvre
D) E. A. Wallis Budge
- 19. In the Coptic version of the legend, who is referred to as 'the dragon of the abyss'?
A) Saint George
B) The Horus figure
C) The serpent of the tree
D) Governor Dadianus
- 20. Which Greek myth is cited as having similar elements to the Saint George legend?
A) Jason and the Golden Fleece
B) Bellerophon and the Chimera
C) Hercules and the Hydra
D) Perseus and Medusa
- 21. According to E. A. Wallis Budge, the story of Saint George is a version of the conflict between what?
A) Light and Darkness
B) Good and Evil
C) Life and Death
D) God and Man
- 22. Which pair is mentioned as an example of the Light and Darkness conflict?
A) Zeus and Cronus
B) Ra and Apepi
C) Odin and Thor
D) Apollo and Artemis
- 23. Which ancient Mesopotamian deities are compared to the Saint George conflict?
A) Enlil and Anu
B) Ishtar and Tammuz
C) Marduk and Tiamat
D) Gilgamesh and Enkidu
- 24. How were Governor Dadianus and his governors destroyed?
A) By a great flood
B) By fire called down from heaven
C) By the wrath of the dragon
D) By the sword of Saint George
- 25. In the Coptic stone fenestrella, what is the mounted hawk-headed figure fighting?
A) A serpent
B) A crocodile
C) A boar
D) A dragon
- 26. How does the Louvre interpret the hawk-headed figure in the Coptic fenestrella?
A) Ra defeating Apepi
B) Apollo killing the serpent
C) Horus killing a metamorphosed Setekh
D) Saint George killing the dragon
- 27. What is Saint George's occupation in the legend?
A) Farmer
B) Monk
C) Soldier
D) King
- 28. Besides Christianity, in which other group is Saint George venerated?
A) Druze
B) Shintoists
C) Buddhists
D) Hindus
- 29. How many children were given to the dragon per day as human tribute?
A) Three
B) One
C) Two
D) Five
- 30. Who was selected as the final human offering to the dragon?
A) The princess
B) A village elder
C) The mayor's daughter
D) The queen
- 31. Where was the narrative of the legend first set in early sources?
A) Cappadocia
B) Jerusalem
C) Libya
D) Rome
- 32. In which century was the legend transferred to Libya?
A) 12th century
B) 13th century
C) 11th century
D) 14th century
- 33. What is the name of the 13th-century text that relocated the legend to Libya?
A) Lives of the Saints
B) Golden Legend
C) Chronicles of Cappadocia
D) Speculum Historiale
- 34. Where is the oldest known record of Saint George slaying a dragon found?
A) A Byzantine wall painting
B) A Georgian text
C) A Latin manuscript
D) A Greek scroll
- 35. When did the legend reach Western Christian tradition?
A) 14th century
B) 12th century
C) 11th century
D) 13th century
- 36. What event helped spread the legend to Western Christian tradition?
A) The Silk Road
B) The Crusades
C) The Viking voyages
D) The fall of Rome
- 37. Which work helped popularize the legend in the 13th century along with the Golden Legend?
A) Beowulf
B) The Divine Comedy
C) Canterbury Tales
D) Speculum Historiale
- 38. What did the princess ask Saint George to do when he first met her?
A) Kill her
B) Bring her water
C) Flee
D) Pray for her
- 39. What is the oldest certain depiction of Saint Theodore killing a dragon?
A) Göreme
B) Aghtamar
C) Palermo
D) Vinica
- 40. In the 10th century, what was Saint George depicted as killing?
A) A boar
B) A human figure
C) A horse
D) A dragon
- 41. Where is the earliest image of Saint Theodore as a horseman (named in Latin) located?
A) Cappadocia
B) Vinica, North Macedonia
C) Maastricht
D) Euchaita
- 42. What is the physical characteristic of the snakes being trodden upon by George and Christopher in the Vinica icon?
A) They have three heads
B) They have no eyes
C) They are headless
D) They have human heads
- 43. In which city is the 17th-century drawing of the lost Maastricht depiction now held?
A) Paris
B) Maastricht
C) Rome
D) Palermo
- 44. What animal were the 'sacred riders' traditionally thought to be attacking in pre-Christian iconography?
A) A wolf
B) A boar
C) A lion
D) A dragon
- 45. What is the English name of the 'Yılanlı Kilise'?
A) Saint George Church
B) Dragon Chapel
C) Snake Church
D) Horseman Church
- 46. Where is the Zoodochos Pigi chapel located?
A) Cappadocia, Turkey
B) Maastricht, Netherlands
C) Central Macedonia, Greece
D) Palermo, Italy
- 47. Where is the 12th-century depiction of the mounted dragon-slayer found?
A) Aghtamar Cathedral, Armenia
B) Basilica of Saint Servatius, Maastricht
C) Yılanlı Kilise, Cappadocia
D) Cappella Palatina, Palermo
- 48. Who wrote the 'Legenda aurea' or 'The Golden Legend'?
A) Guy of Warwick
B) Edmund Spenser
C) Richard Johnson
D) Jacobus de Voragine
- 49. What is the name of the city plagued by the dragon in the Golden Legend?
A) Metz
B) Cappadocia
C) Silene
D) Ascalon
- 50. What was Saint George's military rank according to the Golden Legend?
A) Centurion
B) General
C) Tribune
D) Knight
- 51. What object did the princess use to lead the dragon like a beast on a leash?
A) Her girdle
B) A chain
C) A bridle
D) A rope
- 52. How many men converted to Christianity after Saint George promised to kill the dragon?
A) Ten thousand
B) Fifteen thousand
C) Twenty thousand
D) Five thousand
- 53. What was the final weapon used by Saint George to kill the dragon?
A) Lance
B) Spear
C) Sword
D) Dagger
- 54. What flowed from the altar of the church built on the site of the dragon's death?
A) A curative spring
B) Holy oil
C) Milk
D) Wine
- 55. Who supplied the name 'Sabra' for the princess?
A) Guy of Warwick
B) Jacobus de Voragine
C) Richard Johnson
D) Edmund Spenser
- 56. In which literary work is Saint George represented as the 'Red Cross Knight'?
A) The Faerie Queene
B) Legenda aurea
C) Seven Champions of Christendom
D) The Golden Legend
- 57. Which motif is mentioned as similar to the Saint George legend, originating from Metz, France?
A) Dioskuroi
B) Ascalon
C) Silene
D) Graoully
- 58. Where is the skull of the dragon kept?
A) Karlštejn Castle
B) The Louvre
C) Prague Castle
D) St. Vitus Cathedral
- 59. In what year was the dragon skull first identified as such?
A) 1450
B) 1700
C) 1515
D) 1355
- 60. In Eastern iconography, how is Saint George traditionally depicted?
A) As a peasant
B) As a foot soldier
C) As a Roman cavalryman
D) As a monk
- 61. What is the city associated with the 'detailed' iconographic form?
A) Staraya Ladoga
B) Rome
C) Lacia
D) Cappadocia
- 62. What is the name of the oldest Russian icon of the miracle of George?
A) St. George of Ladoga
B) Pesaro altarpiece
C) Чудо Георгия о змие
D) Thracian Heros
- 63. In Russian tradition, what color is the horse Saint George is mostly shown on?
A) Brown
B) Red
C) Black
D) White
- 64. Who created the Saint George terracotta piece c. 1490?
A) Andrea della Robbia
B) Raphael
C) Donatello
D) Paolo Uccello
- 65. Which artist painted Saint George and the Dragon in 1555?
A) Bernt Notke
B) Albrecht Dürer
C) Tintoretto
D) Giovanni Bellini
- 66. Where is Raphael's 1504 oil on wood painting of Saint George located?
A) National Gallery, London
B) National Gallery of Art, Washington
C) Bargello, Florence
D) The Louvre
- 67. Which work by Edmund Spenser features the Redcross Knight as an expansion of the Saint George story?
A) Paradise Lost
B) Beowulf
C) The Canterbury Tales
D) The Fairy Queen
- 68. In which Shakespearean play does Saint George appear in the lines, 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'?
A) Hamlet
B) Henry V
C) Richard III
D) King Lear
- 69. Who wrote the words for Edward Elgar's 'The Banner of St George'?
A) Shapcott Wensley
B) Edmund Spenser
C) Kenneth Grahame
D) William Shakespeare
- 70. What happens in Kenneth Grahame's 'The Reluctant Dragon'?
A) The dragon destroys the town
B) A heroic battle to the death occurs
C) Saint George refuses to fight the dragon
D) A mock battle is staged to help the dragon enter society
- 71. Which company produced a film based on 'The Reluctant Dragon'?
A) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
B) Warner Bros.
C) Universal Pictures
D) Walt Disney Productions
- 72. What kind of musical adaptation did John Rutter create based on 'The Reluctant Dragon'?
A) A grand symphony
B) A jazz suite
C) A rock musical
D) A children's operetta
- 73. What is unique about the 1950s 'St. George and the Dragon-Net' recording?
A) It was banned from radio play
B) It won an Academy Award
C) It was the first comedy album to sell over a million copies
D) It was the first to use synthesized music
- 74. Who provided the illustrations for Margaret Hodges' 1984 book?
A) Edmund Spenser
B) Kenneth Grahame
C) John Rutter
D) Trina Schart Hyman
- 75. In 'Ben 10: Ultimate Alien', what is the name of the extradimensional entity fought by Sir George?
A) The Martyr
B) The Reluctant Dragon
C) The Redcross Knight
D) Dagon
- 76. How does Samantha Shannon describe her 2019 novel 'The Priory of the Orange Tree'?
A) A feminist retelling
B) A historical biography
C) A children's fable
D) A scientific analysis
- 77. Since at least what year has Reggio Calabria used Saint George and the dragon in its coat of arms?
A) 1775
B) 1757
C) 1999
D) 1801
- 78. In what year was the current coat of arms of Georgia, featuring Saint George and the dragon, introduced?
A) 1801
B) 1991
C) 1757
D) 2005
- 79. Which Ukrainian Oblast uses Saint George and the dragon in its coat of arms?
A) Nizhyn
B) Kyiv Oblast
C) Zbarazh
D) Volodymyr
- 80. Which Russian Oblast uses Saint George and the dragon in its coat of arms?
A) Saint Petersburg Oblast
B) Siberian Oblast
C) Volga Oblast
D) Moscow Oblast
- 81. What is the Australian municipality mentioned as using Saint George and the dragon on its coat of arms?
A) Melbourne
B) Hurstville
C) Sydney
D) Brisbane
- 82. Which of these is a country where a municipality named 'Sankt Georgen' uses the Saint George and the dragon motif?
A) Lithuania
B) Romania
C) Austria
D) Spain
- 83. Which of these French locations features Saint George and the dragon on its coat of arms?
A) Paris
B) Lyon
C) Sospel
D) Marseille
- 84. In which country is the municipality of Marijampolė located?
A) Estonia
B) Latvia
C) Poland
D) Lithuania
- 85. When were the regimental flags of the Hellenic Army featuring Saint George and the dragon introduced?
A) 1968
B) 2014
C) 1864
D) 1757
- 86. The Russian Orthodox Army flag featuring Saint George and the dragon dates to which year?
A) 1801
B) 2014
C) 1999
D) 2005
- 87. Which of these Hungarian towns uses the Saint George and the dragon motif in its coat of arms?
A) Pécsvárad
B) Budapest
C) Szeged
D) Debrecen
- 88. In which country can you find the municipality of Brzeg Dolny, which uses the Saint George motif?
A) Poland
B) Slovakia
C) Hungary
D) Czech Republic
- 89. Which Swiss municipality is noted for using Saint George and the dragon in its coat of arms?
A) Bern
B) Stein am Rhein
C) Geneva
D) Zurich
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