IHBB真题：人物类 (3)

同学们好～ 在IHBB和NHBB比赛中，历史人物属于非常高频的考查内容，不仅有著名的统治者、军事人物，也会有学者、艺术家、乃至体育人物等。

在往期推送中，我们介绍过有关世界政治人物和科学家的题目，这次则为大家带来一些欧美近现代文化艺术领域的名人。一起来看看吧～

Q1.英国诗人 拜伦

his person’s many poems include The Siege of Corinth and the thirty selections in Hebrew Melodies. This person’s only legitimate child is often regarded as the world’s first computer programmer. For the point, name this person, whose death during the siege of Missolonghi [[mee-soh-LOHN-gee]] enshrined him as the exemplar of the Romantic Age.

参考答案: Lord Byron (or George Gordon Byron; or 6th Baron Byron)

Q2. 英国作家 夏洛蒂·勃朗特

This author wrote The Green Dwarf, A Tale of the Perfect Tense under the pseudonym Lord Charles Wellesley. Another work by this author was retold by Jean Rhys [[REESS]] in Wide Sargasso Sea and follows the tale of a governess at Thornfield Hall. For the point, identify this author who told the love story of Mr. Rochester and Jane Eyre.

参考答案: Charlotte Brontë (accept Currer Bell before mentioned)

Q3. 奥地利作曲家 马勒

From 1909 until his death in 1911, this man served as the conductor of the New York Philharmonic. While largely an instrumental composer, this man wrote song cycles including Das Lied von der Erde and Das Knaben Wunderhorn. (+) The creator of nine complete symphonies including his second, named Resurrection, (*) for the points, who was this Austrian composer of the Symphony of a Thousand?

参考答案: Gustav Mahler

Q4. 法国画家 高更

This artist also created several works depicting Teha'amana, one of his three so-called “native wives," including one of a nude lying on a bed while being watched by a ghostly figure, (+) Spirit of the Dead Watching. Spending nine months in 1888 painting at a house in Arles [[AHRL]] (*) with van Gogh, for the points, who was this French Post-Impressionist artist who spent his last ten years in French Polynesia?

参考答案: Paul Gauguin [[goh-GAHN]] (or Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin)

Q5. 美国画家 波洛克

This man’s work formed the basis of what Richard Taylor called Fractal Expressionism. Lee Krasner separated from this man after she discovered his affair with Ruth Kligman. This man created a work described as a “dense bird’s nest” that, in 2006, became the most expensive painting ever sold. For the point, name this abstract expressionist known for his drip paintings.

参考答案: Jackson Pollock

文化艺术类人物在IHBB/NHBB比赛中所占比例相对不多，但值得重视。因为这类题目对于首选军事政治类题目的学生来说难度较大，同时也就意味着熟悉相关领域的同学能够较为轻松地拿到分数。感兴趣的选手们可以对文化类的人物进行梳理和拓展，期待你们在赛场上大显身手！