Which 16th-century artist painted on an upside down shopping list? Find out in the Art Fund museum of the year quiz

The Art Fund museum of the year quiz Museums Which 16th-century artist painted on an upside down shopping list? Find out in the Art Fund museum of the year quiz In the fourth of five quizzes, curators at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge set 10 fiendish questions to test your knowledge of their collections Wed 24 Jun 2026 08.00 CEST Share Prefer the Guardian on Google 1. Which art work was painted on an upside-down shopping list? Agostino Carracci, Head of an Old Woman (around 1591) Annibale Carracci, Head of an Old Woman (around 1591) Nicolas Poussin, Head of an Old Woman (around 1591) Domenico Fetti, Head of an Old Woman (around 1591) Reveal 2. Before it came to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1887, a Roman marble statue of a river god was reportedly dredged from the River Tiber in Rome, it was then owned by which British painter, who made many sketches of the Tiber during his travels to Italy? JMW Turner John Constable Joshua Reynolds Thomas Gainsborough Reveal 3. Who is considered the most successful female flower painter, who also had 10 children and in 1723 won the lottery? Artemisia Gentileschi Berthe Morisot Rachel Ruysh Maria van Oosterwyck Reveal 4. This ancient Egyptian coffin, made for a priest called Nakhtefmut, was overlaid with a plaster-like paste to give it a smooth finish, then painted and gilded. It also has inlaid glass eyes. But what is the underlying structure made of? Limestone Cedar wood Granite Linen Reveal 5. Which artist came to a financial arrangement with the buyer of some trees not to fell them before he had painted them? Claude Monet Camille Pissarro Edgar Degas Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Reveal 6. Which Roman leader’s assassination was commemorated on a contemporary silver coin depicting two daggers and a liberty cap? Gaius Cassius Longinus Julius Caesar Marcus Junius Brutus Pompey the Great Reveal 7. Abolitionist and author Olaudah Equiano is depicted with his family in Joy Labinjo’s 2022 painting An 18th-Century Family. In which Cambridgeshire town did they settle? Cambridge Ely Huntingdon Soham Reveal 8. Buried in the mid-1350s, this hoard of medieval coins was found in Chesterton Lane, Cambridge in 2000. In the years following the Black Death, its silver and gold coins were worth ten pounds, three shillings and nine pence. About a quarter of the value was in the nine gold coins; how many silver pennies do you think made up the rest? 984 1,520 1,805 2,173 Reveal 9. What painting has particles of volcanic ash incorporated into the pigment? Anicet-Charles-Gabriel Lemonnier, Vesuvius in Eruption, 1779. JMW Turner, Vesuvius in Eruption, 1779. Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Vesuvius in Eruption, 1779. Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld, Vesuvius in Eruption, 1779. Reveal 10. What painting tells its story with a bit of cake, a ring and a suggestive silver sugar caster? Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Bridesmaid, 1851. Ford Madox Brown, The Bridesmaid, 1851 John Everett Millais, The Bridesmaid, 1851 James McNeill Whistler, The Bridesmaid, 1851. Reveal Explore more on these topics Museums The Art Fund museum of the year quiz Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge quizzes Share Reuse this content