For which event did Picasso create the painting?

The 1937 Paris International Exposition

Where was Guernica kept for decades?

The Museum of Modern Art in New York

Where does Guernica hang today?

The Picasso Museum in Barcelona

Guernica Quiz: Picasso's Masterpiece at the Reina Sofia

A huge black, white and gray canvas became one of the most powerful anti-war images ever made, and this Guernica quiz explains its history and symbols. Play 10 interactive questions on the bombing of Guernica, the Spanish Civil War, the 1937 Paris Exposition, the bull and the horse, the light bulb, its size, Dora Maar's photos, MoMA, its 1981 return to Spain and the Reina Sofia.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Event
Which event inspired Guernica?
Date
When was Guernica bombed?
Show
For which event did Picasso create the painting?
Colors
Which colors dominate Guernica?
Size
Roughly how wide is the painting?
Animals
Which two animals are central figures?
Photos
Who photographed the painting's progress?
Exile
Where was Guernica kept for decades?
Return
When did Guernica return to Spain?
Museum
Where does Guernica hang today?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Which event inspired Guernica?
Answer: The bombing of the Basque town of Guernica
It happened during the Spanish Civil War.
Q2: When was Guernica bombed?
Answer: April 1937
German and Italian aircraft attacked.
Q3: For which event did Picasso create the painting?
Answer: The 1937 Paris International Exposition
It hung in the Spanish Pavilion.
Q4: Which colors dominate Guernica?
Answer: Black, white and gray
It resembles a newspaper photo.
Q5: Roughly how wide is the painting?
Answer: About 7.8 meters
It is about 3.5 meters tall.
Q6: Which two animals are central figures?
Answer: A bull and a horse
Their meaning is debated.
Q7: Who photographed the painting's progress?
Answer: Dora Maar
She was Picasso's partner then.
Q8: Where was Guernica kept for decades?
Answer: The Museum of Modern Art in New York
Picasso refused to send it to Franco's Spain.
Q9: When did Guernica return to Spain?
Answer: 1981
Democracy had been restored.
Q10: Where does Guernica hang today?
Answer: The Reina Sofia in Madrid
It moved there in 1992.

Guernica Quiz – Picasso's Masterpiece at the Reina Sofia

Guernica is Pablo Picasso's response to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica by German and Italian aircraft on April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. He painted it in about a month for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris International Exposition.

The canvas, about 3.5 by 7.8 meters, is painted in black, white and gray. It shows a bull, a screaming horse, a mother holding her dead child and a light bulb, with meanings still debated. Dora Maar photographed its progress.

Picasso refused to let it go to Spain under Franco, so it stayed at New York's Museum of Modern Art. It returned to Spain in 1981 and has hung in Madrid's Reina Sofia museum since 1992.

What This Quiz Teaches

Art and history fans will enjoy these questions.

What inspired Guernica
Where it was first shown
What it depicts
Where it was kept
Where it is now

Did You Know?

A woven copy hangs at the United Nations.
The painting toured to raise funds for Spanish refugees.
Picasso never explained its symbols fully.
It is protected behind security barriers.
It became a universal anti-war symbol.