Trivial Expert – How much do you know about Federico García Lorca?

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On July 13, 1936, on the train from Madrid to Granada, Lorca thought he saw a sinister character of the political right who was later involved in his arrest. Who was he?

José Luis Trescastro

Commander Valdés

Ramón Ruiz Alonso

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Ramón Ruiz Alonso

Who did not belong to El Rinconcillo literary gathering?

Antonio Gallego Burín

Francisco García Lorca

Salvador Dalí

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Salvador Dalí

"Suites"...

These are short poems written between 1920 and 1923 at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid and at Asquerosa, during the Summer

This was the definitive title of the book, although Federico once considered the title "Low Sky" (possibly alluding to the landscape of the Albaicín as seen from the Alhambra).

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Which relative of Lorca was appointed constitutional mayor of Granada of the II Republic on July 1, 1936?

Manuel Fernández-Montesinos Lustau

Antonio Gallego Burín

Constantino Ruiz Carnero

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Manuel Fernández-Montesinos Lustau

The book "Odes" starts with...

"Ode to Salvador Dalí"

"Ode to Granada"

"Ode to Luis Cernuda"

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"Ode to Salvador Dalí"

Marta Osorio, from her notes and archive, and with the title "Fear, Forgetfulness and Fantasy" completed the book of...

Agustín Penón

Claude Couffon

Ian Gibson

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Agustín Penón

"The house of Bernarda Alba" had countless problems for its premiere in Spain. In what year was it allowed to be performed for a select audience at the Teatro de Ensayo La Carátula in Madrid?

After Franco's death in 1977

In 1974

In 1950

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In 1950

Is it true that Emilio García Gómez, after attending a reading that Federico made of "Yerma", promised that he will prologue "Divan del Tamarit" in an edition of the University of Granada that was delayed due to the Civil War?

True

False

He didn’t attend the reading, but did write the prologue

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True

Hermenegildo Lanz collaborated...

In the Flamenco Song Contest held in Granada in 1922

At the launch of the 'gallo' magazine

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Some of the poems in "Poet in New York" have a close relationship with Granada and, in particular, with the garden of the house at 60 Acera del Darro, where Lorca's family moved when they arrived in 1908 from Valderrubio.

True

They have a relationship with the house in Acera del Casino

True, but some of them were written in the Huerta de San Vicente

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True

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