Architecture

Architecture quiz questions

Architecture quiz questions with answers: the styles and their identifying features, the buildings and their architects, and the records that keep moving.

Architecture appears in quizzes as a picture round more often than as a written one, but the underlying knowledge is the same: recognising a style, naming a building, and knowing who designed it and when.

Styles, in the order they are asked

Gothic, Romanesque, Baroque, Neoclassical, Art Deco, Brutalist and Modernist cover nearly every style question a general quiz will ask. Each has two or three identifying features that are the actual answer — the pointed arch and flying buttress for Gothic, the round arch for Romanesque, exposed concrete for Brutalism — and setters ask for the feature as often as the name.

The distinction that catches people is Gothic versus Gothic Revival, which are eight hundred years apart and look deliberately similar. A great many famous "Gothic" buildings in Britain are Victorian.

Buildings and their architects

A small canon does most of the work: St Paul's and Wren, the Sydney Opera House and Utzon, the Eiffel Tower, the Burj Khalifa, the Guggenheims, the Sagrada Família and Gaudí. For each, setters ask the architect, the city, the year and — increasingly — the record it held or holds.

Records are their own seam: tallest building by decade, longest span, oldest in continuous use. They change, so a quiz written three years ago may be marked from a three-year-old answer. The speed the Empire State was built, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Hoover Dam and the bridge that shook itself apart are the engineering questions that sit alongside them.

Architecture quiz questions and answers

23 of the 92 questions QuizMaxx teaches on this topic. The answer is under each question — there is nothing to click, and nothing here is a test. To be asked them one at a time, on a schedule that brings each back just before you would have forgotten it, open the app.

  1. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Classical Greek

  2. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Ancient Roman

  3. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Byzantine

  4. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Romanesque (Norman)

  5. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Gothic

  6. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Perpendicular Gothic

  7. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Renaissance

  8. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Tudor

  9. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Elizabethan

  10. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Jacobean

  11. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Baroque

  12. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Palladian

  13. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Georgian

  14. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Gothic Revival

  15. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Scottish Baronial

  16. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Arts and Crafts

  17. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Art Nouveau

  18. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Art Deco

  19. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Modernist (International Style)

  20. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Brutalist

  21. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer High-tech

  22. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Postmodern

  23. Which architectural style is this?

    Answer Moorish / Islamic