Terry Teachout writes an Arts and Journal blog, and he came up with a quiz which is full of difficult choices. It's 100 questions long, but it's made up of choices between two items, so it's not too arduous. On the other hand, I'd hate to have to choose between some of these, so it's a good thing it's just an internet quiz!
Go to that link to check out the details of the quiz and what he's trying to do. In fact, poke around; he's got lots of interesting material over there. His essay about recovered presents might break your heart.
If you had to choose
1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly? Kelly
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises? The Sun Also Rises
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington? The Duke
4. Cats or dogs? Dogs
5. Matisse or Picasso? Picasso
6. Yeats or Eliot? Eliot
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin? Chaplin
8. Flannery O’Connor or John Updike? Updike
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca? Casablanca
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning? de Kooning
11. The Who or the Stones? The Who
12. Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath? Plath by virtue of more familiarity
13. Trollope or Dickens? Dickens
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald? Ella
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy? Oh, the shame: I've read neither
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair? I've seen neither
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham? Balanchine
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers? Burgers
19. Letterman or Leno? Letterman
20. Wilco or Cat Power? Wilco
21. Verdi or Wagner? Verdi
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe? Kelly
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash? Monroe by an eyelash
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis? Kingsley
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando? Mitchum
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp? Tharp
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt? Rembrandt
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin? Tchaikovsky
29. Red wine or white? White
30. Noël Coward or Oscar Wilde? Wilde
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity? I've seen neither
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev? Prokofiev
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev? Baryshnikov by a jeté
34. Constable or Turner? Constable
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo? Rio Bravo
36. Comedy or tragedy? Comedy
37. Fall or spring? In Hawai'i? Fall
38. Manet or Monet? Monet
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons? The Simpsons
40. Rodgers and Hart or Gershwin and Gershwin? Gershwins
41. Joseph Conrad or Henry James? Conrad
42. Sunset or sunrise? Sunrise
43. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter? Mercer
44. Mac or PC? PC
45. New York or Los Angeles? LA
46. Partisan Review or Horizon? No data
47. Stax or Motown? Stax
48. Van Gogh or Gauguin? Van Gogh
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello? Steely Dan
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine? Magazine
51. John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier? Olivier
52. Only the Lonely or Songs for Swingin’ Lovers? Lovers
53. Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde? Bonnie and Clyde
54. Ghost World or Election? I've seen neither
55. Minimalism or conceptual art? Minimalism
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny? Bugs by a nose
57. Modernism or postmodernism? Modernism
58. Batman or Spider-Man? Spiderman
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams? Emmylou
60. Johnson or Boswell? Boswell
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf? Woolf
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show? Van Dyke
63. An Eames chair or a Noguchi table? Eames
64. Out of the Past or Double Indemnity? Double Indemnity
65. The Marriage of Figaro or Don Giovanni? Alas, I've seen neither
66. Blue or green? Blue
67. A Midsummer Night’s Dream or As You Like It? As You Like It
68. Ballet or opera? Ballet
69. Film or live theater? Theater
70. Acoustic or electric? Acoustic
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo? North by Northwest
72. Sargent or Whistler? Sargent
73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera? I've read neither
74. The Music Man or Oklahoma? The Music Man
75. Sushi, yes or no? No
76. The New Yorker under Ross or Shawn? Wouldn't know the difference
77. Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee? Williams
78. The Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove? I've read neither
79. Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham? Who?
80. Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe? van der Rohe
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones? Krall
82. Watercolor or pastel? Watercolor
83. Bus or subway? Subway
84. Stravinsky or Schoenberg? Stravinsky
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter? Smooth
86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser? Cather
87. Schubert or Mozart? Mozart
88. The Fifties or the Twenties? Fifties
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick? Huck Finn
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce? Mann
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins? Young
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman? Whitman
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? Lincoln
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann? I've heard neither
95. Italian or French cooking? French
96. Bach on piano or harpsichord? No data
97. Anchovies, yes or no? No
98. Short novels or long ones? Long
99. Swing or bebop? Swing
100. "The Last Judgment" or "The Last Supper"? "The Last Supper"
Wow, that's a loooong one - I went through it and noted that I choose column A more often, I think...
94 - you had to have heard Aimee Mann - Voices Carry? (Hush hush, keep it down down, voices carry - big in the 80s) I can't quote any Liz Phair though...
74 - see I don't want to choose either of them - OD'd on them both long ago...
79 - I know, I can't remember who these are either...