Some mornings Bing opens on a mountain range or a coral reef. Other mornings it opens on a brushstroke — a Vermeer kitchen, a Hokusai wave, a cathedral of stained glass, a museum hall at golden hour. On those days, the little trivia card on the homepage becomes what players call the Bing art quiz.
It’s short, free and over in about a minute. And unlike most online trivia, it’s built around a picture you’re already looking at, which makes it one of the most pleasant ways to sharpen your eye for painting, sculpture, architecture and design — while sometimes collecting Microsoft Rewards points along the way.
This guide explains what the Bing art quiz is, where to find it, which art topics it draws from, how the points work, and how to get genuinely better at art trivia. No answer dumps — just the context that makes every round more rewarding.
What Is the Bing Art Quiz?
The Bing art quiz isn’t a separate app or a button you can bookmark. It’s the art-themed edition of the Bing Homepage Quiz — the short multiple-choice trivia attached to Bing’s daily background image.
The homepage quiz has been a Bing fixture for years, and its premise is simple: the questions are written around the day’s image, so every round teaches you something about what you’re looking at. When that image is a painting, a sculpture, a museum, a mural or an architectural landmark, the quiz becomes an art quiz. Same mechanics, richer subject.
The Bing art quiz is the Bing Homepage Quiz on a day when the homepage image is about art: a few quick questions, one beautiful picture, and sometimes a handful of Rewards points.
The gallery tour at the top of this page is our own companion version — longer and harder than a typical homepage round, built from the same kinds of topics Bing loves, and with every answer explained.
Why Art Appears So Often on Bing
Bing’s homepage image isn’t chosen at random. It’s curated around a calendar of anniversaries, observances and seasonal moments — and the art world supplies a remarkable number of them.
- Artist anniversaries
- Birthdays and milestones for painters like Van Gogh, Monet, Kahlo, O’Keeffe, Hokusai and Klimt.
- Museum milestones
- Openings and anniversaries for the Louvre, the Prado, the Rijksmuseum, MoMA and the Uffizi.
- Major exhibitions
- Blockbuster retrospectives and immersive shows that draw worldwide attention.
- Architectural landmarks
- Gaudí’s Barcelona, Art Deco skylines, Gothic cathedrals and modern icons.
- Cultural observances
- World Art Day each April and International Museum Day each May, plus heritage months.
- Public & street art
- Murals, sculpture parks, land art and large-scale installations.
Because the picture comes first and the questions are written around it, art days tend to produce some of the year’s most visually rich — and most surprising — rounds.
How to Find & Play the Bing Art Quiz
Where the quiz appears depends on your device, your region and whether you’re signed in. These are the three places to look.
On desktop
Open bing.com and sign in with your Microsoft account. Hover over the daily image or the area beneath the search box to reveal the quiz or info card.
On mobile
In the Bing app or a mobile browser, sign in from the profile menu, then tap the homepage image to open its story and quiz card.
Rewards dashboard
No card on the homepage? Open your Microsoft Rewards dashboard and look for the homepage quiz tile among your daily activities.
One honest caveat: Microsoft doesn’t guarantee a permanent quiz button on the public homepage. Depending on your market and the day, the quiz may be absent, swapped for a different activity, or available only inside your signed-in Rewards dashboard — which is usually the fastest route anyway.
What the Bing Art Quiz Covers
Art is a broad category, and the homepage quiz roams across all of it. Knowing the territory is better preparation than memorizing individual facts.
Painting & the canon
Renaissance masters, Dutch Golden Age interiors, Impressionist light, Surrealist dreams and Abstract Expressionist scale.
Artists’ lives
Where they were born, who trained them, the city that defined them and what they were doing when they made their best-known work.
Museums & collections
Which institution holds which masterpiece, when it opened, and what its building was before it became a museum.
Sculpture & installation
Classical marble, modern bronze and steel, land art, kinetic work and monumental public commissions.
Architecture & design
Gothic, Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, Art Deco and Brutalism — and the architects behind famous buildings.
Materials & technique
Fresco, tempera, oil, woodblock, lithography, ceramics and pigments — the how of art, not just the who.
Global traditions
Japanese ukiyo-e and kintsugi, Chinese scroll painting, Islamic geometry, African sculpture and Mexican muralism.
Microsoft Rewards Points: What to Expect
This is where many guides overpromise, so here’s the straightforward version. When the homepage quiz is offered as a Rewards activity, completing it earns a modest number of points. The exact amount depends on the quiz format, your region and the day’s offer, and Microsoft adjusts it over time.
Just as important: not every homepage quiz pays. Some days the Bing art quiz is a qualifying Rewards task; other days it’s simply a lovely piece of trivia attached to a lovely image.
- Sign in first. Points can’t be credited to an account you aren’t signed into.
- Finish every question. Partial attempts generally don’t credit.
- Trust the dashboard. Your Rewards dashboard is the record of what actually credited.
- Allow a short delay. Points sometimes post a little after you finish.
- Skip the shortcuts. VPNs, scripts and bot-like behavior can get an account flagged or restricted.
Art Movement Cheat Sheet
If you study one page before playing, make it this one. Placing an image in its movement is the backbone of art trivia — it narrows most multiple-choice questions to two options before you’ve finished reading.
- 1400s–1500s
Renaissance
Linear perspective, anatomical realism, classical subjects.
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli
- 1600s
Baroque
Dramatic light and shadow, movement, theatrical emotion.
Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt, Velázquez
- 1600s
Dutch Golden Age
Quiet interiors, still life, everyday life, luminous detail.
Vermeer, Hals, de Hooch
- Late 1700s–1800s
Romanticism
Emotion, the sublime in nature, storms and drama.
Turner, Delacroix, Friedrich, Géricault
- 1870s–1880s
Impressionism
Visible brushwork, natural light, painting outdoors.
Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot
- 1880s–1900s
Post-Impressionism
Bold color, expressive distortion, underlying structure.
Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat
- 1890s–1910s
Art Nouveau
Flowing organic lines and botanical ornament.
Mucha, Klimt, Gaudí
- 1900s–1920s
Cubism
Fragmented planes and several viewpoints at once.
Picasso, Braque
- 1920s–1950s
Surrealism
Dream logic and impossible juxtapositions.
Dalí, Magritte, Ernst, Miró
- 1940s–1950s
Abstract Expressionism
Huge canvases, gesture and pure abstraction.
Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning
- 1950s–1960s
Pop Art
Mass-media imagery and commercial printing looks.
Warhol, Lichtenstein, Hamilton
- 1600s–1800s
Ukiyo-e
Japanese woodblock prints with flat color and bold outline.
Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro
Where the Masterpieces Live
“Which museum holds…?” is one of the most common question types in any Bing art quiz. Learn this short list and you’ll recognize a large share of them.
| Work | Artist | Museum | City |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mona Lisa | Leonardo da Vinci | Louvre | Paris |
| The Night Watch | Rembrandt | Rijksmuseum | Amsterdam |
| Girl with a Pearl Earring | Johannes Vermeer | Mauritshuis | The Hague |
| Las Meninas | Diego Velázquez | Museo del Prado | Madrid |
| Guernica | Pablo Picasso | Museo Reina Sofía | Madrid |
| The Birth of Venus | Sandro Botticelli | Uffizi Gallery | Florence |
| The Kiss | Gustav Klimt | Belvedere | Vienna |
| The Starry Night | Vincent van Gogh | MoMA | New York |
| American Gothic | Grant Wood | Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago |
| The Scream (1893) | Edvard Munch | National Museum of Norway | Oslo |
How to Get Better at Art Trivia
Read the image caption first
Bing publishes a short description with every homepage image. It’s often the direct source of the day’s questions, and it takes fifteen seconds to read.
Build recognition, not recall
You don’t need to memorize dates. You need to look at enough art that “Dutch, seventeenth century” becomes instant. Free open-access museum collections are endless practice.
Anchor artists to places
Van Gogh to Arles and Auvers. Monet to Giverny. Kahlo to Coyoacán in Mexico City. Hokusai to Edo. Gaudí to Barcelona. Geography questions come up constantly.
Learn a few technique words
Fresco, tempera, encaustic, woodblock, chiaroscuro. A handful of terms turns technique questions into easy points.
Play the neighboring categories
Art overlaps heavily with history, geography and culture, so practice in those subjects lifts your art score more than you’d expect.
Keep a two-line art journal
After each quiz, note the artist and one fact you didn’t know. Thirty days of that is a genuine education.
Retake the gallery tour
Answer order reshuffles on every visit above, so a second walk-through tests what you remember rather than where you clicked.
When the Bing Art Quiz Doesn’t Appear
A missing quiz card usually comes down to one of a few causes:
- You’re not signed in. Rewards activities are tied to your Microsoft account.
- Regional availability. Rewards offers differ from country to country.
- Daily rotation. Not every homepage image ships with a quiz.
- New-tab layouts. In Microsoft Edge, new-tab page layout settings can change whether the Bing image and its card appear — opening bing.com directly often helps.
- Ad blockers and strict privacy modes. These occasionally stop the card from loading.
- Cached pages. A hard refresh fixes a surprising number of display problems.
If none of that works, go straight to your Rewards dashboard — the daily activity tile launches the same quiz.
Bing Art Quiz FAQ
Is the Bing art quiz free?
Yes. Playing on Bing is free; you only need to be signed in to a Microsoft account if you want any Rewards points credited.
Is there a Bing art quiz every day?
No. It only appears when the day’s homepage image is about art. Other days cover nature, travel, history, science and culture.
How many points does the Bing art quiz give?
It varies by quiz format, region and offer, and some days it’s purely for fun. Your Microsoft Rewards dashboard shows exactly what credited.
Is this page the official Bing quiz?
No. This is an independent companion quiz and guide, not affiliated with Microsoft or Bing. It’s designed as practice and context for the real homepage quiz.
Can I retake the gallery tour?
Yes — as often as you like. Answer positions reshuffle on every new visit, and the catalogue at the end explains every question.
More Bing Quizzes Worth Playing
Art is one theme in a much larger rotation. Playing across categories is the easiest way to keep a daily trivia habit going between art days.
Prefer facts and figures? Try the Science Quiz or the Bing Education Quiz next.
Final Thoughts
The Bing art quiz is a small thing done well. It asks for no download and no more than a minute of your morning. It puts a beautiful image in front of you, asks a few questions about it, and sends you on your way a little better informed.
Treat the points as a bonus rather than the goal. Read the caption, learn one new artist a week, and revisit the gallery tour above when you want a deeper challenge. Over a year, that’s fifty artists you’ll recognize on sight — a fine return on sixty seconds a day.