Arts: Who Made What

British authors, poets, composers, artists and architects paired with the works they are best known for, exactly as tested in the Life in the UK handbook. These name-and-work pairings are among the most confusable items on the test, so the table groups them by art form and lets you sort A–Z.

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Author

Person	Field	Known for
Charles Dickens	Author	Novels Oliver Twist and Great Expectations
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Author	Created the detective Sherlock Holmes
Jane Austen	Author	Novels Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility
J.R.R. Tolkien	Author	The Lord of the Rings (voted best-loved novel, 2003)

Poet

Person	Field	Known for
William Wordsworth	Poet	'The Daffodils' ('I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud')
Wilfred Owen	Poet	First World War poetry ('Anthem for Doomed Youth')
Robert Burns	Poet	The song Auld Lang Syne (Scotland's 'Bard')

Composer

Person	Field	Known for
Sir Edward Elgar	Composer	Pomp and Circumstance Marches ('Land of Hope and Glory')
Gustav Holst	Composer	The Planets suite
George Frederick Handel	Composer	Water Music and the oratorio Messiah

Artist

Person	Field	Known for
Henry Moore	Artist	Large bronze abstract sculptures
Joseph Turner	Artist	Influential landscape painting

Architect

Person	Field	Known for
Sir Christopher Wren	Architect	St Paul's Cathedral (rebuilt after the Great Fire)
Inigo Jones	Architect	Queen's House at Greenwich and Banqueting House, Whitehall

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Sources: Life in the UK question bank — backend/data/questions_batch1-8.json. Question ids: 50, 52, 92, 117, 142, 143, 251, 255, 341, 342, 346, 360, 541, 542.