Famous Unfinished Works

Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Família basilica in Barcelona has been under construction since which year?

Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 is famously known by what nickname due to having only two completed movements?

Which Charles Dickens novel was left incomplete at the time of his death in 1870?

Mozart's Requiem in D minor was left unfinished at his death. Who completed it at the request of Mozart's widow?

Leonardo da Vinci's 'Adoration of the Magi,' an unfinished masterpiece, was intended for which type of building?

Which massive carved monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota, begun in 1948, remains unfinished?

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales' was planned to include how many tales, though only 24 were completed?

Which famous Scottish novelist left 'Weir of Hermiston' unfinished, widely considered his potential masterpiece?

Michelangelo left several 'Prisoner' or 'Slave' sculptures unfinished. These partially carved figures appear to be emerging from what?

Which composer left his opera 'Turandot' unfinished at his death in 1924?

The Palace of the Soviets in Moscow was a grand building project that was never completed. What structure currently stands on its intended site?

Mark Twain left which novel about a mysterious stranger unfinished at his death?

Which English Romantic poet left 'Hyperion' and its revision 'The Fall of Hyperion' as magnificent but unfinished works?

The Cincinnati Subway, built in the 1920s, is one of the most famous unfinished public works in the U.S. Why was it abandoned?

Which Jane Austen novel, published posthumously in 1817, was left incomplete at her death?