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200

This is the current director of CGP!

Who is Dr. Gretchen Sorin?

200

This Artifact was uncovered by the French in 1799 in Egypt and taken by the British. It was a pivotal archeological find that helped scholars decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

What is Rosetta Stone?

200

This museum  had the singlest largest property theft in the world.

What is the Isabella Gardner Museum?

200

This independent state is home to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel! You might even be able to visit the Pantheon on the same day!

What is Vatican City?

200

This canal opened in 1825 can be traveled using locks from Albany, NY to Buffalo, NY.

What is the Erie Canal?

400

These are the two tracks you can choose when applying to CGP.

What are Science & History?

400

This title refers to artifacts that were stolen from a Kingdom in Africa in the area of what is now known as Nigeria. These artifacts are still on display at the British Museum, but at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art were repatriated in 2022.

What are the Benin Bronzes?

400

This opioid-related family name was removed from exhibition spaces at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2021.

What is the Sackler family?

400

No need to leave the state, you can find this Van Gogh painting “The Starry Night” in this New York City Museum!

What is the Museum of Modern Art?

400

This festival was held in New York on a dairy farm in Bethel, NY.

What is Woodstock?

600

This is the degree you receive when you graduate from CGP?

What is an MA in Museum Studies?

600

You may find this four-volume Gospel artifact at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.

What is the Book of Kells?  

600

This controversial museum recently had their museum director resign in 2023 due to theft of objects.

What is The British Museum?

600

Come find out the interesting history of baseball at this museum in Cooperstown, NY! 

What is the National Baseball Hall of Fame? 

600

This is the city in which the Eastman Kodak Company is based. It was originally founded by George Eastman! 

What is Rochester, NY?

800

This is the SUNY College CGP is associated with.

What is SUNY Oneonta?

800

Don’t worry! Due to artificial intelligence a team of researchers have just been able to reveal passages from these charred papyrus scrolls that survived the Mount Vesuvius eruption!

What are the Herculaneum Scrolls?

800

This painting was stolen from the Louvre in 1911 and subsequently made it one of the most famous paintings in the world.

What is the Mona Lisa?

800

The word museum comes from mouseion which means “the seat of the muses.” This is the language in which mouseion is derived from.

What is Greek?

800

This Native American Haudenosaunee Nation helped build the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and the Rockefeller Center. 

Who are the Mohawk? They also have been referred to as the "Mohawk Ironworkers."

1000

This is when CGP was Founded. It is also when the Civil Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. 

What is 1964?

1000

This globe dates back to 1492! In German it translates to “Earth Apple.”

What is Erdapfel?

1000

This Gustav Klimt painting was stolen by the Nazis in 1938 and was not returned until 2006. Today this painting is displayed in the Neue Galerie in Manhattan, NY.

What is the “Woman in Gold?”

1000
This museum in Rio de Janeiro had a fire in September 2018 that destroyed 20 million historical pieces including a 12,000 year old fossil.

What is the Brazil National Museum? 

1000

This songbird is the state bird for New York State and Missouri. This bird is known for its distinctive white underbelly and reddish brown throats.

What is the Eastern Bluebird?

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