Social Studies
Beginning in Greek is...
Archē
In which artistic portrayal of Judith does she appear as a strong woman?
Vasari’s Judith and Holofernes
Tablet Hill is the site of a recent major archaeological discovery from ancient
Mesopotamia
In “A Brief History of Toa Payoh,” poet Koh Buck Song writes about the differences between
places
Digitally restoring old films is MOST likely to involve
digital color grading
The Aztec Sun Stone is also known as the
Calendar stone
The main characters of The Ghosts of Versailles would be MOST likely to agree that
the past should be left unchanged
A visitor to the 1939 World’s Fair could learn about all of the following technologies EXCEPT
atomic weapons
What term BEST describes the five-line structure of Carl Sandburg’s “Buffalo Dusk”?
Which animals would be BEST suited to replace thylacine in it ecological niche
wolf
Who would provide the BEST advice to someone trying to create an Originalist interpretation of a law?
a historian
In “Bonjour Vietnam,” the singer expresses a yearning to
one day see her parents’ homeland
The photoshopping equivalent today of what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration did in real life regarding his disability is
cropping out
Who would it be MOST appropriate to, “Was fantasy not enough for you?”
Guy Gavriel Kay
The team that helped visualize the Herculaneum scrolls had to prevent overfitting. What is overfitting?
adding insignificant details
What modern technology played a key role in the discovery of the Montevideo Maru wreck?
deep-sea drones
Diego Rivera’s art is MOST aligned with people who are
working class
Francis Fukuyama proposed the idea of “the end of history” after the United States
achieved victory in the Cold War
In “Brazilian Telephone,” poet Miriam Bird Greenberg juxtaposes childlike play with
virtual reality technology
The Azimuthal Equidistant Projection map can show the correct distance between any place on Earth from
a central point
The Spanish law that ordered removal of all monuments that honor Francisco Franco’s dictatorship is known as the law of
“historical memory”
“Can’t you read? The music demands ‘con amore,’ but you are playing it like married men!”
This joke, attributed to conductor Arturo Toscanini, underscores his desire to
perform pieces of music according to their composers’ wishes
Before Matthew Perry’s visit in the nineteenth century, Japan was
a deliberately closed-off country
What had the speaker visiting the art museum in “The Municipal Gallery Revisited” by W. B. Yeats hoped to find?
paintings that would convey the depth of the past to his children
Which effects would be MOST likely if the passenger pigeon were successfully de-extincted?
improved ecological health of North American forests