In the Big Three of classical music, there's Bach, Brahms, and who else?
Who is Beethoven?
100
This most widely-known of Renaissance artists painted a ceiling and scuplted some guy named David.
Who is Michelangelo?
100
This 4th-century BC philosopher invented the art of sarcastic douchebaggery.
Who was Socrates?
100
This dairy product contains 50% milk and 50% cream.
What is half & half?
100
This country, the smallest in the world, lies entirely within the city of Rome.
What is Vatican City?
200
This string instrument is larger and lower than the viola, but smaller and higher than the double bass.
What is the cello?
200
This seven-part novel by Marcel Proust deals with themes of memory and nostalgia.
What is In Search of Lost Time?
200
This seventeenth-century French philosopher is best known for his dictum: cogito ergo sum; or, I think, therefore, I am.
Who was Descartes?
200
The bovine muscle from which we cut the filet mignon is homologous to this human muscle, which runs from the upper lumbar vertibrae to the top of the femur and helps us to do situps.
What is the psoas major?
200
These mountains divide India from China.
What is the Himalaya?
300
These six concerti by Bach are named for what is now a state of Germany.
What are the Brandenburg Concertos?
300
This iconic modern artist painted "Guernica" after the city was bombed during the Spanish Civil War.
Who was Pablo Picasso?
300
This pre-Socratic was the first to propose the idea that matter was composed of atoms.
Who was Democritus?
300
This species of mold gives some blue cheeses their blueness.
What is Penicillium roqueforti
300
This country lies between Finland and Norway.
What is Sweden?
400
At its premier, this ballet by Stravinsky was met with scorn, derision, and general disgust.
What is The Rite of Spring?
400
This Renaissance artist's most famous work is the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
400
This 19th century Danish philosopher is regarded as one of the founding figures of Existentialism.
Who was Søren Kierkegaard?
400
This is the common word for muscular tissue from the species Sus domesticus.
What is pork?
400
This narrow channel connects the Sea of Azov with the Black Sea
What is the Strait of Kerch?
500
This modern approach to music, making liberal use of chance and randomness, was pioneered by John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
What is aleatoric music?
500
This 19th-20th century sculptor is widely known for his "The Thinker" and "Memorial to Balzac".
Who is Auguste Rodin?
500
This German thinker discredited Kant's concept of thing-in-itself, instead asserting that all of actuality is an a priori representation apprehended as part of the ego.
Who was Fichte?
500
This Vietnamese soup can be served with thinly-sliced raw beef, rice noodles, fresh herbs, and a variety of other toppings.
What is pho?
500
This island, north of Japan in the Sea of Okhotsk, is Russia's largest.