Music
Art
Literature
Social Sciences
Economics
100
Alexander Borodin
Who is the composer of "Symphony No.2, 1. Allegro"?
100
The philosophical inquiry into the nature and expression of beauty
What are aesthetics?
100
Boris Pasternak is the author
Who is the author of "Doctor Zhivago"?
100
Slavic peoples
Which tribe does modern Russian derive from originally?
100
The study of how individuals make choices about how to allocate and distribute scarce resources and how they interact with one another.
What is economics?
200
A set of accidentals (sharps or flats) at the beginning of a written piece that indicates the key of the music.
What is a key signature?
200
Analysis focused on the visual qualities of the work of art itself, and analysis focused on involvement of looking outside the work of art to determine its meaning.
What is formal analysis and contextual analysis?
200
Yurii (Yura) Andreievich Zhivago
What is the name of the protagonist of "Doctor Zhivago"?
200
Ruled from 980 to 1015 AD, known for introducing Orthodox Christianity
Who was Prince Vladmir?
200
The cost of what you choose is what you have to give up to get it, the cost is not necessarily the same as the choice.
What is opportunity cost?
300
Rhythm is _________ when accented or emphasized notes fall on weak beats, or in between beats
What is "Syncopated"?
300
A pose invented by the Greeks to show the body to its best advantage.
What is contrapposto?
300
The novel is divided into two parts, part one consisting of four chapters, whose events take place from 1902 to the beginning of the revolution in 1917. The second part consisting of thirteen chapters taking place from the summer of 1917 to the end of the 1950's or 1940's. Amongst the two parts. there are three divisions: the narrative of Doctor's life, the epilogue featuring Misha Gordon and Nika Dudorovsky, and the selection of poems Doctor Zhivago wrote.
How is the novel, "Doctor Zhivago", organized?
300
The first Russian prince to have the title of tsar, revolutionized political apparatus, redefined church-state relations, and reorganized the military
Who was Ivan IV?
300
The term used to describe the use of economic analysis to guide decisions as to opposed what is the case.
What is normative economics
400
"A melody with high tessitura calls for more pitches in the performer's _________ than does a melody with a medium or low tessitura.
What is "register"?
400
Leonardo Davinci's key innovation in painting, most famously used in the Mona Lisa. It is means "smoke" and is the use of mellow colors and a blurred outline.
What is the definition of sfumato, and who is credited with the innovation and the famous painting it was used on?
400
Chapter 17, from Doctor Zhivago's most productive period during his second stay in Varykino in the winter of 1921.
Where can Doctor Zhivago's poems be found in the book, and when does Doctor write them?
400
The family that married into royalty during Ivan the Terrible's reign, soon known as the longest reigning families in the history of Russia.
Who are the Romanovs
400
Tendency to gravitate towards the equilibrium quantity and price. Being an extremely effective method of allocating resources, it creates a two-way communication to insure that scarce goods and services are produced at the lowest cost and allocated to the buyers who value them the most highly.
What are some of the characteristics of competitive markets in equilibrium?
500
when the pitch of the triad is moved up or down any number of octaves; when the triad is on the bottom, the chord is in...; when the fifth is on the bottom
What is an inversion, a first inversion, and a second inversion?
500
It is an art style known to be the revival of interest in the classical works of Greece and Rome, and took place in the decades leading up to the French Revolution and during the revolution. It is a direct challenge to rococo and its association to aristocracy.
What is the definition of neoclassicism and how is it different to rococo?
500
Due to some of the content in "Doctor Zhivago", Soviet officials tried to suppress its publication by threatening the author, and eventually the author's acceptance of the nobel prize.
Why was Boris Pasternak reluctant to publish his novel, and accept the nobel prize in literature?
500
The price elasticity of demand reflects how responsive consumers are to changes of a good. The greater the elasticity, the greater the change in the quantity consumers demand due to any given change in the price.
How does the price elasticity of demand tie into the responsiveness of the consumer?
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