Western Civ
No other "country" has been so long the hub of history—at first in government, then in religion, then in art. For seventeen hundred years, from Cato the Elder to Michelangelo, it was the center of the Western world.
What is Rome?
Colloquially referred to as the New World, it came to be termed "the Americas", a name derived from Americus, the Latin version of his first name.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
The original play was said to be inspired by the real-life murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924 by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.
What is Rope? (1948)
The Roman emperor who ruled when Jesus was born.
Who is Augustus? (The gospels say that Jesus was born during the reign of King Herod the Great, who ruled in Jerusalem from 37 to 4 BCE. The first Roman emperor, Augustus, would have been the emperor mentioned in Luke's Gospel. He ruled from 27 BC to 14 AD.
This poem has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American" and is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today. It has had a massive impact on the history of Christmas gift-giving.
What is "A Visit from St. Nicholas"? (more commonly known as "The Night Before Christmas" and "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line) Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863) was a writer and American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning.
The ancient civilization associated with the birth of philosophy.
What is Greece?
Though we think of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle as being the fathers of philosophy, Thales, a pre-Socratic philosopher who lived in Asia Minor (modern Turkey, but in ancient times part of Greek civilization) is actually considered the father of philosophy.
One of the two South American countries that share Patagonia.
What is Argentina or Chile?
Patagonia is one of the few regions with coasts on three oceans, with the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Southern Ocean to the south.
This riveting 1959 movie features a memorable scene in which Cary Grant is being pursued by a malicious crop-dusting plane, and features a blond Eva Marie Saint as the Leading Lady. Hitchcock loved blondes!
What is North by Northwest?
This angel said to Mary: 'Peace be with you! God has blessed you and is pleased with you.'
Who is Gabriel?
Roughly 100,000 British and German troops were involved in the unofficial cessation of hostilities along the Western Front on Christmas Eve in this war.
What is World War I?
His incursions into the regions of Germania drove the populations across the borders of the Western Roman Empire and contributed to its decline in the late 5th century CE. The influx of the Visigoths, in particular, and their later revolt against Rome, is considered a significant contributor to Rome's fall.
Who is Attila, the Hun? (reigned 434-453 CE)
The largest cities by population in the Americas are located in this continent.
What is South America?
The U.S. has only three cities in the top 20, Mexico has one, and Canada has one. The rest are south of Central America. Houston is number 21, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_cities_in_the_Americas
Rear Window is a 1954 Hitchcock thriller that features Jimmy Stewart as a photographer who is laid up with a broken leg. This beautiful blond actress comforts him.
Who is Grace Kelly?
This king of Judea heard that a great king of the Jews was born and it made him very angry to think that someone might be going to take his place. He sent the Wise Men to follow the star until they had found the baby king. He said: 'When you have found him, let me know where he is, so that I can go and worship him.' But he did not tell them that he really had an evil plan in mind to kill the new king.
Who is Herod?
This popular Christmas story, written in England in the mid 19th century, has this subtitle: In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.
What is a Christmas Carol? Written by Charles Dickens and published in London in 1843.
Herodotus is considered the father of this retrospective field of study.
What is history?
The Histories of Herodotus is considered the founding work of history in Western literature. Written in 440 BC. The Histories serves as a record of the ancient traditions, politics, geography, and clashes of various cultures that were known in Western Asia, Northern Africa and Greece at that time. Although not a fully impartial record, it remains one of the West's most important sources regarding these affairs. Moreover, it established the genre and study of history in the Western world (despite the existence of historical records and chronicles beforehand).
The Treaty of Tordesillas insured that Brazilians would speak this language.
What is Portuguese?
This everyman actor worked with Hitchcock a number of times, including as the nosy, wheelchair-bound photographer in Rear Window, and as the dastardly murderer in the “one-take” film Rope. After he appeared in Vertigo in 1958, the actor prepared to appear in Hitchcock’s follow-up a year later, North by Northwest. But Hitch had other plans.
Who is Jimmy Stewart?
The director felt that one of the main reasons Vertigo wasn’t more of a smash hit was because of its aging star, and vowed to never use Stewart in any film ever again.
So Joseph got up, took Jesus and Mary during the night and left for this neighboring country, where they stayed until Herod died.
What is Egypt?
This popular soft drink was the first to use Santa Claus in its advertisements.
What is Coca-Cola?
The Coca-Cola Company began its Christmas advertising in the 1920s with shopping-related ads in magazines like The Saturday Evening Post. The first Santa ads used a strict-looking Claus. People are surprised to learn that prior to 1931, Santa was depicted as everything from a tall gaunt man to a spooky-looking elf.
Caesar Augustus (63 BCE - 14 CE) and Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) share this administrative title.
This modern-day city contains the ruins of Tenochtitlan, an imperial capital city founded on June 20, 1325. The city was built on an island in what was then Lake Texcoco; it was the administrative center of the expanding Aztec Empire in the 15th century until it was captured by the Spanish in 1521.
What is Mexico City?
Hitchcock is in the bittersweet class of venerable filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin, Ingmar Bergman, and more who never received this prestigious award.
What is a best director Oscar?
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life" is one of the most widely quoted verses from the Bible and has been called the most famous Bible verse.
What is John 3:16?
It has also been called the "Gospel in a nutshell", because it is considered a summary of the central theme of traditional Christianity.
This was an ancient symbol of life in the midst of winter. Romans decorated their houses with them during the New Year, and ancient inhabitants of northern Europe placed them in boxes inside their houses in wintertime.
What are evergreen trees or evergreen branches?
Many early Christians were hostile to such practices. The second-century theologian Tertullian condemned those Christians who celebrated the winter festivals.