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Dr. Jones Trivia
200
Ad fontes!
-The Humanists
What is "To the source".
200
Love’s whole possession I entreat,
Lord make my soul thine own abode,
And I will build a nest so sweet
It may not be too poor for God.
A soul in God hidden from sin,
What more desires for thee remain,
Save but to love again,
And all on flame with love within,
Love on, and turn to love again.
-Teresa of Avila
What was the Catholic Reformation?
200
The painting above, entitled "The School of Athens" pays tribute to the ancients as part of this intellectual movement.
What is the Renaissance?
200
The Age of the Scientific Revolution was also the Age of this cultural 'craze', which took the lives of over 30,000 European women. Among the accused was Johannes Kepler's own mother.
What was the European Witch Craze?
200
This new weapon of warfare was developed by physicists in the New Mexico desert in the 1940s, and drastically raised the stakes of international conflict.
What was the atomic bomb?
200
In 1962, historian Thomas Kuhn described this 16th century intellectual movement as a paradigm shift, where observable facts such as the retrograde of Mars did not fit in with the prevailing theory.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
200
While Dr. Jones received his PhD and Master's degree from Yale, his true alma mater is this university, where students bleed purple.
What is Weber State University?
400
Sola fide!
-Martin Luther
What is "By Faith Alone"?
400
Take up the White Man’s burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go send your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child
-Kipling
What is New Imperialism?
400
While one of the most famous works of Van Gogh, this painting was just another in a series of homages to this 19th-century painter from whom Van Gogh drew inspiration.
Who is Jean Francois Millet?
400
Far from being a relic of the Middle Ages, the domestic sphere for women was developed in this century in Europe.
What is the 19th century?
400
The 20th-century historian Elizabeth Eisenstein postulated that a communications revolution occurred during the Renaissance and Reformation as the result of this new technology.
What is the printing press?
400
Led by the slave-turned General Toussant L'Ouverture, this liberation of a Caribbean island may be the world's only successful slave revolt.
What was the Haitian Revolution?
400
Although he is a naturalized US citizen, Dr. Jones hails from this province in Canada, eh?
What is New Brunswick?
600
Cuius regio, eius religio.
-The Peace of Augsburg
What is "Whose region, their religion"?
600
"Nature, and Nature's laws lay hid in night God said, Let Newton be! and all was light."
Alexander Pope
What is the Scientific Revolution?
(JC Squire replied in the 20th century: "It did not last: the Devil howling “Ho! Let Einstein be!”, restored the status quo.
600
Painted in 1814 by Francisco Goya, the painting above depicts this country's resistance to the armies of Napoleon.
What is Spain?
600
When Protestants closed these institutions in the sixteenth century, it left medieval women with fewer choices than before.
What are nunneries?
600
The scramble for Africa was aided by this scientific development in the field of medicine.
What is Quinine (anti-malaria drug)?
600
This revolution began with the third estate walking out of the estates general in 1789, and signaled the end of the Old Regime.
What was the French Revolution?
600
A car salesman, a religious studies professor, a waiter at the Olive Garden, a worship leader, a Starbucks barista, a substitute teacher, a hockey coach, an Autozone employee, a Subway sandwich artist, an art museum educator, a Burger King cashier, a handyman.
Of this auspicious list of careers, Dr. Jones has never worked in this job.
What is a hockey coach?
800
Cogito Ergo Sum
-Descartes
What is "I think therefore I am"?
800
“And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
One impulse from a vernal wood, May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.”
-Wordsworth
What is Romanticism?
800
Theodore Gericault's Raft of the Medusa shows the folly of man's genius in the clutches of natural forces, and was emblematic of this artistic movement.
What was Romanticism?
800
The Earl of Shrewsberry remarked that Galileo had "overthrown all former astronomy" with his discovery of "four new planets rolling about the sphere of Jupiter", through the use of this Flemish invention.
What is the telescope?
800
Led by the Patriot Whigs against the mercantilist policies of King George III, the success of this Revolution may have had more to do with the Caribean sugar islands than any crossing of the Delaware.
What was the American Revolution?
800
As a student of Medieval and Early Modern history, Dr. Jones wrote his dissertation on the birth of corruption in this European country.
What is Switzerland?
1000
Tabula Rasa
-John Locke
What is "Blank Slate"?
1000
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
-John McCrae
What is World War I?
1000
This artist's modern work "Guernica" was a response to Hitler testing his weapons of destruction in the Spanish Civil War, and it one of the most famous anti-war art pieces in the world.
Who was Pablo Picasso?
1000
As the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions, this absolute monarch defended successfully defended her territory against an invasion from Frederick II of Prussia in the War of Austrian Succession.
Who was Maria Theresa? (r. 1740-1780)
1000
In a microcosmic Copernican Revolution of his own, this 17th-century Dutch scientist discovered there are tiny "animolcules" living on nearly every surface, invisible to the naked eye.
Who was Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek?
1000
First immigrating to America in 2001, Dr. Jones was initially employed under the table in this job.
What was a mascot for Tasty's Donuts.