Sacred Art
This system of caves that had pre-historic paintings of bison and other animals, was found by two boys looking for their dog that fell down a hole.
What are the Lascaux Caves?
This Italian “Baroque” violinist and composer is known as the “Red Priest.” He developed the concerto form of music and is famous for his Four Seasons.
Who was Vivaldi?
A physical quantity that requires both a magnitude and direction.
What is a vector?
It begins in "medias res," requires an invocation to a muse, is about gods and heroes, and is written in dactylic hexameter.
What is epic poetry?
This city is nicknamed "The Eternal City".
Where is Rome?
The name of this art period means "rebirth" and artworks showed renewed interest in the ideas of Ancient Greece and Rome.
What was the Renaissance?
This Austrian “Classical” composer is considered the “Father of the Symphony,” composing 106 of them. Surprise, surprise!
Who was Franz Joseph Haydn?
The sum of protons and neutrons at the nucleus of an atom.
What is mass number?
Examples include loquor, hortor, morior, and vescor. They look passive, but their meanings are active.
What is a deponent verb?
The inventor of the following languages: Quenya and Sindarin.
Who was J.R.R. Tolkien?
The people of this ancient South American culture were great metallurgists and often created metal artworks depicting llamas and alpacas.
What was the Incan Empire?
(or the Incans or Machu Picchu)
This German Romantic composed seven symphonies, six masses, and over 600 art songs known as “Lieder” (pronounced “Leader”). His Erlking tells the dramatic story of a Father and Son fleeing death on horseback.
Who was Schubert?
The combination of all the chemical reactions in the body.
What is metabolism?
This son of Jupiter Hamon dedicated 100 temples to his father and fattened the ground with the blood of his slaughtered sheep. Despite these gestures, he struck out with Dido. You might call him "an old friend."
Who is Iarbas?
This word for a friend comes from the Latin for “with whom you would eat bread.”
What is a companion?
Fill in the blank: The Raft of the ____________ is a French painting from the Romantic Period that depicts the survivors of a controversial shipwreck alone on the open ocean on a makeshift raft.
Who was Medusa?
This Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer beat out the competition for a job with the Duke of Ferrara, even though he was somewhat arrogant, demanding a higher salary and composing only when he felt like it. His Ave Maria….Virgo serena is an example of Renaissance writing incorporating Imitative Polyphony within the multi-verse motet.
Who was Josquin des Prez?
The three isometries, also known as ‘rigid motions’ and the one non-isometric transformation sometimes used to define similar figures?
What is translation, reflection, rotation, and dilation?
This 2nd Century heresy held that the loving Jesus-God was incompatible with the vengeful creator God found in the Old Testament. Its founder developed a unique canon of scripture, including a modified Gospel of Luke and some of Paul's letters.
What is Marcionism?
This is the bucket that holds the holy water for the blessing the congregation during the sprinkling rite.
What is the Aspersorium?
The Church of the Gesú omitted this Medieval architectural feature from in front of the altar during the counter-reformation to make the altar more accessible to the congregation.
What was the Rood Screen?
This 20th Century American composer incorporated jazz into his symphonic works, including An American in Paris and Rhapsody in Blue. He also collaborated with his brother, Ira, writing songs for what has become known as “The Great American Songbook.”
Who was George Gershwin?
The five Platonic solids.
What are the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron?
This book of the bible covers much of the same history from I-II Samuel and I-II Kings, but tells it from the perspective of the building of the temple and restoration of worship.
What is Chronicles?
The last time there were no living former presidents was when this man was president.
Who is Richard Nixon?