Art History
Which Renaissance artist painted the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo da Vinci
Which ancient civilization built the pyramids at Gaza?
Ancient Egyptians
What role in a museum is responsible for researching and organizing exhibitions?
Curator
Who was the second president of the United States?
John Adams
In Indiana Jones, what is Indy's actual academic profession?
Archaeologist
What art movement is Claude Monet associated with?
What writing system was used in ancient Mesopotamia?
Cuneiform
What term refers to the detailed record describing an object's ownership history?
Provenance
The Silk Road connected China with what continents?
Europe and Africa
In Night at the Museum, which figure repeatedly demands gum from Ben Stiller's character?
Easter Island Head
What does the term Renaissance mean?
Rebirth
Augustus (Octavian)
What museum practice involves stabilizing and repairing objects to prevent deterioration?
Conservation
Which revolution began in 1789 and overthrew the Bourbon Monarchy?
French Revolution
The reality TV show Survivor unintentionally demonstrates what anthropological concept about how humans organize themselves into groups of shared identity?
Tribalism
Where was the most famous 1990 art museum robbery located?
Isabella Stewart Gardner Musuem, Boston
What Andean civilization built Machu Picchu?
The ethical debate over returning cultural artifacts to their countries or communities of origin is commonly called what?
Repatriation
Treaty of Versailles
What term describes the removal of artifacts from their original cultural context, often during colonial rule?
Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Extraction
Who is dubbed the first art historian, and when did he publish his book, Lives of the Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects?
Giorgio Vasari, 1550
China
What role primarily focuses on documentation, object movement, and loan logistics rather than interpretation?
Registrar
Which 1648 agreements are often credited with establishing the modern system of sovereign states?
Peace of Westphalia
Ethnography is best defined as what type of anthropological method?
Immersive fieldwork and cultural observation