Arizona History
In this year, Northern Arizona University was established.
What is 1899?
This 19th-century Italian painter created The Birth of Venus.
Who is Sandro Botticelli?
Australopithecus Afarensis is a lengthy name, you may know this famous one!
Who is Lucy?
The process of removing an item or an entire collection from one person’s or institution’s holdings.
What is deaccessioning?
This mid-16th century trend was started by aristocratic collectors to display their collections in cabinets.
What are Cabinets of Curiosities?
Lowell Observatory discovered this dwarf planet.
What is pluto?
An egg white-based medium commonly used during the European Medieval and Early Renaissance period up to 1500.
What is tempera?
These are the four main subfields of Anthropology.
What are Cultural, Linguistic, Archaeology, and Biological?
The British Museum stole these marbles from Athens in 1832.
What are the Parthenon Marbles?
This field, often confused with anthropology, studies bigger creatures that aren’t humans.
What is Paleontology?
This entertainment venue in downtown Flagstaff was constructed in 1911.
What is the Orpheum Theater?
This type of printmaking uses a stone.
What is lithography?
This ancient relic, the father of modern linguistics, is still teaching at the University of Arizona to this day.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
The Uffizi and the Pitti Palace, and subsequently the birth of the Italian Renaissance, are located here.
Where is Florence, Italy?
This art preservation team saved 400,000 artworks from destruction during World War II and is the subject of a 2014 film that MSTC will be showing on November 21.
What are the Monuments Men?
This historic building in downtown Flagstaff was constructed in 1927.
What is the Hotel Monte Vista?
Leonardo da Vinci used this technique to create the Mona Lisa's soft facial expression and hazy background.
What is sfumato?
Name one theory for how migration began.
What is the Ice-Free Corridor Theory OR Out of Africa Theory OR Beringia Land Bridge?
This is a type of museum that recreates historical settings through architecture and people to imitate a past time period.
What is a Living Museum?
This prominent local family moved to Flagstaff in the 1880s and owned the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company.
Who is the Riordan family?
Known by Flagstaff residents and the Indigenous people of Flagstaff, the San Francisco Peaks also go under this nickname in English.
What is “the summit that never melts” or “the mountain that never thaws?”
This individual’s death is responsible for starting the Rococo art movement.
Who is Louis XIV?
This is the theory that states that the structure of a language influences people’s worldview.
What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?
NAGPRA is the acronym for this law.
What is the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act?
How old is the world's oldest cave painting?
What is 64,000 years old?