This is a Robbery!
Historical Science & Medicine
Symbols in Space
That's Tuf-ts
Culinary History
100
In 1990, two thieves disguised as police officers stole 13 pieces of art, including works by Rembrandt and Vermeer, from this Boston museum in the largest art theft in history.
What is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum?
100
This man, dubbed the “father of bacteriology,” created the eponymous technique that treated milk to prevent bacterial contamination, making it safer to drink.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
100
In a set of 36 woodblock pieces, Japanese artist Hokusai explored the different views and meanings that could be found in this important volcanic mountain.
What is Mount Fuji?
100
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts chartered Tufts College in this year, declaring that the college should promote “virtue and piety and learning in such of the languages and liberal and useful arts as shall be recommended.”
What is 1852?
100
This fermented salty fish sauce was Ancient Rome’s favorite condiment.
A: Ketsupus
B: Psari
C: Piscis
D: Garum
D: What is garum?
200
Irishman Thomas Blood is best known for his role in a 1671 heist in which he attempted to steal this collection of royal objects from the Tower of London.
What are the Crown Jewels?
200
This city, named after the Macedonian ruler who founded it, was a hotspot for scientific advancements during the Hellenistic Period. It was particularly significant for anatomy because the city’s ruler allowed performance of dissections which had previously been seen as morally corrupt.
Alexandria, Egypt
200
Goya’s “Third of May 1808” displays the haunting execution of Spanish soldiers who resisted this European leader during the Peninsular War.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
200
This first president of Tufts oversaw the school when all classes, as well as dorm rooms, were in one building.
A: Leonard Carmichael
B: Hosea Ballou II
C: Elmer Hewitt Capen
D: Alonzo Ames Miner
B: Who is Hosea Ballou II?
200
This European country was the first to abandon the traditional, heavily spiced meals of the medieval courts, focusing on fresh, local ingredients and herbs, rather than imported spices.
A: England
B: Spain
C: France
D: Germany
C: What is France?
300
An unidentified man, known by this alias, is famous for hijacking a Boeing 727 in 1971, demanding $200,000 in ransom money, and then parachuting out of the plane, never to be seen again.
Who is D.B. Cooper?
300
The statue pictured here celebrates this English nurse who was well known for her service during the Crimean War, advocated for sanitation reform, and was an innovator in statistics.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
300
The Rapa Nui people carved the living faces of their people into these stone statues on Easter Island for thousands of years.
What are moai?
300
Although advertisements claim he performed at Tufts in 1963, it is said that this musician never showed up for his concert at Cousens Gymnasium:
A: Elvis Presley
B: Bob Dylan
C: Paul McCartney
D: Roy Orbison
B: Who is Bob Dylan?
300
This meat was valued in typical Galenic medical theory as the healthiest meat, as it was believed to be the most similar to human flesh.
A: Chicken
B: Beef
C: Pork
D: Lamb
C: What is pork?
400
In 2003, robbers stole an estimated $100 million worth of diamonds from the heavily guarded Antwerp diamond district in this European country.
What is Belgium?
400
The classical Greek physician Hippocrates created this theory about the makeup of the human body and how it related to sickness and disease. It remained the most widely accepted explanation of the human body in Western medicine until germ theory.
What is humorism? (or humoral theory)
400
This Egyptian king from the Middle Kingdom (who ruled directly after the king of “The Mummy," Seti I) was very well known for his obsession with depicting himself in art, and remaking art from earlier periods in his image.
Who is Ramesses II?
400
The namesake of the “Rez” Quad, this reservoir was built in 1864 and was drained in 1944, giving us Carmichael, Miller, and Houston (and a really muddy strip of land!)
What is the Mystic Reservoir?
400
This was the primary method of chocolate consumption when the plant was first brought to Europe.
A: Beverage
B: Bar
C: Baked good
D: Bean
A: What is beverage?
500
In 1985, the four biggest stars of the outlaw country music genre – Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and Waylon Jennings – formed this supergroup, whose name is a word for robbers who steal from travellers.
Who are the Highwaymen?
500
Chinese medical texts written during the Han Dynasty focused on the circulation of these two components in the body.
What are qi and xue (life force and blood)?
500
This common artistic narrative for the inevitability of death was common throughout the Medieval period in Europe by the bringing together of people from all walks of life (clergy, nobility, commoners) and having them join hands as skeletons, equal in death.
What is the Danse Macabre?
500
The first fraternity at Tufts, Zeta Psi (that dilapidated house on the corner of Packard Ave.) was founded in this year.
A: 1855
B: 1865
C: 1875
D: 1885
A: What is 1855?
500
Early Modern Europeans uses this method to derive concentrated liquids made from flowers, bricks, and even earthworms.
A: Boiling
B: Sun-drying
C: Distillation
D: Sieving
C: What is distillation?