Art History
Who painted Starry Night?
Vincent van Gough
Australopithecus Afarensis is a lengthy name, you may know this famous one!
Who is Lucy?
This year, Northern Arizona University was established
What is 1899?
What marbles did the British Museum steal in 1832 from Athens?
What are the Parthenon Marbles?
What was the mid-16th century trend started by aristocratic collectors of displaying their collection in cabinets?
What are the Cabinets of Curiosities?
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?
Lowell Observatory discovered this dwarf planet
What is Pluto?
What is the process of removing an item or an entire collection from one person’s or institution’s holdings?
What is deaccessioned
This field, often confused with anthropology, studies bigger creatures that aren’t humans.
What is Paleontology?
This prominent Florentine family commissioned Donatello’s David.
Cosimo de Medici
He is considered the founder of American anthropology.
Who is Franz Boas?
This entertainment venue in downtown Flagstaff was constructed in 1911
What is the Orpheum Theater?
What was the name of the first university museum in 1671?
What is the Ashmolean Museum?
This art preservation team saved 400,000 artworks from destruction during World War II and is the subject of a 2014 film
What are the Monuments Men?
This Japanese art form influenced Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists in the late nineteenth century.
What are woodblock prints?
Name one theory for how migration began.
What is the Ice-Free Corridor Theory OR Out of Africa Theory OR Beringia Land Bridge?
This historic building in downtown Flagstaff was constructed in 1927
What is the Hotel Monte Vista?
What museum 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
What is the Riordan family?
What technique did Leonardo da Vinci use to create the Mona Lisa's soft facial expression and the hazy background?
What is sfumato?
This is the theory that states that the structure of a language influences people’s worldview.
What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?
Known by Flagstaff residents and the Indigenous people of Flagstaff, the San Francisco Peaks also go under what nickname in English?
What is “the summit that never melts” or “the mountain that never thaws?”
What is NAGPRA?
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?