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Art
100
Ravana used this creature to lure Rama away from Sita.
What is a golden deer?
100
A ring that could make its wearer invisible, according to a story in Plato's _Republic_
What is the Ring of Gyges?
100
It means active non-action in Chinese and is a prominent term in the _Tao Te Ching_.
What is wuwei?
100
The structure in Mecca that Muslims now walk around during the Hajj
What is the Ka'ba?
100
The name for a ratio used by the Greeks in their temple architecture because they regarded it as beautiful
What is the Golden Mean?
200
Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill this animal sent by Ishtar and Anu after Gilgamesh rejects Ishtar's marriage proposal.
What is the Bull of Heaven?
200
Agamemnon's wife
Who is Clytemnestra?
200
Jesus taught with these stories because he did not want the general public to grasp his message, according to the Gospel of Mark.
What are parables?
200
In Rashomon, the woodcutter apparently stole this.
What is the pearl-handled dagger?
200
Picasso's painting of a brothel in which the people's faces are like African masks
What is "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"?
300
Ravana's sister
Who was Soorpanaka?
300
The power that ultimately supports or opposes a ruler, according to Mencius (and Confucianism)
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
300
The tempter who tried to prevent the Buddha-to-be from becoming the Buddha
Who was Mara?
300
In Brecht's play, he initially told Galileo that he could not continue to practice science but ended up working with Galileo anyway.
Who is the Little Monk?
300
A style of art in which the subject is pictured as a perfect model
What is idealism?
400
The wafer-like food that God provided the Israelites while they were in the wilderness
What is manna?
400
He argued with Socrates about the meaning of justice, insisting that it is the interest of the stronger.
Who was Thrasymachus?
400
Those who opposed Galileo's claim that Jupiter had its own moons believed that the planets were attached to these invisible globes.
What are crystal spheres?
400
The plant under which the Buddha-to-be was sitting as he finally reached enlightenment
What is the Bodhi tree?
400
The term for a pose in which "the hips and legs are turned in opposition to the shoulders and chest"
What is contrapposto?
500
Muhammad's uncle, who raised Muhammad after he lost his parents
Who was Abu Talib?
500
One of the four hearts in Mencius.
What is the heart of benevolence? or What is the heart of shame? or What is the heart of reverence? or What is the heart of right and wrong?
500
In Plato's _Republic_, this is the type of thought that allows one to grasp the highest truth (the ideal forms).
What is dialectic?
500
The city in Texas where the Branch Davidians had a compound that was destroyed by fire
What is Waco?
500
A term referring to the use of light and dark in order to give a three-dimensional quality to a drawing or painting
What is chiaroscuro?
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