Ancient Battles
This Egyptian pharaoh fought the Hittite king Muwatalli II at the Battle of Kadesh, which featured over 5,000 chariots and ended in a stalemate.
Who was Ramses II?
This ballet by Peter Tchaikovsky features characters like the Mouse King, Clara, Mother Ginger, Cavalier, and the Sugar Plum Fairy, and is a Christmastime favorite for many families.
What is The Nutcracker?
Psychology is often separated into these three psyches: the id (illogical passion), the ego (rational thought) and the _______ (moral and social conscience).
What is the superego?
This Mexican spirit is made from the blue agave plant.
What is tequila?
This adaptation of a L. Frank Baum book won 2 Oscars including Best Original Song but lost best picture to Gone with the Wind (1939).
What is The Wizard of Oz?
At this 490 BC battle, the Athenians under Miltiades defeated Persian forces led by Datis and Artaphernes, inspiring the modern long-distance race.
What was the Battle of Marathon?
This 1926 ballet by Belá Bartók, in which a group of robbers force a young girl to dance at the window of their apartment as a decoy to lure in potential victims, was banned on moral grounds in Cologne.
What is The Miraculous Mandarin?
This Austrian psychologist founded the discipline psychoanalysis and he argued that many problems were caused by mental states rather than by biochemical dysfunction.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This type of beer, brewed with a higher percentage of hops, is abbreviated IPA.
What is India Pale Ale?
In 1940 The Walt Disney Company made this film with animations paired with classical music performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra and Leopold Stokowski.
What is Fantasia?
This naval battle of 480 BC was a turning point in the Greco-Persian Wars; Themistocles lured the Persians into narrow straits near Athens.
What was the Battle of Salamis?
This Beethoven ballet features two statues that come to life. Its finale contains a theme Beethoven would use in his “Eroica” Symphony (No. 3).
What is The Creatures of Prometheus?
This Russian psychologist won the Nobel Prize in 1904 for Physiology or Medicine, but he is widely remembered for his idea of conditioned reflex and his namesake reflex.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This distilled spirit is the base of a traditional Moscow Mule.
What is vodka?
Considered one of the greatest films of all time, this 1941 film was directed by Orson Welles.
What is Citizen Kane?
Hannibal used a double-envelopment strategy to destroy the Roman army led by Paullus and Varro at this 216 BC battle of the Second Punic War.
What was the Battle of Cannae?
This ballet by Aaron Copland depicts episodes in the life of the title Old West outlaw and makes extensive use of cowboy songs such as “The Old Chisholm Trail” and “Goodbye Old Paint."
What is Billy the Kid?
This Swiss psychologist was a close associate of Sigmund Freud who split with him over the degree to which neuroses had a sexual basis; he went on to create the analystic psychology movement and introduced the notion of the collective unconscious.
Who is Carl Jung?
This Italian sparkling wine is commonly used in a Bellini cocktail.
What is Prosecco?
Starring Humphrey Bogart, this 1942 film is set in Vichy-controlled Morocco during WWII.
What is Casablanca?
Fought in 52 BC, this siege saw Julius Caesar defeat Vercingetorix by building two walls—one around the city and one facing outward—to repel reinforcements.
What was the Battle of Alesia?
This Aaron Copland ballet had several working names while being composed, including House of Victory and Ballet for Martha. Because the ballet was first performed in the Library of Congress, Copland was forced to limit the accompanying ensemble to just thirteen musicians.
What is Appalachian Spring?
This American Psychologist was one of the leading proponents of behaviorism and argued that all human actions could be understood in terms of physical stimuli and learned responses; he also taught pigeons how to play table tennis.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This is the French term for a brandy made from distilled wine.
What is Cognac?
This movie, made in 1957, follows a jury deciding the fate of an 18-year-old accused of committing patricide.