Chapter 72
This word initially meant "first class", but came to mean specifically a product of ancient Greece or Rome
"His instinct for the flamboyant, his melodramatic appeal to ancient heroes, awakened the historical curiosity of millions"
Heinrich Schliemann
"This great scientist erected the whole grand structure of his world chronology on the flimsiest possible foundation - the date of the mythical adventure led by Jason to Colchis in search of the Golden Fleece"
Sir Isaac Newton
This king of Denmark summoned leading scholars to Meilgaard to witness excavation of a new portion of the celebrated mound in 1861
King Frederick VII
Who is the class mascot
Juan Pablo
This man strangled Winckelmann with a rope and proceeded to stab him to death
Francesco Arcangeli
This 17 year old Greek student from Athens recited Homer so mellifluously that it brought Schliemann to tears
Sophia Engastromenos
This man found a way to depict the spherical earth on a flat surface for the convenience of seafarers
Gerardus Mercator
This discovery, "a sort of eating-place" for the Stone Age community, became a door into the vast epoch of human prehistory
"Shell Middens"
Who is crowned as the king of rock n roll
Elvis Presley
This man, according to Boorstin, "was responsible for elevating Greek and Roman antiquity into a synonym for the 'classical'"
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Why did Schliemann gain American citizenship in California then immediately travel to Indiana?
To divorce his Russian wife
In 1751, this "freethinker" introduced a bill in Parliament to adopt the "New Style" calendar, rather than the "Gregorian"
Philip Dormer Stanhope
In 1867, the first Congres International Prehistorique de Paris brought the first official use of this word
"Prehistoric"
What was the first music video played on MTV
Video Killed the Radio Star
This ruler turned the most handsomest remaining monuments of ancient Rome into building materials for construction of the Vatican
Pope Pius II
This institute in London held a special meeting in 1877 to honor Heinrich Schliemann and Sophia Engastromenos
The Royal Archaeological Institute
This French scholar "sat so intent upon his Hebrew that for some time he heard neither the clash of arms, nor the groans of children, nor the wailing of women, nor the shouting of men"
Joseph Justus Scaliger
This Dane was "admittedly only a dilettante, but a dilettante with a wide range of knowledge. He has no university degree, but in the present state of scientific knowledge I hardly consider that fact as being a disqualification."
Christian Jurgensen Thomsen
What Police song features the lyric “There’s a little black spot on the sun today"?
King of Pain
This man applied the new science of perspective to survey and map cities, eventually inspiring Columbus to make his first journey
Leon Battista Alberti
After excavation, Schliemann was convinced this modern village was the site of ancient Troy
Hissarlik, Turkey
In 525 AD, this monk proposed to the Pope the use of "A.D.", or Anno Domini, but was so little impressed by his own invention that he continued to date his own letters by reference to the "Indiction"
Dionysus Exiguus
Thomsen's disciple, who dug into the ancient barrows of Jutland and eventually discovered "shell middens"
Jens Jacob Worsaae
Who was the famous guitar solo in “Beat It” played by?
Eddie Van Halen (and he did it for free)