Judaism
Holy scripture housed in a scroll, this document is the first five books of the Jewish bible.
What is the Torah?
In the 17th century, this word, originally meaning "happy" shifted to mean "uninhibited by moral constraints," and later, "homosexual."
What is gay?
The bard spelled this 80 different ways during his life. From “Shappere” to “Shaxberd.”
What is his name?
The black knight came to eventually be missing most of these.
What are limbs?
This artist is famous for painting melting clocks, among other surrealisms.
Who is Salvador Dali?
A ceremonial ram's horn, which is blown on holidays like Yom Kippur, and represents wakefulness and reflection.
What is a Shofar?
Pronouns like xe, hir, and ze.
What are neo-pronouns?
Before King James I took the throne in 1603, Shakespeare wrote mainly for this queen, who the era is named for.
Who is Queen Elizabeth?
This bird has "passed on." It has "ceased to be." Its metabolic processes are "history." It's "off the twig."
What is a Norwegian blue parrot?
Her self-portraits often include monkeys and flowers.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
The "helper candle" in the menorah, which rests above the others. Also the god of light and dark in Babylonia.
What is Shamash?
A sexual orientation on the far end of the ace spectrum, where a person is not sexually attracted to others.
What is asexuality?
Historians typically divide Shakespeare's plays into three main categories: comedies, tragedies, and this other type. Not to mention romances or problem-plays.
What are histories?
The device of which "the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three."
What is the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?
Rene Magritte, in his painting of a pipe, declared this about the pipe.
What is "this is not a pipe"?
An acronym for Torah, Nevi'im, and Ketuvim.
What is Tanakh?
The acronym with which one could describe a trans man who was born as a woman.
What is AFAB?
The Humoral model of medicine dominated the practice in Shakespeare's day. The four humors included phlegm, blood, black bile, and this.
What is yellow bile?
No one expects them.
Who are the Spanish Inquisition?
The sculpture called "Gift" by Dadaist Man Ray is an clothing iron with 14 of these glued to the middle.
What are thumb tacks?
Meaning literally "splendor" or "radiance," this is the book of mystic writings of Kabbalah.
What is the Zohar?
This is what the "I" stands for.
What is Intersex?
Shakespeare's self-insert; his last role in his final play.
Who is Prospero?
The type of governance which Arthur's peasants believe themselves to have. "I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were..."
What is an autonomous collective?
Probably Hieronymus Bosch's most famous work: a triptych depicting the history of humanity beginning with the Garden of Eden.
What is the Garden of Earthly Delights?