Philosophy & Thought
This philosopher declared “God is dead.”
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
This is the largest species of shark
What is the whale shark?
Johann Sebastian Bach was associated with this musical period.
What is the Baroque period?
Johannes Gutenberg is associated with this invention.
What is the printing press?
Michelangelo sculpted this biblical hero from marble.
What is David?
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Plato presented this allegory involving prisoners and shadows.
What is the Allegory of the Cave?
Trees lose water through this process.
What is transpiration?
George Gershwin composed this “Rhapsody” blending jazz and classical music.
What is “Rhapsody in Blue”?
$400 This unit measures electrical resistance.
What is the ohm?
Gothic cathedrals are known for these external structural supports.
What are flying buttresses?
The Watergate scandal forced this president to resign.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Chinese philosopher emphasized harmony and filial piety.
Who is Confucius?
The study of fungi is known by this term.
What is mycology?
This opera by Bizet features the character Escamillo.
What is Carmen?
The first successful powered airplane flights were achieved by these brothers
Who are the Wright brothers?
Pablo Picasso helped pioneer this artistic movement.
What is Cubism?
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
René Descartes began one famous argument with these Latin words meaning “I think, therefore I am.”
What is Cogito ergo sum?
This layer of Earth lies between the crust and the core.
What is the mantle?
Igor Stravinsky’s ballet riotously premiered in Paris in 1913 under this title.
What is “The Rite of Spring”?
ENIAC was an early machine of this type.
What is a computer?
This architect designed the dome of Florence Cathedral.
Who is Brunelleschi?
Franklin Roosevelt proposed this series of economic reforms during the Great
Depression.
What is the New Deal?
Jeremy Bentham is associated with this ethical philosophy
What is utilitarianism?
This bird migrates thousands of miles from the Arctic to Antarctica annually
What is the Arctic tern?
This American composer wrote “Appalachian Spring.”
Who is Aaron Copland?
This inventor held patents related to alternating current systems and induction
motors.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
This Dutch artist painted “The Night Watch.”
Who is Rembrandt?
This Supreme Court chief justice authored the Brown v. Board decision.
Who is Earl Warren?