Art
Where are the vast majority of the Nigerian Benin bronze sculptures housed?
What are museums collections?
Define trade deficit.
What is when imports exceed exports?
Which character is in charge of the South-East Suburban Parks section of the City Planning Commission?
Who is George Orr (In one of the realities)?
What instrument was used in 24 cues of Herrmann’s score for The Day the Earth Stood Still?
what is the theremin?
What were programmers able to do with the PDP-11?
What is create a large library of BASIC software, including simple computer games?
Why aren’t the Benin Bronzes displayed in their homeland of Nigeria?
What are brutal raids carried out by
British forces in 1897?
Define aggregation.
What is the combination of many different factors into a single economic variable?
At one point an Alien tells one of the characters, “Do not do to others what you wish others not to do to you.” Which character is this advice given to? (The Lathe of Heaven)
Who is Dr. Haber?
What instrument was advertised early in its existence as music from the ether?
What is the therimin?
Where is an actual PDP-11 on display today?
Where is The Vienna Technical Museum?
What did British forces do BEFORE a large fire destroyed shrines, storehouses, homes and burial places in Nigeria?
They packed hundreds of crates with the
Kingdom’s treasured Benin Bronzes?
After the 1970s, what was the U.S. relationship between imports and exports?
Imports have been greater than exports?
Which character wishes for “Peace as a universal lifestyle on earth”? (The Lathe of Heaven)
Who is Dr. Haber?
Name two uncommon strategies that Herrmann employed in the score for The Day the Earth Stood Still.
What is Multi-tracking and musique concrète?
What language was originally written on the PDP-11?
What is The C programming language?
What did a group of Western museum officials do in 2007? (In regards to Nigerian Artifacts)
They joined Nigerians in a “Benin Dialogue
Group” to pen discussions about repatriation
(the return of the works to Nigeria)?
What is a problem associated with aggregates?
What is obscure important details?
Which character is described as “pallid, fringed with graying hair”? (The Lathe of Heaven)
Who is Mannie Ahrens?
What is the name for a technique that involves recording various instruments separately and then layering the recordings?
What is multi-tracking?
Which operating system, written in C, was a popular alternative to RSTS-11?
What is the Unix operating system?
What did a critic compare the Nigerian pillaging of the Benin Plaques in 1897 to?
What is capturing London, burning Buckingham Palace and looting the National Gallery?
Formally, GDP is defined as what?
What is the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country during a specified time period?
One character is described with the phrases “It’s not that he’s troublesome. Never been violent.” Which character is being described? (The Lathe of Heaven)
Who is Dr. Haber
What is the French term developed in the 1940s which refers to music that composers created by using recorded real-world sounds as the foundation rather than working with notation?
What is musique concrète?
What does Unix form the basis for that is used in today’s mobile devices?
What is the MacOS system, iOS, and Android?