2/6
Correct Answer: EMINEM
Your Answer: Eminnem
Points Assigned: 0
I had heard of the reference before.
2. What artistic term, which originally referred during the Renaissance to a relaxed, asymmetrical pose prevalent in Greek and Roman sculpture, is applied today to poses in which one part of a figure turns or twists away from (or is "set against") another part?
Correct Answer: CONTRAPPOSTO
Your Answer: Counterpose
Points Assigned: 2
2. What artistic term, which originally referred during the Renaissance to a relaxed, asymmetrical pose prevalent in Greek and Roman sculpture, is applied today to poses in which one part of a figure turns or twists away from (or is "set against") another part?
Correct Answer: CONTRAPPOSTO
Your Answer: Counterpose
Points Assigned: 2
I feel like I got pretty close.
3. A boundary dispute between the US and British governments over their respective possessions on the Pacific Coast of North America was settled by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, which drew a line at the 49th parallel but dipped south into the Strait of Juan de Fuca to maintain Britain's claim to what island?
Correct Answer: VANCOUVER ISLAND
Your Answer: Victoria
Points Assigned: 1
3. A boundary dispute between the US and British governments over their respective possessions on the Pacific Coast of North America was settled by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, which drew a line at the 49th parallel but dipped south into the Strait of Juan de Fuca to maintain Britain's claim to what island?
Correct Answer: VANCOUVER ISLAND
Your Answer: Victoria
Points Assigned: 1
Damn.
4. The "trilogy" of the 1989 Philip Glass album Songs from the Trilogy was a group of three biographical operas by the composer that culminated in 1984 with Akhenaten, included 1979's Satyagraha (about Mahatma Gandhi), and began in 1976 with an opera about what other individual?
Correct Answer: ALBERT EINSTEIN
Your Answer: Martin Luther King
Points Assigned: 3
4. The "trilogy" of the 1989 Philip Glass album Songs from the Trilogy was a group of three biographical operas by the composer that culminated in 1984 with Akhenaten, included 1979's Satyagraha (about Mahatma Gandhi), and began in 1976 with an opera about what other individual?
Correct Answer: ALBERT EINSTEIN
Your Answer: Martin Luther King
Points Assigned: 3
I had no idea.
5. Upon its launch in September 1906, the RMS Mauretania—named after the Roman province in Northwest Africa—was the world's largest ship, overtaking what other vessel, the Mauretania's sister ship, which had launched three months prior?
Correct Answer: RMS LUSITANIA
Your Answer: Lusetania
Points Assigned: 2
5. Upon its launch in September 1906, the RMS Mauretania—named after the Roman province in Northwest Africa—was the world's largest ship, overtaking what other vessel, the Mauretania's sister ship, which had launched three months prior?
Correct Answer: RMS LUSITANIA
Your Answer: Lusetania
Points Assigned: 2
I butchered the spelling and knew it was wrong.
6. Carl Sandburg's influential six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln is divided into two parts: the first two volumes, subtitled The [BLANK #1] Years, and the final four volumes, subtitled The [BLANK #2] Years. Provide either of the words that fill in the blanks in these subtitles.
Correct Answer: PRAIRIE, WAR
Your Answer: Illinois
Points Assigned: 1
6. Carl Sandburg's influential six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln is divided into two parts: the first two volumes, subtitled The [BLANK #1] Years, and the final four volumes, subtitled The [BLANK #2] Years. Provide either of the words that fill in the blanks in these subtitles.
Correct Answer: PRAIRIE, WAR
Your Answer: Illinois
Points Assigned: 1
Nope!
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