Art 2

Question 1

What does Two Little Men in a Flying Saucer by Ella Fitzgerald portray aliens as?

Answer 1

A species that would be disgusted by humans.

Question 2

What is Come Sail Away by Styx’s main message?

Answer 2

An escape from Earth.

Question 3

What does the “Star Child” in Mothership Connection (Star Child) by Parliament possibly represent?

Answer 3

Individuals who feel alienated or disconnected.

Question 4

Whose perspective is in the lyrics of “Aliens Exist” by Blink-182?

Answer 4

A little boy who has an alien in his closet.

Question 5

What does the “space invader” signify in “Space Invader” by Ace Frehley?

Answer 5

An alien who will save the earth from destruction.

Question 6

What instrument is featured in “After the Ball” by Charles Harris?

Answer 6

Violin.

Question 7

What elements does Freedom: 90! by George Michael have that are similar to 2000’s pop songs?

Answer 7

Various instruments, expressive lyrics, and a catchy melody.

Question 8

What genre of song is “Losing My Religion” by R.E.M?

Answer 8

It is a rock song.

Question 9

What is “Brændt” by Lis Sorensen about?

Answer 9

How a previous lover burned and deserted a girl.

Question 10

What major conspiracy could “Black Hole Sun” by Soundgarden be refencing?

Answer 10

Y2K.

Question 11

What does “I Saved the World Today” by Eurythmics have in common with “After the Ball”?

Answer 11

The violin, and how it is used/played.

Question 12

What African genre is “Embe Dodo” nostalgic for?

Answer 12

Zilizopendwa

Question 13

What band is Peter Solo the leader of?

Answer 13

Vaudou Game

Question 14

What is vaudou music really about?

Answer 14

It is about love, peace and connection to traditional cultures.

Question 15

What is Pas Contente about and what does it really mean?

Answer 15

This song is about how voodoo or vaudou music is not treated properly, and the song’s title literally means not happy.

Question 16

What is so different about the modern reimagining of Orfeo?

Answer 16

It brings together elements from multiple cultures, such as Greek and Indian.

Question 17

What is the Walmart Effect?

Answer 17

The Walmart effect is an effect caused by the huge chain Walmart, and basically states that Walmart is a bad thing due to its business practices but is still an essential part of anybody’s shopping.

Question 18

Who was Supermarket Shopper made by?

Answer 18

Duane Hunson, 1971

Question 19

What does Supermarket Shopper portray?

Answer 19

It portrays an obese woman excessively buying many sorts of American consumerist processed food, and the woman still has curlers in her hair, showing how lazy Americans are.

Question 20

Who is Walt Whitman in the poem “A Supermarket in California”?

Answer 20

A childless, lonely old grubber shopping at a supermarket.

Question 21

Why is 99 cents such a popular price in America?

Answer 21

The one cent difference looks a lot bigger and convinces people to buy more.

Question 22

Who founded Lithodomos?

Answer 22

Simon Young

Question 23

How does Lithodomos work?

Answer 23

Lithodomos is an easy technology which can give an immersive VR experience with a smartphone and $5 cardboard viewers.

Question 24

What is the Ochre Atelier about?

Answer 24

The Ochre Atelier is a reimagination of Amedeo Modigliani’s final studio, in a VR simulation made in Unity.

Question 25

Who was Amedeo Modigliani?

Answer 25

He was an Italian artist who primarily worked in France, and his oeuvre includes both sculptures and paintings, most recognizably of nudes.

Question 26

What is the Diet of Finland?

Answer 26

Finland's legislative body from 1809 to 1906.

Question 27

Who was the VR experience built by of a certain Scandinavian country's old legislative body?

Answer 27

Zoan Oy, a company that is the largest VR studio in Finland.

Question 28

How can the VR experience be accessed in the National Museum of Finland?

Answer 28

By figuratively "walking" into the actual painting made by Alexander II (The Opening of the Diet 1863).

Question 29

What physical feature of dinosaurs might have not been recognized until further archaeological efforts?

Answer 29

Feathers on dinosaurs.

Question 30

Where and when were the dinosaur fossils with feathers discovered?

Answer 30

In China and in the early Cretaceous period

Question 31

What is one trait of early paleo artists shown in The Primitive World by Adolphe François Pannemaker, 1857?

Answer 31

That fossils were just blank slates for any artist to project their own imaginations.

Question 32

What is the deeper meaning of The Ichthyosaur and the Plesiosaur (Lias Period) by Édouard Riou, 1863?

Answer 32

Since the Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur are portrayed as natural enemies by scientists and artists, they provided allegorical vessels for naval conflicts around this era.

Question 33

What do some people believe that the predators in Laelaps by Charles R Knight, 1897 signify?

Answer 33

That these predators represent the savagely competitive paleontologists Othniel C Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, both of whom would blow up dig sites with dynamite to obstruct the other’s discoveries.