Misc Quiz II

Question 1

This figure was imprisoned in the Fortress of Oblivion.

Answer 1

Kvadh I (473-531 CE)

He was a Sassanian king of Persia

Question 2

This figure supported a communist-esque society and was a Zoroastrian mobad.

Answer 2

Mazdak

Question 3

The Queen of Spades is a short story by what author?

Answer 3

Alexander Pushkin

Herman schemes to meet a woman who lost her fortune playing the card game faro.

Question 4

Piskaryov and Lieutenant Piryov are characters in what short story?

Answer 4

Nevsky Prospect (1835) by Gogol

Question 5

Which ballet features cowboy songs such as “Goodbye Old Paint” and opens with the section “The Open Prairie”?

Answer 5

Billy the Kid (1938) by Aaron Copland

Question 6

What fort in Lake Champlain was captured by the Green Mountain Boys in 1775?

Answer 6

Fort Ticonderoga

Captured on May 10 by forces led by Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen.

Question 7

William Howe defeated George Washington at what largest battle of the American Revolutionary war?

Answer 7

Long Island (August 27 1776)

Question 8

Jeunehomme by Mozart is what type of piece and what key is it in?

Answer 8

Piano Concerto, E flat major

Question 9

This editor if Cosmopolitan magazine wrote “Sex and the Single Girl”

Answer 9

Helen Gurley

Brown

Question 10

This figure was the son of Kvadh

Answer 10

Khosrau Anushirawan (501-579)

Sometimes called Chosroes, the epithet Anushirawan means “of the immortal soul”

Question 11

This is the national epic of Iran

Answer 11

Shahnameh

It is a poem recounting the ancient history of Iran.

Question 12

What period/dynasty is this:

Sun Tzu writes the art of war,
Confucius lives and teaches

Answer 12

Zhou dynasty

Spring and Autumn period specifically, first half of the Eastern Zhou

Question 13

Which dynasty/period is this:

Established Confucianism as state
doctrine in China,
Ended in rebellions like the Five Pecks of Rice and the Yellow Turbans

Answer 13

Han

Question 14

This composer wrote the “orchestral set” Three Places in New England.

Answer 14

Charles Ives (Orchestral set no1)

Question 15

This general of Justinian the Great took Carthage from the Vandal King Gelimer.

Answer 15

Belisarius

Question 16

This ruler came to power after usurping the King of Kish, Ur-Zubaba.

Answer 16

Sargon I (the great)

Question 17

Who painted “The Anatomy Lesson on Dr Nicolas Tulp”?

Answer 17

Rembrandt

The man being dissected is Aris Kindt, a criminal.

Question 18

What book by Sei Shonagin details court life in the Heian period?

Answer 18

The Pillow Book

Question 19

What playwright wrote:

The Robe of Feathers
Birds of Sorrow
Wind in the Pines

Answer 19

Zeami, also called Kanze Motokiyo

He is the most prominent playwright of No theatre.

Question 20

What playwright wrote:

The Battles of Coxinga

He wrote in the Bunraku (puppet) and Kabuki styles.

Answer 20

Chikematsu Monzaemon

Question 21

This person preceded Tokugawa Ieyasu as shogun.

Answer 21

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Question 22

Tokugawa ruled from this city.

Answer 22

Edo (now Tokyo) in Musashi province

Question 23

This person was the subject of an attempted assassination by the Marquis de Guiscard in 1711 while he was Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Answer 23

Robert Harley

He would later that year found the South Sea Company.

Question 24

What war was ended by the Treaty

of Utrecht negotiated in 1713 by Robert Harley?

Answer 24

War of the Spanish Succession

One of Utrecht’s provisions gave Britain a monopoly on slave trading with Spanish ports in the Americas, which was essential for the South Sea Company
to function.

Question 25

Who united the Hawaiian islands?

Answer 25

Kamehameha His name means “the lonely one”

Question 26

Law of the splintered paddle

Answer 26

“Let every elderly person, woman and child lie by the road in safety.” Hawaiian law passed by Kamehameha the great and is considered one of the first human rights laws.

Question 27

Where were the opening shots of the American civil war fired?

Answer 27

Ford Sumter, Charleston South Carolina

Question 28

This figure ran the Greta Mob, later to be known as this person’s ‘Gang’.

Answer 28

Ned Kelly Australian bushranger (highwayman), he turned outlaw after a string of police injustices to his family.

Question 29

This ballet opens with the xylophone playing F sharp quavers.

Answer 29

Gayane (Khachaturian) It’s most well known for having the piece “Sabre Dance”.

Question 30

Stringybark Creek shooting, Eurora and Jeribaldie bank robbings.

Answer 30

Ned Kelly

Question 31

Site of Ned Kelly’s last stand

Answer 31

Glenrowan

Question 32

This short lived dynasty preceded the Tang.

Answer 32

Sui (581-618, only two emperors) The period included major works such as the Grand Canal as well as laying the political foundation for the later Tang.

Question 33

What Chinese dynasty lasted from 619-907 before the collapse into the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period?

Answer 33

Tang

Question 34

This person briefly declared the existence of the Second Zhou dynasty after gaining power in the middle of the Tang dynasty.

Answer 34

Empress Wu Zetien The only Chinese Empress Regnant.

Question 35

Who couldn’t interview Indira Gandhi due to her assassination?

Answer 35

Peter Ustinov