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1. While unprecedented in England, artistic brotherhoods had begun to emerge in continental Europe around 1800. Which French artistic brotherhood turned away from the conventional art of its own time, and modeled its work after ancient Greece?
Answer = The Barbus
(not totally sure about this one)
2. In the city of Argos what was given as a prize at the games held during the Heraia festival?
Answer = a shield
3. What is the meaning of the Greek word from which ‘Aphrodite’ takes her name?
Answer = foam-born
4. What mathematical number has “tantalized” mathematicians since the Ancient Greeks?
Answer = Prime numbers
5. Seamus Heaney’s lines from The Cure at Troy (“ . . . and hope and history rhyme”) were quoted by which person during the Irish peace process?
Answer = Bill Clinton
1. While unprecedented in England, artistic brotherhoods had begun to emerge in continental Europe around 1800. Which French artistic brotherhood turned away from the conventional art of its own time, and modeled its work after ancient Greece?
Answer = The Barbus
(not totally sure about this one)
2. In the city of Argos what was given as a prize at the games held during the Heraia festival?
Answer = a shield
3. What is the meaning of the Greek word from which ‘Aphrodite’ takes her name?
Answer = foam-born
4. What mathematical number has “tantalized” mathematicians since the Ancient Greeks?
Answer = Prime numbers
5. Seamus Heaney’s lines from The Cure at Troy (“ . . . and hope and history rhyme”) were quoted by which person during the Irish peace process?
Answer = Bill Clinton
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