Time for a Trivia Quiz!

[82Rigger]

Okay, I wanna find out how much CULTURE we have in these forums.
This quiz deals with the humanities: Literature, Art, Music, and Philosophy.

Keith....you need to do this quiz. Grunts do not need culture. They need to be able to shoot straight and blow up stuff.
Men of the Cloth, however, and ladies and officers need to exhibit some degree of culture and sophistication.

These are not terribly difficult, but I made some of them a little TRICKEY...so, watch your six!!!

1. This famous novel of the sea opens chapter one with the first line of the book:

"Call me Ishmael."

2. The correct name for this famous painting is:

a. The Mona Lisa
b. American Gothic
c. la Giaconda
d. Portrait of the Artist's Mother

[82Rigger]

3. This famous composer could write music at the age of four. He wrote a minuet at age five, and a full orchestral symphony at age 8.
One of his best known works is Symphony #41 (Jupiter) in C.

4. Name this famous philosopher:

"I think, therefore I am."

5. This famous 1897 novel features the characters Mina Murray, Professor Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, and Lucy Westenra.

6. the correct name of this famous painting by American artist James McNeill Whistler is:

1. Whistler's Mother
2. American Gothic
3. Arrangement in Gray and Black #1
4. Colonial Domestic

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7. This American composer is remembered for such works as "Rhapsody in Blue", "An American in Paris", and "Porgy and Bess".

a. Aaron Copeland
b. George Gershwin
c. Anne LeBaron
d. Henry Brant

8. This ancient Greek philosopher is remembered for his teaching by the use of DIALOGUES.

9. This American author's pen name means "two fathoms of water beneath the keel".

a. Jack London
b. Mark Twain
c. E.E. Cummings
d. Mary Shelley

10. The correct name of this painting by American artist Grant Wood is:

a The Farmer in the Dell
b Manifest Destiny
c American Gothic
d Kansas Summer

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11. This famous composer came from several generations of famous composers of the same last name. Some of his best known works are "The French Suites", "Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor", and "The Well-Tempered Klavier".

12. This famous philosopher is remembered for his teachings of Virtue and Civil Obedience. He was convicted of "corruption of youth" and sentenced to death. He drank hemlock and died in the arms of his students.

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Have fun!

[colmurph]

1. "Moby Dick"
2. La Giaconda (c)
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4. Rene Decartes
5. DRACULA?
6. Arrangement in Gray and Black. (His father was a grad of West Point and he was thrown out of West Point after flunking his Chemistry Exam)
7. George Gershwin
8. Plato
9. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
10. American Gothic
11. Johan Bach
12. Socrates

It's 7 am and I just woke up, Haven't had my coffee yet!

[Andy]

1. Moby Dick, required high school reading.
2. The Mona Lisa, which was stolen and brought to Italy just prior to WWI.
3. Mozart, but I thought he was at least 5 before he started writing music.
4. Decarte, he first wrote I smell therefore I am, but his new girlfriend bought him a bath tub and history changed.
5. I have no clue whatsoever.
6. Arrangement in Gray and Black. No one could remember the name and it was his mother in the painting, thus it's also known by another name.
7. Gershwin, he got into a lot of trouble for Porgy & Bess because it was written for blacks and there was that thing about segregation back then.
8. Plato took time out from his work with Mickey Mouse to develop this form of teaching. The Republic or parts of it were also required reading in high school.
9. Mark Twain, from his days on the river boats.
10. American Gothic, would anyone admit that that couple was related to them?
11. Just don't know.
12. Socrates, who's last words were, "I drank what!"

Stay healthy,
Andy

[Keith_Hixson]

1. Moby Dick
2. "La Giaconda"
3. Mozart
4. Decarte
5. Dracula
6. Arrangement in Gray & Black - Whistler's Mother
7. Gershwin
8. Plato
9. Mark Twain - Samuel Clemmens
10. American Gothic
11. Bach
12. Socrates


Several Guesses "La Giaconda" Must be Italian or Latin.
as Leonardo Da Vinci was Italian

Wasn't sure about Dracula but it rang some kind of bell.

My understanding is: The Bach's were a composing family.

Col Murphy sure did good.

[Keith_Hixson]

Andy,

You are indeed a cultured grunt!

Keith

[travisab1]

I'll bet he looked it up...

TRavis

[Seascamp]

Speaking of culture,

A Navy CPO was trying to teach a few new Lads some math so he discusses calculating the area of various geometric shapes. He gets to calculating the area of a circle and says, ?Lads, the area of a circle is equal to Pi R Square, remember that?. A Texas Lad raises his hand and says, ?No Chief you?re wrong?. Then the Texas Lad offers up, ?Pie are round and cornbread are square?.

Scamp