A Test of Knowledge! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Bern

Bonn is a city in Germany, Geneva is in Switzerland but not the capital. Geneva is also where Calvinism started. Vienna is the capital of Austria.

Answer: Bernini

While all four of these men were exceptional artists, it was Bernini who sculpted 'The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa'. Bernini is also famous for his work on Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.

Answer: Monastery

Philip II was one of Spain's greatest rulers and was a member of the Habsburg Dynasty that encompassed much of Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries.

Answer: Aurora, Snow White, Jasmine, Ariel

Snow White was a Princess before she met Prince Charming as stated in the movie by the Huntsman. Aurora, also known as Sleeping Beauty, was the daughter of King Stefan and was throughout the whole movie a Princess. Ariel was the daughter of King Triton and thus a Princess. Jasmine was the daughter of the Sultan of Agrabah, and remained a Princess throughout the whole movie. Both Cinderella and Belle had to marry a prince to become a princess.

As for Alice and Mulan they are not princesses.

Answer: Benjamin Franklin

Franklin is also known for creating the bifocals and starting the first fire station.

Answer: Louis XIV

Louis XIV of France is also known for building a grand Palace at Versailles and for saying, "L'etat c'est moi!" (I am the state).

Answer: Othello, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth

Third Period
Shakespeare's third period includes his greatest tragedies and his so-called dark or bitter comedies. The tragedies of this period are considered the most profound of his works. In them he used his poetic idiom as an extremely supple dramatic instrument, capable of recording human thought and the many dimensions of given dramatic situations. Hamlet (1601), perhaps his most famous play, exceeds by far most other tragedies of revenge in picturing the mingled sordidness and glory of the human condition. Hamlet feels that he is living in a world of horror. Confirmed in this feeling by the murder of his father and the sensuality of his mother, he exhibits tendencies toward both crippling indecision and precipitous action. Interpretation of his motivation and ambivalence continues to be a subject of considerable controversy.
Othello (1604) portrays the growth of unjustified jealousy in the protagonist, Othello, a Moor serving as a general in the Venetian army. The innocent object of his jealousy is his wife, Desdemona. In this tragedy, Othello's evil lieutenant Iago draws him into mistaken jealousy in order to ruin him. King Lear (1605), conceived on a more epic scale, deals with the consequences of the irresponsibility and misjudgment of Lear, a ruler of early Britain, and of his councillor, the Duke of Gloucester. The tragic outcome is a result of their giving power to their evil children, rather than to their good children. Lear's daughter Cordelia displays a redeeming love that makes the tragic conclusion a vindication of goodness. This conclusion is reinforced by the portrayal of evil as self-defeating, as exemplified by the fates of Cordelia's sisters and of Gloucester's opportunistic son.

Answer: Gandalf, Aragorn, Sauron

This is from the author himself. He describes all of his works in his Letters and address that Gandalf,Aragorn and Sauron are the three main characters as they shape the story. Gandalf is the presence of supreme goodness, Sauron is the presence of evil and Aragorn is approaching his destiny as King of Gondor, which he achieves in the 'Return of the King'. One must realize that Tolkien was a profound Catholic and that LOTR was a story about Catholicism. Gandalf and Aragorn are, according to Tolkien, the two Christ-like characters and Sauron is the Satan-like character.

The whole story has to do with Sin, Suffering, Redemption, and achieving Everlasting Life. For further info read Tolkien's Letters.

Answer: True

. In the early 19th century, the noted German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss called mathematics the "queen of the sciences" ... because it was so successful at uncovering the nature of physical reality.

Answer: Rhode Island

Deleware's nickname is the First State, because it signed the constitution first and Connecticut is the Constitution State.