World's Most Dangerous Quiz 1

Answer: Calabria

Calabria is a relatively wooded region of southern Italy with lovely weather. It's known for its olive groves and winemaking, and the city of Reggio, which overlooks Sicily, is Italy's most southerly town.

Answer: Eusebius

Eusebius was the Bishop of Caesarea (located in modern Israel) until his death in 340 AD. His two most important works were a history of the church and his biography of Constantine.

Answer: Shakespeare

xSome other nasty lines about Shakespeare: 'Shakespeare never has six lines together without a fault', said by Samuel Johnson, and 'Shakespeare undoubtably wanted taste', a criticism from Hugh Walpole! So, if you don't like Shakespeare, you're in good company!

Answer: Pandemonium

The word pandemonium has come to mean a 'chaotic uproar' or 'tumult'. The etymology of the word is simple, it means 'all demons' and was derived from Latin.

Answer: Frida Kahlo

Kahlo was born in the Coyoacan neighborhood of Mexico City in 1907. Her husband Diego Rivera purchased this house for her and after her death in 1954, it was created as a museum in her honor.

Answer: Butterflies

The Latin name for the order of butterflies and moths is 'lepidoptera', which makes sense when you consider that the wings, body and legs of these insects are covered with tiny scales!

Answer: Lemaitre and Friedmann

Georges Edouard Lemaitre was a cosmologist from Belgium who was originally ordained a priest! He also predicted that the universe was expanding, a fact which was verified by Hubble later on. Aleksander Friedmann was a Russian mathematician who, working off of Einstein's theories, developed essentially the same conceptual framework as Lemaitre. Both were active in this work during the 1920s and did not know of the other's activities.

Answer: Galut

The first recorded major diaspora of the Jews occurred in 586 BC when the Babylonians conquered the Kingdom of Judah and forced the Jews into slavery. This was known as the 'Babylonian Exile'. The most important diaspora occurred in the first century AD when the Romans destroyed the second temple in Jerusalem and forced the Jews to disperse throughout the empire.

Answer: Oedipus

Oedipus, a legendary king of Thebes in ancient Greece, was most famously written about by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, who wrote a trilogy of works focused on Oedipus and his family. Oedipus inadvertently fell in love with and married his own mother in 'Oedipus the King', and this story spurred Freud to name his 'Oedipus Complex' (attachment of a young boy to his mother) after the unfortunate mythological king. Stravinsky based his opera 'Oedipus Rex' on the work of Sophocles.

Answer: Claude Levi-Strauss

Levi-Strauss wrote numerous works within the structuralist genre, including 'Structural Anthropology', 'The Savage Mind' and 'Totemism'. Foucault and Bourdeau would be considered 'post-structuralists' while Malinowsky was a functionalist. Please stay tuned for my next general adventure...coming soon!