Cultural Literacy For Test Two

Question 0

Knee-jerk reaction

Answer 0

Immediate reaction without thought

Question 1

Judas Iscariot

Answer 1

According to the Christians disciple who betrayed Jesus to the Romans reference of the true betrayal

Question 2

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 2

Key leader who helped with the Soviet union dictators and executions

Question 3

Joseph Mcartney

Answer 3

The senator of Wisconsin who wrote and accuse people in politics and celebrities being communists and his info was based on lies therefore he gave people bad reputations

Question 4

Nom de plume

Answer 4

The name of the pen a fake name used to be a writer

Question 5

Passè

Answer 5

The past old and out of fashion

Question 6

Quid pro quo

Answer 6

One in exchange for another

Question 7

Reparation

Answer 7

Paying for the damages mainly used in war

Question 8

Vice versa

Answer 8

The other way around in the reverse order

Question 9

Tenderfoot

Answer 9

New it something starting to learn usually referenced freshman

Question 10

Unilateral

Answer 10

One-sided

Question 11

A wildcat strike

Answer 11

Strike/protest with the with the authority of a union parentheses illegal in most states parentheses

Question 12

Xena phobia

Answer 12

The fear of different cultures because they’re strange/foreign

Question 13

Yom Kippur

Answer 13

Judaism holiday where you asked for forgiveness to their God and the fast and pray

Question 14

E pluribus unum Unum

Answer 14

Latin. Out of many one having many states coming together for one nation. Referring to the United States when the colonies became one country :-)

Question 15

Savonarola, grolamo

Answer 15

Monk of the Renaissance era, criticize the pope. Charged with heresy, was hanged and burned

Question 16

Robert Oppenheimer

Answer 16

One of the main scientists who developed atomic weaponry later.did not want the spread of atomic war therefore he was a very known advocate for peace

Question 17

Humanism

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Man and his capabilities are the central concern. no religious affiliation

Question 18

Agnostic

Answer 18

You cannot prove that God exists so therefore you do not believe

Question 19

Atheism

Answer 19

Do not believe in God, no religion

Question 20

Uncle Tom’s cabin

Answer 20

The book that upset this out because it describes the true horrors of slavery cause a main division between the north and south

Question 21

Hue and cry

Answer 21

To say something is going on, public Claremore

Question 22

Carcinogen

Answer 22

The cancer-causing agents that can be found in cigarettes food basically anything

Question 23

Panacea

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Remedy for all diseases, evils or difficulties; cure for all; universal

Question 24

We have met the enemy and they are ours

Answer 24

In the war of 1812, Oliver Perry commander. Battle on Lake Erie here he sends a message to land to say we’ve got the enemy and we’re going to win

Question 25

Speak softly and carry a big stick

Answer 25

Teddy Roosevelt! Be peaceful but make sure you can back up what you say or have force

Question 26

Zen

Answer 26

Buddhism; attainment of the state of spiritual enlightenment called Satori.. I the mighty!

Question 27

Taj Mahal

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Memorial, too much of A former Indian leaders wife which was his favorite headed to 20 years to build and eventually it became this huge wonder of the world. Shaw Johahn

Question 28

Rosetta Stone

Answer 28

The language teacher? A stone with three different languages, which was the key turning the Egyptian the hydrographic’s included Egyptian language and Greek language

Question 29

Legal tender

Answer 29

Money by law that must be excepted for something example the US dollar

Question 30

Scotland Yard

Answer 30

The jail and Great Britain. Reference of jail now

Question 31

Mein Kampf

Answer 31

Hitler’s Diery translated to my struggle between the Bible for the Nazis

Question 32

Vaudeville

Answer 32

Type of entertainment from the late 1800s to the 1930s before TVs. Performances included unrelated acts groups together

Question 33

I think therefore I am

Answer 33

Based on a philosopher Descartes I am able to think therefore I exist

Question 34

Francis Scott Key

Answer 34

Wrote the Star-Spangled Banner originally a Poem upon a British prison ship, in the war of 1812 was

Question 35

A double entendre

Answer 35

Something that has double meaning, for mature audiences usually inappropriate

Question 36

The model T

Answer 36

The first car made on the assembly line. This process and the car was revolutionary because it started the assembly line and any factory and it was affordable

Question 37

Catharsis

Answer 37

The release of pent up emotions like crying exercising drawing