District Missed Questions

Which of the Renaissance architects below designed the enormous dome that sits atop Florence Cathedral?

• Palladio

• Brunelleschi

• Michelangelo

• Bramante

Below are four Impressionist artworks. Which one did Mary Cassatt create?

• Luncheon of the Boating Party

• Dancers at the Barre

• The Fifer

• Girl Arranging Her Hair

Parsiism is an alternate name for which of the following philosophies, whose origins were in mid-5th century B.C. Persia?

• Confucianism

• Daoism

• Zoroastrianism

• Wicca

Below are four Roman goddesses. Which one personified spring and presided over blossoming plants?

• Flora

• Fortuna

• Fides

• Fauna

As the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II is the “supreme governor” of which of the following Christian denominations?

• Baptist

• Methodist

• Presbyterian

• Anglican

Three of the choices below name Jewish holidays. Which one is a month in the Islamic calendar during which able-bodied Muslims fast during daylight hours?

• Ramadan

• Rosh Hashanah

• Yom Kippur

• Hanukkah

Which of the following songs is part of both the stage and film versions of West Side Story?

• Popular

• Masquerade

• On My Own

• I Feel Pretty

Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev performed in Giselle, Les Sylphides, Swan Lake, and Marguerite and Armand for which of the following companies?

• American Dance Theater

• Royal Ballet

• New York City Ballet

• American Ballet Theatre

Incidents in the life of Mahatma Gandhi inspired his opera Satyagraha. Which of the following minimalist composers also included Akhnaten and Einstein on the Beach in his Portrait Trilogy?

• Philip Glass

• Terry Riley

• John Adams

• John Cage

Filippo Brunelleschi was the architect of which of the following structures?

• Hospital of the Innocents

• Villa Rotonda

• Medici Chapel

• Teatro Olimpico