Who is the author of this building?
This thing called Architecture

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Lina Bo Bardi
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Frank Lloyd Wirght
Norman Foster
Answer explanation
Called "Casa de Vidrio" (Glass House) was Lina Bo Bardi and Pietro Maria Bardi's house in Sao Paolo.
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20 sec • 1 pt
When was this building built?
200 AC
200 BC
400 BC
300 AC
Answer explanation
The Parthenon of Athens is a masterpiece of illusion, marble and technic.
Built by two great architects, Iktinos and Callicrates, it was partially destroyed in 1687 (it was a powder magazine at the time) when an Italian Admiral, Francesco Morosini, decided that it was a good idea to free against it some shell of mortar.
Sorry guys.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
What is the name of this capital?
Corinthian
Ionic
Doric
Tuscanic
Answer explanation
Do you remember the orders of Architecture? Doric, Ionic and Corinthian?
Bad news people, they did not existed as we imagine them, but in Oxford we have the tower of the 5 (five!!!) orders.
Four of them are fake.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
When was Rome founded?
100 BC
300 BC
100 AC
700 BC
Answer explanation
Precisely on the 21st of April 753 BC.
The story's two protagonists, Romulus and Remus, fought on who had to build the city. The question escalated quickly, Remus was killed by Romulus.
Not your typical Easter Lunch.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
In the Middle Ages, it was believed that the earth was flat.
True
False
Answer explanation
Of course not. Middle-ages people were smart! And also before:
‘We all agree on the earth’s shape. For surely we always speak of the round ball of the Earth’ (Pliny, Natural History, II.64).
And the Venerable Bede:
‘The reason why the same days are of unequal length is the roundness of the Earth, for not without reason is it called ‘‘the orb of the world’’ on the pages of Holy Scripture and of ordinary literature. It is, in fact, a sphere set in the middle of the whole universe. It is not merely circular like a shield [or] spread out like a wheel, but resembles more a ball, being equally round in all directions ...’ (Bede, The Reckoning of Time, translated by Faith Wallis (Liverpool University Press, 1999), p. 91).
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Does the City of London correspond to?
The Greek Town
The Roman Town
The Anglo-Saxon Town
The Norman Town
Answer explanation
The Roman Cty "Londinium" was the capital of the Roman Britain, replacing Camulodunum (Colchester).
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
What does "The Monument" celebrate?
The Battle of Waterloo
The End of Anglo-Boer War
The Victory of Trafalgar
The Great Fire of 1666
Answer explanation
"The monuments and memorials with which large cities are adorned are also mnemic symbols [...] The Monument’. It was designed as a memorial of the Great Fire, which broke out in that neighbourhood in 1666.
Or again what should we think of a Londoner who shed tears before the Monument that commemorates the reduction of his beloved metropolis to ashes although it has long since risen again in far greater brilliance?"
Sigmun Freud.
Quite brutal.
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