What is the height of the Laocoön group in meters?
Answer
2.08 meters
16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Who was the sculptor of the Venus de Milo?
Answer
Alexandros of Antioch
What Roman amphitheatre in Tunisia is the largest surviving amphitheatre outside Italy?
Answer
El Jem Amphitheatre
What Roman library in Ephesus, Turkey, was built in 117 AD and held over 12,000 scrolls?
Answer
Library of Celsus
What Roman concrete made with crushed pottery was used for waterproof linings?
Answer
opus signinum
What Roman aqueduct in Mérida, Spain, is known as the 'Aqueduct of the Miracles'?
Answer
Acueducto de los Milagros
What Roman aqueduct in Istanbul supplied water to the city for centuries?
Answer
Aqueduct of Valens
What Roman triumphal arch in Libya was dedicated to Emperor Septimius Severus and his family?
Answer
Arch of Septimius Severus (Leptis Magna)
What Roman lighthouse in Spain is the oldest Roman lighthouse still in use?
Answer
Tower of Hercules
What retirement palace in Split, Croatia, was built for Emperor Diocletian?
Answer
Diocletian's Palace
What ancient Roman sewer system drained the Roman Forum and still functions today?
Answer
Cloaca Maxima
Which building was the first to exceed 1,000 feet in height?
Answer
Chrysler Building
How many floors does the Burj Khalifa have?
Answer
163
What structural system is used in the Burj Khalifa?
Answer
Buttressed core
Who designed the Beijing National Stadium ('Bird's Nest')?
Answer
Herzog & de Meuron
Who designed the Guangzhou Opera House?
Answer
Zaha Hadid
Who designed the Salk Institute in La Jolla?
Answer
Louis Kahn
Who designed the Vanna Venturi House?
Answer
Robert Venturi
Who designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo?
Answer
Kisho Kurokawa
What architectural style is the Seattle Space Needle an example of?
Answer
Googie architecture
In what year was the Villa Savoye completed?
Answer
1931
Which architectural firm designed the Burj Al Arab?
Answer
Atkins
What is the height of the unfinished obelisk at Aswan?
Answer
42 meters
The Greenfield Papyrus is a copy of the Book of the Dead for which woman?
Answer
Nesitanebetashru
The Pyramid of Unas is famous for containing which ancient Egyptian religious texts?
Answer
Pyramid Texts
The tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings is how many meters long?
Answer
137 meters
The circular zodiac relief on the ceiling of the Temple of Dendera is known as the?
Answer
Dendera zodiac
The Palermo Stone is a fragment of what type of ancient Egyptian record?
Answer
Royal annals
The beard of the Great Sphinx of Giza is now exhibited in which museum?
Answer
British Museum
In which museum is the Rosetta Stone currently displayed?
Answer
British Museum
What is the name of the blue-green ceramic material used in ancient Egyptian jewelry?
Answer
Egyptian faience
What was Hokusai's birth name before he became an artist?
Answer
Tokitarō
What does the Japanese word 'ura' in the title of The Great Wave off Kanagawa mean?
Answer
Under or beneath
In 2022, what did climate activists do to the framed "The Scream" at the National Gallery?
Answer
Glued themselves to the frame
What phrase did Edvard Munch inscribe on the frame of the 1893 version of "The Scream"?
Answer
Could only have been painted by a madman