• 1. 
    What is the name of the largest religious structure in the world, completed in the first half of the 12th century and thought to symbolize the Hindu cosmos with central towers resembling the five-peaked Mount Meru?

  • Varanasi
  • Angkor Wat
  • Amarnath Temple
  • Kumbh Mela
  • 2. 
    Where do over 600 colossal moai statues, carved from hardened volcanic ash, punctuate the barren landscape?

  • Easter Island
  • Orkney Islands
  • Luzon
  • Lombok Island
  • 3. 
    In 1947 which explorer and his crew sailed on the raft Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that ancient people from the Americas could have colonized Polynesia?

  • Thor Heyerdahl
  • James Clark Ross
  • Roald Amundsen
  • Richard Francis Burton
  • 4. 
    In 1766 which ancient sanctuary did antiquarian Richard Chandler bring to attention as the site of the athletic festival that is considered the origin of the modern “games” whose name derives from the site?

  • Constantinople
  • Olympia
  • Sparta
  • Athens
  • 5. 
    Which is the ancient desert city protected by high cliffs on all sides that was home to the Nabataeans and was mentioned by the Greek geographer Strabo?

  • Jerash
  • Ajloun
  • Amman
  • Petra
  • 6. 
    What is the epithet commonly used to refer to the collector of antiquities and explorer who first set foot inside the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings and discovered Seti’s sarcophagus?

  • the Magnificent Memnon
  • the Great Belzoni
  • the Grand Veltremo
  • the Great Paltroneous
  • 7. 
    In 1849 which explorer had a hand in discovering the huge library of Ashurbanipal?

  • Piet de Jong
  • Austen Henry Layard
  • Eugène Dubois
  • Ludwig Borchardt
  • 8. 
    In which ruined city did Frederick Catherwood and John Lloyd Stephens discover “The Temple of the Inscriptions”?

  • Tuxtla Gutiérrez
  • Palenque
  • Chiapas
  • Jovel
  • 9. 
    Who is often considered to be the founder of Egyptian archaeology, even though his techniques of excavation, which included the use of explosives, were criticized by later generations?

  • Erik Hornung
  • Auguste Mariette
  • Pierre Lacau
  • Howard Carter
  • 10. 
    In 1850, storms across the Orkney Islands revealed which Neolithic village of seven or eight almost identical stone houses?

  • Barpa Langass
  • Skara Brae
  • Kilmartin Glen
  • Maeshowe
  • 11. 
    What is the site of the oldest known cave paintings discovered in southern France, tentatively dated to 32,000 years old?

  • Lascaux
  • Chauvet–Pont d’Arc
  • Altamira
  • Pech Merle
  • 12. 
    In 1873 who discovered a cache of gold and other artifacts called Priam’s Treasure whose authenticity was later disputed?

  • Jacques Breuner
  • George Henry Chase
  • Grafton Elliot Chase
  • Heinrich Schliemann
  • 13. 
    Which underground rooms were a common feature of many ancestral Pueblo societies?

  • latillas
  • terraces
  • vigas
  • kivas
  • 14. 
    In 1891–92 which pioneering Egyptologist investigated the Great Temple of the Aton at Tell el-Amarna?

  • Thomas Eric Peet
  • John Gardner Wilkinson
  • Eugène Revillout
  • Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie
  • 15. 
    Which ruins excavated by Sir Arthur Evans in Knossos, Crete, revealed clay tablets with inscriptions?

  • Gortyn
  • the royal villa at Hagia Triada
  • Palace of Minos
  • Phaestus
  • 16. 
    In 1949 which technique was invented by chemist Willard Frank Libby to date Maltese temples and other archaeological sites?

  • carbon-12 dating
  • dendrochronology
  • radiocarbon dating
  • radiometric dating
  • 17. 
    Which site, abandoned about the time Spanish forces invaded in the mid-16th century, was “rediscovered” in 1911 by Hiram Bingham?

  • Teotihuacán
  • Vinicunca Rainbow Mountain
  • Chichén Itzá
  • Machu Picchu
  • 18. 
    Where did archaeologists discover boiled birch-bark documents showing that medieval people in a wide variety of professions outside the church were literate?

  • Veliky Novgorod
  • Staraya Russa
  • Kyiv
  • Pskov
  • 19. 
    Which remains, approximately 40,000 years old, were discovered in Australia by geomorphologist Jim Bowler?

  • Piltdown Man
  • AL 129-1
  • Mungo Man and Mungo Lady
  • Lucy
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