Flashcards 10/02/2025

This figure gave sermons at Deer Park in Sarnath and delivered the Flower Sermon. Name this figure who, while meditating under the bodhi tree, attained nirvana, sparking a religion he founded.

An essay titled for this character notes that "one truly serious philosophical problem" is suicide and states that "one must imagine" him "happy." Name the title character in a 1942 essay by Albert Camus, a mythical king of Corinth who was doomed to repeat eternally the same pointless task.

Pieces by this composer include "Chrissie's Death" and "Out to Sea." What 51-time Oscar-nominated composer is famous for scoring classic films including Jaws, Jurassic Park, and Star Wars?

This is the geologic period after the Carboniferous, and with the subsequent Triassic period, it names a mass extinction. Which period of the Paleozoic Era is named for a city and region of western Russia, not for an oil-rich region in west Texas?

In a painting by this artist, Jesus directs St. Peter to find a coin located in the mouth of a fish in order to pay a tax imposed by the state. Name this early Italian artist of The Tribute Money and Expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

Samudra and Chandra ruled this empire, during which Kalidasa wrote and the Mahabharata reached its final form. Often referred to as the Golden Age of India, what dynastic empire spanned AD 320 to 550, and covered northern India and most of Pakistan?

This historian was accused of plagiarism in her 1987 work The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. Name this American historian who in 2005 wrote a book about the Lincoln Cabinet titled Team of Rivals.

Milady de Winter is a spy for Cardinal Richelieu. The motto "one for all and all for one" is possessed by the central group of what novel about Athos, Porthos, and Aramis by Alexandre Dumas?

The Spirit of God descended in the form of one of these animals when Jesus was baptized and a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved son.” In a story from Genesis, one of what birds arrived carrying a freshly plucked olive leaf?

A law of these things was named by Ferdinand Lassalle and posited by David Ricardo in an analysis of the English Poor Laws. An "Iron Law" is named for what things, noting that they will always tend toward the lowest necessary amount that will sustain workers?