Anthropology Trivia!!!

Question 1

What term describes language changes over time with culture?

Accepted Answer

Linguistic evolution

Question 2

What is the anthropological research strategy where anthropologists emerge themselves in a group's daily activities?

Accepted Answer

Participant observation

Question 3

Benjamin Franklin was an anthropologist

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT one of the four subfields of anthropology?

Accepted Answer

Ethnographic

Question 5

Which of the following anthropologists is NOT fictional?

Accepted Answer

Eric Wolf

Question 6

What kind of scientist looks at ancient human bones to determine information on the individual?

Accepted Answer

Osteologist

Question 7

Which professor badly cut their hand while making a projectile point?

Accepted Answer

Diamond

Question 8

What does CRM stand for?

Accepted Answer

Cultural Resource Management

Question 9

Which primate is the one of the closest living relative of humans?

Accepted Answer

Bonobos

Question 10

What is animism?

Accepted Answer

The belief that objects and natural phenomena have a soul

Question 11

The focus of the New Paltz Anthropology Department is inequality and diversity.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

What is the purpose of the field school at the Pine Street African Burial Ground?

Accepted Answer

To find the parameters of the graveyard

Question 13

Who teaches archaeology at New Paltz?

Accepted Answer

Dr. Diamond

Question 14

Which of the following professors deals with cultural anthropology?

Accepted Answer

Dr. Fredlund

Question 15

How old are the earliest known wooden spears?

Accepted Answer

400,000 years old

Question 16

Who is the anthropology professor whose focus is in Asia?

Accepted Answer

Meeker, Tierney

Question 17

Who is thought of as the father of American anthropology?

Accepted Answer

Franz Boas

Question 18

Which of the following fields involves ethnographies?

Accepted Answer

Cultural

Question 19

What is IRB?

Accepted Answer

A committee to approve research involving human subjects

Question 20

Herxheim is known for what

Accepted Answer

A Neolithic ritual cannibalism site

Question 21

Which of the following happens due to childhood malnutrition?

Accepted Answer

Enamel hypoplasia

Question 22

What did Zora Neale Hurston study?

Accepted Answer

Rural black communities in the American south

Question 23

The term "Alpha Wolf" comes from an anthropological study

Accepted Answer

False

Question 24

What is the name of the hominin fossil discovered by Donal Johanson in 1974?

Accepted Answer

Lucy

Question 25

Which of the following is NOT a real human ancestor?

Accepted Answer

Homo zelansis

Question 26

A paleoanthropologist would study ____?

Accepted Answer

Fossilized prehistoric human remains

Question 27

Who is the president of anthropology club?

Accepted Answer

Nicole

Question 28

What is it called when genealogy is focused on females?

Accepted Answer

Matrilineal

Question 29

What is the term that describes a marriage system where a woman has more than one husband?

Accepted Answer

Polyandry

Question 30

Which of the following is NOT used as a life history trait?

Accepted Answer

First hair growth

Question 31

What is the definition of culture in anthropology?

Accepted Answer

The beliefs, values, objects, and practices that a community shares

Question 32

Which of the following dating methods would work to identify early human remains at Olduvai Gorge(c. 1.7-1.9 mya)?

Accepted Answer

Radio potassium dating

Question 33

What is an anthropology class you can take at New Paltz?

Accepted Answer

Archaeology of Death, Forensic Anthropology, Cultures of East Asia, Bioarchaeology of Death

Question 34

Who is credited with the "three age system" of Stone, Bronze, and Iron ages?

Accepted Answer

Christian Jurgensen Thomsen

Question 35

What is the name of the hit 2000s TV show centered around a crime fighting forensic anthropologist?

Accepted Answer

Bones

Question 36

Who was Margaret Mead?

Accepted Answer

A cultural anthropologist

Question 37

What is the definition of ethnocentrism?

Accepted Answer

The evaluation of a culture from the perspective of one's own culture

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