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Sport and Spectacle One: Early Sport and Spectacle
Sport and Spectacle One: Early Sport and Spectacle
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A #classics quiz to check reading of Chapter one of Kyle's #SportandSpectacle.
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1
What event precipitated the Egyptian shift to imperialism, evident in "sporting Pharaohs" of the New Kingdom?
Conquest of Alexander the Great
Institution of monotheism under Akhenhaton
Invasion by the Hyksos
Collapse of the Hittite Empire
2
Imagery from which early epic depicts Mesopotamian wrestling?
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Iliad
The Mahabharta
The Lament of Ur
3
Sansone derives his theory of sport as the "ritual sacrifice of physical energy" from . . .
Paleolithic hunter behavior
Natufian harvest festivals
Sumerian expatiation of bloodguilt
Egyptian concepts of the afterlife
4
The hunting of what animal was depicted in bas-relief at the palace of Ashurbanipal (Ninevah)?
Hippopotamus
Lion
Bull
Desert kites
5
The Beni Hasan tomb paintings of Egypt's Middle Kingdom appear to depict which sport?
Wrestling
Chess
Chariot racing
Swimming
