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Archaeoastronomy Week 01 Quiz Answers
Astronomy with the naked eye: how the ancients saw the sky
Q1. The declination of the sun on a certain day:
[expand title=View Answer]depends on the latitude of the observer[/expand]
Q2.You are in central Europe and the horizon in the whole south-west quadrant is occupied by a mountain ridge. Then you can be sure that the azimuth of the setting sun at winter solstice will be:
[expand title=View Answer] greater than that with a flat horizon [/expand]
Q3.You are in Mexico and the horizon in the whole south-west quadrant is occupied by a mountain ridge. Then you can be sure that the declination of the setting sun at winter solstice:
[expand title=View Answer] will be greater than -23.5° [/expand]
Q4. It is true that :
[expand title=View Answer] Precession slowly changes the constellation background of the sun at the equinoxes [/expand]
Q5. It is true that:
[expand title=View Answer] In the tropics the sun culminates overhead twice a year[/expand]
Archaeoastronomy Week 02 Quiz Answers
Astronomy, power, and architecture
Q1. It is true that:
[expand title=View Answer] Monumental architecture started before the introduction of agriculture[/expand]
Q2.The term “worldview” means:
[expand title=View Answer] A framework of notions, social structures and religious beliefs [/expand]
Q3. Stonehenge first phase:
[expand title=View Answer] was a henge, perhaps with a circle of wooden posts [/expand]
Q4. It is true that:
[expand title=View Answer]since the axis of Stonehenge points to summer solstice sunrise, it necessarily also points to winter solstice sunset [/expand]
Q5. Newgrange…
[expand title=View Answer] …was built in such a way that the midwinter sun at rising penetrates from the roof box to the chamber [/expand]
Archaeoastronomy Week 03 Quiz Answers
Ancient Egypt Quiz Answers
Q1. In the Pyramid Texts, the “Imperishable”are:
[expand title=View Answer] Orion and Sirius[/expand]
Q2. During the Old Kingdom in Egypt…
[expand title=View Answer] ..there was a different pole star, Thuban [/expand]
Q3. The channels of the Great Pyramid of Giza…
[expand title=View Answer] …were meant to observe the stars from inside [/expand]
Q4. The horizon visibility of a standing person is:
[expand title=View Answer] limited to a maximum of 5 Kms, unless what occupies the horizon is in itself high [/expand]
Q5. The ancient Egyptian calendar…
[expand title=View Answer] …was synchronous with the tropical year[/expand]
Archaeoastronomy Week 04 Quiz Answers
The Pre-Columbian world
Q1. If the 260 days of the Tzolkin calendar represent the interval between two zenith passages of the sun, this was because…
[expand title=View Answer] ..this interval was measured at the latitude of Copan [/expand]
Q2. The 3 Maya calendars…
[expand title=View Answer] …were operated simultaneously [/expand]
Q3. The main calendar round Maya dates…
[expand title=View Answer] …occurred every 52 Tzolkin years [/expand]
Q4. The Torreon of Macchu Picchu…
[expand title=View Answer] …has a window oriented to the sun rising at the winter solstice [/expand]
Q5. The Inca Empire…
[expand title=View Answer] …was destroyed by the conquest [/expand]
Archaeoastronomy Week 05 Quiz Answers
Archaeoastronomy in Asia
Q1. The so-called Terracotta Army:
[expand title=View Answer] belongs to the funerary equipment of the tomb of the first emperor of Qin.[/expand]
Q2. In Chinese astronomy:
[expand title=View Answer] the polar region of the sky was viewed as a celestial image of the Emperor’s palace.[/expand]
Q3. Of the Chinese “pyramids”:
[expand title=View Answer] only a part is oriented precisely to the cardinal points. [/expand]
Q4. The temple of Angkor Wat, from the main entrance looking in:
[expand title=View Answer] has an azimuth precisely equal to zero. [/expand]
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Q5.Most of the state temples of Angkor are oriented in such a way that the sun, looking from the main entrance, is seen to set “inside ” the temples at the equinoxes. This means that they:
[expand title=View Answer] have an azimuth slightly smaller than 270° [/expand]
Archaeoastronomy Week 06 Quiz Answers
The Classical world
Q1. The Greek temples…
[expand title=View Answer] …were meant to be visited by worshipers only on ritual days [/expand]
Q2. The Greek temples of Sicil
[expand title=View Answer] …are for the vast majority oriented to the solstices [/expand]
Q3. Augustus’ birth sign…
[expand title=View Answer] …was the Capricorn [/expand]
Q4. One axis of the urban plan of Roman Aosta points to:
[expand title=View Answer]winter solstice sunrise [/expand]
Q5. The main hierophany of the Pantheon in Rome…
[expand title=View Answer] …occurs at the summer solstice [/expand]
Archaeoastronomy Week 07 Quiz Answers
Astronomy Insight Quiz Answers
Q1. The declination of Sirius in the year 3006 BC…
[expand title=View Answer]..was -23,5° [/expand]
Q2. Today you are in Rome, at dawn, looking at an azimuth of 99°. You see the sun rising from behind a hill which is 10° high.
[expand title=View Answer]Today is the spring equinox [/expand]
Q3. Suppose that you see the sun at the spring equinox rising close to the position of the star Tau Tauri. Then you can be only one among the following:
[expand title=View Answer] a builder of the megalithic tomb of Newgrange, Ireland [/expand]
Q4. It is true that:
[expand title=View Answer] Venus does never attain a declination greater than that of the moon at the northern minimal standstill [/expand]
Q5. The maximal standstills of the moon were last reached in 2006. That year then:
[expand title=View Answer] the full moon closest in time to the winter solstice had a rising azimuth less than that of the sun at the summer solstice [/expand]
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