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ib 109 (final) 3
Insects and People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Two instrumental methods used to stimulate the sounds of the insect flight in songs are... | tremolo or a bottle slide AND short staccato notes |
| "El grillo" is a song about | grasshoppers, crickets and longwinded cardinal |
| Insect imagery has metaphorical significance of various sorts in music as well as literature. This includes... | minuteness/insignificance as symbol for human conditions, metamorphosis as a symbol for change or growth, insect images as representative of lust desire or sexual danger, insect society as representative of human society |
| emerald butterfly | rap |
| papillons | classical |
| i know an old lady | folk |
| bugs | rock |
| folksongs commemorate actual people or events. Name a folksong that commemorates an entomological event1 | Ballad of the Boll Weevil |
| What kind of insect appears on the cover of the album “Shot” by Jesus Lizard? | scarab beetle |
| The name of “Papa Roach” has been attributed to | 1. the lead singer’s stepfather’s geriatric grandfather 2. the legend that the only survivors of a nuclear war will be cockroaches 3. Coby Dick’s collection of pet cockroaches |
| how old are the oldest artistic depictions of insects? | 8,000 years |
| What arthropod appear in the oldest known example of true writing (3250 BC)? | scorpion |
| For what reasons do insect appeal to artists? | aesthetic value, symbolic value, and technical challenge |
| Images of butterfly collecting first appear in paintings from what century? | 14th |
| Aposematic insects appear more often in illuminated manuscript than do cryptic insects | True |
| What arthropod most commonly appeared in secular art of the 14th and 15th century for a trompe l'oiel effect? | house fly |
| The use of insect-like anthropomorphic figures by Jean Grandville was typical of his | caricaturist |
| What artist was the first to depict insects, flowers and fruit in horizontal arrangement, allowing for a more precise and scientific rendition? | Jan van Kessel |
| What artist was the first to depict a magnified image of an insect? | Jacob Hofnagel |
| The drawings upon which engravings appearing in 1719 work Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensis were done by... | Maria Sibylla Merian |
| Although art nouveau decorative artist E.A. Seguy invented designs based on broad diversity of insects, to what order did he devote an entire volume of prints? | Lepidoptera |
| Christopher Dresser, the father of industrial design, looked into nature as a source of inspiration for integrated design; before he was a designer he was a... | botanist |
| the "death's head moth" depicted in a painting by impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh is... | a real sphingid species that is common in europe |
| The work of surrealist artist Salvador Dali frequently features... | ants, flies, and grasshoppers |
| Louise Bourgeoise is known for her oversize sculptures of what arthropod? | spiders |
| In japan, to what insect activity is the festival hotaru gari dedicated? | watching fireflies |
| Cicadas are often features on netsuke because... | they are the asian symbols for rebirth |
| The brilliant blue butterflies whose scales are often used to create works of art belong to the genus... | Morpho |
| Yanomamo nose ornaments are made from what insect body parts? | damselfly wings |
| Pioneer filmmaker Segundo de Chomon invented the process of animation by watching what insect while filming inter-titles? | fly |
| The subject of the first line drawing animated film by Winsor McCay was a... | mosquito |
| Entomologist Wladislaw Starewicz began his career as a puppet animator after... | trying to film stag beetle mating behavior |
| What convention is NOT typically found in insect cartoons? | friendly relationship between insects and people |
| What cricket features did Jiminy Cricket display in Pinocchio? | hopping behavior |
| What insect was featured in the first computer-generated animation film with a plot? | bee |
| Why are insects so well-suited to computer-generated animation? | computer animation creates shiny metallic surfaces well |
| Two feature films that were computer-animated were released in 1998; what kind of insect was features in both films? | leafcutter ants |
| "them" a film about giant ants was Warner Bros. biggest grossing film in what year? | 1954 |
| What are three physiological reasons to why insects can't grow to the size of a mobile home? | exoskeleton molting constraints, joint strength constraints, and tracheal respiratory constraints |
| Why is Bert I. Gordon known as "Mr. Big" in Hollywood? | because his insect fear films feature big bugs and other oversized creatures |
| What movie involves insect/human metamorphosis? | the blood beast terror, wasp women, and the fly |
| What contribution did Dr. Noman Gary make to bee movies? | he developed a pheromone blend hat causes bees to cluster |
| In what film is communicating with humans not acoustic? | Empire of the Ants |
| Alien/s/3 are not about about insects but what group of insects is the biology of alien creatures patterned after? | insect parasitoids |
| The person on a movie set who is responsible for providing insects and making them behave in an appropriate manner is called... | insect wrangler |
| T/F insects have always been protected by the same humane treatment laws on a movie set as animals | False |
| The 2007 box office hit "the bee movie" was inspired by | a pun |
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