Question: The mosaics in the Great Mosque in Corduba have what kind of style?
Answer: Byzantine

Question: Who sent the master mosaicist to Spain?
Answer: the Byzantine Emperor

Question: When were the mosaics in the Great Mosque in Corduba created?
Answer: between 965 and 970

Question: Who created the mosaics in the Great Mosque in Corduba?
Answer: local craftsmen

Question: The Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis holds the largest what?
Answer: mosaic installation

Question: What along texas interstate Highways contains everyday examples of mosaics?
Answer: the rest areas

Question: Which station in the NYC subway has a modern example of mosaic?
Answer: the Museum of Natural History station

Question: Edward Burne-Jones is noted for creating mosaics in what century?
Answer: 19th

Question: What has recently seen an expansion of mosaic artwork?
Answer: street art

Question: Who is the most famous street artist who works with mosaics?
Answer: the French Invader

Question: What does the French Invader usually create with the traditional style of mosaic?
Answer: 8 bit video game character

Question: The French invader coined his own style of mosaic named what?
Answer: Rubikcubism

Question: How does the French Invader create "Rubikcubism" styled mosaics?
Answer: grids of scrambled Rubik's Cubes

Question: Which city has almost all of its sidewalks in Portuguese pavement?
Answer: Lisbon

Question: What is the most common pattern for Portuguese pavement?
Answer: geometric

Question: Portuguese pavement is known by what other name?
Answer: Calçada Portuguesa

Question: What other cityscape is done with Portuguese pavement?
Answer: streets

Question: What is Portuguese pavement?
Answer: two-tone stone mosaic paving

Question: How were larger mosaics usually constructed?
Answer: face-down to a backing paper

Question: Why was adding a step i production useful for larger projects?
Answer: gives the maker time to rework

Question: What is the style called of putting tessere on a backing paper?
Answer: the indirect method

Question: What besides benches and tabletops was usually created using the indirect method?
Answer: murals

Question: The indirect method also helped for projects with what kinds of areas?
Answer: repetitive

Question: When is the double indirect method of mosaic useful?
Answer: when it is important to see the work

Question: What is the most powerful aspect of the double indirect method?
Answer: directly controlling the final result of the work

Question: When was the double indirect method invented?
Answer: 1989

Question: Who invented the double indirect method?
Answer: Maurizio Placuzzi

Question: What is used as a backing adhesive for the double indirect method besides putty or paper?
Answer: sticky plastic

Question: What is the typical size of a ceramic mosaic tile?
Answer: 1 in × 1 in

Question: What is usually the purpose of a tile mosaic in pools?
Answer: express text

Question: Where is the most common application of tile mosaics?
Answer: on a shower room or bathing pool floor

Question: How should the tiles be aligned next to each other?
Answer: in a non-overlapping fashion

Question: Why has production automation become popular?
Answer: high cost of labor in developed countries

Question: Which software can aid in the design of robotically created mosaics?
Answer: CAD

Question: How much faster is automated creation over handmade?
Answer: 10 times faster

Question: How does the robot pick the tiles it places?
Answer: a command file

Question: What is not the same between hand made and robotic amde mosaics?
Answer: different look

Question: From what language does Universitas come from?
Answer: Latin

Question: What did a universitas have in common with similar guilds?
Answer: they were self-regulating

Question: Around the beginning of what two things did word universitas start to become prevalent?
Answer: urban town life and medieval guilds

Question: Which individuals usually approved charters for universitas?
Answer: princes, prelates

Question: In terms of academics what is a core requirement of a university?
Answer: academic freedom

Question: What was the first university?
Answer: University of Bologna

Question: What charter is said to be the first establishing academic freedom in a university?
Answer: the Constitutio Habita

Question: What did the Constitutio Habita say students were allowed?
Answer: unhindered passage in the interests of education

Question: On what date was the Magna Carta Universitatum signed?
Answer: 18 September 1988

Question: Who presided over classes at a scholae monasticae?
Answer: monks and nuns

Question: What is a scholae monasticae?
Answer: monastic schools

Question: What church is said to be responsible for the formation of universities?
Answer: Latin Church

Question: In the chronology of academic institutions, where are Christian cathedral schools compared to universities?
Answer: immediate forerunners

Question: During which era did universities grow out of already extant schools?
Answer: early medieval period

Question: Which ancient texts began to see more study after universities were formed?
Answer: Greek

Question: What outlook developed the creation of the university system?
Answer: humanism

Question: Why did rulers and governments in Europe form universities?
Answer: to satisfy a European thirst for knowledge

Question: What type of governments were involved in creating universities?
Answer: city governments

Question: Roughly how many pages of the works of Aristotle were translated by the 12th century?
Answer: more than 3000 pages

Question: Richard Dales believes that the work of Aristotle represents the turning point of what?
Answer: Western thought

Question: What word described the early attempts to understand the work of Aristotle?
Answer: scholasticism

Question: What faculty did scholars attempt to use to prove the thoughts of Aristotle?
Answer: reason

Question: What language did 12th century scholars studying Aristotle speak in?
Answer: Latin

Question: Which language was used in lectures in early European universities?
Answer: Latin

Question: For what subjects did professors use the work of Hippocrates?
Answer: medicine

Question: What type of subjects did the universities of northern Europe focus on?
Answer: arts and theology

Question: What type of degree was given out at a English university?
Answer: bachelor's degrees

Question: What type of university was an Islamic madrasa akin to?
Answer: Mediterranean universities

Question: What type of individual funded a Mediterranean university?
Answer: prince or monarch

Question: From where did a degree come in a madrasa?
Answer: individual teachers

Question: In which century did Islamic madrasas start to transform into universities?
Answer: 10th

Question: Madrasas in which specific location are said to have guided the formation of medieval universities?
Answer: Al-Andalus

Question: Some scholars think that universities come from what, rather than solely local influences?
Answer: a global context

Question: Al-Andalus was an Emirate of which entity?
Answer: Sicily

Question: During what notable Middle East conflict is it believed by some that Universities received influence from madrasas?
Answer: the Crusades

Question: What was the time span of the Early Modern period?
Answer: late 15th century to 1800

Question: At the completion of the Middle Ages how long had universities existed?
Answer: about 400 years

Question: How many universities were within Europe at the closure of the middle ages?
Answer: twenty-nine

Question: How many universities were within Europe by the completion of the 18th century?
Answer: 143

Question: The German Empire had how many universities?
Answer: 34

Question: What war most curtailed the spread of universities in the 17th century?
Answer: the Thirty Years' War

Question: Which university is said to have started faculty governance?
Answer: University of Paris