Question: How long is the hunting scene at the villa rustica?
Answer: 64m

Question: Where in Sicily were the "Orpheus," and the "Four Seasons" discovered?
Answer: Piazza Vittoria in Palermo

Question: What scenes are depicted on the Zliten mosaic?
Answer: gladiatorial contests

Question: When was the Zliten mosaic discovered?
Answer: 1913

Question: How long was the mural discovered in Libya?
Answer: 30 ft

Question: The mosaics uncovered in Libya were from which century?
Answer: 1st or 2nd century AD

Question: The gladiator mosaic is on par with the Alexander mosaic in which city?
Answer: Pompeii

Question: Around what century were mosaics adapted for Christian churches?
Answer: the late 4th century

Question: What Christian church besides the Santa Costanza was built in the 4th century?
Answer: Santa Pudenziana

Question: What was the original function of the Santa Costanza church?
Answer: a mausoleum

Question: In which basilica is the Tomb of Julii?
Answer: St Peter's Basilica

Question: Under what period were the 4th century churches built?
Answer: Constantinian

Question: Which city besides Ravenna served as the capital of the Western Roman Empire?
Answer: Milan

Question: What is the name of the mosaic in the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio?
Answer: apse

Question: The shrine of San Vittore in ciel d'oro had mosaics from which century?
Answer: the 5th century

Question: Who do the mosaics at the the basilica of San Lorenzo depict as being abducted?
Answer: Elijah

Question: When was the baptistry at the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio demolished?
Answer: the 15th century

Question: In the 5th century what was the capital of the Western Roman Empire?
Answer: Ravenna

Question: What years was the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia decorated with mosaics?
Answer: 425–430

Question: What other famous landmark in Ravenna was established by Galla Placidia? 
Answer: the church of San Giovanni Evangelista

Question: Why did Galla Placidia erect the church of San Giovanni Evangelista?
Answer: fulfillment of a vow

Question: When were most of the mosaics at the church of San Giovanni Evangelista destroyed?
Answer: 1747

Question: When was Ravenna conquered by the Eastern Roman Empire?
Answer: After 539

Question: When did the biggest achievement in Christian mosaics take place?
Answer: the second half of the 6th century

Question: What event led up to the creation of the amazing mosaics in in the Basilica of San Vitale?
Answer: the Byzantine conquest

Question: When were the mosaics at the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare created?
Answer: 549

Question: Where are the remains of the apse mosaic of San Michele?
Answer: Berlin

Question: The floor mosaic in Butrint is how much older than that of the Baptistry?
Answer: almost a generation

Question: In what country is Butrint?
Answer: Albania

Question: What type of message was left on the mosaics at Butrint?
Answer: prayer

Question: The Vrina Plain basilica is in which city?
Answer: Butrint

Question: What was the mosaic at Butrint designed to portray?
Answer: a terrestrial paradise

Question: What was depicted on the Butrint mosaics in abundance?
Answer: natural life

Question: What do the katharos vase and vine refer to?
Answer: the eucharist

Question: What do peacocks represent in Christian symbolism?
Answer: paradise and resurrection

Question: What do most sea-creatures represent in Christina symbolism?
Answer: baptism

Question: What did deers or stags represent in Christian Symbolism?
Answer: the faithful aspiring to Christ

Question: When did conditions become difficult for mosaic art in Rome?
Answer: the Early Middle Ages

Question: When was the mosaic of Sant'Agata dei Goti destroyed?
Answer: 1589

Question: What was similar between the three most important 5th century mosaics?
Answer: iconography

Question: When was the mosaic at Santa Sabina replaced with a fresco?
Answer: 1559

Question: Who was the artist that painted the fresco that replaced the mosaic at Santa Sobina?
Answer: Taddeo Zuccari

Question: During which centuries did ROme fall under the influence of Byzantine art?
Answer: the 7th–9th centuries

Question: The lateran Palace was decorated with what?
Answer: mosaics

Question: What do most mosaics from the 7th-9th centuries have in common?
Answer: They were all destroyed later

Question: Which mosaic survived through the 9th century, and then had a copy made in the 18th?
Answer: Triclinio Leoniano

Question: When was the mosaic at the church of Santo Stefano del Cacco destroyed?
Answer: 1607

Question: When were the mosaics at the Great Palace of Constantinople commissioned?
Answer: during Justinian's reign

Question: What is considered the most important surviving mosaic of the Justinian age?
Answer: The portrait of a moustached man

Question: What was the small vaulted room in the Great Palace of Constantinople called?
Answer: small sekreton

Question: Vine Scroll motifs are classified under what kind of tradition?
Answer: Classical

Question: When were the mosaics at the church in Thessaloniki created?
Answer: 5th–6th centuries

Question: How many Byzantine mosaics survived past the 8th century?
Answer: Very few

Question: The mosaic in the church in Thessaloniki is know as what?
Answer: Christ in majesty (or Ezekiel's Vision)

Question: When were the panels in the Hagios Demetrios Church created?
Answer: between 634 and 730

Question: Why was Christ in majesty protected from the iconoclastic destruction?
Answer: hidden behind mortar

Question: What is common about the surviving mosaics from the 7th-9th centuries?
Answer: almost all represent Saint Demetrius

Question: What was the common mosaic theme of iconoclastic churches?
Answer: gold mosaics with only one great cross

Question: Why were mosaics destroyed in the iconoclastic era?
Answer: condemned as idolatry

Question: When did the Iconodules  change the cross in the Hagia Sophia?
Answer: 787–797

Question: When did the Hagia Irene adapt the iconoclastic era mosaics?
Answer: after 740

Question: When was the Dormition church destroyed? 
Answer: 1922

Question: Where is the Nea Moni Monastery located?
Answer: Chios

Question: Who established the Nea Moni Monastery?
Answer: Constantine Monomachos

Question: When was the Nea Moni Monastery established?
Answer: 1043–1056

Question: When was the mosaic at the Nea Moni Monastery destroyed?
Answer: 1822

Question: The Nea Moni mosaics are more detailed than what what other famous mosaics?
Answer: Osios Loukas

Question: Who restored the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the 1040's?
Answer: Constantine Monomachos

Question: Who left the only description of the mosaics at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre?
Answer: the Russian abbot Daniel

Question: What survives of the mosaics that adorned the walls and dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre?
Answer: Nothing

Question: Where did the Russian abbot Daniel travel in 1106-07?
Answer: Jerusalem

Question: When were the Byzantine mosaics of the Hagia Sophia created?
Answer: The 9th- and 10th-century

Question: The tympana under the dome had images of whom displayed?
Answer: prophets, saints and patriarchs

Question: What does the Empress give to Christ as depicted by the mosaic?
Answer: a bulging money sack

Question: When did the Empress Zoe die?
Answer: 1055

Question: Who was depicted with the Empress Zoe on a panel in the gallery of the Hagia Sophia?
Answer: Constantine Monomachos

Question: Why are there so few surviving mosaics from the Komnenian period?
Answer: accidents of survival

Question: Where is the only existing 12th century mosaic in Constantinople?
Answer: Hagia Sophia

Question: The empress Eirene had what color hair?
Answer: red

Question: What deity does the 12th century mosaic in the Hagia Sophia depict?
Answer: the Theotokos

Question: The only surviving mosaic from the Komnenos dynasty outside Constantinople is in what church?
Answer: the cathedral of Serres