Please change the photo which you use to illustrate 'IRA'. This is a para-military mural, but the flags are of Ulster and the United Kingdom, so the mural must be supporting a Protestant 'loyalist' group, e.g. UDA or UVF. If you find a similar mural accompanied by an Irish tricolour, it's an IRA mural.
Had no idea until I completed the quiz (with poor results) that all begin with the letter "I". I thought that was the Roman Numeral "I", indicating "one" in a series.
Byzantine Icons essentially cause the Great Schism, which split Christianity into the Catholic Church and the Byzantine Church (soon to be the Eastern Orthodox Church)
No they did not lol. Icons are still used by the West to this day, just not as much as the East. The split happened cause of the Pope's authority, the filioque and a bit of the bozo factor. And to answer the original question, the style of the icon pictured is in Byzantine style, but icons as a whole are not Byzantine or Eastern.
Any reason why Constantinople doesn't work? It is, after all, a former capital city and Hagia Sophia was built in 537, more than 900 years before the fall of the city. I also tried Byzantium but after googling it, the city already had its new name before the construction began. (The sole purpose of this whole comment is to make me feel less bad about forgetting yet again that Ankara is now the capital of Turkey, not Istanbul.)
Oops. To think I always laugh at people who make that mistake on other quizzes... At least I spent at bit of time on Wikipedia and learned a few things! :)
Icons were originally used in the Byzantine Church and caused the Great Schism (among other things). The Byzantine church evolved into the Orthodox church over time.
Being pedantic (cos what else is Jetpunk for?) the wooden horse isn't in the Iliad, which 'just' covers the story of the rage of Achilles and the death of Hector. The horse does get a passing mention in the Odyssey.
my apologies for nitpicking here, but the trojan horse isnt mentioned in the iliad and only in the many flashback stories in the odyssey. the iliad ends with hektors funeral for which a two week (i think, dont quote me on that number) cease'fire' was negotiated, but after that the fighting did presume, which then according to the odyssey was ended with the wooden horse
Curious: is there something specifically Byzantine about an "icon"? I thought it was a more general term.
Some possibilities:
Isaac (Newton)
Iranian revolution
Indus River valley
Islam
IRA
Innocent (Pope)
Ivan the Terrible
Iroquois
Inquisition