Burn Baby Burn - Wicker Man

Author Cearas Cumhaill

1. Who is the first classical writer to mention the fire sacrifice we now call the Wicker Man?
   A)  Caesar
   B)  Dio
   C)  Strabo
   D)  Poseidonios

2. "The shadow of the wicker man is rising again" What band recorded these lyrics?
   A)  Deep Purple
   B)  Thin Lizzy
   C)  Wishbone Ash
   D)  Iron Maiden

3. He wrote that the Gauls built a colosus of straw and wood
   A)  Strabo
   B)  Lucan
   C)  Caesar
   D)  Dio

4. He played the role of the police officer in the cult classic "Wicker Man" made in 1973.
   A)  Christopher Lee
   B)  Russel Waters
   C)  Edward Woodward
   D)  Nicholas Cage

5. What group does not appear in Caesar’s list of those normally sacrificed by fire?
   A)  Those suffering from a serious illness
   B)  Those suffering from the dangers of battle
   C)  Criminals
   D)  Kings

6. A modern day annual event takes place in the Black Rock desert and takes its name from the burning of a wooden effigy.
   A)  Burning Man
   B)  Wicker Man
   C)  Burn on the Bayou
   D)  After Burn

7. One of the gods listed below is not one of the three listed by Lucan as associated with fire sacrifices. Who is he?
   A)  Taranis
   B)  Esus
   C)  Belenus
   D)  Teutates

8. What appears to evidence of a wicker man type sacrifice was found here.
   A)  Kildare
   B)  Leonding
   C)  Navan Fort in Co. Armagh
   D)  St. Albans in Hertfordshire

9. The wicker man sacrifice continues to this day. Every year at Beltaine, a wicker man is burned at this site.
   A)  Butser Ancient Farm
   B)  Jernaldergarden at Ullandhaug in Stavanger
   C)  Cinderbury Iron Age Farm
   D)  Thornhill Farm, Gloucestershire

10. His comments that such sacrifices occurred regularly contradicts Diodorus’s remark that it only happened on special occasions for divinatory purposes.
   A)  Tacitus
   B)  Caesar
   C)  Strabo
   D)  Dio