Breaking World Records

What were the few things kept in the ‘Century Safe” assembled by Anna Deihm?

• American's signatures

• Snapshots of President Rutherford B. Hayes

• A gold pen and ink stand

• A book on temperance

Where is the Tripitaka Koreana situated?

• Bongwonsa Temple

• Guinsa Temple

• Mihwangsa Temple

• Haeinsa Temple

Who destroyed the wooden tablets in the 11th century?

• The Russians

• The Americans

• The Mongols

• The French

Which of the following wasn't the smaples included in the 60-centimeter-long tube placed near the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund Svalbard?

• A 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite

• Basaltic lava

• Namibian sand hiding particles of copper

• Dried DNA samples

What was the incident that took place when the term "Time Capsule" was first used?

• A cylinder was being buried in a well on the fairgrounds

• The U. S Presidential Elections

• During World War 1

• During the Black Plague

WHich of the languages wasn't translated unto Arabic and documented in the Abbasid Caliphate's House of Wisdom?

• Tamil

• Sanskrit

• Pahlai

• Syriac

What are the missions of the International Time Capsule Society?

• To maintain a registry of times events of all known time capsule

• To establish a clearing house of information about the time capsule

• To maintain and share a global directory of time capsule interested parties

• To keep all information and the value of time capsules private from the general public

In what yeat was the term "Time Capsule" invented?

• 1940

• 1938

• 1941

• 1939

Besides the "Abbasid Caliphate's House of Wisdom", what are the other names used to refer to this ancient library?

• Khizanat-al-Hikma

• The Library of Celsus

• The Library of Alexandria

• The Library of Ashurbanipal

Why was the burning of the Library of Aleandria considered as a huge tragedy?

• It was one of the most exhaustively-cataloged collection of Buddhist scriptures in the world

• It was one of the most expensive collections of text on the classical civilization