WSC 2025 Global Quiz

Who slept for twenty years?

• Steve Rogers

• Aang

• Rip Van Winkle

• Robert Browning

• Charles Dickens

What type of vehicle is described as potentially common in future cities?

• Horse-drawn wagons

• Silent, driverless electric cars

• Underground steam trains

• Flying carpets

• High-speed bicycles

What feature might a future bed have?

• Be made of wood and feathers

• Adapt to posture and body temperature

• Play television shows during sleep

• Require manual cleaning every night

• Inflate like a camping mattress

What method might be used to create food in the future?

• Cooking with firewood

• Buying only canned food

• 3D printing customized meals

• Growing food only on rooftops

• Fishing and hunting electronically

What was the primary mode of travel for most people in 1825?

• Airplanes

• Bicycles

• Trains

• Horses, wagons, and on foot

• Electric cars

What technology became common by 1925?

• Telephones and radios

• Computers

• Fax machine

• Pager

• Typewriter

What does "re-igniting" generally suggest?

• Starting a fire for the first time

• Something already burning that lights up again

• Burning down a building

• Lighting a candle for the first time

• Extinguishing a flame

What is one reason people today feel uncertain about the future?

• Flying cars exist now

• Society has stopped progressing altogether

• No new technology is being developed

• The economy is too strong

• Climate change and political instability

According to Filofei, which city was claimed to be the "Third Rome".

• Constantinople

• Washington

• Moscow

• Beijing

• Paris

What type of power do modern empires mainly rely on besides military might?

• Only territorial conquest

• Religious authority

• Soft power like economic and cultural influence

• Colonialism

• Isolation