WorksheetsBreaking World Records
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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
Who was blamed for supposedly destroying the Library of Alexandria?
Julius Caesar
Caliph Omar
Theophilus
All of the above
Where was Alexandria founded?
Rome
Greece
Egypt
India
Persia
Who found the Library of Alexandria?
George Washington
Alexander the Great
Napoleon
Hypatia
Edward Gibbons
What was the "House of Wisdom" also known as?
Palace of Wisdom
Storehouse of Wisdom
School of Wisdom
Public library
What happened to the books that was in the House of Wisdom?
Burned
Used as toilet paper
Thrown into a river
Fed to the animals
Nothing happened to the books
