WorksheetsWSC scholar's challenge 3
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 1hrs 9mins
A huge stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics, Greek, and a later form of Egyptian .
Rossetta Stone
Dead Sea Scrolls
Borobudur
terracota army
Founded fascism and ruled Italy for almost 21 years, in World War II (1939-1945) and was executed by his own people.
Carl Akeley
Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Gary Robson
A collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea
Borobudur
Rossetta Stone
Dead Sea Scrolls
terracota army
The largest Buddhist monument ever built, Borobudur is a mountainous ten-level monument with an elaborate carving.
terracota army
Machu Picchu
Sutton Hoo
Borobudur
-found in 1974-Donald Johanson's team-Hadar, Ethiopia-40% complete fossil of an extinct hominine.
Luci fossil
Lucy fossil
Lucci Fossil
Lucii fossil
Largest living museum in Canada, set in Banff 1905.
Frontierland
Heritage Park
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
Lighthouse Meadows
Roman city near Naples, Italy, which was buried during an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
Athens
Rome
Mandalay
Pompeii
Study of animal remains of archaeological sites.
Zooarchaeology
Archaeobotany
Cosmetology
Encephology
The study of plant remains from archaeological sites.
Trichology
Archaeobotany
Ornithology
Virology
What is this year's WSC theme?
A World Renewed
The Fall of Empires
A World on the Margins
Resconstructing the Past
Abandoned city high in the Andes mountains that showcases the architectural genius of the Inca.
Sutton Hoo
Bagan
Chichen Itza
Machu Picchu
The process of counting tree rings to determine the age of a tree.
Osteology
Daniyology
Dendochronology
Rowology
The use of selective archaeological evidence to put forward nonscientific, fictional accounts of the past.
Pseudoarchaeology
Cosmetology
Opthalmology
Hugology
The greatest collection of writings in the ancient world, founded in the third century b.c.
Library of Alexandira
Library of Alexandria
Librery of Alexendira
Library of Alexandira
The Buddhist Tripitaka carved into wooden blocks. Supposedly around 80,000 blocks.
Tripitaka Koreana
Tripitaka Koreana
Tripitaka Koraena
Tripitaka Koreana
Carl Akely invented the diorama in.
1890
1980
1982
1982
Founded fascism and ruled Italy for almost 21 years, in World War II (1939-1945) and was executed by his own people.
Carl Akeley
Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Gary Robson
How many rounds are there in the WSC?
2
3
4
5
Studying organisms and their environments and using these relationships to look for observable changes or patterns.
Forensic Ecology
Forensic Genetics
Forensic Entomology
DNA Phenotyping
"the past is just a story we tell ourselves."
Spike Jonze
Harrison Brown
Steven Spielberg
Daniel Craig
Theory of memory recall, it has cognitive processes including perception, imagination, motivation, semantic memory etc..
Reconstructions
Reconstructive memory
Schema
Memory
The prediction of physical appearance based only on DNA.
DNA Phenotyping
Forensic Genetics
Genetics Penotyping
DNA Phenogy
The study of insects as they pertain to legal issues.
Forensic Entomology
zoology
Earth Sciences.
Biochemistry.
Fast food stands of Ancient Rome.
Scramble Sunrise
Tastee Sub Stall
The Bite Moguls.
Thermopolium
Which of these poets would we most expect to have written about the subject pictured here?
Pablo Neruda
John Milton
W.B Yeats
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Which genre is best depicted here?
Historical Fiction
Steampunk
Afrofuturism
Cyberpunk
The Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary is best known as....
The C-P Boundary
The K-T boundary
The Cretaceous
a geological signature,
The game is based in which country?
China
Korea
Japan
Vietnam
What did a 1992 study discover that only 3.3% of Americans had done?
Fought in a war
Visited a museum
Stroked an alpaca
Been to the opera
The beginning of the great emu war.
Australia goverment declared war on emus
Soldiers armed with American made guns
Rice crops were destoryed by emus
Australian goverment win the war.
Assassin's Creed was created in 2009 originally and was created by Ubisoft as one of the most amazing games of all time.
True
False
What is the mascot of world scholar's cup
Larma
Camel
Alpaca
Vicuña
Where can visitors experience the lives of Irish people who moved to the United States?
Ulster American Folk Park
Millenium CIty Park
Heritage Park
Plimoth Pathuxet
The theory that it is helthier to eat like our ancestors, 10,000 years ago, is called:
Veganism
The Santa Clarita Diet
The Paleo Diet
The Archeo Diet
If you wanted to learn about the past like a teen in Bruce Coville's 1986 novel Operation Sherlock, you would __.
Read the entire Encyclopedia
Travel back in time using AI
Play historical simulations on computers
Try to track down Sherlock Holmes
The Oregon Trail, Seven Cities of Gold, Sid Meier's Pirates!, Call of Duty are all ___.
Video games turned into TV Shows
Video games that are for the most part historically accurate
Video games banned in the United States
Video games fully designed by AI
Focusing on the 20th and 21st century is called ___.
Modernism
Optimism
Presentism
Living
The director of the play The Mountaintop sparked controversy after ____.
Casting a single actor to play all 17 speaking roles
Casting a white man as Martin Luther King Jr
Casting a sexual offender to play the lead role
Rewriting setting from 15th century Scotland to modern day Louisiana
A historical account written from personal knowledge or special sources is called__
An autobiography
A journal
A biography
A memoir
f one wanted to chat with historical figures dead or alive, they could use ___.
Born Again
Historyresurrected.com
ChatGPT
Richard III's body was found ___.
In a sitting position
In Central Park
Under a parking lot
In a mining plant
Excavation is the process of ____.
Deep sea diving for scientific research
Exploring a cave
Mining a cave
Unearthing
What ancient location was destroyed when the Mongols swept by on their way to Hungary and back again.
Library of Alexandria
Acropolis of Lindos
Machu Picchu
Abbasid Caliphate's House of Wisdom
The first time capsule was named ___, invented in ____.
Century Safe, 1876
Glimpse of the Future, 1829
Year 1900, 1800
Polar Time Capsule, 1791
If you were a conservative in America, the 1950s, the 1980s, November 2016 would be known as ____.
Periods of lost American greatness
When terrorrists ran the country
The biggest tragedies of American history
The good days
Emanuel Leutze's "Washington Crossing the Delaware" (1851) can be critiqued because of its ___.
Historical inaccuracy
Violent depiction of racism
Lack of color
Ignorance
If one were to model a killing after French aristocrat Charlotte Corday, they would __.
State "betrayal of promise of monogamy" as the reason for the killing
Stab the victim in the neck with a fountain pen
Carve out the victim's heart to be used to save a child with heart disease
Insist that one had "killed one man to save a hundred thousand"
According to leading figures in the field, criminal forensics requires ___.
Photographic memory
At least 7 years of higher education
Good eyes
Imagination
Some prosecutors worry that people who watch crime dramas on television will have unrealistic expectations, called ___.
The SVU effect
The CSI effect
The PD effect
The butterfly effect
You can listen to a mezzosoprano for the cost of a
Magazine
Movie ticket
Double Espresso
Used car
Them Mushrooms' Embe Dodo is an example of a nostalgic musical genre called ___.
Soukous
Folk
Afrobeat
Zilizopendwa
The main character of the time travel film Back to the Future finds himself in 1955 choreographed to what song?
Mr. Sandman
Lanslide
Purple Rain
There She Goes
The Beatles' song "Because" began with the idea of playing the familiar chords in Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, ____.
On the guitar
In reverse
To the melody of God Save the Queen
In slow motion
If you've heard of the musical piece Experience, you're probably on what social platform?
Telegram
Youtube
TikTok
Isaac Asimov wrote a short story of the history of the children of the Neanderthals in 1958 called ___.
A Beautiful Mind
The Ugly Little Boy
The Ugly Duckling
Beautiful Boy
Records suggest that India's first newspaper was
The New Delhi Daily
The Delhi Post
Hicky's Bengal Gazette
Mumbai Daily Press
Watergate and Weinstein have what in common?
They are both books about racism in America
They are paintings by renowned artist Claude Monet
They are both sexual assault cases involving Marilyn Monroe
They are both investigative reporting success stories
Which of the following is NOT true about the Beatles' "Yesterday?"
It was a solo performance
It came to John Lennon in a dream
It was played with a guitar tuned a whole step down
Some interpreted the lyrics as about one of the Beatles' dead mother
How have dinosaurs traditionally been depicted in popular media?
As giant feathered birds
As giant insects
As giant furry mammals
As giant scaly lizards
What is Classic FM's approach to retooling operas for Gen Z audiences?
Creating 30-second animated shorts
Turning operas into movies
Shortening operas to 2 hours or less
Using modern pop songs in operas
What is the new approach to Oliver Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time?
A rock version of the piece
An electronic dance music remix of the piece
A reinterpretation of the piece for contemporary times
A shortened version of the piece
17th century opera that merges parallel Greek and Indian mythology
Orfeo
Oreo
Ofreo
Oerfo
the Beatles' song that used the familiar chords in Beethoven's famous Moonlight Sonata in reverse
Yesterday
Because
Here comes the Sun
Something
What is one de-extinction project in Europe?
Stitching old DNA fragments together
Selective back-breeding of cows
Cloning extinct animals
Using CRISPR to modify DNA
What tools now allow easy colorizing of old black-white photos?
Potato dye
Restoring early cameras
AI tools
Monochromatic Men
the director of the film 2001: _________, Stanley Kubrick, discarded all the music with classical pieces.
A Space Odyssey
Rhapsody in Blue
Ode to Joy
Century Safe
When was the first time capsule created?
1800
1876
1939
1950
Which of the following animals' bones could be MOST confused for a dragon?
Lizard
Dinosaur
Rhinoceros
Mammoth
Which of the following conducted an opera called Scary Beauty?
A robot
A trained fish
The duet of Mr. Erb and Ms. Carlos
A hologram
If you were to comfort or console Pablo Neruda, what might you say?
“I’m sorry to hear about your dog.”
“I feel you, man. My name is also too long to put on any document."
“It’s a shame that Pinochet didn’t like you...”
All of the above
