WorksheetsWSC 2025: Reigniting the Future (first 4 topics)
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
In which city and state did the Big Dig take place?
Los Angeles, California
New York, New York
Boston, Massachusetts
Chicago, Illinois
NEOM is a futuristic city project planned by who?
Sri Lanka
North Korea
China
Saudi Arabia
Which project saw the displacement of over a million people whilst also damaging habitat and biodiversity?
Khazar Islands
Channel Tunnel
Three Gorges Dam
Hambantota
Robert Frost's poem 'Fire and Ice' imagines the end of the world as a result of:
volcanic eruptions and a new ice age
an asteroid collision with Earth
Climate change
the effects of hatred and desire
Which poem on the curriculum was written by William Butler Yates?
Ode I 11
The Second Coming
Fire and Ice
The Future- never spoke
Which of these is an ancient Roman practice that involved examining the entrails of sacrificed animals, particularly the liver, to predict the future?
Haruspicy
Ornithomancy
Alectryomancy
Pyro-Osteomancy
Oneiromancy involves making a prediction of the future based on which of these:
Tea leaves
Constellations
Dreams
Cracks in bones made from fire
Jyotish is a form of divination (fortune telling) that derives from which country?
China
India
Malaysia
Nigeria
If you applied for a job as a ceromancer, which object would you expect to become quite familiar with?
Candle
Tarot cards
Tea leaves
Ouija board
Which of the four artworks on the curriculum called 'The Fortune Teller' is the most recent? (name the artist)
Caravaggio
de la Tour
Vrubel
Schjeferbeck
What is the Barnum Effect?
when individuals believe that vague and general personality descriptions apply specifically to them.
the idea that belief in someone's potential can positively influence their outcomes.
the belief that individualsfavor information that confirms their preexisting beliefs while disregarding contradictory evidence.
A technique used by fortune-tellers and psychics that involves making high-probability guesses about a person based on their appearance, behavior, and other cues.
Which of these philosophical debates is explored in this year's short stories?
free will vs determinism
nature vs nurture
good vs evil
to be or not to be?
The saros cycle helps us to predict what?
the weather
when eclipses will happen
the interplay between solar and lunar cycles
farming conditions
Which of these futuristic technologies stopped being developed after the tragic Hindenburg disaster?
Maglev trains
Zeppelin
Metaverse
Rocket mail
Which of these futuristic technologies is most likely to help us make it into the far reaches of the Universe?
Nuclear propulsion
Ground-effect vehicle
Mecha
Hydrogen vehicles
Which musician's 1990's song 'Heal the World' could be considered too idealistic despite its hopeful message?
Michael Jackson
Will Smith
The Scorpions
Jesus Jones
Filofei’s Concept of the “Third Rome” was related to which country?
Italy
Russia
Greece
China
Which historical empire was created with a view to restoring Europe to be a unified Christian authority?
Meiji Restoration
Neo-Soviet Empite
Carolingian Empire
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Which of these 'failed' brands was revived due to the popularity of vintage aesthetics?
Polaroid
Nokia
RCA
RadioShack
