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Total questions: 132
Worksheet time: 1hrs 6mins
How many years did Rip Van Winkle sleep? (debatable)
150
25
20
5
30
Sam Altman does NOT agree with which of the following statements ?
We are in the middle of a technological revolution
Everything will get more expensive every year
Taxing income will become inappropriate with AI
A nation-wide equity fund is a good idea
Capital and privately-owned land should be taxed
A Tale of Two Cities (book one) covers someone recovering from:
Attempted suicide
A loss of a family member
Incarceration
A natural disaster
Partial paralysis
Ezra Klein would most agree with what statement?
Having a lot of children is irresponsible
Donald Trump's issue is not his age
We need to break the cycle of negativity in the media
The Netherlands has a good food system
It's not too hard to count up to 20
Hannah Ritchie is known for
Documenting daily life in the 19th century
Advocating for having less children
Writing Counting Up to 20
Writing an adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities
Coining the term "changeable optimism"
What does the first N in NBN stand for?
normalized
national
northern
next
native
What is Bertha?
A care robot
A digging machine
An infamous tunnel
A railway
A shipwreck
Which of the following is described as an arcology
Big Dig
Channel tunnel
Sejong City
Hambantota
NEOM
Where are the Khazar Islands found?
Azerbaijan
Russia
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Turkmenistan
Paro is a robot in the shape of which animal?
Squirrel
Elephant
Seal
Dog
Bear
What does the care robot Pepper do?
Provide counselling
Help lift the elderly
Lead activities
Hug those who are lonely
Watch for seizures
Section 230 regulates what aspect of life?
Social media
News
AI
Internet access
Railway access
Where are the Rohingya people found?
Myanmar
Ethiopia
Egypt
Sudan
Rwanda
What happened at the Boston Marathon?
Someone died from a heart attack
A bombing
A fire broke out
A huge earthquake caused a building to fall
Someone shot into the crowd
What is the Goldilocks hypothesis?
Warm porridge is the best
A compromise is the best way to save a marriage
Moderate use is best for optimal health
One must try various options before deciding on a final solution
There is no one ideal answer
What would you need for haruspicy?
A goblet
A sacrificed animal
A flock of birds
Oracle cards
A crystal ball
What would you need for pyromancy?
A sacrificed animal
A crystal ball
Oracle bones
Dreams
A book
What would you need for astragalomancy?
Dreams
A crystal ball
A book
A goblet
Dice
What would you need for ornithomancy?
A goblet
Birds
Grain
Dreams
Dice
What kind of divination is shown in this painting? (NOTE: this painting is NOT in the curriculum, but it does depict one of the given divination types, so see if you know what it is!)
Comparative horoscopy
Haruspicy
Alectryomancy
Astragalomancy
Scyphomancy
Which of the following is MOST an example of a diviner who is thought to be a portal for the gods to speak through?
Fortune teller
Oracle
Soothsayer
Shaman
Witch
Which of the following originates in the Yoruba religion?
Ifá
Jyotish
I Ching
Bazi
Jiaobei
What would you need for tasseography?
Wax
Tea/coffee
Candy
Tassels
A crystal ball
What do you need for ceromancy?
Wax
Tea/coffee
A guitar
Candy
Tassels
What do you need for bibliomancy?
Water
Candy
Tassels
The bible
A book
The Second Coming
Horace
W. B. Yeats
Robert Frost
Emily Dickinson
Caravaggio
The future - never spoke
Horace
W. B. Yeats
Robert Frost
Emily Dickinson
Caravaggio
The Fortune Teller (c. 1595)
Caravaggio
Georges de la Tour
Michael Vrubel
Julio Romero de Torres
Helena Sofia Schjerfbeck
The Fortune Teller (1922)
Caravaggio
Georges de la Tour
Michael Vrubel
Julio Romero de Torres
Helena Sofia Schjerfbeck
The Fortune Teller (Woman in a Yellow Dress)
Caravaggio
Georges de la Tour
Michael Vrubel
Julio Romero de Torres
Helena Sofia Schjerfbeck
Dreams of Rasputin
Jose Luis Cuevas
Georges Bizet
Suzanne Vega
Benny Spellman
Al Stewart
Nostradamus
Jose Luis Cuevas
Georges Bizet
Suzanne Vega
Benny Spellman
Al Stewart
Trio des Cartes
Jose Luis Cuevas
Georges Bizet
Suzanne Vega
Benny Spellman
Al Stewart
Sea of Rust
Carl Orff
Ted Chiang
C. Robert Cargill
Sam Hughes
Benny Spellman
Fortune Teller
Carl Orff
Ted Chiang
C. Robert Cargill
Sam Hughes
Benny Spellman
Which of the following inventions largely lost popularity after a bad accident?
Rocket mail
Maglev
Zeppelin
Nuclear propulsion
Suspension railway
Which of the following songs is *most* about the Soviet Union?
Wind of Change
Right Here, Right Now
Heal the World
Counting up to 20
Will 2K
Which of the following follows a waltz time signature?
Journey in Satchidananda
To the Unknown Man
Theme from Silk Road
Caribbean Blue
Return to Innocence
Which of the following was conceptually inspired by ancient Tao philosophy?
Journey in Satchidananda
To the Unknown Man
Theme from Silk Road
Caribbean Blue
Return to Innocence
Which of the following is most commonly associated with LoFi music?
Vinyl
Film
Shortwave radio
AM radio
FM radio
What does Dan White say about cassettes?
It's a good way to support small artists
It helps connect with past generations
There sounds like there is more depth
It helps introduce children to older music
It makes recording more meaningful
Where is Stonehenge found?
Wiltshire
Suffolk
Cornwall
Durnham
Isle of Wight
Which of the following restorations was the most recent?
White House
Notre Dame
Shuri Castle
Yellow Crane Tower
Shakespeare's Globe
The Concert of Europe is most famously known as a peaceful example of what?
Unipolarity
Bipolarity
Multipolarity
Core
Periphery
Which of the following companies was acquired by the Taiwanese company Acer?
Sansui
Nokia
RadioShack
Gateway
Polaroid
Who was Callinicus?
Poet who wrote odes to fire
Ancient architect that died in the Great Fire of London
The creator of Greek fire
The person who discovered napalm
The first known fire animator
Which of the following is NOT a type of fire needed for Zoroastrian fire?
From a burning corpse
From a fakir
From a brewer
From a baker
From a volcano
Which of the following is NOT a type of fire needed for Zoroastrian fire?
From a shepherd
From a mint
From a house of a Zoroastrian
From lightning
From a candle
Which of the following artists included a skull in their artwork?
Georges de La Tour
Jan Griffier
Paul Sandby
J.M.W. Turner
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Which of the following artists included a skull in their artwork?
Georges de La Tour
Jan Griffier
Paul Sandby
J.M.W. Turner
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Which of the following songs did not get its name from the creator?
Fire Symphony
Great Balls of Fire
Ring of Fire
Winter Bonfire
Magic Fire Music
Which of the following created a theme song of a film?
Vangelis
Sergei Prokofiev
Johnny Cash
Jerry Lee Lewis
Richard Wagner
Who wrote the poem that contains this excerpt? (Qs 7-10) "What the hand, dare seize the fire?
William Blake
Forrest Gander
Yves Klein
Linda Hogan
Jorie Graham
"My interval is fixed.”
William Blake
Forrest Gander
Yves Klein
Linda Hogan
Jorie Graham
"gone wooly and brown"
William Blake
Forrest Gander
Yves Klein
Linda Hogan
Jorie Graham
"I am wind for the fire."
William Blake
Forrest Gander
Yves Klein
Linda Hogan
Jorie Graham
Who is the speech given by Red Jacket addressed to?
Father
Friend
Brother
Sister
Master
What was the main weapon used by the Italians against Ethiopia?
Bombs
Guns
Starvation
Poison gas
Landmines
Which class does Robert Menzies preach for in his speech?
Upper class
First class
Second class
Middle class
Lower class
Complete the quote from Braveheart: "And ___ in your beds many years from now..."
Sleeping
Dying
Crying
Rotting
Lying
Complete the quote from Independence Day: And you will be launching the ------ aerial battle in this history of mankind.
Largest
Hardest
Longest
Wildest
Riskiest
Complete the quote from Love, Actually: I love that word ''------''
Freedom
Glory
History
Justice
Relationship
Intervision is for what part of the world?
North America
South America
East Asia
South Asia
Eastern Europe
What happened on Day 3 of the invasion of Ukraine?
Artillery started attacking
A hospital blew up
Bombs were dropped
Ukrainian troops mobilized
Rockets fell on Babi Yar
What happened on Day 4 of the invasion of Ukraine?
Ukraine started taking people captive
A famous building was destroyed
Rockets fell on Babi Yar
Mariupol was attacked
Kiev was attacked
What day did terror take place against children?
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 9
Day 13
Dmitry Itskov, based on his campaign, is most likely to enjoy which of the following movies?
Schindler's List
Avatar
Star Wars
Metropolis
Anastasia
Developing prosthetic limbs would be MOST a concern of which of the following practices?
Cryonics
Biomechatronics
Regenerative medicine
Senolytics
Digital cloning
A couple who are unable to have children would most likely find comfort in the world of which of the following authors?
William Wordsworth
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Mary Shelley
Ray Bradbury
Ursula K. Le Guin
In The Island of the Immortals, what is Udreba?
A character
A town
A medicine
The island
A disease
The Second Coming refers to which of the following?
Horus
Yudhishthira
King Arthur
Jesus
Charles II
Which of the following people was exiled the largest number of times?
Albert Einstein
Jimmy Carter
Leon Trotsky
Dante
Rodrigo Belmonte
How was Anne Frank's journal discovered?
Dropped in the concentration camp
Stolen from their house and later sold
Saved by her father's secretaries
Left in the attic where she lived, discovered during renovations
Anne gave it to a friend before she left
ETBE is used as a replacement for...
Hydrogen
Boron
Carbon
Ethanol
Water
Which company introduced planned obsolescence?
Ford
Oldsmobile
Cadillac
Chevrolet
General Motors
Which of the following was the largest volcanic eruption of the 21st century?
Unzendake
Eyjafjallajokull
Yellowstone
Hunga Tonga
Mount St. Helens
American salons of the 20th century were most commonly associated with which of the following?
Fascism
The suffragette movement
Communism
The LGBTQ+ community
Capitalism
Which of the following authors would most likely have produced a poem following this pattern (based on the title of the poem)?
Dashiel Carrera
Matthew Vollmer
Matthew Tomkinson
Julie Carr
Jean Marc Ah-Sen
A statue dedicated to the term "imagineering" would be most appropriately made out of what material?
Wood
Gold
Aluminum
Silver
Copper
The Tetris Theme is based on a song based on a poem by which of the following people?
Anna Akhmatova
Nikolay Nekrasov
Alexander Pushkin
Ivan Krylov
Samuil Marshak
The LSDJ was famously used for which of the following?
Game Boy
Atari Lynx
Sega Nomad
Nintendo DS
PlayStation Portable
Which of the following games is VR?
Osu
Beatsaber
Guitar Hero
Maimai
Deemo
Which of the following is not on the list in the manifesto of futurism?
Sing the love of danger
Glorify war
Destroy Museums
Encourage new technologies
There is no more beauty except in struggle
The background of Giacomo Balla's work is meant to represent what?
Lightning
Dust
Water
Wind
Concrete
Miyale Ya Blue gets its name from the Swahili word for what?
Blue
Rays
Freedom
Corn
Love
Which of the following does NOT appear in the provided works by David Irvine?
Puft
PacMan
Charlie Brown
Darth Vader
Dumbo
Based on their provided work, Huey Lewis and the News would most likely want to do a concert in which of the following locations?
New York
Las Angeles
San Francisco
Vancouver
Toronto
The Temple of Friendship has connection to which topic?
Imagination
Salons
Writing with constraints
Disney
AI creativity
What is redeployment (in the context of this section)?
Reusing old medical technology for new purposes
Restoring functionality of the brain after coma
Reorganizing neural circuits in the brain
Turning real experiences into hallucinations
Using a catchphrase of another company for your own marketing
The flop of Ragtime could be partially due to the premier of which musical?
Wicked
Oliver!
Fiddler on the Roof
Hadestown
The Lion King
Which of the following is suggested for making a piece sound like sci-fi?
Gongs
Piccolo
Cello
Trumpets
Accordion
Who said that efficient workflows would heavily influence the chiptune music industry?
Inon Zur
Darren Korb
Chase Bethea
Jacob Fox
Nintendo
Which of the following is also a personified being in some cases?
Valhalla
Diyu
Tartarus
Samsara
Nirvana
How many rebirth realms are there in Samsara?
2
3
5
6
7
Which of the following companies is Finnish?
RCA
Polaroid
Nokia
Sansui
Gateway
What is NOT a property of hydrocarbons?
Nonpolar
High melting and boiling temperatures
Poorly soluble in polar solvents
Hydrophobic
Do not contain functional groups
Which of the following is NOT a source of biodiesel?
Algae
Unrefined vegetable oil
Animal fat
Used cooking oil
Soybean
The Sun is what kind of star?
Yellow dwarf
Red giant
White dwarf
Neutron star
Brown dwarf
Which of the following volcanoes produced the largest explosion in recorded history?
Mount Vesuvius
Tambora
Krakatoa
Hunga Tonga
Eyjafjallajokull
What is the standard temperature for cryonics? (in ̊C)
-214
-147
-196
-86
-38
Which of the following is NOT a senolytic drug?
Dasatinib
Quercetin
Fisetin
Navitoclax
Verapamil
The N in SCNT stands for what?
Neural
Nuclear
Nomadic
Nitrogen
Nano
Which of the following historical figures spent 23 years in exile from France?
Charles II
Louis XVIII
Henry VII
Richard the Lionheart
Kimba the White Lion
The Belarus Free Theatre's presence in Belarus is best described as:
Prominent
Everyday
Sparse
Minimal
Nonexistent
Franz Kafka ordered his friend to do what with his works after his death?
Give them to a family member
Burn them
Donate them to a local library
Send them to a student
Publish them
Hirokazu Tanaka arranged the music for which video game?
Doom
Tetris
Super Mario Bros
Undertale
Minecraft
Which of the following had the first continuous soundtrack?
Space Invaders
Pac-Man
Super Mario Bros
World of Warcraft
Halo
Which of the following game features Alice climbing up a tree?
Maimai
Beatmania
Deemo
Just dance
Tap Tap Revenge
The artwork from which this piece comes from was created by which artist?
Gojira
Christian Holland
Cyrus Kabiru
Flying Lotus
Tom Lehrer
The song by Five Stars compares what to an atomic bomb?
Anger
A person
An angry dog
Arguments
Fire
The song by Golden Gate Quartet is a reference to which belief system?
Ancient Greek mythology
Ancient Egyptian mythology
Hinduism
Christianity
Judaism
The show Fallout is based on...
A video game
A novel
A movie
A board game
A selection of poems
Which of the following is not speculated to be an ingredient in Greek fire?
Pine resin
Napalm
Calcium phosphide
Sulfur
Niter
In 'Winter Bonfire', the boy's chorus features in which movement?
1
3
5
6
9
Which of the following people created their work as a homage to Igor Stravinski?
Claude Debussy
George Handel
halyosy
Katy Perry
Oliver Knussen
(Connection to another section here) an artist to painted a work in In Futurity, Someone Prophetic Sees also created which of the following works?
Great Fire of London
Fire Paintings
Magdalen with a Smoking Flame
The Moon in Smoke
Red Plastic
Which of the following people created a work portraying Guy Fawkes Night?
Jan Griffier
Paul Sandby
Georges de la Tour
Yves Klein
Alberto Burri
Which of the following people created what is considered one of the most widely anthologized poems in the English language?
Marriane Moore
William Blake
Jorie Graham
Linda Hogan
Forrest Gander
The Moon in Smoke features which profession?
Medic
Firefighter
Warrior
Oracle
Navigator
The final total of purification iterations for all of the Zoroastrian fires is...
13
1128
567
2295
24
The work by Linda Hogan focuses on:
Environmental destruction
Family heritage
Animal rights
The destructive nature of fire
The explosive nature of the women's rights movement
For a while all that came out was ----- (complete the line)
Answers
Fire
Pain
Language
Quiet
Which of the following literary classics involves a 'Recalling to Life'? (Difficulty 1)
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
What percentage of female climate experts, as suggested by a Guardian survey, are in support of having fewer children? (Difficulty 2)
2%
12%
20%
45%
46%
A view of 'Changeable Optimism', in a global lens, is most applicable to tackling... (Difficulty 3)
Climate Change
Poverty
The Wealth Gap
Space-exploration Shortcomings
Malnourishment
Donald Trump, as described as Ezra Klien, best matches the word... (Difficulty 4)
Powerful
Insensitive
Numb
Senile
Marxist
The Yield Gap is best described as a gap of inequality in... (Difficulty 5)
Land
Money
Business
Farming
Technology
Rip Van Winkle's story involves a game of... (Difficulty 6)
Hopscotch
Archery
Knucklebones
Pick-up Sticks
Nine-pin Bowling
The Indigenous Color Wheel reflects a cycle most seen in which of the following historical periods? (Difficulty 7)
The 100 Years War
The Industrial Revolution
The Colonization of the Americas
The Paleogene
The Era of the Great Spirit
The response of fans to David Cassidy's rewriting of EFX can best be described as... (Difficulty 8)
Impulsive
Hopeless
Genuine
Kind
Apathetic
The name of the setting of Kirby and the Forgotten Land, The New World, fits which descriptor best? (Difficulty 9)
Fitting
Insensitive
Optimistic
Pessimistic
Satirical
Henry George's proposition of a 'Land-value tax' would, if enacted, most support the development of which of the following megaprojects? (Difficulty 10)
California HSR
The Human Genome Project
Sejong City
The Khazar Islands
Australia-Asia Power Link
