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1
How did they reconstruct an ancient Chinese meal?
They read an ancient recipe and translated it
They looked at old paintings
They used unwashed old food containers and tested the remnants
It is a recipe passed down through the dynasties
2
Which Dynasty that's described in the Millenium City Park?
Northern Qin Dynasty
Northern Ching Dynasty
Northern Han Dynasty
Northern Song Dynasty
3
Who/ what did the Mayflower carry?
the passenger pigeons to Rome
Ghengis Khan
The enslaved people from Africa
Pilgrims from England
4
pseudoarchaeology is not
spooky
scientific
fantastical
alternative
5
The Library of Alexandria was burned by Mongols
False
True
6
The Ugly Little Boy by Issac Asimov is a book about...
A time-travelling neandrothrol
A strange chimp
Adoption
Racism
7
Polish Polar Station in Hornsund was attacked in 1945
True
False
8
The Dodo by Henry Beloc
A book about dodos
A time travelling boy
a rhyming poem about how the dodo is extinct
An old war hero
9
A biography is a good way of recording history because it ...
Has little to no bias
includes dates
It is that person writing it themselves
includes real personal stories
10
The Diffence Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling is about
An artists life
The moon landing
The effects of photography is recorded history
Computers being invented super early and the consequences
11
The most famous and well preserved thermopolium is Vetutius Placidus, which is located in ......
Pompeii
Rome
Constantinople
Alexandria
12
The Breif History of Toa Payoh by Koh Buck Song is about
The history of China
The History of some empires
The history of music
The History of a place in Singapore
13
The #MeToo movement gained global consciousness primarily due to the exposure of which individual's actions?
Matt Lauer
Bill Cosby
Harvey Weinstein
Kevin Spacey
14
Backbreeding aims to create genetically identical copies of an extinct species from preserved somatic cells.
True
False
15
What is the Smithsonion?
a concert
a living museum
an abandoned ship
a traditional museum
16
Before the advent of western-style journalism, how was news primarily spread?
Radio broadcast
Oral storytelling, town criers, and handwritten newsletters
Social media
Television broadcast
17
At Medieval Times you can...
eat old food and watch jousting
see a lot of different types of old animals
talk to native tribes
sleep on an old ship
18
Ulster American Folk Park is
a wax works
a living museum in Ireland
in Dubai
an old exhibition
19
Which of these museums is the "living future" museum?
Frontierland
Millenium City Park
American National Exhibition
Plimoth Plantation
20
Who was the U.S. President that submitted to the practice of interviews in 1868?
Abraham Lincoln
Rutherford B. Hayes
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
21
The American National Exhibition was
visited by Richard Nixon
burned down
lost for many years
in Ukraine
22
Which city is Crystal Palace in?
Dublin
Jakarta
New York
London
23
In WSC lore, what would a 19th-century reporter likely be called if they engaged in interviewing?
A press pioneer
An American Inquisitor
A daring innovator
A hack humbug
24
According to a New York World correspondent, the American style interview was likened to what?
An American scandal
An American hack's tool
The American dream
A modern and American Inquisition
25
Why can government records be a bad way of recording history?
They are not on the computer
They have only opinions
They may be bias
They are too short
26
Atlantis is an example of pseudoarchaeology
True
False
27
Which living history museum has livestock of heritage breeds, a replica of the Mayflower & staff of indigenous people?
Heritage Park
Spanish village
Plimoth Plantation
Frontierland
28
Researchers buried a 60cm stainless steel tube containing samples to tell finders half a million years into the future
True
False
29
Poble Espanyol is
a Spanish Living Museum
a lost city
a painting
a song
30
Which ancient city is famous for its remarkably preserved thermopolia?
Rome
Alexandria
Athens
Pompeii
31
What would you not eat if you were on a Paleo diet?
Potatoes
Papaya
Pineapple
Pasta
32
Heritage park is in
Russia
Canada
China
America
33
Among the best-selling foods in Thermopolis, there is isicia omentata, which we can consider as
the ancestor of hotdog
the ancestor of meatballs
the ancestor of pizza
the ancestor of hamburger
34
The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in the Qumran Caves, AKA Mandatory Palestine
False
True
35
Museum of the Future...
was in 1939
is in Russia
is in the shape of a big eye
Had a Kitchen Debate inside it
36
The Kitchen debate was accusing Americans of being...
lazy
boring
loud
angry
37
The Municipal Gallery Revisited by WB Yeats is about
A Dublin City Art Gallery and the artists there
Redoing poems
A gallery of old musical instruments
Visiting an old friend
38
The world’s first recorded extinction in 1627 is the death of what animal?
Auroch
Tasmanian Tiger
Mammoth
Dodo
39
What year was World of Tomorrow?
1939
2022
1893
2012
40
The Mountaintop was controversial
It was about dictators
Martin Luther King was played by a white actor
It had swearing
because the mountain was inaccurate
41
Why was Braveheart controversial?
The Actor was bald
The Location was Wrong
The lighting was wrong
The story was inaccurate
42
What food was not part of the last first class meal on the Titanic?
French ice cream
Boiled rice
Celery
Clam chowder
43
If Wikipedia was destroyed it would be
like losing the Library of Alexandria
the best thing to happen to the internet
hard to move into the future
the same as if it never existed
44
Kubla Khan by Samual Taylor Coleridge is about...
Ghengis Khan
Kubla Khan's palace in China
Kubla Khan's wife
Kubla Khan's death
45
The Dead Sea Scrolls are:
ancient Mayan calendar telling the future
ancient Jewish religious manuscripts discovered between 1946 and 1956
said to have been found by Napoleon when he raided Russia in 1814
ancient Roman texts found in a treasure chest in the Dead Sea in 2001
46
If you are on the Paleo diet, then you should not eat .....
sashimi
oats
sweet potatoes
fruits with coconut water
47
This archeological find is often called 'the missing link'
The Rosetta Stone
Sue
The Terracotta army
Lucy
48
A dog has died is about...
A war hero
a famous dog
an angry dog
a loyal pet
49
When text don't survive or tell the whole story, this science can.
Scientology
Chemistry
Physics
Archaeology
50
The fast food of the ancient Romans, which literally means hot shop, is called...
Thermokantina
Thermataverna
Thermopolium
Thermapavilion
51
What does Aaron Delahenty make?
dioramas
extinct things come back to life
living museums
Paintings
52
In Tomorrowland we can learn about
space
the history of the native people
time travel
the wild west
53
What would you not get on the Titanic?
Punch Romaiine
Roast Squb
Chicken Lyonnaise
The Tubar of Starch
54
For All Mankind is about
Russians landing on the Moon first
Extinct animals
robots taking over
Crime scenes
55
Dodo by Henry Carlile is about
How stupid the dodo is
How the poet feels he relates to the dodo
How ugly the dodo is
How the dodo is extinct
56
At the Tomb of Napolean is about...
About how amazing Napolean was
How Napolean had a lot of cool possessions
How it is better to be forgotten but good and not remembered by bad.
How Napoleon fought the revolution
57
The Iceman Otzi was...
a skull that had been reconstructed to look human
The oldest skeleton in Russia
A type of artic boat
The name of a mammoth
58
Which of the following approaches to journalism typically involves exposing concealed matters?
Advocacy reporting
Feature reporting
Investigative reporting
Breaking news reporting
59
Brazilian Telephone by Miriam Bird Greenberg is about...
Communism
Children doing a science experiment
The Brazilian election
The invention of the telephone
60
In Kyoto by Basho is about ...
A bird
alpacas
An old city
longing for a city
61
isicia omentata is a
A drink at Medieval Times restaurant
a side dish on the Titanic
Roman Hamburger
A desert in China
62
Millenium City Park is about
the natives
new technology
the Song dynasty
old food
63
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter by Norman Dubie is about
The Czar writing to his mum
Remastering books
The nostalgia of Christmas past
The french revolution
64
All the Seas of The World by Guy Gavriel Kay is about
Pirate food
Pirate dancing
kidnap and assassination on a pirate ship
the life of a pirate
65
Having animals in living museums can be bad because...
They are too boring
they are sometimes mistreated
They are not accurate
they are lonely
66
Plimoth Paxuet is controversial because
It doesn't acknowledge the native population
Black people could not go there
It discriminates against women
It is too old
67
What is the name of this first English mold newspaper in India?
The Indian Herald
The Colonial Chronicle
The Gazette of India
Hicky's Bengal Gazette
68
On Shakespeare by John Milton is about...
How Shakespeare lives on through his work
He needs a fancier grave
Nostalgia
Equal rights
69
What was the title of South Africa's earliest newspapers?
The African Journal
The African Times
The Colonist
The Gazette
70
Polish Polar Station in Hornsund is where
Scientists found the missing link Lucy
The first record of Neanderthals was found
the most artifacts were found on an archaeological dig
a time capsule is buried
