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2019 Sunway Scholars' Cup Pre-Regional B
2019 Sunway Scholars' Cup Pre-Regional B
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Based on the 2019 syllabus from the World Scholar's Cup
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1
When a company's share price is dropping, which of this tends to happen?
the CEO of the company going on a vacation
a woman taking on the glass cliff
the company hiring less minorities
the company closing the pay gap
2
Which of Tuckman's stages does a team normally establish hierarchy of positions?
Norming
Forming
Performing
Storming
3
William killed Nicholas and was not charged/jailed legally. Why is that?
Nicholas is a homo sacer
William is a lumpenproletariat
Nicholas is a part of burakumin
William is a Bụi đời
4
If the Scholar's Bowl is carried out under a crutchfield situation, every team will
share answers with each other
take a run before the Bowl
be separated by walls
begin with different points depending on their backgrounds
5
The idea of national pride can be explained by
Swarm Behavior
Black Sheep Effect
Homans' Theory
Social Identity Theory
6
Which of the following employ a working principle that is MOST related to a vacuum cleaner?
Dishwashers
Airplanes
Trains
Toasters
7
Zebra stripes are MOST likely a form of:
Cooling mechanism
Unnecessarily evolutionary traits
Confusion to predators
Camouflage
8
The drought which ended the Mayan Civilization was MOST likely to be induced by:
Wrath of the gods
Deforestation
Excessive construction of Stone Pyramids
Excessive agriculture
9
When you are socially invisible, you are
the wealthy power behind a country
disconnected from the society
an introvert
invisible, literally
10
In Korea's caste system, which group of people are ranked below the baekjeong?
The sangmin
The nobi
The jung-in
The cheonmin
11
Which of the following factor is responsible for the output of cold air in air-conditioners?
Varying heat supply
Varying pressure
Varying fan powers
Varying power
12
What advice would John Green MOST likely give to the bullied child in ‘Seodang’?
“You should write more to distract from the pain.”
“Watch my YouTube channel to feel better.”
“Be the better man. Don’t fight back.”
“The only way out is through. You will get through.”
13
The Rongorongo is MOST likely to:
Depict history
Decorations
Random glyphs
Chants
14
Which of the following is MOST effective for a home’s temperature control?
Fans
Ice packs
Insulated walls
Air conditioners
15
‘Hotel, Room 47’ would MOST likely be identified as work done by a
Architect
Detective
Muralist
Journalist
16
Which of the following famous people were NOT referred to in ‘Black Man’?
Thomas Edison
Bruce Lee
Sacagawea
Martin Luther King Jr.
17
CAPTCHA involves
complex words
short words
huge words
squiggly words
18
Who of the following would be MOST suitable in bringing more interest to the parai?
Renata Flores Rivera
Bic Runga
William Barton
Solomon Linda
19
In Harry Potter, how are house elves freed from indentured servitude?
Their owner gives them a piece of clothing
Their owner gives them an alpaca
Their owner gives them a bed
Their owner dies
20
According to Yuval Cherlow, pork is kosher when
the pork meat is taken from a hybrid
the electricity stops
the pork meat is taken from a cloned
resources are running out
21
Which of the following countries MOST influenced the creation of “Open Border’?
Canada
USA
China
North Korea
22
Which of the following facts is wrongly associated to the Terracotta Mausoleum?
Every terracotta soldier has unique facial features
Emperor Qin’s tomb is untouched
Mercury have been heavily used in its production
Generals wield weapons that were made from gold
23
Why did the Vulcans from Star Trek maintain the test of kahs-wan?
To keep pure logic from making them weak
To ingrain strength and courage in their youth
To disgrace cowards in their society
To weed out the weak
24
What is the most significant difference between an au pair and an amah / nanny?
An au pair is treated as a member of the host family
An au pair does not have to take care of children
An au pair is always an European woman
An au pair does not have to clean
25
Which of the following is used to discharge charge?
Resistors
Capacitors
Thermistor
Diodes
26
Which historical monarch is MOST likely represented by the narrator in ‘Viva La Vida’?
Nicholas II
Henry VII
Wilhelm I
Louis XVI
27
What form of poem is 'Crusoe in England'?
Elegy
Slam poetry
Spoken word
Sonnet
28
What BEST describes the tone of ‘We Care A Lot’?
Rebellious
Sarcastic
Sincere
Melancholic
29
Where does the proverb "it takes a village to raise a child' originate from?
Ethiopia
Nigeria
Kenya
China
30
What would a critic of abstract expressionism MOST likely say about ‘Woman-Ochre’?
Its colours are too dull for a painting of this art style
It was probably influenced by the works of Picasso
It betrays the ideals of abstract expressionism
It’s misogynistic
31
Which of the following did NOT play a role in the rise of teenagers in the 20th century?
Compulsory education
Cars
Smartphones
The postwar economic boom
32
In a party, Henry Reich dances. What does this mean?
He is being disadvantaged from redlining
He is being segregated
He is under social normative influence
He is following the rules of endogamy set by his tribe
33
Which of these poem is short enough to be a tweet?
The Tyger
My Shoes
The Raven
The Octopus
34
The library of Alexandria expanded its contents MOST rapidly by:
Collaborating with the Roman empire
Taking from conquered colonies
Paying Greek authors more
Scribing scrolls possessed by ships entering Alexandria
35
Which of the following figures of speech BEST describes 'The Tyger'?
Duality
Paradox
Metaphor
Personification
36
Which of the following is not found in a battery?
Buffer
Cathode
Electrolytes
Anode
37
What is the significance of reaching the age of Jewish Bar/Bat Mitzvah?
Gaining religious freedom
Becoming morally accountable for one's own actions
Emancipation from one's parents
Graduation from religious school
38
The Stone Spheres of Costa Rica are BEST known for their
history
degree of roundness
strength
materials
39
The moon in ‘Papilla Estelar’ MOST likely represents
Oppression
Hopelessness
Opportunity
Pride
40
Which of the following is a characteristic of the Fountain of Youth?
Blocks visible light
Freezing temperature
Pungent smell
Low density liquid
41
Which American comedian thanked working nannies in a toast at the TIME 100 gala?
Tina Fey
Hasan Minhaj
Amy Poehler
Amy Schumer
42
The picture of the duck in the Cicada 3301 mystery led to a:
A picture of a cicada
Book cypher
String of meaningless texts
A map
43
What would Martin Kemp MOST likely say about the Isleworth Mona Lisa?
“It was only partially done by Leonardo Da Vinci”
“It’s just a copy of the actual one”
“It’s better than the actual one”
“It was completed at an earlier date than the actual one”
44
Which of the following events MOST likely influenced the creation of ‘Hiding in the City’?
The Iraq War
The Olympics
The World Cup
The Cold War
45
Who of the following would MOST likely agree with the themes of ‘The Fourth Estate’?
Beverley Bass
Marius Pontmercy
Solomon Linda
Annie
46
Which of the experiments below includes creating conflicts by limiting resources?
Crutchfield Situation Study
Asch Conformity Experiment
Stanford Prison Experiment
Robber's Cave Experiment
47
Which of the following pairs match up the BEST?
Between the Margins - Mbube
The Awakening Slave - Unfinished Symphony
Free as A Bird - Me and the Sky
The Potato Eaters - It’s A Hard-Knock Life
48
What does the drinking gourd in ‘Follow the Drinking Gourd’ MOST likely represent?
A constellation
A comet
The Moon
The Sun
49
Which of the following acronym is MOST likely to be related to the vanishing honeybees:
CCB
RIP
ABG
DHB
50
Which of the following art would the woman in ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ LEAST likely agree with?
Open Border
Office in a Small City
Here We Are
The Potato Eaters
51
Which of the following artworks MOST likely needs the services of a restorer?
The Potato Eaters
Office in a Small City
Woman-Ochre
Between the Cracks
52
Are you ready for science?!?
NAH
YAH
53
SAT is made possible MOSTLY because of
me
magnetic field
Scantrons
EFTPOS
54
The people described in ‘Streets of London’ have all
Been remembered
Died
Survived a war
Lived in poverty
55
Your Macbook might blow up because of short circuits. How can we make a battery blowup?
Load the circuit with many resistors connected in series
Earth the battery
Connect the +ve terminal to the -ve terminal with a wire
Load the circuit with many resistors connected in parallel
56
Which of following pieces can BEST be likened to a woven cloth?
Other People’s Stories
Requiem in D Minor
Little People
Symphony No. 10
57
Which of the following artworks is MOST different in what it represents compared to the others?
Woman Ironing
Between the Margins
Stag at Sharkey’s
Free Period in the Amsterdam Orphanage
58
The original “bog bodies” is the result of:
Rituals
Unexplained terminal diseases
Warfare
Accidents
59
How might Andrew from 'The Bicentiennial Man' react to carving wood?
He will self-destruct
He dislikes it
He does not know what to feel
He enjoys it
60
Which following reasons accounts MOST for the construction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The emperor’s wife was homesick
To flaunt wealth against neighboring cities
Archimedes wanted to test his water pump
To watch the birds of the gods
61
Herd mentality is NOT known as
Squad mentality
Gang mentality
Pack mentality
Mob mentality
62
Which of the following songs would the man in ‘The Raven’ MOST likely be listening to?
Mbube
Songs of a Wayfarer No. 2
Therru’s Song
Motorcycle Drive-By
63
The myth of contagious yawns can be debunked by:
Mirror neurons
Low pressure areas
True friendship
Fake news
64
Which of the following is false about Left-handers:
Left-handers are more intelligent and creative
They tend to excel in sport
They are unlikely left-hemisphere dominant for language
They tend to be mix-handed as they age
65
In early 1900s, what did the blind use to read?
Fiber optics
Optophone
Eyeglasses
Optacon
66
When a woman meets a glass ceiling in her career, she
should break the glass
is failing to see where her problems lie
is unable to climb the cooperate ladder due to her gender
has succeeded
67
Humans who show traits of rankism tend to
score low in Social Dominance Orientation
prefer a negative gradient on the Great Gatsby Curve
prefer a low Poverty Gap Index
prefer a high Gini Index
68
Which of the following explains why no one investigated the Tunguska explosion at that time?
Russian authorities had more to worry about
It was assumed to be the result of political strife
The explosion was due to the Mandela’s effect
The Russian authorities covered up the incident
69
Why do Jewish people gift in multiples of 18 at Bar/Bat Mitzvahs?
The Hebrew word for life is the number 18
Jewish scripture says that Jesus was reborn at 18
Jerusalem is located at 18 degrees north
The age of adulthood for Jews is 18
70
Which of the following raw material generates activated carbon?
Charcoal
Graphite
Fullerenes
Graphene
71
Which of the following phenomenon is responsible for wireless charging?
Wi-Fi
Electromagnetic induction
Magnetic fields
Packets of energy
72
What is NOT an ingredient in the process of Chudakarana, a Hindu child's first haircut?
Milk
Rice flour
Tumeric
Cow dung
73
Which of the following was most likely NOT the purpose of the Spartan krypteia?
To steal food supplies from the countryside
To supress and subjugate the Helot slave population
To organize state-sponsored secret police
To prepare boys for war
74
Which of the following may be BEST used to explained a floating castle:
Fata Morgana
Schizophrenia
Havana syndrome
Cognitive dissonance
75
George C. Homans proposed that in a relationship, humans seek to
be loved
conform to the idea of a family
take care of their loved ones
get benefited
76
In Yemen, the lowest group in the caste system is called
cagot
ragyabpa
bitlaha
akhdam
77
What does King Tut, Joffrey, and Emperor Puyi all have in common?
They were children
They were mentally ill
They were infamous for their cruelty
They died young
78
Which of the following is the working principle of the ionic hair dryer?
Emitted ions generate an electrostatic field, removing H2O
Emitted ions remove H2O by ionizing the bonds
Emitted ions are are hydrophobic and they repel H2O more
Ionic compounds within the dryer allow it to reach high temp
79
ADX Florence :: Halden Prison
Shanty towns :: downtown
Tribalism :: racism
Homelessness :: slums
Masculinity :: femininity
80
Which of the following songs are polar opposites?
‘Signs’ & ‘Songs of a Wayfarer No. 2’
‘Get Some Sleep’ & ‘Viva La Vida’
‘Motorcycle Drive-By' & ‘Other People’s Stories’
‘Therru’s Song’ & ‘It’s A Hard-Knock Life’
81
The Solway Firth Spaceman is MOST likely to be regarded as a problem caused by:
Faulty camera
Extraterrestrial lifeform
The child's mother positioning
Excessive exposure to radiation
82
Brazilians who are living under the poverty line are most likely to live in
a favela
a ghetto
a gececondu
Skid Row
83
In which country would you most likely find its people paying for things with QR codes?
Maldives
United States
United Kingdom
China
84
The Johari window may fail if
the temperature gets too high
wind is strong
pressure is low
environment is toxic
85
Which of the following is the MOST efficient way of modern heating?
Over a flame
Passing a current
Increasing pressure
Place an object in a magnetic field
86
When a man tries to explain menstruation to a woman, he is
being sexist
objectifying the woman
mansplaining
vagrant
87
Which of the roles below is MOST LIKELY going to be employed to film an action movie?
Literary agent
Stunt double
Dramaturge
Gaffers
88
Which of the following songs BEST agrees with the themes of ‘The Ugly Duckling’?
God Help the Outcasts
It’s a Hard-Knock Life
Wavin’ Flag
Streets of London
89
Which of the following figures of speech BEST describes ‘YMCA’?
Personification
Hyperbole
Double entendre
Onomatopoeia
90
Which of the following materials debunks the claim that the Pyramids of Egypt are power plants?
Copper wires
Oversized casket
Granites
Limestone coating
91
What is NOT a reason for the decline of 20 year olds in Japan celebrating seijin shiki?
Increasing number of youth who don't feel they are adults
Video game and anime addiction
Shrinking percentage of youth
Low birth rate
92
Which of the below is NOT true about magstripe and credit card chip?
Pin & chip was introduced the same time as magstripe
Magstripe uses magnetic particles to store static data
Magstripe can be easily counterfeited
Credit card chip is encrypted with digital signatures
93
How would a deaf culture supporter MOST likely respond to ‘Harold Whittles Hears'?
“How would he understand what he’s hearing?”
“This proves that our culture is being discriminated.”
“We should be grateful to be born with a sense of hearing.”
“Isn’t technology amazing?”
94
FDM is a 3D printing process. What does FDM stand for?
Fused Deposition Modelling
Forced Dorsal Molding
Face Dimensional Making
Fizzing Droplets Melting
95
When Hitler carried out eugenics at his times, he
killed the non-Aryans
painted artistically on canvas
jailed his political opponents
declared war on Poland
96
Critics arguing against the existence of Atlantis will MOST insist that:
A. Plato created Atlantis to serve as a warning
The geographic location of the island cannot be possible
There is practically no surviving evidence indicating such
Atlantis was in Egypt
97
When Jerry, the President of Kyzgf, puts his friend in governmental position, he is committing
rankism
ableism
nepotism
ethnocentrism
98
The significance of Linear B is MOST likely lie in:
Eigenvectors and eigenvalues
The degrees of fit of the line
The form of language
Early workings of linear algebra
99
Darren beats Ji Hahn up. Based on the Just-World hypothesis, Ji Hahn expects that Darren
will soon be bullying him againf
will be on the news the next day
will soon be beaten up by someone else
will soon be rewarded with sweets
