Your Macbook might blow up because of short circuits. How can we make a battery blowup?

Connect the +ve terminal to the -ve terminal with a wire

Which of the following pairs match up the BEST?

The Awakening Slave - Unfinished Symphony

What would a critic of abstract expressionism MOST likely say about ‘Woman-Ochre’?

It betrays the ideals of abstract expressionism

According to Yuval Cherlow, pork is kosher when

the pork meat is taken from a cloned

Which of the following facts is wrongly associated to the Terracotta Mausoleum?

Generals wield weapons that were made from gold

What is the significance of reaching the age of Jewish Bar/Bat Mitzvah?

Becoming morally accountable for one's own actions

Which of the following is the working principle of the ionic hair dryer?

Emitted ions remove H2O by ionizing the bonds

In Harry Potter, how are house elves freed from indentured servitude?

Their owner gives them a piece of clothing

Which of the below is NOT true about magstripe and credit card chip?

Pin & chip was introduced the same time as magstripe

Critics arguing against the existence of Atlantis will MOST insist that:

A. Plato created Atlantis to serve as a warning

Why do Jewish people gift in multiples of 18 at Bar/Bat Mitzvahs?

The Hebrew word for life is the number 18

Which WSC event is the best?

Collaborative Writing, Scholar's Bowl, Scholar's Challenge, Team Debate

Which of the following was most likely NOT the purpose of the Spartan krypteia?

To steal food supplies from the countryside

Which following reasons accounts MOST for the construction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The emperor’s wife was homesick

Which of the following explains why no one investigated the Tunguska explosion at that time?

Russian authorities had more to worry about

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1
Your Macbook might blow up because of short circuits. How can we make a battery blowup?
Connect the +ve terminal to the -ve terminal with a wire
Load the circuit with many resistors connected in series
Load the circuit with many resistors connected in parallel
Earth the battery
2
Which of the following employ a working principle that is MOST related to a vacuum cleaner?
Toasters
Airplanes
Dishwashers
Trains
3
Which of the following did NOT play a role in the rise of teenagers in the 20th century?
Compulsory education
The postwar economic boom
Smartphones
Cars
4
The moon in ‘Papilla Estelar’ MOST likely represents
Opportunity
Oppression
Pride
Hopelessness
5
Which of the following pairs match up the BEST?
The Potato Eaters - It’s A Hard-Knock Life
The Awakening Slave - Unfinished Symphony
Between the Margins - Mbube
Free as A Bird - Me and the Sky
6
What is NOT a reason for the decline of 20 year olds in Japan celebrating seijin shiki?
Low birth rate
Video game and anime addiction
Shrinking percentage of youth
Increasing number of youth who don't feel they are adults
7
How might Andrew from 'The Bicentiennial Man' react to carving wood?
He enjoys it
He does not know what to feel
He dislikes it
He will self-destruct
8
In early 1900s, what did the blind use to read?
Eyeglasses
Optacon
Fiber optics
Optophone
9
Which of the following events MOST likely influenced the creation of ‘Hiding in the City’?
The Iraq War
The Cold War
The Olympics
The World Cup
10
ADX Florence :: Halden Prison
Homelessness :: slums
Shanty towns :: downtown
Tribalism :: racism
Masculinity :: femininity
11
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’s misogynistic
It betrays the ideals of abstract expressionism
It was probably influenced by the works of Picasso
12
What form of poem is 'Crusoe in England'?
Spoken word
Slam poetry
Elegy
Sonnet
13
According to Yuval Cherlow, pork is kosher when
resources are running out
the electricity stops
the pork meat is taken from a hybrid
the pork meat is taken from a cloned
14
Which of the following raw material generates activated carbon?
Graphite
Fullerenes
Charcoal
Graphene
15
Which of the following facts is wrongly associated to the Terracotta Mausoleum?
Emperor Qin’s tomb is untouched
Mercury have been heavily used in its production
Generals wield weapons that were made from gold
Every terracotta soldier has unique facial features
16
Which of the following is a characteristic of the Fountain of Youth?
Freezing temperature
Low density liquid
Blocks visible light
Pungent smell
17
Which of the following may be BEST used to explained a floating castle:
Havana syndrome
Fata Morgana
Cognitive dissonance
Schizophrenia
18
What is the significance of reaching the age of Jewish Bar/Bat Mitzvah?
Emancipation from one's parents
Gaining religious freedom
Graduation from religious school
Becoming morally accountable for one's own actions
19
CAPTCHA involves
short words
complex words
huge words
squiggly words
20
Which of the following is the working principle of the ionic hair dryer?
Emitted ions are are hydrophobic and they repel H2O more
Emitted ions remove H2O by ionizing the bonds
Ionic compounds within the dryer allow it to reach high temp
Emitted ions generate an electrostatic field, removing H2O
21
Which of the roles below is MOST LIKELY going to be employed to film an action movie?
Gaffers
Literary agent
Dramaturge
Stunt double
22
Which of the following figures of speech BEST describes ‘YMCA’?
Double entendre
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
23
Which of the following is MOST effective for a home’s temperature control?
Ice packs
Insulated walls
Fans
Air conditioners
24
Which of the following is the MOST efficient way of modern heating?
Place an object in a magnetic field
Increasing pressure
Passing a current
Over a flame
25
In Harry Potter, how are house elves freed from indentured servitude?
Their owner gives them a piece of clothing
Their owner gives them a bed
Their owner dies
Their owner gives them an alpaca
26
What does the drinking gourd in ‘Follow the Drinking Gourd’ MOST likely represent?
A constellation
A comet
The Moon
The Sun
27
Who of the following would MOST likely agree with the themes of ‘The Fourth Estate’?
Annie
Marius Pontmercy
Beverley Bass
Solomon Linda
28
George C. Homans proposed that in a relationship, humans seek to
conform to the idea of a family
take care of their loved ones
be loved
get benefited
29
Which of the below is NOT true about magstripe and credit card chip?
Credit card chip is encrypted with digital signatures
Magstripe can be easily counterfeited
Pin & chip was introduced the same time as magstripe
Magstripe uses magnetic particles to store static data
30
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
31
The picture of the duck in the Cicada 3301 mystery led to a:
String of meaningless texts
A picture of a cicada
A map
Book cypher
32
Why do Jewish people gift in multiples of 18 at Bar/Bat Mitzvahs?
The Hebrew word for life is the number 18
The age of adulthood for Jews is 18
Jerusalem is located at 18 degrees north
Jewish scripture says that Jesus was reborn at 18
33
Zebra stripes are MOST likely a form of:
Unnecessarily evolutionary traits
Cooling mechanism
Camouflage
Confusion to predators
34
Which WSC event is the best?
Collaborative Writing
Scholar's Bowl
Scholar's Challenge
Team Debate
35
‘Hotel, Room 47’ would MOST likely be identified as work done by a
Journalist
Detective
Architect
Muralist
36
Which of the following is not found in a battery?
Electrolytes
Anode
Buffer
Cathode
37
Which historical monarch is MOST likely represented by the narrator in ‘Viva La Vida’?
Louis XVI
Nicholas II
Wilhelm I
Henry VII
38
Which of the following was most likely NOT the purpose of the Spartan krypteia?
To organize state-sponsored secret police
To prepare boys for war
To steal food supplies from the countryside
To supress and subjugate the Helot slave population
39
Which following reasons accounts MOST for the construction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
To flaunt wealth against neighboring cities
To watch the birds of the gods
Archimedes wanted to test his water pump
The emperor’s wife was homesick
40
What is NOT an ingredient in the process of Chudakarana, a Hindu child's first haircut?
Milk
Cow dung
Tumeric
Rice flour
41
Which of Tuckman's stages does a team normally establish hierarchy of positions?
Performing
Storming
Forming
Norming
42
The drought which ended the Mayan Civilization was MOST likely to be induced by:
Excessive agriculture
Wrath of the gods
Excessive construction of Stone Pyramids
Deforestation
43
In which country would you most likely find its people paying for things with QR codes?
China
United States
United Kingdom
Maldives
44
Which American comedian thanked working nannies in a toast at the TIME 100 gala?
Tina Fey
Amy Poehler
Amy Schumer
Hasan Minhaj
45
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
46
The people described in ‘Streets of London’ have all
Survived a war
Died
Been remembered
Lived in poverty
47
Which of the following phenomenon is responsible for wireless charging?
Magnetic fields
Packets of energy
Electromagnetic induction
Wi-Fi
48
FDM is a 3D printing process. What does FDM stand for?
Face Dimensional Making
Fizzing Droplets Melting
Fused Deposition Modelling
Forced Dorsal Molding
49
The Stone Spheres of Costa Rica are BEST known for their
materials
degree of roundness
strength
history
50
Which of the following figures of speech BEST describes 'The Tyger'?
Paradox
Metaphor
Personification
Duality
51
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 Russian authorities covered up the incident
The explosion was due to the Mandela’s effect
52
How would a deaf culture supporter MOST likely respond to ‘Harold Whittles Hears'?
“Isn’t technology amazing?”
“We should be grateful to be born with a sense of hearing.”
“This proves that our culture is being discriminated.”
“How would he understand what he’s hearing?”
53
In Korea's caste system, which group of people are ranked below the baekjeong?
The nobi
The cheonmin
The jung-in
The sangmin
54
What would Martin Kemp MOST likely say about the Isleworth Mona Lisa?
“It was completed at an earlier date than the actual one”
“It’s better than the actual one”
“It was only partially done by Leonardo Da Vinci”
“It’s just a copy of the actual one”
55
The myth of contagious yawns can be debunked by:
Mirror neurons
Low pressure areas
True friendship
Fake news
56
Which alpaca is cuter?
Daniel
Dylan
Burch oof
Chauncey
57
Which of the following is used to discharge charge?
Diodes
Capacitors
Resistors
Thermistor
58
Which of the following artworks is MOST different in what it represents compared to the others?
Woman Ironing
Between the Margins
Free Period in the Amsterdam Orphanage
Stag at Sharkey’s
59
Which of the following famous people were NOT referred to in ‘Black Man’?
Bruce Lee
Thomas Edison
Martin Luther King Jr.
Sacagawea
60
The significance of Linear B is MOST likely lie in:
Eigenvectors and eigenvalues
The degrees of fit of the line
Early workings of linear algebra
The form of language
61
Which of the following artworks MOST likely needs the services of a restorer?
Office in a Small City
Woman-Ochre
Between the Cracks
The Potato Eaters
62
What is the most significant difference between an au pair and an amah / nanny?
An au pair is always an European woman
An au pair does not have to clean
An au pair is treated as a member of the host family
An au pair does not have to take care of children
63
When you are socially invisible, you are
invisible, literally
disconnected from the society
the wealthy power behind a country
an introvert
64
What advice would John Green MOST likely give to the bullied child in ‘Seodang’?
“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.”
“You should write more to distract from the pain.”
65
William killed Nicholas and was not charged/jailed legally. Why is that?
William is a Bụi đời
Nicholas is a homo sacer
Nicholas is a part of burakumin
William is a lumpenproletariat
66
Which of the following acronym is MOST likely to be related to the vanishing honeybees:
ABG
CCB
DHB
RIP
67
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
68
When Jerry, the President of Kyzgf, puts his friend in governmental position, he is committing
rankism
ethnocentrism
ableism
nepotism
69
The original “bog bodies” is the result of:
Accidents
Warfare
Unexplained terminal diseases
Rituals
70
Darren beats Ji Hahn up. Based on the Just-World hypothesis, Ji Hahn expects that Darren
will soon be bullying him againf
will soon be beaten up by someone else
will soon be rewarded with sweets
will be on the news the next day
71
Brazilians who are living under the poverty line are most likely to live in
a gececondu
a ghetto
a favela
Skid Row
72
Where does the proverb "it takes a village to raise a child' originate from?
Nigeria
China
Ethiopia
Kenya
73
If the Scholar's Bowl is carried out under a crutchfield situation, every team will
share answers with each other
be separated by walls
begin with different points depending on their backgrounds
take a run before the Bowl
74
Why did the Vulcans from Star Trek maintain the test of kahs-wan?
To weed out the weak
To ingrain strength and courage in their youth
To keep pure logic from making them weak
To disgrace cowards in their society
75
Which of the following songs BEST agrees with the themes of ‘The Ugly Duckling’?
It’s a Hard-Knock Life
God Help the Outcasts
Wavin’ Flag
Streets of London
76
The Solway Firth Spaceman is MOST likely to be regarded as a problem caused by:
The child's mother positioning
Excessive exposure to radiation
Faulty camera
Extraterrestrial lifeform
77
What BEST describes the tone of ‘We Care A Lot’?
Rebellious
Melancholic
Sincere
Sarcastic
78
Which of the following songs are polar opposites?
‘Therru’s Song’ & ‘It’s A Hard-Knock Life’
‘Motorcycle Drive-By' & ‘Other People’s Stories’
‘Signs’ & ‘Songs of a Wayfarer No. 2’
‘Get Some Sleep’ & ‘Viva La Vida’
79
Which of these poem is short enough to be a tweet?
My Shoes
The Octopus
The Tyger
The Raven
80
Who of the following would be MOST suitable in bringing more interest to the parai?
Renata Flores Rivera
William Barton
Solomon Linda
Bic Runga
81
When Hitler carried out eugenics at his times, he
declared war on Poland
painted artistically on canvas
jailed his political opponents
killed the non-Aryans
82
SAT is made possible MOSTLY because of
me
Scantrons
magnetic field
EFTPOS
83
Which of the following countries MOST influenced the creation of “Open Border’?
China
Canada
USA
North Korea
84
Which of the following is false about Left-handers:
They tend to excel in sport
They tend to be mix-handed as they age
They are unlikely left-hemisphere dominant for language
Left-handers are more intelligent and creative
85
Which of the experiments below includes creating conflicts by limiting resources?
Crutchfield Situation Study
Robber's Cave Experiment
Asch Conformity Experiment
Stanford Prison Experiment
86
When a company's share price is dropping, which of this tends to happen?
the company closing the pay gap
the CEO of the company going on a vacation
a woman taking on the glass cliff
the company hiring less minorities
87
Which of the following art would the woman in ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ LEAST likely agree with?
Open Border
Here We Are
The Potato Eaters
Office in a Small City
88
When a woman meets a glass ceiling in her career, she
has succeeded
is unable to climb the cooperate ladder due to her gender
is failing to see where her problems lie
should break the glass
89
Which of following pieces can BEST be likened to a woven cloth?
Other People’s Stories
Symphony No. 10
Requiem in D Minor
Little People
90
The Johari window may fail if
wind is strong
the temperature gets too high
pressure is low
environment is toxic
91
In a party, Henry Reich dances. What does this mean?
He is being disadvantaged from redlining
He is under social normative influence
He is following the rules of endogamy set by his tribe
He is being segregated
92
What does King Tut, Joffrey, and Emperor Puyi all have in common?
They were mentally ill
They were children
They died young
They were infamous for their cruelty
93
In Yemen, the lowest group in the caste system is called
bitlaha
ragyabpa
akhdam
cagot
94
The idea of national pride can be explained by
Swarm Behavior
Black Sheep Effect
Social Identity Theory
Homans' Theory
95
Which of the following songs would the man in ‘The Raven’ MOST likely be listening to?
Therru’s Song
Mbube
Motorcycle Drive-By
Songs of a Wayfarer No. 2
96
Which of the following materials debunks the claim that the Pyramids of Egypt are power plants?
Copper wires
Limestone coating
Oversized casket
Granites
97
Are you ready for science?!?
NAH
YAH
98
The Rongorongo is MOST likely to:
Random glyphs
Chants
Depict history
Decorations
99
Which of the following factor is responsible for the output of cold air in air-conditioners?
Varying heat supply
Varying fan powers
Varying power
Varying pressure
100
Herd mentality is NOT known as
Gang mentality
Pack mentality
Squad mentality
Mob mentality
101
When a man tries to explain menstruation to a woman, he is
objectifying the woman
vagrant
mansplaining
being sexist

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