WSC 2023 global round bowl practice 5

Question 1

Why the moa birds extinct?

Accepted Answer

hunting by humans and changes in their habitat

Question 2

The extinct Moa bird is native to .....

Accepted Answer

New Zealand

Question 3

Who was the famous conductor who was literally a slave to the composer?

Accepted Answer

Arturo Toscanini

Question 4

A living clone of Celia was born in July 2003; however, she died several minutes after birth due to .....

Accepted Answer

a lung defect

Question 5

Who was conducting his own Star Wars main title theme?

Accepted Answer

John Williams

Question 6

The Dodo birds were first seen by ..... sailors about 1507

Accepted Answer

Portuguese

Question 7

What was the first extinct species to be cloned and the first species to go extinct twice?

Accepted Answer

Pyrenean ibex

Question 8

An organisation that plans to use the tools of molecular biology to bring the passenger pigeon back to life is .....

Accepted Answer

Revive & Restore

Question 9

The Dodo bird got its name from Portuguese word &#x27;doudo&#x27;, or &#x27;simpleton&#x27;, probably because ....

Accepted Answer

the bird had no fear of man and was easily killed

Question 10

What&#x27;s the name of the robot conductor that led a human orchestra in United Arab emirates on January 31, 2020?

Accepted Answer

Android Alter 3

Question 11

What was the most abundant bird in North America and possibly the world in the 19th century?

Accepted Answer

Passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius

Question 12

Before the 19th century, which was just part of the job description of composers?

Accepted Answer

composers frequently conducted their own works

Question 13

The last natural Pyrenean ibex, a female named Celia, was found dead on January 6, 2000; she had been killed by .....

Accepted Answer

a fallen tree

Question 14

Stanley Kubrick discarded all the music that his chosen composer, Alex North made for the film .....

Accepted Answer

2001: A Space Odyssey

Question 15

What extinct animals whose remains are scattered all over Europe, America, and Mauritius?

Accepted Answer

Dodo

Question 16

Below are the factors that contribute the extinction of Passenger Pigeons, except .....

Accepted Answer

Global warming

Question 17

The name of the opera written by Japanese composer Keiichiro Shibuya and conductedby Android Alter 3: ......

Accepted Answer

Scary Beauty

Question 18

A famous essay by Aldo Leopold with the main focus on the extinct passenger pigeon: .....

Accepted Answer

On a Monument to the Pigeon

Question 19

Who is the composer of classical music "Experience" that goes viral on TikTok?

Accepted Answer

Ludovico Einaudi

Question 20

About September 1, 1914, the last known passenger pigeon, a female named ....., died at the Cincinnati Zoo

Accepted Answer

Martha

Question 21

Stanley Kubrick replaced the entire soundtrack with classical pieces; most memorably, he laid Richard Strauss&#x27;s ...

Accepted Answer

Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Question 22

Who invented the shower?

Accepted Answer

The ancient Greeks

Question 23

Toscanini&#x27;s famous rival ..... took a very different approach; he treated the notes on the page as just a starting point

Accepted Answer

Wilhelm Furtwängler

Question 24

The evidence showing showers invented by the ancient Greeks was found in an Ancient Greek city .....

Accepted Answer

Pergamon

Question 25

The Congress passed the nation’s first wildlife-protection law in 1900 known as .....

Accepted Answer

Lacey Act

WSC 2023 global round bowl practice 5

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WSC 2023 global round bowl practice 5

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