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1
What would Yeats say about "The Municipal Gallery Revisited"?
I'd rather die than be English
My name rhymes with GATES, you morons!
You are what your friends are
Maud Gonne will always love me
2
Disneyland Resort is home to various themed lands that immerse guests in other worlds, fairy tales, and past eras.
True
False
3
The British monarch _________ died in battle in 1485, but nobody found his body.
Richard III
William IV
Edward VII
George V
4
A 2,000-year-old Buddhist temple was unearthed in
Pakistan
Thailand
China
Japan
5
__________ is/are an outdoor weekend gathering which emulates a historic period.
Coachella
Neo-classical Faire
Revival Festival
Renaissance Fairs
6
Who replaced Liz Truss?
Rishi Sunak
A radish
Benjamin Disraeli
Margaret Thatcher
7
The following are main techniques in de-extinction
except for
:
cloning
back-breeding
DNA reconstruction
genome editing
8
Historical accuracy is often impossible to achieve in complex games like
Assassin's Creed Origins
Age of Empires
Total War
Grand Theft Auto
9
What does DNA phenotyping do?
Alter a genotype
Align chromosomes to base patterns
Predict someone's physical characteristics
Swap the genotype with the phenotype
10
One can experience the lives of Irish people who moved to the United States at
Ulster American Folk Park
American-Ireland Park
Amerish Folk Park
Irish-American Park
11
Which extinct animal lived here?
Dragon
Matthew Tesoro
Dodo
Moa
12
What's an issue with the CSI Effect?
Criminals with science degrees can literally get away with murder
Jurors expect irrefutable forensic evidence
Lawyers expect judges to know more science
A higher percentage of death penalty cases
13
The key element that’s needed to re-create a species is its
cells
embryo
genome
DNA
14
What would a Luddite most likely say about machines?
"They're so difficult to learn!"
"They're lowering my annual raise in salary!"
"They're taking our jobs!"
"They take our souls away!"
15
Focusing too much on the 20th and 21st centuries is referred to as
c'est la vie
existentialism
presentism
currentism
16
The world’s first planned time capsule debuted in 1876, is called __________.
Century Safe
Crypt of Civilization
Westinghouse Time Capsules
Massachusetts State House Time Capsule
17
The strange history of dinosaurs in art is the subject of a new book called:
Visual Images of Pre-Historic Life
Paleoart
Discoveries in archaeology
The T-Rex Collection
18
Semantically, "MAGA" best represents...
Archaeobotany
The politicization of nostalgia
The increased reliance on the past
The return to power
19
Bruce Lee initally was a co-star in
Green Hornet
.
False
True
20
Many blame China for COVID. What else could they be blamed for?
Operas with Donald Trump in them
Hijacking Railroad Tycoon with false code
The passenger pigeon extinction
The American chestnut blight
21
Bruce Coville's 1986 novel __________ features six teenagers who have no history teacher.
Operation Microsoft
Operation AI
Operation Sherlock
Operation Fortune
22
Why did Angela Gallop create the Forensic Alliance?
To aid the police & law enforcement
To bring similar-minded people together
To improve the world's forensic capabilities
To protect the interests of forensic scientists
23
Which American law requites wheelchair ramps for access to public buildings?
Facilities for the Disabled Act
Americans with Disabilities Act
No Wheelchair Left Behind
Obamacare
24
What can Stasis Inc do?
Reconstruct mammoth DNA
Create a lifelike wax museum
Pull objects through time
Create longer living vegetables
25
What was Carl Akeley the "father" of?
Dioramas
Renaissance faires
Voodoo economics
Opera
26
Who introduced the first commercial color process called autochrome?
James Clerk Maxwell
Gabriel Jonas Lippmann
Lumiere brothers, Auguste and Louis
Hermann Wilhelm Vogel
27
Why was John Wilkes Booth so able to assassinate Lincoln?
It was $1 beer night so the security was light
He bribed the security to allow him full access
He was a famous actor so he had access to the theater
He was the lead actor in the play but took the night off
28
What is the Crypt of Civilization?
The time capsule at Oglethorpe University
The monestary holding the Book of Kells
Babylon
The most recent Sid Meier game
29
You can escape to the past by going to Calgary, Canada at a place called
Heritage Museum
Heritage Park
The Living Heritage
The Heritage
30
Where is the Museum of the Future?
New York
Paris
London
Dubai
31
After watching the video, who else could have learned this lesson?
Captain Smith
Celia
Genghis Khan
Yuval Sharon
32
What does the word
memoir
originate from?
Mother
Reminiscence
Commemoration
Memory
33
Which wasteland was the home for this guy?
Germany
Brazil
South Pasadena
Argentina
34
What does one examine with a post-mortem examination?
Mongols
A dead body
Both ends of a hypothesis
Endless possibilities
35
The term "time capsule" wasn't invented until the _____World's Fair.
1940
1945
1930
1939
36
In musicals, __________ may open doors to new stories and help move society in a progressive direction.
colour-conscious casting
auditioning
historically conscious casting
recasting
37
When was the Century Safe re-opened?
V-E Day
1984 Summer Olympics
American Bicentennial
1936 Worlds Fair (New York)
38
Who is the actor that portrays Princess Diana in Pablo Larrain's 'Spencer.'
Emma Corrin
Naomi Watts
Lesley Harcourt
Kristen Stewart
39
Who actually was an historical hunchback?
John Milton
John Burgess
Samuel Pepys
Richard III
40
This musical tells the story of the Founding Fathers of America
1776
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Hamilton
Amazing Grace
41
What two regions comprise archaeobotany?
Xylem, phloem
Mesosphere, lithosphere
Diurnal, nocturnal
Old World, New World
42
Which author coined the term
cyberpunk
?
HG Wells
Hilaire Beloc
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Gibson
43
Who really should be getting paid residuals for this?
Jerry Bock
Pat Ballard
Paul McCartney/John Lennon
Michael Jacksopn
44
Which group initially sang this song?
The Rolling Stones
The Beatles
The Who
Pink Floyd
45
Where is Indiana Jones?
Macchu Picchu
Petra
Qumran Caves
Pompeii
46
Which term originated from a "bundle of wooden rods"?
History
Nostalgia
Fascism
Civilization
47
One of the most expansive collections of texts in classical civilization.
Library of Celsus
Library of Alexandria
Library of Pergamum
Library of Ashurbanipal
48
The replication of historically significant battles and campaigns by actors.
Military acting training
Military reenactments
Military reconstruction
Military imitation
49
Which animal is NOT pictured in
Guernica
?
Wounded horse
Winged bird
Lion
Bull
50
Gaming can be educational. Which of these is NOT a historical video game?
Ghost of Tsushima
The Saboteur
The Oregon Trail
Super Mario 64
51
__________ was buried under volcanic ash from about 1000 and overgrown with vegetation until Raffles' discovery in 1814.
Petra
Machu Picchu
Prambanan
Borobudur
52
Which of the following was considered the very first opera?
Dafne
Orfeo
Carmen
Rigoletto
53
Which of the following caused Borobudur's original disappearance?
D.B. Cooper
Ice age
Disconnection of Gondwanaland
Volcano ash
54
Where can you find this open-air living museum?
Brazil
Mexico
Portugal
Spain
55
Ancient library destroyed by the Mongols ----
The Library of Alexandria
Abbasid Caliphate's House of Wisdom
The Persians' Library of Pergamum
The Villa of the Song
56
Why wasn't Gentileschi's painting of Judith not initially exhibited in art museums?
The gallery thought it was painted by Rembrandt
Paintings of Hebrews were forbidden
The artist was a woman
All Biblical artwork must be in hierarchical framework
57
Which of the following would NOT create a latent print?
Pus
Sweat
Blood
Tears
58
Who does Ingersol mock as the "greatest soldier of the modern world"?
Vladimir Putin
Napoleon
Charles Babbage
Rocky Balboa
59
Who infamously told a
NY Times
reporter to get a divorce because she loved him?
Mata Hari
A chatbot
Edith Fellowes
Liz Truss
60
In which continent is Macchu Picchu?
Europe
North America
Africa
South America
61
Which food item was the biggest reason the Irish emigrated to America?
Tomato
Butternut squash
Turnip
Potato
62
__________ is a technique that uses anatomical knowledge of the human skull to flesh out the face of a deceased.
Neanderthalic reconstruction
digital reconstruction
forensic reconstruction
post-mortem facial reconstruction
63
Which country was the home of Sots Art?
Soviet Union
Atlantis
Czechoslovakia
West Germany
64
Which historical figure would most likely be subjected to a "Brazilian telephone"?
John Milton
Pele
Marat
Charles Babbage
65
Which culture held the mythology of Cibola?
Neanderthals
Mongols
Sumerians
Aztecs
66
Google has dominance over the world of information.
False
True
67
Which artist used this method in their artwork?
Adad Hannah
Robert Longo
Carol Hofmeyer
Jacques Louis David
68
Where would you find the oldest person with this girl's name?
Ethiopia
China
Mauritius
Canada
69
The theory that it is healthier to eat like our ancestors did 10,000 years ago refers to the
Paleo diet
Primeval diet
Primordial diet
Atkins diet
70
The most exhaustively-cataloged collection of Buddhist scriptures in the world:
Tantric texts
Tanjur
Kanjur
Tripitaka Koreana
71
__________ is the determination of the age of organic matter from the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes.
excavation
remote sensing
dendrochronology
radioactive dating
72
Which of the following did the Mongols NOT do?
Inspire a poem by Coleridge
Burn the Tripitaka Koreana
Destroy the "Storehouse of Wisdom"
Invade the Japanese island of Tsushiima
73
What is the governmental role of Hakeem Jeffries?
Ways and Means chairman
Minority whip
President pro tempe
Minority speaker