Extra Quiz Bowl 1

If you wanted to learn about the past like a teen in Bruce Coville's 1986 novel Operation Sherlock, you would _

What ancient location was destroyed when the Mongols swept by on their way to Hungary and back again.

The theory that the Egyptian Pyramids were the work of ancient aliens falls within which discipline?

Which source is most accurately credited with the theory that dinosaurs had feathers?

Isaac Asimov wrote a short story of the history of the children of the Neanderthals in 1958 called ________

How did Chinese opera solve the problem of declining audience numbers?

If you were a conservative in America, the 1950s, the 1980s, November 2016 would be known as

What ancient location was destroyed when the Mongols swept by on their way to Hungary and back again.

Focusing on the 20th and 21st century is called

Richard III's body was found _

Which of these is NOT an alternative term for pseudoarchaeology?

If you were eating roast squab and waldorf pudding, where would you be?

Which of these is NOT a technique for bringing extinct animals back to life?

Them Mushrooms' Embe Dodo is an example of a nostalgic musical genre called

What or who was discovered under a parking lot in Leicester?

Studying insects found on dead bodies and human remains is the work of a...

The Oregon Trail, Seven Cities of Gold, Sid Meier's Pirates!, Call of Duty are all

You can listen to a mezzosoprano for the cost of a

The first time capsule was named ________invented in _______________

The director of the play The Mountaintop sparked controversy after ________

The main character of the time travel film Back to the Future finds himself in 1955 choreographed to what song?

Before it was called a Time Capsule, it was a...

The Watergate scandal ended the career of which US politician?

If one were to model a killing after French aristocrat Charlotte Corday, they would

A historical account written from personal knowledge or special sources is called

Some prosecutors worry that people who watch crime dramas on television will have unrealistic expectations, called _

If one wanted to chat with historical figures dead or alive, they could use ______

Who is the narrator of the novel The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling?

What common criticism has been levelled at the movies Braveheart, Pocahontas and The Woman King?

Where can visitors experience the lives of Irish people who moved to the United States?

If you were doing academic research on 'zilizopendwa' which university faculty would you most likely be a part of?

The theory that it is helthier to eat like our ancestors, 10,000 years ago, is called:

In A Dog Has Died, by Pablo Neruda, to what does the 'dog' refer?

Records suggest that India's first newspaper was

If you've heard of the musical piece Experience, you're probably on what social platform?

If you were researching the life expectancy of a head of lettuce, you are most likely studying which political leader?

Excavation is the process of .

Emanuel Leutze's "Washington Crossing the Delaware" (1851) can be critiqued because of its

The Beatles' song "Because" began with the idea of playing the familiar chords in Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, _