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Omega WSC Mock Bowl 2023
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1
One can experience the lives of Irish people who moved to the United States at
American-Ireland Park
Ulster American Folk Park
Irish-American Park
Amerish Folk Park
2
Which of the following did the Mongols NOT do?
Inspire a poem by Coleridge
Invade the Japanese island of Tsushiima
Destroy the "Storehouse of Wisdom"
Burn the Tripitaka Koreana
3
Why was John Wilkes Booth so able to assassinate Lincoln?
He was the lead actor in the play but took the night off
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
4
Historical accuracy is often impossible to achieve in complex games like
Assassin's Creed Origins
Grand Theft Auto
Age of Empires
Total War
5
Many blame China for COVID. What else could they be blamed for?
The passenger pigeon extinction
The American chestnut blight
Hijacking Railroad Tycoon with false code
Operas with Donald Trump in them
6
Who actually was an historical hunchback?
John Milton
Samuel Pepys
Richard III
John Burgess
7
What two regions comprise archaeobotany?
Diurnal, nocturnal
Old World, New World
Mesosphere, lithosphere
Xylem, phloem
8
__________ was buried under volcanic ash from about 1000 and overgrown with vegetation until Raffles' discovery in 1814.
Machu Picchu
Prambanan
Petra
Borobudur
9
In musicals, __________ may open doors to new stories and help move society in a progressive direction.
auditioning
colour-conscious casting
recasting
historically conscious casting
10
A 2,000-year-old Buddhist temple was unearthed in
China
Thailand
Japan
Pakistan
11
Where would you find the oldest person with this girl's name?
China
Canada
Ethiopia
Mauritius
12
The term "time capsule" wasn't invented until the _____World's Fair.
1939
1930
1945
1940
13
Gaming can be educational. Which of these is NOT a historical video game?
The Saboteur
Super Mario 64
The Oregon Trail
Ghost of Tsushima
14
__________ is a technique that uses anatomical knowledge of the human skull to flesh out the face of a deceased.
digital reconstruction
post-mortem facial reconstruction
Neanderthalic reconstruction
forensic reconstruction
15
__________ is the determination of the age of organic matter from the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes.
dendrochronology
radioactive dating
excavation
remote sensing
16
The most exhaustively-cataloged collection of Buddhist scriptures in the world:
Tantric texts
Tanjur
Kanjur
Tripitaka Koreana
17
One of the most expansive collections of texts in classical civilization.
Library of Alexandria
Library of Celsus
Library of Pergamum
Library of Ashurbanipal
18
When was the Century Safe re-opened?
American Bicentennial
1936 Worlds Fair (New York)
V-E Day
1984 Summer Olympics
19
Which American law requites wheelchair ramps for access to public buildings?
Americans with Disabilities Act
No Wheelchair Left Behind
Obamacare
Facilities for the Disabled Act
20
What does DNA phenotyping do?
Predict someone's physical characteristics
Align chromosomes to base patterns
Swap the genotype with the phenotype
Alter a genotype
21
Which culture held the mythology of Cibola?
Neanderthals
Mongols
Aztecs
Sumerians
22
What is the governmental role of Hakeem Jeffries?
President pro tempe
Ways and Means chairman
Minority whip
Minority speaker
23
Which wasteland was the home for this guy?
Argentina
Brazil
Germany
South Pasadena
24
Which term originated from a "bundle of wooden rods"?
History
Nostalgia
Fascism
Civilization
25
What is the Crypt of Civilization?
Babylon
The monestary holding the Book of Kells
The most recent Sid Meier game
The time capsule at Oglethorpe University
26
Which country was the home of Sots Art?
Atlantis
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
West Germany
27
Where is the Museum of the Future?
London
Dubai
New York
Paris
28
Why did Angela Gallop create the Forensic Alliance?
To improve the world's forensic capabilities
To aid the police & law enforcement
To bring similar-minded people together
To protect the interests of forensic scientists
29
Who introduced the first commercial color process called autochrome?
Gabriel Jonas Lippmann
Lumiere brothers, Auguste and Louis
James Clerk Maxwell
Hermann Wilhelm Vogel
30
The following are main techniques in de-extinction
except for
:
genome editing
back-breeding
DNA reconstruction
cloning
31
Who infamously told a
NY Times
reporter to get a divorce because she loved him?
Liz Truss
Mata Hari
A chatbot
Edith Fellowes
32
Which animal is NOT pictured in
Guernica
?
Lion
Bull
Winged bird
Wounded horse
33
The world’s first planned time capsule debuted in 1876, is called __________.
Century Safe
Westinghouse Time Capsules
Massachusetts State House Time Capsule
Crypt of Civilization
34
In which continent is Macchu Picchu?
Africa
Europe
North America
South America
35
Semantically, "MAGA" best represents...
The increased reliance on the past
The return to power
The politicization of nostalgia
Archaeobotany
36
What was Carl Akeley the "father" of?
Dioramas
Opera
Voodoo economics
Renaissance faires
37
Which artist used this method in their artwork?
Robert Longo
Adad Hannah
Jacques Louis David
Carol Hofmeyer
38
Who does Ingersol mock as the "greatest soldier of the modern world"?
Vladimir Putin
Napoleon
Rocky Balboa
Charles Babbage
39
What does the word
memoir
originate from?
Memory
Commemoration
Mother
Reminiscence
40
The replication of historically significant battles and campaigns by actors.
Military acting training
Military reconstruction
Military reenactments
Military imitation
41
You can escape to the past by going to Calgary, Canada at a place called
The Living Heritage
The Heritage
Heritage Museum
Heritage Park
42
What does one examine with a post-mortem examination?
A dead body
Endless possibilities
Both ends of a hypothesis
Mongols
43
Which of the following was considered the very first opera?
Carmen
Dafne
Orfeo
Rigoletto
44
Google has dominance over the world of information.
False
True
45
Which of the following would NOT create a latent print?
Sweat
Pus
Blood
Tears
46
Which extinct animal lived here?
Matthew Tesoro
Moa
Dodo
Dragon
47
Ancient library destroyed by the Mongols ----
Abbasid Caliphate's House of Wisdom
The Persians' Library of Pergamum
The Villa of the Song
The Library of Alexandria
48
Focusing too much on the 20th and 21st centuries is referred to as
currentism
c'est la vie
presentism
existentialism
49
The theory that it is healthier to eat like our ancestors did 10,000 years ago refers to the
Atkins diet
Primordial diet
Paleo diet
Primeval diet
50
Where can you find this open-air living museum?
Brazil
Mexico
Spain
Portugal
51
Disneyland Resort is home to various themed lands that immerse guests in other worlds, fairy tales, and past eras.
False
True
52
Which historical figure would most likely be subjected to a "Brazilian telephone"?
Marat
Pele
Charles Babbage
John Milton
53
Who really should be getting paid residuals for this?
Paul McCartney/John Lennon
Jerry Bock
Michael Jacksopn
Pat Ballard
54
What would a Luddite most likely say about machines?
"They're taking our jobs!"
"They take our souls away!"
"They're so difficult to learn!"
"They're lowering my annual raise in salary!"
55
Who replaced Liz Truss?
Margaret Thatcher
Benjamin Disraeli
Rishi Sunak
A radish
56
Bruce Coville's 1986 novel __________ features six teenagers who have no history teacher.
Operation AI
Operation Sherlock
Operation Microsoft
Operation Fortune
57
Who is the actor that portrays Princess Diana in Pablo Larrain's 'Spencer.'
Naomi Watts
Kristen Stewart
Emma Corrin
Lesley Harcourt
58
Which food item was the biggest reason the Irish emigrated to America?
Turnip
Potato
Butternut squash
Tomato
59
Where is Indiana Jones?
Macchu Picchu
Pompeii
Petra
Qumran Caves
60
Bruce Lee initally was a co-star in
Green Hornet
.
True
False
61
What can Stasis Inc do?
Create longer living vegetables
Reconstruct mammoth DNA
Create a lifelike wax museum
Pull objects through time
62
The British monarch _________ died in battle in 1485, but nobody found his body.
Richard III
George V
Edward VII
William IV
63
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
64
Which of the following caused Borobudur's original disappearance?
Volcano ash
Disconnection of Gondwanaland
D.B. Cooper
Ice age
65
The key element that’s needed to re-create a species is its
embryo
cells
genome
DNA
66
The strange history of dinosaurs in art is the subject of a new book called:
Discoveries in archaeology
The T-Rex Collection
Paleoart
Visual Images of Pre-Historic Life
67
Which group initially sang this song?
Pink Floyd
The Beatles
The Who
The Rolling Stones
68
After watching the video, who else could have learned this lesson?
Celia
Yuval Sharon
Genghis Khan
Captain Smith
69
What would Yeats say about "The Municipal Gallery Revisited"?
Maud Gonne will always love me
You are what your friends are
My name rhymes with GATES, you morons!
I'd rather die than be English
70
Why wasn't Gentileschi's painting of Judith not initially exhibited in art museums?
The gallery thought it was painted by Rembrandt
The artist was a woman
All Biblical artwork must be in hierarchical framework
Paintings of Hebrews were forbidden
71
Which author coined the term
cyberpunk
?
William Gibson
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hilaire Beloc
HG Wells
72
This musical tells the story of the Founding Fathers of America
Amazing Grace
Hamilton
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
1776
73
__________ is/are an outdoor weekend gathering which emulates a historic period.
Neo-classical Faire
Renaissance Fairs
Revival Festival
Coachella