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1
Dodo by Henry Carlile is about
How stupid the dodo is
How the dodo is extinct
How ugly the dodo is
How the poet feels he relates to the dodo
2
The fast food of the ancient Romans, which literally means hot shop, is called...
Thermapavilion
Thermataverna
Thermopolium
Thermokantina
3
Why can government records be a bad way of recording history?
They have only opinions
They may be bias
They are not on the computer
They are too short
4
The Iceman Otzi was...
A type of artic boat
The name of a mammoth
The oldest skeleton in Russia
a skull that had been reconstructed to look human
5
Which of these museums is the "living future" museum?
Frontierland
American National Exhibition
Plimoth Plantation
Millenium City Park
6
On Shakespeare by John Milton is about...
Equal rights
He needs a fancier grave
Nostalgia
How Shakespeare lives on through his work
7
Who was the U.S. President that submitted to the practice of interviews in 1868?
Andrew Johnson
Rutherford B. Hayes
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
8
Which city is Crystal Palace in?
Jakarta
Dublin
New York
London
9
The #MeToo movement gained global consciousness primarily due to the exposure of which individual's actions?
Harvey Weinstein
Matt Lauer
Kevin Spacey
Bill Cosby
10
A dog has died is about...
a loyal pet
an angry dog
a famous dog
A war hero
11
The Kitchen debate was accusing Americans of being...
lazy
loud
angry
boring
12
What is the name of this first English mold newspaper in India?
The Colonial Chronicle
The Indian Herald
The Gazette of India
Hicky's Bengal Gazette
13
What food was not part of the last first class meal on the Titanic?
French ice cream
Celery
Boiled rice
Clam chowder
14
Brazilian Telephone by Miriam Bird Greenberg is about...
Children doing a science experiment
Communism
The Brazilian election
The invention of the telephone
15
The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in the Qumran Caves, AKA Mandatory Palestine
True
False
16
At the Tomb of Napolean is about...
About how amazing Napolean was
How it is better to be forgotten but good and not remembered by bad.
How Napoleon fought the revolution
How Napolean had a lot of cool possessions
17
Among the best-selling foods in Thermopolis, there is isicia omentata, which we can consider as
the ancestor of meatballs
the ancestor of pizza
the ancestor of hotdog
the ancestor of hamburger
18
The Breif History of Toa Payoh by Koh Buck Song is about
The history of China
The History of some empires
The History of a place in Singapore
The history of music
19
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter by Norman Dubie is about
Remastering books
The nostalgia of Christmas past
The Czar writing to his mum
The french revolution
20
In Tomorrowland we can learn about
space
the history of the native people
the wild west
time travel
21
The Municipal Gallery Revisited by WB Yeats is about
Visiting an old friend
A Dublin City Art Gallery and the artists there
A gallery of old musical instruments
Redoing poems
22
What was the title of South Africa's earliest newspapers?
The Colonist
The Gazette
The African Journal
The African Times
23
Plimoth Paxuet is controversial because
It doesn't acknowledge the native population
It is too old
It discriminates against women
Black people could not go there
24
What year was World of Tomorrow?
2012
1893
2022
1939
25
In WSC lore, what would a 19th-century reporter likely be called if they engaged in interviewing?
An American Inquisitor
A daring innovator
A hack humbug
A press pioneer
26
All the Seas of The World by Guy Gavriel Kay is about
the life of a pirate
Pirate dancing
kidnap and assassination on a pirate ship
Pirate food
27
Researchers buried a 60cm stainless steel tube containing samples to tell finders half a million years into the future
False
True
28
Museum of the Future...
is in the shape of a big eye
is in Russia
Had a Kitchen Debate inside it
was in 1939
29
When text don't survive or tell the whole story, this science can.
Archaeology
Physics
Scientology
Chemistry
30
Poble Espanyol is
a Spanish Living Museum
a song
a painting
a lost city
31
Backbreeding aims to create genetically identical copies of an extinct species from preserved somatic cells.
True
False
32
Atlantis is an example of pseudoarchaeology
True
False
33
How did they reconstruct an ancient Chinese meal?
They looked at old paintings
They used unwashed old food containers and tested the remnants
They read an ancient recipe and translated it
It is a recipe passed down through the dynasties
34
What would you not eat if you were on a Paleo diet?
Pasta
Papaya
Potatoes
Pineapple
35
The most famous and well preserved thermopolium is Vetutius Placidus, which is located in ......
Rome
Constantinople
Pompeii
Alexandria
36
The Dead Sea Scrolls are:
ancient Roman texts found in a treasure chest in the Dead Sea in 2001
ancient Mayan calendar telling the future
ancient Jewish religious manuscripts discovered between 1946 and 1956
said to have been found by Napoleon when he raided Russia in 1814
37
In Kyoto by Basho is about ...
A bird
alpacas
An old city
longing for a city
38
If Wikipedia was destroyed it would be
the best thing to happen to the internet
hard to move into the future
like losing the Library of Alexandria
the same as if it never existed
39
What would you not get on the Titanic?
Roast Squb
The Tubar of Starch
Punch Romaiine
Chicken Lyonnaise
40
Polish Polar Station in Hornsund was attacked in 1945
True
False
41
Which ancient city is famous for its remarkably preserved thermopolia?
Pompeii
Alexandria
Rome
Athens
42
Having animals in living museums can be bad because...
They are not accurate
they are lonely
They are too boring
they are sometimes mistreated
43
The Library of Alexandria was burned by Mongols
True
False
44
Kubla Khan by Samual Taylor Coleridge is about...
Kubla Khan's death
Ghengis Khan
Kubla Khan's wife
Kubla Khan's palace in China
45
What is the Smithsonion?
an abandoned ship
a living museum
a concert
a traditional museum
46
isicia omentata is a
Roman Hamburger
A drink at Medieval Times restaurant
a side dish on the Titanic
A desert in China
47
Millenium City Park is about
the Song dynasty
old food
new technology
the natives
48
The Mountaintop was controversial
It had swearing
It was about dictators
because the mountain was inaccurate
Martin Luther King was played by a white actor
49
For All Mankind is about
Crime scenes
robots taking over
Extinct animals
Russians landing on the Moon first
50
Which Dynasty that's described in the Millenium City Park?
Northern Song Dynasty
Northern Ching Dynasty
Northern Qin Dynasty
Northern Han Dynasty
51
A biography is a good way of recording history because it ...
It is that person writing it themselves
includes real personal stories
Has little to no bias
includes dates
52
Which of the following approaches to journalism typically involves exposing concealed matters?
Breaking news reporting
Advocacy reporting
Investigative reporting
Feature reporting
53
According to a New York World correspondent, the American style interview was likened to what?
An American scandal
An American hack's tool
The American dream
A modern and American Inquisition
54
Who/ what did the Mayflower carry?
the passenger pigeons to Rome
Ghengis Khan
The enslaved people from Africa
Pilgrims from England
55
This archeological find is often called 'the missing link'
The Rosetta Stone
The Terracotta army
Sue
Lucy
56
If you are on the Paleo diet, then you should not eat .....
sweet potatoes
sashimi
oats
fruits with coconut water
57
Heritage park is in
America
China
Canada
Russia
58
The American National Exhibition was
burned down
lost for many years
visited by Richard Nixon
in Ukraine
59
The Dodo by Henry Beloc
A book about dodos
a rhyming poem about how the dodo is extinct
An old war hero
A time travelling boy
60
The Diffence Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling is about
Computers being invented super early and the consequences
An artists life
The effects of photography is recorded history
The moon landing
61
What does Aaron Delahenty make?
extinct things come back to life
Paintings
dioramas
living museums
62
The Ugly Little Boy by Issac Asimov is a book about...
Racism
A strange chimp
Adoption
A time-travelling neandrothrol
63
Before the advent of western-style journalism, how was news primarily spread?
Radio broadcast
Television broadcast
Social media
Oral storytelling, town criers, and handwritten newsletters
64
The world’s first recorded extinction in 1627 is the death of what animal?
Mammoth
Tasmanian Tiger
Auroch
Dodo
65
pseudoarchaeology is not
scientific
fantastical
spooky
alternative
66
At Medieval Times you can...
see a lot of different types of old animals
talk to native tribes
sleep on an old ship
eat old food and watch jousting
67
Ulster American Folk Park is
in Dubai
a living museum in Ireland
an old exhibition
a wax works
68
Polish Polar Station in Hornsund is where
the most artifacts were found on an archaeological dig
a time capsule is buried
The first record of Neanderthals was found
Scientists found the missing link Lucy
69
Which living history museum has livestock of heritage breeds, a replica of the Mayflower & staff of indigenous people?
Plimoth Plantation
Spanish village
Heritage Park
Frontierland
70
Why was Braveheart controversial?
The lighting was wrong
The Location was Wrong
The Actor was bald
The story was inaccurate
