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1
At the Tomb of Napolean is about...
How Napoleon fought the revolution
How it is better to be forgotten but good and not remembered by bad.
About how amazing Napolean was
How Napolean had a lot of cool possessions
2
Before the advent of western-style journalism, how was news primarily spread?
Radio broadcast
Social media
Television broadcast
Oral storytelling, town criers, and handwritten newsletters
3
In Tomorrowland we can learn about
the history of the native people
the wild west
time travel
space
4
The Dead Sea Scrolls are:
ancient Mayan calendar telling the future
said to have been found by Napoleon when he raided Russia in 1814
ancient Roman texts found in a treasure chest in the Dead Sea in 2001
ancient Jewish religious manuscripts discovered between 1946 and 1956
5
Having animals in living museums can be bad because...
they are lonely
They are too boring
they are sometimes mistreated
They are not accurate
6
The Breif History of Toa Payoh by Koh Buck Song is about
The history of music
The history of China
The History of some empires
The History of a place in Singapore
7
Who/ what did the Mayflower carry?
The enslaved people from Africa
the passenger pigeons to Rome
Ghengis Khan
Pilgrims from England
8
pseudoarchaeology is not
alternative
scientific
fantastical
spooky
9
What would you not eat if you were on a Paleo diet?
Papaya
Pasta
Pineapple
Potatoes
10
The Ugly Little Boy by Issac Asimov is a book about...
Adoption
A strange chimp
A time-travelling neandrothrol
Racism
11
Which living history museum has livestock of heritage breeds, a replica of the Mayflower & staff of indigenous people?
Spanish village
Heritage Park
Frontierland
Plimoth Plantation
12
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
13
The Kitchen debate was accusing Americans of being...
lazy
boring
loud
angry
14
Which city is Crystal Palace in?
Jakarta
London
Dublin
New York
15
The world’s first recorded extinction in 1627 is the death of what animal?
Mammoth
Tasmanian Tiger
Auroch
Dodo
16
Polish Polar Station in Hornsund was attacked in 1945
True
False
17
Which ancient city is famous for its remarkably preserved thermopolia?
Alexandria
Rome
Athens
Pompeii
18
The American National Exhibition was
in Ukraine
visited by Richard Nixon
lost for many years
burned down
19
What does Aaron Delahenty make?
living museums
dioramas
extinct things come back to life
Paintings
20
What was the title of South Africa's earliest newspapers?
The Colonist
The African Times
The African Journal
The Gazette
21
The Municipal Gallery Revisited by WB Yeats is about
Redoing poems
Visiting an old friend
A Dublin City Art Gallery and the artists there
A gallery of old musical instruments
22
When text don't survive or tell the whole story, this science can.
Scientology
Archaeology
Physics
Chemistry
23
Which of these museums is the "living future" museum?
American National Exhibition
Millenium City Park
Frontierland
Plimoth Plantation
24
How did they reconstruct an ancient Chinese meal?
They used unwashed old food containers and tested the remnants
They looked at old paintings
It is a recipe passed down through the dynasties
They read an ancient recipe and translated it
25
Millenium City Park is about
old food
new technology
the Song dynasty
the natives
26
Atlantis is an example of pseudoarchaeology
False
True
27
In Kyoto by Basho is about ...
An old city
A bird
alpacas
longing for a city
28
What food was not part of the last first class meal on the Titanic?
Boiled rice
Clam chowder
Celery
French ice cream
29
Polish Polar Station in Hornsund is where
Scientists found the missing link Lucy
the most artifacts were found on an archaeological dig
The first record of Neanderthals was found
a time capsule is buried
30
Museum of the Future...
Had a Kitchen Debate inside it
is in Russia
is in the shape of a big eye
was in 1939
31
A dog has died is about...
a famous dog
a loyal pet
an angry dog
A war hero
32
At Medieval Times you can...
see a lot of different types of old animals
sleep on an old ship
eat old food and watch jousting
talk to native tribes
33
If you are on the Paleo diet, then you should not eat .....
oats
sashimi
sweet potatoes
fruits with coconut water
34
Kubla Khan by Samual Taylor Coleridge is about...
Kubla Khan's death
Kubla Khan's palace in China
Ghengis Khan
Kubla Khan's wife
35
Why was Braveheart controversial?
The lighting was wrong
The story was inaccurate
The Location was Wrong
The Actor was bald
36
According to a New York World correspondent, the American style interview was likened to what?
An American scandal
An American hack's tool
A modern and American Inquisition
The American dream
37
The #MeToo movement gained global consciousness primarily due to the exposure of which individual's actions?
Bill Cosby
Harvey Weinstein
Matt Lauer
Kevin Spacey
38
Poble Espanyol is
a painting
a Spanish Living Museum
a song
a lost city
39
Dodo by Henry Carlile is about
How the dodo is extinct
How ugly the dodo is
How stupid the dodo is
How the poet feels he relates to the dodo
40
What year was World of Tomorrow?
2012
1893
2022
1939
41
Among the best-selling foods in Thermopolis, there is isicia omentata, which we can consider as
the ancestor of pizza
the ancestor of hamburger
the ancestor of hotdog
the ancestor of meatballs
42
The Dodo by Henry Beloc
a rhyming poem about how the dodo is extinct
An old war hero
A time travelling boy
A book about dodos
43
Backbreeding aims to create genetically identical copies of an extinct species from preserved somatic cells.
True
False
44
For All Mankind is about
Russians landing on the Moon first
Extinct animals
robots taking over
Crime scenes
45
What would you not get on the Titanic?
Chicken Lyonnaise
Roast Squb
Punch Romaiine
The Tubar of Starch
46
Ulster American Folk Park is
an old exhibition
a living museum in Ireland
a wax works
in Dubai
47
Which of the following approaches to journalism typically involves exposing concealed matters?
Breaking news reporting
Feature reporting
Advocacy reporting
Investigative reporting
48
Researchers buried a 60cm stainless steel tube containing samples to tell finders half a million years into the future
True
False
49
Heritage park is in
America
China
Canada
Russia
50
On Shakespeare by John Milton is about...
How Shakespeare lives on through his work
Nostalgia
Equal rights
He needs a fancier grave
51
What is the name of this first English mold newspaper in India?
The Gazette of India
Hicky's Bengal Gazette
The Colonial Chronicle
The Indian Herald
52
Which Dynasty that's described in the Millenium City Park?
Northern Han Dynasty
Northern Qin Dynasty
Northern Song Dynasty
Northern Ching Dynasty
53
The Diffence Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling is about
An artists life
The effects of photography is recorded history
The moon landing
Computers being invented super early and the consequences
54
isicia omentata is a
A drink at Medieval Times restaurant
a side dish on the Titanic
Roman Hamburger
A desert in China
55
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter by Norman Dubie is about
The nostalgia of Christmas past
Remastering books
The french revolution
The Czar writing to his mum
56
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
57
The fast food of the ancient Romans, which literally means hot shop, is called...
Thermapavilion
Thermopolium
Thermataverna
Thermokantina
58
The Iceman Otzi was...
The oldest skeleton in Russia
a skull that had been reconstructed to look human
The name of a mammoth
A type of artic boat
59
The Mountaintop was controversial
It had swearing
Martin Luther King was played by a white actor
It was about dictators
because the mountain was inaccurate
60
The Library of Alexandria was burned by Mongols
True
False
61
In WSC lore, what would a 19th-century reporter likely be called if they engaged in interviewing?
A press pioneer
An American Inquisitor
A hack humbug
A daring innovator
62
This archeological find is often called 'the missing link'
The Rosetta Stone
Sue
The Terracotta army
Lucy
63
Why can government records be a bad way of recording history?
They are not on the computer
They are too short
They may be bias
They have only opinions
64
The most famous and well preserved thermopolium is Vetutius Placidus, which is located in ......
Constantinople
Rome
Alexandria
Pompeii
65
The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in the Qumran Caves, AKA Mandatory Palestine
True
False
66
Brazilian Telephone by Miriam Bird Greenberg is about...
Children doing a science experiment
Communism
The invention of the telephone
The Brazilian election
67
If Wikipedia was destroyed it would be
the best thing to happen to the internet
like losing the Library of Alexandria
hard to move into the future
the same as if it never existed
68
Plimoth Paxuet is controversial because
Black people could not go there
It doesn't acknowledge the native population
It is too old
It discriminates against women
69
What is the Smithsonion?
a concert
a living museum
an abandoned ship
a traditional museum
70
All the Seas of The World by Guy Gavriel Kay is about
kidnap and assassination on a pirate ship
Pirate dancing
Pirate food
the life of a pirate
