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General trivia about scientific, fictional, and historical mysteries.
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True/False: The Bone Wars was an example of scientific integrity.
False
True
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The two scientists who falsified skeletons during the Bone Wars were...
Einstein & Curie
Sagan & Newton
Nye & Tyson
Cope & Marsh
3
The Bone Wars occurred...
1492-1502
1877-1892
1791-1808
1932-1961
4
Which poet coined the phrase, "the shot heard around the world?"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Henry David Thoreau
Francis Scott Key
R.W. Emerson
5
"Mythos" means...
Someone's emotional reaction to an image.
Images, stories, fables and narratives associated w/ a topic
The factual information about a topic
One's ability to reason w/ the scientific method
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Which of the following is *not* a primary source?
A letter written by a soldier to his commanding officer
A photograph of a family suffering in the Great Depression
An article written in 1776 about the American Revolution
A biography written about a founding father
7
The universe is
20 billion years old
1.2 billion years old
13.82 billion years old
4.6 billion years old
8
Freemasons meet in meeting places called
Clubs
Salons
Lodges
Assemblies
9
The first thing created in the Big Bang was...
Helium
Subatomic particles
Atoms
Oxygen
10
Anonymous began to take form on which social media platform?
4chan
reddit
tumblr
facebook
11
Rasputin was...
A greedy king who killed his nephews
A monk who was poisoned, shot, and drowned before dying
A Russian writer who wrote famous mysteries
The name of a rock band who disappeared in a 1967 shipwreck
12
Who took the first shot of the American Revolution?
The Americans
The British
13
The eye on the dollar bill is called...
The Eye of the Vatican
The Ominous Eye
The Eye of the Storm
The All-Seeing Eye
14
Which of these two events occurred first?
Eruption of Deccan Traps
Meteor collision that left behind Chicxulub crater
15
The concept of "The Big Crunch" originates from which Big Bang theory?
The inflation theory
The crunch theory
The cyclical theory
The conical theory
16
Which of the following is an example of a tertiary source?
An encyclopedia article
A new reflective poem about an event that occurred in 1775
A scholarly journal article about imagery in Shakespeare
An autobiography
17
Which of the following is *not* a possible explanation for the fall of the dinosaurs?
Low egg survival rates
Illuminati
Eruption of Deccan Traps
Meteor collision
18
In what year was the Illuminati founded?
1492
1191
2017
1776
19
Which of the following has the first 3 scientific method steps in the correct order?
Observation, Preliminary Research, Hypothesis
Observation, Hypothesis, Preliminary Research
Hypothesis, Observation, Preliminary Research
Preliminary Research, Observation, Hypothesis
20
The correct order of the last 3 steps of the scientific method is:
Hypothesis, conclusion, rebuttal
Preliminary research, deep research, conclusion
Observation, research, conclusion
Hypothesis, deep research, conclusion
21
Stars explode in events called
Cometnovae
Starsplosions
Bangs
Supernovae
22
Grand Duchess Anastasia...
Was later found hiding in Virginia, USA
Was murdered by Rasputin
Was later proven to have died in the Bolshevik Revolution
Disappeared for 10 years before reclaiming her throne
23
The real reason the Knights Templar were formed was...
To protect a great treasure
To reclaim Israel and the Middle East from Islamic rule
To find the holy grail
To guard the Vatican
24
The intellectual movement that inspired the Illuminati was
The Enlightenment
The Reformation
The Renaissance
The Islamic Golden Age
25
The Pyramid on the Dollar bill has...
7 layers
1776 layers
13 layers
14 layers
26
T/F: George Washington was a Freemason
False
True
27
Mysteries can be
Scientific
Historical/Geographical
Fictional
All of the Above
28
Which of the following is a secondary source?
The 1876 U.S. Census
A scholarly journal article about imagery in Shakespeare
An ancient Egyptian artifact
A love letter written during the Civil War
29
after the Big Bang, atoms converged into clouds of gas, which later became
Dark Matter
Supernovae
Planets
Stars
30
Amelia Earhart went missing...
Near Howland Island
Near San Salvador Island
In Japan
In the Bermuda Triangle
31
When archeologists use specific artifacts to build a bigger picture, they are using
Inductive reasoning
Deductive reasoning
The scientific method
32
Where was the first shot of the American Revolution taken?
Lexington
Concord
33
"Mary Celeste" was...
The ghost of a widow who haunts the White House
The wife of James Monroe, who mysteriously disappeared
A missing ship later claimed to be seen as a ghost ship
A spaceship crash discovered in New Mexico
34
The Princes in the Tower were...
The missing nephews of Elizabeth II
The missing sons of King Arthur
The missing nephews of Catherine the Great
The missing nephews of Richard III
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"Context" means...
the textual evidence from an event
setting, time, persons involved & circumstances of an event
the mystery, reasoning skills used, and pictures of an event
the coincidences in an event
