WSC 2023 Literature and Media

Question 1

Brazilian Telephone by Miriam Bird Greenberg is about...

Accepted Answer

Children doing a science experiment

Question 2

A dog has died is about...

Accepted Answer

a loyal pet

Question 3

The Dodo by Henry Beloc

Accepted Answer

a rhyming poem about how the dodo is extinct

Question 4

Why was Braveheart controvertial?

Accepted Answer

The story was inaccurate

Question 5

The Mountaintop was controversial

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King was played by a white actor

Question 6

The Iceman Otzi was...

Accepted Answer

a skull that had been reconstructed to look human

Question 7

The Municipal Gallery Revisited by WB Yeats is about

Accepted Answer

A Dublin City Art Gallery and the artists there

Question 8

The Ugly Little Boy by Issac Asimov is a book about...

Accepted Answer

A time-travelling neandrothrol

Question 9

The Breif History of Toa Payoh by Koh Buck Song is about

Accepted Answer

The History of a place in Singapore

Question 10

In Kyoto by Basho is about ...

Accepted Answer

longing for a city

Question 11

All the Seas of The World by Guy Gavriel Kay is about

Accepted Answer

kidnap and assassination on a pirate ship

Question 12

A biography is a good way of recording history becuase it ...

Accepted Answer

includes real personal stories

Question 13

For All Mankind is about

Accepted Answer

Russians landing on the Moon first

Question 14

On Shakespeare by John Milton is about...

Accepted Answer

How Shakespeare lives on through his work

Question 15

At the Tomb of Napolean is about...

Accepted Answer

How it is better to be forgotten but good and not remembered by bad.

Question 16

Kubla Khan by Samual Taylor Coleridge is about...

Accepted Answer

Kubla Khan&#x27;s palace in China

Question 17

The Czar&#x27;s Last Christmas Letter by Norman Dubie is about

Accepted Answer

The Czar writing to his mum

Question 18

Why can government records be a bad way of recording history?

Accepted Answer

They may be bias

Question 19

Dodo by Henry Carlile is about

Accepted Answer

How the poet feels he relates to the dodo

Question 20

The Diffence Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling is about

Accepted Answer

Computers being invented super early and the consequences

Questions 20