World Scholars Cup: Social Studies Exam Study Guide 2024 /2025

World Scholars Cup: Social Studies Exam Study Guide 2024 /2025 Nostradamus - Ans:-() -French -Physician and Reputed Seer -Published famous collections of prophecies -Credited for predicting: The Great Fire of London, Rise of Napoleon and Hitler, 9/11 and others. -Predicted a great comet, Nibiru, or rogue planet, Planet X, would impact the Mediterranean on December 21, 2012 (or June/July 1999), causing great destruction worldwide. Prediction Quiz: ( Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin - Ans:-(Jan 1869 - Dec 1916) -a Russian peasant, a traveler, a mystical faith healer, and trusted friend to last Tsar Nicholas II ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 2/19 -advised Tsar's wife Alexandra Feodorovna, scapegoat for nationalists. -heavy drinker, womanizer -a lot of uncertainty Cassandra - Ans:-Fictional Character from Iliad - her name is employed as a rhetorical device to indicate someone whose accurate prophecies are not believed by those around them - Trying to seduce her, Appollo gave her prophecy powers - but when she refused he spat into her mouth and cursed her so that no one would believe her prophecies. or - she fell asleep at a temple and snakes (symbols of knowledge) whispered in her ears so she could hear the future. - She predicted the fall of Troy and death of Agamennon, no one believed her. Ajax dragged her from Athena's altar and raped her. Athena sank most of Greek ships. Later she fell into Agamennons possesion and was murdered with him. Robert Fitzroy - Ans:-(July 5/ 1805 - April 30/ 1865) -Navy officer, scientist, meteorologist ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 3/19 - Made accurate weather predictions, named "forecasts" - Created primary version of Met office, and taught sailors and fisherman to predict weather. - directed design and distribution of barometer Michio Kaku - Ans:-(Janurary 24/ 1947 -) - theoretical physicist, futurist and science popularizer. - Written several books about the future. Ray Kurzweil - Ans:-(Feburary 12/ 1948 -) -author, computer science, invertor and futurist -wrote books on a variety of topics and is involved in fields like text to speech synthesis, speech recognition, etc. -public advocate for futurist and transhumanism movements. -predicted that, in 2005, supercomputers with the computational capacities to simulate protein folding will be introduced, it happened in 2010 with a small amount of protein. Nate Silver - Ans:-(Janurary 13. 1978 -) - staistician and writer, basebal and election analyst ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 4/19 -editor in chief of ESPN's FiveThirtyEight and correspondent for ABC news - developed PECOTA, which predicts the prefeormance and career of major legue players, which he later sold and managed from - predicted 2008 election outcome in 49/50 states -named one of Time's 100 Most Influencial People Nate Cohn - Ans:-(~1989) -NYT Predictor -After Nate Silver moved from NYT, Nate Cohn was hired as his replacement and while he is not as famous, has held up a good record Hari Seldon - Ans:-(fictional character from Isaac Aasimov's Foundation Series) -develops psychohistory, an algorithmic science that allows him to predict t