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World Scholar's Cup 2024 Questions and Answers
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There is no time like the present - ANSWER ✔✔-Anecdote referring to procrastination
Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. - ANSWER ✔✔-George Santayana
The past is just a story we tell ourselves - ANSWER ✔✔-Spike Jonze
Diorama - ANSWER ✔✔-A three dimensional replica of a scene, typically made minature.
Aaron Delehanty - ANSWER ✔✔-Uses dioramas to promote conservation
Living-history museum - ANSWER ✔✔-A type of museum that recreates historical settings from long ago
to simulate the past and to present the visitors with an experiental interpretation of history. (The staff acts
like how people acted in that time period.)
Spanish Village in Barcelona - ANSWER ✔✔-A open air living history museum with 49000 square meters
containing 117 historical buildings which Poble Espanyol built for the 1929 world fair.
Heritage Park - ANSWER ✔✔-Located in Calgary, it is the largest canadian living history museum where
people can stop for photos and eat ice-cream with traditionally dressed people.
Millennium City Park - ANSWER ✔✔-Located in Kaifeng, China, it has 100 acres of what was the
Northern Song Dynasty.
Frontier land - ANSWER ✔✔-A wild west recreation more focused on entertainment than history made
by Disney. It is the land or territory that forms the furthest extent of a country's settled or inhabited
regions. Home to cowboys, pioneers, salons.
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'The Woman King' - ANSWER ✔✔-The film attracted racist rhetoric even before it was released. Online
commentators condemned the perceived savagery of the Dahomey kingdom. In those reports, particular
attention was given to the "annual customs" in Dahomey, the palace rituals that sometimes included
massive human sacrifices.
Plymouth Patuxent - ANSWER ✔✔-A controversial colonial village where visitors explore the early
pilgrimage. However it was criticised for not paying enough attention to indigenous people who were
innately displaced and given smallpox by the pilgrims and breeding animals to serve as props.
Paleo diet - ANSWER ✔✔-A diet that avoids processed foods on the theory that it is healthier to eat like
our ancestors 10000 years ago whos average life expectancy was 35.
Roman thermopolium - ANSWER ✔✔-An ancient version of a fast food restaurant where hot food on the
go was served. The layout was similar to one of a snack bar.
Isicia omentata - ANSWER ✔✔-The ancient roman version of a hamburger.
Medieval Times - ANSWER ✔✔-A restaurant that serves medieval food. Although it is not authentic as it
offers tomato soup, and tomatoes didn't exist in Europe before the Mexican invasion.
Ulster people - ANSWER ✔✔-The Ulster American Folk Park tells the story of Ulster people's emigration
to North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. However there is a problem with the 'American Folk
Park' is that it is in Ireland. Irish people who moved to US from boarding crowded ships to sleeping in
log cabins.
Tomorrowland - ANSWER ✔✔-Museum to lift American spirits concerning the future.
Dysentery - ANSWER ✔✔-An infection of the intestines that causes diarrhoea containing blood or mucus.
Crystal Palace - ANSWER ✔✔-An exhibition in Moscow about America.
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Great Emu War - ANSWER ✔✔-in 1932, Australia declared war on emus.Western Australian farmers had
been facing hard times with their crops following the Great Depression, and their difficulties increased
tenfold with the arrival of some 20,000 emus migrating inland during their breeding season. The birds
had been protected as a native species until 1922, but now that they were classified as "vermin," all bets
were off.
Renaissance Fairs - ANSWER ✔✔-a fair that celebrate the renaissance period of history and a method of
historical escapism.
Bruce Coville's 1986 novel Operation Sherlock - ANSWER ✔✔-About six teenagers who have no history
teacher—their parents are rogue scientists developing the first AI on an otherwise uninhabited island.
They learn about the past by playing historical simulations.
Simulations - ANSWER ✔✔-A possible way to learn history, although some sacrifice accuracy, they
represent minority and attract interest, but are very inaccurate as they are from the caucasian lense of
interpretation.
The Oregon Trail - ANSWER ✔✔-An educational game about the road with the same name that was
criticised for celebrating imperialism, discounting environmental destruction, and for ignoring the
perspective of the indigenous peoples whose lands were being trampled. The developers have made a
more recent version of the game with help from native studies scholars.
Settlers of Catan - ANSWER ✔✔-Was called out for endorsing colonialism and was renamed to Catan.
Column (Literature) - ANSWER ✔✔-A recurring piece or article in a newspaper, magazine or other
publication, where a writer expresses their own opinion in few columns allotted to them by the
newspaper organisation.
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World Scholar's Cup 2024 Questions and Answers
100% Pass
There is no time like the present - ANSWER ✔✔-Anecdote referring to procrastination
Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. - ANSWER ✔✔-George Santayana
The past is just a story we tell ourselves - ANSWER ✔✔-Spike Jonze
Diorama - ANSWER ✔✔-A three dimensional replica of a scene, typically made minature.
Aaron Delehanty - ANSWER ✔✔-Uses dioramas to promote conservation
Living-history museum - ANSWER ✔✔-A type of museum that recreates historical settings from long ago
to simulate the past and to present the visitors with an experiental interpretation of history. (The staff acts
like how people acted in that time period.)
Spanish Village in Barcelona - ANSWER ✔✔-A open air living history museum with 49000 square meters
containing 117 historical buildings which Poble Espanyol built for the 1929 world fair.
Heritage Park - ANSWER ✔✔-Located in Calgary, it is the largest canadian living history museum where
people can stop for photos and eat ice-cream with traditionally dressed people.
Millennium City Park - ANSWER ✔✔-Located in Kaifeng, China, it has 100 acres of what was the
Northern Song Dynasty.
Frontier land - ANSWER ✔✔-A wild west recreation more focused on entertainment than history made
by Disney. It is the land or territory that forms the furthest extent of a country's settled or inhabited
regions. Home to cowboys, pioneers, salons.
Created by Grace Amelia © 2025, All Rights Reserved.
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'The Woman King' - ANSWER ✔✔-The film attracted racist rhetoric even before it was released. Online
commentators condemned the perceived savagery of the Dahomey kingdom. In those reports, particular
attention was given to the "annual customs" in Dahomey, the palace rituals that sometimes included
massive human sacrifices.
Plymouth Patuxent - ANSWER ✔✔-A controversial colonial village where visitors explore the early
pilgrimage. However it was criticised for not paying enough attention to indigenous people who were
innately displaced and given smallpox by the pilgrims and breeding animals to serve as props.
Paleo diet - ANSWER ✔✔-A diet that avoids processed foods on the theory that it is healthier to eat like
our ancestors 10000 years ago whos average life expectancy was 35.
Roman thermopolium - ANSWER ✔✔-An ancient version of a fast food restaurant where hot food on the
go was served. The layout was similar to one of a snack bar.
Isicia omentata - ANSWER ✔✔-The ancient roman version of a hamburger.
Medieval Times - ANSWER ✔✔-A restaurant that serves medieval food. Although it is not authentic as it
offers tomato soup, and tomatoes didn't exist in Europe before the Mexican invasion.
Ulster people - ANSWER ✔✔-The Ulster American Folk Park tells the story of Ulster people's emigration
to North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. However there is a problem with the 'American Folk
Park' is that it is in Ireland. Irish people who moved to US from boarding crowded ships to sleeping in
log cabins.
Tomorrowland - ANSWER ✔✔-Museum to lift American spirits concerning the future.
Dysentery - ANSWER ✔✔-An infection of the intestines that causes diarrhoea containing blood or mucus.
Crystal Palace - ANSWER ✔✔-An exhibition in Moscow about America.
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Great Emu War - ANSWER ✔✔-in 1932, Australia declared war on emus.Western Australian farmers had
been facing hard times with their crops following the Great Depression, and their difficulties increased
tenfold with the arrival of some 20,000 emus migrating inland during their breeding season. The birds
had been protected as a native species until 1922, but now that they were classified as "vermin," all bets
were off.
Renaissance Fairs - ANSWER ✔✔-a fair that celebrate the renaissance period of history and a method of
historical escapism.
Bruce Coville's 1986 novel Operation Sherlock - ANSWER ✔✔-About six teenagers who have no history
teacher—their parents are rogue scientists developing the first AI on an otherwise uninhabited island.
They learn about the past by playing historical simulations.
Simulations - ANSWER ✔✔-A possible way to learn history, although some sacrifice accuracy, they
represent minority and attract interest, but are very inaccurate as they are from the caucasian lense of
interpretation.
The Oregon Trail - ANSWER ✔✔-An educational game about the road with the same name that was
criticised for celebrating imperialism, discounting environmental destruction, and for ignoring the
perspective of the indigenous peoples whose lands were being trampled. The developers have made a
more recent version of the game with help from native studies scholars.
Settlers of Catan - ANSWER ✔✔-Was called out for endorsing colonialism and was renamed to Catan.
Column (Literature) - ANSWER ✔✔-A recurring piece or article in a newspaper, magazine or other
publication, where a writer expresses their own opinion in few columns allotted to them by the
newspaper organisation.
Created by Grace Amelia © 2025, All Rights Reserved.
