World Scholars Cup: Social Studies
Nostradamus correct answers(1503- 1566)
-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: (http://www.godandscience.org/cgi-bin/quiztest.cgi?nostradamusquiz)
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin correct answers(Jan 1869 - Dec 1916)
-a Russian peasant, a traveler, a mystical faith healer, and trusted friend to last Tsar Nicholas II
-advised Tsar's wife Alexandra Feodorovna, scapegoat for nationalists.
-heavy drinker, womanizer
-a lot of uncertainty
Cassandra correct answersFictional 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 correct answers(July 5/ 1805 - April 30/ 1865)
-Navy officer, scientist, meteorologist
- 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 correct answers(Janurary 24/ 1947 -)
- theoretical physicist, futurist and science popularizer.
- Written several books about the future.
Ray Kurzweil correct answers(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 correct answers(Janurary 13. 1978 -)
- staistician and writer, basebal and election analyst
-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 2003-2009
- predicted 2008 election outcome in 49/50 states
-named one of Time's 100 Most Influencial People
Nate Cohn correct answers(~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
Nostradamus correct answers(1503- 1566)
-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: (http://www.godandscience.org/cgi-bin/quiztest.cgi?nostradamusquiz)
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin correct answers(Jan 1869 - Dec 1916)
-a Russian peasant, a traveler, a mystical faith healer, and trusted friend to last Tsar Nicholas II
-advised Tsar's wife Alexandra Feodorovna, scapegoat for nationalists.
-heavy drinker, womanizer
-a lot of uncertainty
Cassandra correct answersFictional 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 correct answers(July 5/ 1805 - April 30/ 1865)
-Navy officer, scientist, meteorologist
- 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 correct answers(Janurary 24/ 1947 -)
- theoretical physicist, futurist and science popularizer.
- Written several books about the future.
Ray Kurzweil correct answers(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 correct answers(Janurary 13. 1978 -)
- staistician and writer, basebal and election analyst
-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 2003-2009
- predicted 2008 election outcome in 49/50 states
-named one of Time's 100 Most Influencial People
Nate Cohn correct answers(~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
