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World Scholars Cup Questions and
Correct Answer
Dioramas
~: a replica of a scene, typically a three-dimensional full size or miniature model.
living history museum
~: a type of museum which recreates historical settings to simulate a past time period, providing
visitors with an experiential interpretation of history (people dress, talk, and do things as they did
long ago)
Spanish Village in Barcelona
~: Essentially a large, full scale diorama of the diversity of buildings of Spain from traditional
eras. People can efficiently inspect 49,000 square meters of historical buildings and tilt at old
slides with Don Quixote.
Heritage Park
~: In Calgary, stop for photos and eat 19th century ice cream with traditionally dressed people.
Millenium Park
~: in Kaifeng offers hundreds of acres of life in the Northern Song Dynasty (A northern song
dynasty).
american frontierland
~: The land or territory that forms the furthest extent of a country's settled or inhabited regions.
Home to cowboys, pioneers, salons. (also themed park at disney)
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Plymouth Patuxent
~: In Massachusetts, is a controversial colonial village where visitors explore the early
pilgrimage. However it has been criticised for not being a bicultural museum, doesn't pay enough
attention to indigenous people who were innately displaced and given smallpox by the pilgrims.
Paleo Diet
~: avoid processed food. The idea we should eat no processed food like out ancestors 10000
years ago when life expectancy was only 35 years.
roman thermopolium
~: Fast food for ancient romans. Sort of a snack bar and hot food were served.
Ulster people
~: It is Ireland. 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.
Dysentery
~: Dysentery is an infection of the intestines that causes diarrhoea containing blood or mucus.
Great Emu War
~: 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.
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Renaissance Fairs
~: a fair that celebrate the renaissance period of history.
Bruce Coville's 1986 novel Operation Sherlock
~: In Bruce Coville's 1986 novel Operation Sherlock, six teenagers have no history teacher—
their parents are rogue scientists developing the first AI on an otherwise uninhabited island.
videogames as a way of revisiting history
~: The Oregon Trail | Seven Cities of Gold | Sid Meier's Pirates! | Call of Duty
Ghost of Tsushima | Age of Empires | Assassin's Creed | Railroad Tycoon
what critisism did the Oregon trail game face?
~: the game has also been criticized for celebrating imperialism, for discounting the cost of
environmental destruction, and for ignoring the perspective of the indigenous peoples whose
lands were being trampled—it was, in a sense, the Oregon Trail of Tears.
what is a column (literature)
~: A column is 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.
Presentism
World Scholars Cup Questions and
Correct Answer
Dioramas
~: a replica of a scene, typically a three-dimensional full size or miniature model.
living history museum
~: a type of museum which recreates historical settings to simulate a past time period, providing
visitors with an experiential interpretation of history (people dress, talk, and do things as they did
long ago)
Spanish Village in Barcelona
~: Essentially a large, full scale diorama of the diversity of buildings of Spain from traditional
eras. People can efficiently inspect 49,000 square meters of historical buildings and tilt at old
slides with Don Quixote.
Heritage Park
~: In Calgary, stop for photos and eat 19th century ice cream with traditionally dressed people.
Millenium Park
~: in Kaifeng offers hundreds of acres of life in the Northern Song Dynasty (A northern song
dynasty).
american frontierland
~: The land or territory that forms the furthest extent of a country's settled or inhabited regions.
Home to cowboys, pioneers, salons. (also themed park at disney)
, Elscores 8/18/2024 11:49:07 PM
Plymouth Patuxent
~: In Massachusetts, is a controversial colonial village where visitors explore the early
pilgrimage. However it has been criticised for not being a bicultural museum, doesn't pay enough
attention to indigenous people who were innately displaced and given smallpox by the pilgrims.
Paleo Diet
~: avoid processed food. The idea we should eat no processed food like out ancestors 10000
years ago when life expectancy was only 35 years.
roman thermopolium
~: Fast food for ancient romans. Sort of a snack bar and hot food were served.
Ulster people
~: It is Ireland. 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.
Dysentery
~: Dysentery is an infection of the intestines that causes diarrhoea containing blood or mucus.
Great Emu War
~: 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.
, Elscores 8/18/2024 11:49:07 PM
Renaissance Fairs
~: a fair that celebrate the renaissance period of history.
Bruce Coville's 1986 novel Operation Sherlock
~: In Bruce Coville's 1986 novel Operation Sherlock, six teenagers have no history teacher—
their parents are rogue scientists developing the first AI on an otherwise uninhabited island.
videogames as a way of revisiting history
~: The Oregon Trail | Seven Cities of Gold | Sid Meier's Pirates! | Call of Duty
Ghost of Tsushima | Age of Empires | Assassin's Creed | Railroad Tycoon
what critisism did the Oregon trail game face?
~: the game has also been criticized for celebrating imperialism, for discounting the cost of
environmental destruction, and for ignoring the perspective of the indigenous peoples whose
lands were being trampled—it was, in a sense, the Oregon Trail of Tears.
what is a column (literature)
~: A column is 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.
Presentism
