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World Scholars Cup 2024 Exam Practice
Questions and Answers
where would you find traditional history museums but as an open-air alternative? - Ans:✔✔-living
history museums
why would one want to go to a living history museum? - Ans:✔✔-it is cheaper to time travel
Poble Espanyol (the Spanish Village in Barcelona) - Ans:✔✔-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; it was abandoned during the rule of
Francisco Franco
Heritage Park in Calgary - Ans:✔✔-A 19th-century style Canada; Banff-bound hikers can stop to pose for
photos (and eat 19th century ice cream) with locals dressed up as Canadians from the days of fur trading
and the occasional American invasion.
Millennium City Park, Kaifeng, China - Ans:✔✔-A big park on the western shore of Longting Lake. It was
made in 1992 and opened to the public in 1998. The park is based on a painting from a famous artist
from the Northern Song Dynasty named Zhang Zeduan. The park is a replica of the city of Kaifeng as it
was one thousand years ago, and it shows how people lived, what their customs were, and what the
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buildings looked like in that time period. When you walk around the park, you can see what the city was
like and imagine how people lived back then. it offers a hundred acres of life in the Northern Song
Dynasty (a Northern Song Dynasty
Frontierland - Ans:✔✔-A frontier themed Disneyland where the theme park depicts life on the American
frontier, the advancing border that marked those lands that had been settled by Europeans where the
native indigenous people inhabited.
Smithsonian - Ans:✔✔-a group of museums and research centers in DC administered by the Government
of the United States
what is a controversial museum? - Ans:✔✔-Plimoth Patuxet
why is it controversial? - Ans:✔✔-the museum has recently been criticized for not paying enough
attention to the indigenous peoples displaced and given smallpox by those same Pilgrims
what is another concern about the Plimoth Patuxet? - Ans:✔✔-that the tribe members staffing a Native
American settlement recently added to the museum are not descendants of the actual tribe the Pilgrims
first encountered.
what do museums do to make things realistic? - Ans:✔✔-some of these museums have diligently bred
versions of animals that look more like their counterparts in the past: wilder pigs, gamier hens, dogs that
are less Pomeranian and more wolf.
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paleo diet - Ans:✔✔-a diet based on the types of foods presumed to have been eaten by early humans,
consisting chiefly of meat, fish, vegetables, and fruit, and excluding dairy or grain products and
processed food.
theory of paleo diet - Ans:✔✔-it is healthier to eat like our ancestors did 10,000 years ago, when their
life expectancy was about 35
why did people die young? - Ans:✔✔-on average people died young because the super young died
often—a lot of children never grew up
roman thermopolium - Ans:✔✔-Fast food for ancient romans. Sort of a snack bar and hot food were
served.
what would Julius Caesar eat at that time? - Ans:✔✔-isicia omentata - a beef patty blended with black
and green peppercorns, pine kernels and white wine
Medieval Times - Ans:✔✔-a family dinner theater featuring staged medieval-style games, sword-fighting,
and jousting
what does a meal of Medieval Times consist of? - Ans:✔✔-The Flagon of Grog - beer, wine, or any drink
within a cup
The Loaf of Garlic - garlic bread
The Stew of the Tomato Branch - tomato soup
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The Tuber of Starch - potatoes
The Leg of Fowl - chicken
The Rib of Boar - boar
The Towel of Heat - warm cloth
The Turnover Of Apple - apple pie/dessert
The Pastry of Chocolate - chocolate cake
why is Medieval Times meal inaccurate? - Ans:✔✔-tomatoes weren't grown back in that time; this didn't
exist in Europe before the Spanish invaded Mexico
what would a meal from the Titanic consist of? - Ans:✔✔-Hors D'Oeuvres
Oysters
Consommé Olga
Cream of Barley
Poached Salmon with Mousseline Sauce
Cucumbers
Filet Mignons Lili
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