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World Scholars cup Notes Updated 2024
Guy Gavriel Kay - Ans:✔✔-From Canada
A quote from Guy Gavriel Kay is - Ans:✔✔-"If I write about a time inspired by the Tang Dynasty and they
believed in ghosts, I will have ghosts in the book," and to tell the stories of people whose stories tended
not to be told
Who was the conductor of Star Wars and the main title theme - Ans:✔✔-John Williams
Stanley Kubrick changed all the music to - Ans:✔✔-Space Odyssey
Jonas Is Not Your Name is from what production - Ans:✔✔-The Life and Times of Malcom X
What is a problem in crime cases - Ans:✔✔-People are watching too many true crime dramas and people
now have an unrealistic expectations of what forensic science can achieve
What is the politicization of nostalgia - Ans:✔✔-It is when a country or the people in power want to go
back to the ,"good old times" when they had more power
What is Sutton Hoo - Ans:✔✔-The site of two early medieval cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th
centuries near the English town of Woodbridge
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What is the Dreamland Wax Museum in Boston - Ans:✔✔-A museum with wax statues of famous people
Who was dubbed the next Obama - Ans:✔✔-Hakeem Jeffries
Who was dubbed the next Margaret Thatcher - Ans:✔✔-Lizz Truss
Who was the "Old Man" of Shandihar - Ans:✔✔-The face of Shanidar 1, a Neandertal also called the "Old
Man" of Shanidar. He lived and died around 60,000 years ago. His bones revealed a hard life and many
old injuries. To survive, he must have been supported by his community
What is one specie in Europe that is selectively back breeding - Ans:✔✔-The Wild Supercow that was
driven extinct in the 1600's
What is the American Chestnut - Ans:✔✔-The American chestnut is a large, fast-growing deciduous tree
of the beech family native to eastern North America
What was the Wooly Mammoth - Ans:✔✔-The wooly mammoth is an extinct species of mammoth that
lived during the Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch
What was the Pyrenean ibex - Ans:✔✔-One of the four subspecies of the Iberian ibex or Iberian wild
goat, a species endemic to the Pyrenees
What was the Passenger Pigeon - Ans:✔✔-An extinct species of pigeon that was endemic to North
America. Its common name is derived from the French word passager, meaning "passing by", due to the
migratory habits of the species
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