Scholar's Cup - 2024 Starter Kit Questions
And Answers Rated A+.
Why is Gettysburg signiticant? - correct answer. Site of the Gettysburg National
Battlefield
Aaron Delehanty - correct answer. Called his dioramas a Time Machine
List five Living Museums - correct answer. Poble Espanol - Don Quixote
Heritage Park - In Calgary, Canade
Millennium Park - In China
Ulster American Folk Park - Lives of Irish moving to US
Plimoth Patuxet - Indigenous Discrimination
List five Living Future Museums - correct answer. Tommorowland - Annual Music
Festival
Museum of the Future - Collection of art pieces in Dubai
World of Tomorrow - Celebration of lighting technologies later popularized, 1939
Crystal Palace - Burned, repurposed, burned, sport field
American National Exhibition - Celebration of Atechnology in Russia, 1959
___ fairs, similar to Living Museums - correct answer. Renaissance
Explain Operation Sherlock - correct answer. 6 teenagers learnt history through video
games while their parents developed an AI on a remote island
___ Trail
___ of Gold
___ Pirates!
___ of Tsushima
___ of Empires
___ Creed
___ Tycoon - correct answer. Oregon
Seven Cities
Sid Meier's
Ghost
Age
Assassin's
Railroad
, Catan used to be? - correct answer. Settler's of Catan
What is presentism? - correct answer. Focusing research too heavily on the 20th and
21st centuries
Name three people who are being re-created in film based on photographs. - correct
answer. Princess Diana
Nelson Mandela
Abraham Lincoln
Hamilton has been called out for ___
Contrastingly, ___ has been called out for opposite race allegations. - correct answer.
Black actors playing slave owners; slave owners being heroized; simple tale of heroes
and villains
The Mountaintop
The Great Depression was also The ___ Depression - correct answer. Gray
___ dye was used for old colour photographs - correct answer. Potato
Who did Austin Butler sound like after filming a movie of the same name? - correct
answer. Elvis Presley
Who controversially played Ghandi, and why was it controversial? - correct answer.
Ben Kingsley; he was British
Who is Bas Uterwijk? - correct answer. Digital artist who re-creates historical figures in
photorealistic models.
Who didn't want to be photographed in a wheelchair? - correct answer. Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
Which TV series explored a world in which the Soviets were the first to land on the
moon? - correct answer. For All Mankind
Name the following definitions:
1 - An account of someone's life written by someone else.
2 - Someone's own account of their life.
3 - A nonfiction narrative based on the personal memories of the writer.
4 - A collection of personal memories, remarks and insights that is updated regularly by
the writer.
5 - A written communication sent to another individual or group.
6 - An article in a newspaper concerning a specific event or person.
7 - Footage captured in the modern ear (i.e. 20th and 21st centuries).
8 - Accounts and data compiled by the government for statistical insight.
And Answers Rated A+.
Why is Gettysburg signiticant? - correct answer. Site of the Gettysburg National
Battlefield
Aaron Delehanty - correct answer. Called his dioramas a Time Machine
List five Living Museums - correct answer. Poble Espanol - Don Quixote
Heritage Park - In Calgary, Canade
Millennium Park - In China
Ulster American Folk Park - Lives of Irish moving to US
Plimoth Patuxet - Indigenous Discrimination
List five Living Future Museums - correct answer. Tommorowland - Annual Music
Festival
Museum of the Future - Collection of art pieces in Dubai
World of Tomorrow - Celebration of lighting technologies later popularized, 1939
Crystal Palace - Burned, repurposed, burned, sport field
American National Exhibition - Celebration of Atechnology in Russia, 1959
___ fairs, similar to Living Museums - correct answer. Renaissance
Explain Operation Sherlock - correct answer. 6 teenagers learnt history through video
games while their parents developed an AI on a remote island
___ Trail
___ of Gold
___ Pirates!
___ of Tsushima
___ of Empires
___ Creed
___ Tycoon - correct answer. Oregon
Seven Cities
Sid Meier's
Ghost
Age
Assassin's
Railroad
, Catan used to be? - correct answer. Settler's of Catan
What is presentism? - correct answer. Focusing research too heavily on the 20th and
21st centuries
Name three people who are being re-created in film based on photographs. - correct
answer. Princess Diana
Nelson Mandela
Abraham Lincoln
Hamilton has been called out for ___
Contrastingly, ___ has been called out for opposite race allegations. - correct answer.
Black actors playing slave owners; slave owners being heroized; simple tale of heroes
and villains
The Mountaintop
The Great Depression was also The ___ Depression - correct answer. Gray
___ dye was used for old colour photographs - correct answer. Potato
Who did Austin Butler sound like after filming a movie of the same name? - correct
answer. Elvis Presley
Who controversially played Ghandi, and why was it controversial? - correct answer.
Ben Kingsley; he was British
Who is Bas Uterwijk? - correct answer. Digital artist who re-creates historical figures in
photorealistic models.
Who didn't want to be photographed in a wheelchair? - correct answer. Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
Which TV series explored a world in which the Soviets were the first to land on the
moon? - correct answer. For All Mankind
Name the following definitions:
1 - An account of someone's life written by someone else.
2 - Someone's own account of their life.
3 - A nonfiction narrative based on the personal memories of the writer.
4 - A collection of personal memories, remarks and insights that is updated regularly by
the writer.
5 - A written communication sent to another individual or group.
6 - An article in a newspaper concerning a specific event or person.
7 - Footage captured in the modern ear (i.e. 20th and 21st centuries).
8 - Accounts and data compiled by the government for statistical insight.
