WORLD SCHOLARS CUP FINAL ROUND
PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS PACKAGE
●● living history museum
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: In Calgary, stop for photos and eat 19th century ice cream with
traditionally dressed people.
●● Millenium Park
Answer: in Kaifeng offers hundreds of acres of life in the Northern Song
Dynasty (A northern song dynasty).
,●● american frontierland
Answer: 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)
●● Plymouth Patuxent
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: Fast food for ancient romans. Sort of a snack bar and hot food
were served.
●● Ulster people
Answer: 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
Answer: Dysentery is an infection of the intestines that causes diarrhoea
containing blood or mucus.
●● Great Emu War
Answer: 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.
●● Renaissance Fairs
Answer: a fair that celebrate the renaissance period of history.
●● Bruce Coville's 1986 novel Operation Sherlock
Answer: 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
PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS PACKAGE
●● living history museum
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: In Calgary, stop for photos and eat 19th century ice cream with
traditionally dressed people.
●● Millenium Park
Answer: in Kaifeng offers hundreds of acres of life in the Northern Song
Dynasty (A northern song dynasty).
,●● american frontierland
Answer: 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)
●● Plymouth Patuxent
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: Fast food for ancient romans. Sort of a snack bar and hot food
were served.
●● Ulster people
Answer: 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
Answer: Dysentery is an infection of the intestines that causes diarrhoea
containing blood or mucus.
●● Great Emu War
Answer: 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.
●● Renaissance Fairs
Answer: a fair that celebrate the renaissance period of history.
●● Bruce Coville's 1986 novel Operation Sherlock
Answer: 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
