World Scholars Cup Already Graded A

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World Scholars Cup Already Graded A

Question 1: A replica of a scene, typically a three-dimensional

full size or miniature model.

Correct answer: Dioramas

Question 2: 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).

Correct answer: Living history museum

Question 3: 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.

Correct answer: Spanish Village in Barcelona

Question 4: In Calgary, stop for photos and eat 19th century ice

cream with traditionally dressed people.

Correct answer: Heritage Park

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Question 5: In Kaifeng offers hundreds of acres of life in the

Northern Song Dynasty (A northern song dynasty).

Correct answer: Millenium Park

Question 6: The land or territory that forms the furthest extent of

a country's settled or inhabited regions. Home to cowboys, pioneers, saloons. (also themed park at Disney).

Correct answer: American Frontierland

Question 7: 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.

Correct answer: Plymouth Patuxent

Question 8: Avoid processed food. The idea we should eat no

processed food like our ancestors 10000 years ago when life expectancy was only 35 years.

Correct answer: Paleo Diet

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Question 9: Fast food for ancient Romans. Sort of a snack bar

and hot food were served.

Correct answer: Roman thermopolium

Question 10: 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.

Correct answer: Ulster people

Question 11: Dysentery is an infection of the intestines that

causes diarrhoea containing blood or mucus.

Correct answer: Dysentery

Question 12: 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

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native species until 1922, but now that they were classified as "vermin," all bets were off.

Correct answer: Great Emu War

Question 13: A fair that celebrates the Renaissance period of

history.

Correct answer: Renaissance Fairs

Question 14: 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.

Correct answer: Bruce Coville's 1986 novel Operation Sherlock

Question 15: 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

Correct answer: Video games as a way of revisiting history

Question 16: What criticism did the Oregon Trail game face?