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 1. If you were to visit the Institute for the 6. Which of the following actors shared
Study of the Ancient World you would travel to: apples with Shirley Temple?
a. Oregon a. Walter Huston
b. Vermont b. Frank McGlynn Sr.
c. Connecticut c. Raymond Massey
d. Wisconsin d. Jason Robards
e. New York e. Billy Campbell

2. A Soviet Russian living during the time of 7. Using cloning, you would be most
the American National Exhibition would successful in resurrecting which of the following?
MOST likely be newly introduced to a. Steppe bison
which of the following? b. Little bush moa
a. Coca-Cola c. Tarpan
b. Harley-Davidson d. Dodo
c. Betty Crocker e. Passenger pigeon
d. Lair & Company
e. Pepsi 8. The closest living relative to the moa is
which of these bird families?
3. Which of the following is NOT a stat in a. Grebes
the new Oregon Trail game? b. Cranes
a. Hygiene c. Storks
b. Morale d. Tinamous
c. Resourcefulness e. Anhingas
d. Wayfinding
e. Composure 9. If you went to the Crystal Palace you
would most likely see dinosaur sculptures
4. If you attended the first Renaissance by which of the following people?
Pleasure Faire you would be encouraged a. Charles R. Knight
to donate to which of the following? b. Ely Kish
a. A cancer research project c. Othniel C Marsh
b. A radio station d. Edward Cope
c. An educational website e. Benjamin Hawkins
d. A low-income school
e. Nothing, it wasn’t a fundraiser 10. If you went 80 kilometres northwest of
Cuzco you would find:
5. Besides previously being a large a. Petra
slave-trading depot, Elmina is also: b. Machu Picchu
a. A fishing village c. The Lucy fossil
b. A agricultural village d. Sutton Hoo
c. A large industrial area e. Borobudur
d. A craftsmen-oriented village
e. A specialized whaling village

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 11. Talking to the person who selected the 16. Which of these techniques was used by
items for the Polish time capsule would Emmanuel Gottlieb Leutze in order to
mean talking to a(n): create his selected work?
a. Astrophysicist a. Study a plethora of historical texts
b. Chronobiologist b. Visit museums and study the
c. Permafrost specialist artifacts
d. Herpetologist c. Visit the site and talk to locals
e. Avian specialist d. Hire American tourists and students
to act as models
12. Upon opening the century safe you would e. Recall of the actual event
find that the President at that time was: 17. If you wanted to title a book in a very
a. Abraham Lincoln similar fashion to Angela Gallop’s first
b. Ulysses S. Grant book, it would MOST likely be titled:
c. John F. Kennedy a. Why Donkeys Scream
d. Harry S. Truman b. The Mystery of the Missing Sock
e. Herbert Hoover c. When the Cats Don’t Meow
d. Facing the Truth
13. In Venezuela, El Libertador would refer e. A Dollop of Fear and an Ounce of
to: Regret
a. Simon Bolivar 18. Angela Gallop fearing some people may
b. Hugo Chávez learn the wrong things from her books is
c. Juan Guaido most similar to which of these types of CSI
d. Nicolás Maduro effect?
e. Wilmar Soteldo a. The Police Chief’s Version
14. Which of the following is not a photo of b. The Strong Prosecutor’s Effect
Putin meant to win over followers? c. The Weak Prosecutor’s Effect
a. Putin flying a fighter jet d. The Defendant’s Effect
b. Putin in a race car e. The Educator’s Effect
c. Putin riding a horse 19. The outfit Lady Gaga wore to the
d. Putin in judo training MuchMusic Video Awards can be BEST described
e. Putin in a flock of rare geese as:
a. Macabre
15. Whose rendition of Judith slaying b. Revealing
Holofernes is described with a “naturalistic c. Furry
virility”? d. Fiery
a. Caravaggio’s e. Geometric
b. Artemisia Gentileschi’s 20. The release of Songs for the End of Time
c. Gustav Klimt’s Vol. 1 coincides with which anniversary of the
d. Pedro Americo’s premier of Quartet for the End of Time?
e. Kehinde Wiley’s a. 100th
b. 120th
c. 75th
d. 80th
e. 99th

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21. The song Yesterday was composed in a: 26. The name of the sacred river in Kubla Khan
a. Dream is:
b. Coffee shop a. Tuul
c. Hotel room b. Kharaa
d. Dressing room c. Eg
e. Bus d. Kherlen
e. Alph
22. If you wanted to speak to the first person
to ever hear Sunrise Sunset (besides the creators) 27. Which of the following statements is TRUE
you would speak to: regarding Abraham Lincoln?
a. The lyricist’s wife a. He had one reporter he shared
b. The composer’s wife everything with
c. The composer’s sister b. He was the first to be discreetly
d. The lyricist’s cousin credited as a “reliable source”
e. The casting director of the c. He never spoke to journalists
musical d. He was the first President to be
interviewed
23. The best person to teach you how to play e. He was never directly quoted by
the aulos would be: reporters
a. Wilfrid Perrett
b. Robin Howell 28. What caused James Hicky to end up in
c. Tosca Lynch debtor’s prison?
d. Armand D’Angour a. A fire
e. Barnaby Brown b. An illegitimate child
c. A storm
24. If you wanted to follow in the footsteps of d. An earthquake
Babatunde Akinboboye you would most likely: e. Procrastination
a. Sing a rap song over a classical
piece 29. Where is the Maltravieso cave?
b. Make a clothing line to spread the a. Estremadura
popularity of classical music b. Barcelona
c. Write your own pieces in a c. Mallorca
classical style d. Ibiza
d. Play the piano from a young age e. Madrid
e. Do modern covers of classical
music 30. The discovery of the Lascaux can be
attributed to:
25. The narrator of The Brazilian Telephone a. A dog
would MOST benefit from a gift of: b. Hamster
a. Peaches c. Tornado
b. String d. Rockslide
c. Salt e. Mining explosion
d. Money
e. Time

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31. While trading in Mesopotamia in the early 36. The version of Nighthawks created by Banksy
stages of writing development you would MOST features:
likely come across which of the following? a. Famous American stars
a. Symbols matching the spoken b. Aliens
language c. Star Wars
b. Symbols carved on stone d. A threatening chubby man
c. Writing in ink on papyrus e. The Simpsons
d. Clay tokens
e. Rounded stones with holes in the 37. The following are all titles for the same song
center EXCEPT for which?
a. The Sultan’s Ballad
32. Recall of a personal encounter with a b. The Arabian riff
supernatural being would best fit under the title of: c. The Streets of Cairo
a. Oral history d. The Snake Charmer Song
b. A Folktale e. The Poor Little Country Maid
c. People’s history
d. A myth 38. The Phrygian dominant scale is NOT played
e. A memorate where?
a. Flamenco music
33. The people met by Alexander the Great’s b. Balkan
army on their way to Persepolis can be WORST c. Central Asia
described as: d. The Dominican Republic
a. Artistic e. Eastern Europe
b. Elderly
c. Athletic 39. Ladysmith Black Mambazo was disappointed in
d. Mutilated their difficulty recording Homeless for which reason?
e. Enslaved a. They were afraid to have their payment
docked
34. Which of the following would be the LEAST b. They had contributed greatly to the writing
useful for dating Neanderthal bones? process
a. Uranium c. They usually record many songs in one
b. Thorium day
c. Nitrogen d. They were afraid to let their families down
d. Decay products e. The song’s message was very important to
e. Potassium-40 them

35. Which of the following was a category in 40. John Keats’ selected work does NOT include
decorative tourist photography albums in Japan? reference to which of the following?
a. Customs and types a. Apples
b. People and animals b. Pears
c. Food and architecture c. Gourds
d. Beautiful objects d. Hazelnuts
e. All of the above e. Corn

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41. In The Fault In Our Stars, the character 46. Which of the following games owes a bit too
who wants to learn the outcomes of characters is much to the games which inspired it?
named: a. Celeste
a. Ashley b. The Messenger
b. Bella c. Enter the Gungeon
c. Hazel d. Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
d. Aurora e. Undertale
e. Nina
47. If you wanted to talk to the students who
42. Terry Matalas would be MOST helpful at: discovered the crashed airplane, you would want to speak
a. Producing a popular show to students at:
b. Writing a science fiction novel a. Bates College
c. Reconstructing sets by hand b. Foyle College
d. Recreating popular music pieces c. Adams State College
e. Making realistic dioramas d. College of Charleston
e. Algoma University
43. In India, town criers are partially used to
shame people who have done what? 48. The William Tell Overture is also known as
a. Not paid their taxes March of The _ Soldiers
b. Missed work the previous day a. Greek
c. Bothered their neighbors b. Beaten
d. Missed an important cultural c. Swiss
event d. Forgotten
e. All of the above e. Albanian

44. The term Yellow Journalism was inspired 49. In which of these places can you find a sculpture
off a: garden?
a. TV show a. Poble Espanyol
b. A cartoon b. Millennium City Park
c. A newspaper name c. Tomb of Napoleon
d. An early news channel d. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
e. A book on journalism e. Ulster American Folk Park
50. One who worked as a popinarius would MOST
45. Pixel Amaya developed which of the likely:
following games? a. Create light engravings in caves
a. Braid b. Create wall paintings of food items
b. Cave Story c. Look after fields of flowers
c. Terraria d. Own a masonry counter
d. Super Meat Boy e. Shatter turtle shells
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51. If someone told you they visited an 56. If you ran a company that provided cinemas with
establishment with windows shaped like videos of opera performances, you would MOST
written characters, they would MOST LIKELY come into competition with:
LIKELY be referring to: a. Classic FM
a. Museum of the Future b. Metropolitan Opera
b. Dreamland Wax Museum c. Royal Opera House
c. La Scala d. Kaleidoscope of Culture
d. Dublin City Gallery e. Abramorama
e. Heritage Park Square
57. Which of the following pairs of writers created
52. Which of the following people would selected works based on locations within the
MOST LIKELY be considered a leader of same country?
the Harlem Renaissance? a. A. K. Ramanujan | John Milton
a. Yuval Sharon b. Zheng Xiaoqiong | Wu Sheng
b. J. M. W. Turner c. Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Norman Dubie
c. Samantha Ege d. W. B. Yeats | Robert G. Ingersoll
d. Edward Hopper e. Lee Tzu | Koh Buck Song
e. Aaron Douglas
58. Which of the following poets would MOST
53. The Orient is a term used to describe what LIKELY be criticized that their selected work
part of the world? was not a poem, but rather a definition?
a. West Africa a. Hilaire Belloc
b. South America b. Mong-Lan
c. East Asia c. Giannina Braschi
d. Australia d. Zheng Xiaoqiong
e. Eastern Europe e. Miriam Greenberg

54. A tarantella is a: 59. Which of the following works is in the fantasy

a. Musical phrase genre?
b. Traditional dance a. Ring Cycle
c. Flightless bird b. The Ugly Little Boy
d. Percussive instrument c. Operation Sherlock
e. Mediaeval kingdom d. Somnium
e. The Lions of Al-Rassan
55. Which of the following statements is
FALSE about West Side Story? 60. Which of the following poems references a major
a. A plot-defining feud ends aspect of dendrochronology?
b. It is set in Manhattan a. “Writing a Poem is All I Can Do for
c. Both protagonists die You”
d. The story is inspired by one of b. “To Autumn”
William Shakespeare’s works c. “Elegy”
e. The male protagonist is a former d. “The Dodo”
member of a gang e. “Brazilian Telephone”

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61. Which of the following people would be MOST to 66. Unity is a software that has been used to:
blame for the destruction of the House of Wisdom? a. Render archaeological artifacts in
a. Caliph Omar different lighting angles
b. Hypatia b. Develop advanced artificial intelligence
c. Genghis Khan c. Simulate Earth’s tectonic history
d. Ogedei Khan d. Create 3d models
e. Hulagu Khan e. Simulate effects of diseases
62. Which nation would you MOST LIKELY have heard the
slogan “let’s take back control”? 67. Which of the following people or studios
a. United States developed the Age of Empires game series?
b. Russia a. Ubisoft
c. United Kingdom b. Sucker Punch Productions
d. China c. Ensemble Studios
e. Italy d. Sid Meier
63. A foundation box is most similar to a(n): e. Ozark Softscape
a. Time capsule
b. Military base 68. What is the real-world sport directly deriving
c. Floorplan from the one found in the Harry Potter series
d. Library known as?
e. Easter egg a. Quidditch
64. What franchise is currently MOST depicted in b. Quaffleball
Tomorrowland? c. Quadball
a. Star Wars d. Potter Handball
b. Star Trek e. Hoop Handball
c. Harry Potter
d. Battlestar Galactica 69. If someone told you they were about to use their
e. Doctor Who linstock, what would they MOST LIKELY also
65. If someone asked you why larger video game developers own?
create a less in-depth and less accurate depiction of a. Wheelbarrow
history in their games, you could BEST respond with: b. Cannon
a. “Smaller developers spend more time on their c. Camera
games” d. Printing Press
b. “Larger developers are less likely to take risks e. Dolia
when including historical information in their
games” 70. An abjad is a writing system that uses one
c. “Well, it’s not that they provide a less accurate character for every:
depiction, rather it is more impressive when an a. Vowel
indie developer provides a sufficiently accurate b. Syllable
one” c. Consonant
d. “Larger developers do less research when d. Word
making their games” e. Consonant and vowel
e. “They actually provide a more accurate
depiction than smaller developers, it’s just that
they are more scrutinized by the public”

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71. In what country can the island labelled as 76. The Great Emu War never ended, yet the Emu
“cod country” be found? crisis did due to…
a. United States a. Emu Relocation
b. Greece b. Better Fences
c. United Kingdom c. The Great Emu Massacre
d. Canada d. GMO crops
e. Denmark e. Reduction of Farm Market

72. What structure was the pot in China that 77. A Farb can most likely be best described as…
was analyzed by Yitzchak Jaffe found a. Confused
under? b. Hard-working
a. Medicine Home c. Careless
b. Cemetery d. Tired
c. Open market e. Persistent
d. Farm
e. Monument 78. The Autochrome process used which following
Colour Scheme?
73. Belz is located in modern-day: a. RBY
a. Romania b. CMYK
b. Moldova c. B&W
c. Turkiye d. K
d. Georgia e. RBG
e. Croatia
79. If you asked Jordan Lloyd about his opinion on
74. The Disney Animation "Meet the colourizing black and white photos, what would
Robinsons" has a notable parody of which his response MOST likely be?
attraction? a. “There’s no point to it!”
a. Museum of the future b. “AI is beginning to do it better”
b. World of Tomorrow c. “It is a hobby that people should know
c. Frontierland more about”
d. Tomorrowland d. “It should try its best to tell stories”
e. American National Exhibition e. “More funding needs to be allocated to
it”
75. The official Motto for the World Of
Tomorrow is… 80. A Phenotype to a Genotype is best related like…
a. Building the World of Tomorrow a. Cake instructions to a cake
b. A Computer to a mouse
b. Living in the World of Tomorrow c. An airplane to a car
c. Creating the World of Tomorrow d. mRNA to DNA
d. Pioneering the World of e. A water bottle to water
Tomorrow
e. Releasing the World of
Tomorrow

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81. Using the Gatliff Depth Method on a dead 86. Kemalist Nostalgia is surprisingly the opposite of
person would do what? a nostalgia, instead yearning for a situation which
a. Create an accurate AI chatbot of them commonly clashes with the idea of a return to
b. Recreate their facial features which ancient powerhouse?
c. See the cause of their death a. Ottoman Empire
d. Deduce locations they have been to b. Roman Empire
through isotopes c. Qing Dynasty
e. Reanimate their bones d. Incan Empire
e. USSR
82. If I decided to build a house on top of another
buried house, I would best be mimicking which 87. The Great Patriotic War is the Russian coined
given location? name for what?
a. The Crystal palace a. The Cold War
b. Machu Picchu b. WWI
c. Typical structures on the Isle of c. The First Balkan War
Innisfree d. The Second Balkan War
d. Average Pompeii Thermopoliums e. WWII
e. The Barikot temple in Pakistan
88. An Anti-war movement would most likely agree
83. Naming a child the same way Donald Johanson with the beliefs conveyed by…
would name his discoveries would mean… a. Judith Slaying Holofernes
a. Using the title of a song playing b. Washington crossing the Delaware
b. Spinning a random name generator c. Death of Marat
c. Naming them with your name d. Guernica
d. Describing their features e. Charlotte Corday
e. Using the location's name
89. A good guess for what "Keiskamma" means
84. The definition of a time capsule revolves around based on the image's background is what?
being stowed for at least… a. Famine
a. 5 years b. Shooting
b. 10 years c. Disease
c. 25 years d. Terrorist
d. 100 years e. Fire
e. None of the above
90. The variation of the CSI effect shown in the
85. Putting a time capsule in a similar place to scene in Star Trek: Picard when using the illegal
where the Westinghouse Capsule is would Romulan Forensic Method is due to which
mean… effect?
a. Stowing it in polar conditions a. The Strong Prosecutor's
b. Chucking it down a well b. The Police Chief's Version
c. Hiding it under a statue c. The Weak Prosecutor's
d. Keeping it in the hands of a town mayor d. The Defendant's
e. Putting the records in an online e. The Educator's
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91. What is most likely true if a truthful 96. Alter 3 would most likely have issues conducting
person is interrogated about their alibi? pieces because of their…
a. They will get upset pretty quickly a. Lack of music perception
b. They will not tell their story b. Lack of feeling
c. They will not change their story c. Property of error
d. They won't have evidence to back d. Property of music notation lack
the story up e. Lack of compassion
e. They will crack under pressure
97. All pieces in the Trikala album share the attribute
92. What two cultures are combined in of what?
Orpheus a. Being in an unorthodox melody
a. Chinese and Japanese b. Being adapted from other famous songs
b. Columbian and French c. Having songs from Chinese Heritage
c. Roman and Persian d. Hosting aspects of biculturality
d. Indigenous Australian and e. Being played with household items
Malaysian
e. Greek and Indian 98. The only poem in this section with a rhyme
pattern of ABAB is…
93. Classic FM would likely be good at a. A dog has died
making which following form of media? b. The Dodo
a. News Broadcasts c. Brazilian Telephone
b. Instagram stories d. Dodo
c. Youtube Advertising e. The Czar's Last Christmas Letter
d. Movies
e. Tiktoks 99. If someone were to have the same fear as Guy
Gavriel Kay about releasing too many books in a
94. The first lyric sung in the song series, they would be afraid of:
"Yesterday" is in what key? a. Copying other people
a. B b. Writing too much
b. C c. Copying oneself
c. D d. Becoming too optimistic
d. E e. A series which one can't let go of
e. F
100. Given one of his accomplishments, Andrew Otis
95. Embe Dodo is an arrangement/remix of would MOST LIKELY be good at:
this popular song, namely… a. Puzzles
a. Jambo Bwana b. Scrabble
b. Janbo Bawnma c. Math Problems
c. Jamgo Bawna d. Travelling
d. Memories e. Finding partners
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101. Originating in America, interviewing only 106. Oracle bones are a difficult record system to use
left it because of ____'s meeting with the because of what?
president of France at the time. a. Not many exist today
a. James Gordon b. The inscriptions are in Ancient Chinese
b. Aaron Delehanty c. The meaning of them are highly subjective
c. Guy Gavriel Kay d. The engravings degraded over time
d. Hames Creelman e. They were not intended as artifacts, instead
e. Ronald Reagan meant to be thrown out

102. Which of the following is a reason why 107. Which given element has a perfect half-life for
the Lascaux IV cave was preserved for so measuring the timeline of many more-modern
long? hominids?
a. The humid conditions help ink a. Deuterium
stick well b. Carbon-14
b. The common visits to the cave c. Thorium
kept it in good condition d. Potassium-40
c. The whole area was covered in e. Phosphate
preservation salts
d. The paintings were carved deeply 108. The given art piece is an early version of what is
in the rocks now Google Street View.
e. The cool temperature of the cave a. Pre-1906 San Francisco
kept it preserved b. Ottoman Panorama
c. Nighthawks
103. Mother Earth, the mono-ha art, is best d. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
described as… e. Sunset Boulevard
a. A protruding metal box
b. A sculpture of the Earth 109. Which of the following is false about Kintsugi?
c. A crinkled up map a. It originates and is pioneered in Japan
d. A dirt cylinder and a hole b. People would intentionally destroy art to use
e. Multiple little sand houses it
c. The best theory of origin was a
104. The one major key to unlocking the dissatisfaction with stapling
meaning of cuneiform was named… d. The process begins with setting pottery
a. The Epic of Gilgamesh shards to burn
b. The Babylonian Tales e. It relates to the Japanese idea of Wabi-sabi
c. The Behistun Inscriptions
d. The Persian law system 110. Which of the two following motifs are related in the
e. The Furtwängler description way they are usually celebrated?
a. Tarantella Napoletana and Jarabe Tapatio
105. Thucydides is to Herodotus like… b. Andalusian Cadence and Hijaz scale
a. Funny is to Serious c. Oriental Riff and Yodeling
b. Accurate is to Creative d. Arabian Riff and Andalusian Cadence
c. Dead is to Alive e. Yodeling and Jarabe Tapatio
d. Mythical is to Real
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111. The exhibit "Into Bondage" was initially showcased 116. Which of the following is the best description of
and had 4 paintings from Aaron Douglas, yet only 2 Doug Allen's Cardinal Rule?
exist today, including "Into Bondage" itself and what a. Do not change an ecosystem's weather
else? conditions
a. Out of Bondage b. Don't touch wildlife
b. The Harlem Revolution c. Avoid interfering with natural events
c. Aspiration d. Do not disorient any creatures in the wild
d. Inspiration e. Any encounter and its result is purely
e. The New World subjective
112. The once-seeds growing into trees in the poem "Iron
Bird" are most likely alluded to… 117. The release of this console affirmed the fact that
a. Small memories growing more significant nostalgia is still a giant power.
b. Time measured by trees a. Sega Genesis
c. Time going quicker as life goes by b. Nintendo SNES
d. The value of patience and fortune c. Playstation 2
e. The pain of nostalgia blooming over time in a d. Nintendo NES mini
seed e. Gameboy Colour
113. The main reason George Lucas doesn't desire the first
iteration of Star Wars to be released again is 118. What is the average range of ages of gamers?
because… a. 5-7
a. He believes in erasing old works b. 15-17
b. He wants to complete his film the way he c. 25-27
imagined d. 35-37
c. He feels that releasing the original will spark e. 45-47
Piracy
d. He believes that it will cause him humiliation 119. Which of the following ancient libraries is the
e. He's proving a point to a person he argued only one whose contents has survived to modern
with times?
114. In the more recent recreation of the Enterprise from a. The library of Ashurbanipal
Star Trek, which of the following was far easier to b. The library of Pergamum
recreate than before due to technological advance? c. The Villa of the Papyri
a. The LCARS panels d. The Libraries of Trajan's Forum
b. The bridge e. The Library of Celsus
c. The chairs
d. The lighting arrangement 120. The interesting observation about music in
e. The carpet Ancient Egypt is that supposedly, no sheet music
115. Yellow journalism is best related to which given nor scores of these pieces exists. Instead, what
modern term? takes its place are…
a. Advertisement a. Music conductors
b. Scams b. Improvisation skills
c. Malware c. Poems and Literature
d. Cyberbullying d. Sand Patterns
e. Clickbait e. Quipu-like ropes

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