World Scholar's Cup: Special Area
Mythology correct answers- variously to the collected myths of a group of people or to the study of such
myths. Myths are the stories people tell to explain nature, history and customs.
Cosmology correct answers- the study of the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe.
-the scholarly and scientific study of the origin, large-scale structures and dynamics, and ultimate fate of
the universe, as well as the scientific laws that govern these realities.
Creed (article of faith) correct answers-a statement of the shared beliefs of a religious community in the
form of a fixed formula summarizing core tenets.
-Muslims declare the shahada, or testimony: "I bear witness that there is no god but (the One) God
(Allah), and I bear witness that Muhammad is God's messenger."
Oral tradition correct answers-oral lore, is a form of human communication where in knowledge, art,
ideas and cultural material is received, preserved and transmitted orally from one generation to another.
Comparative Mythology correct answers-the comparison of myths from different cultures in an attempt
to identify shared themes and characteristics. Comparative mythology has served a variety of academic
purposes.
National myth correct answers-an inspiring narrative or anecdote about a nation's past. Such myths
often serve as an important national symbol and affirm a set of national values. A national myth may
sometimes take the form of a national epic or be incorporated into a civil religion.
-National myths often exist only for the purpose of state-sponsored propaganda.
- a dictator might tell stories of his ivinity or greatness to increase popularity
Pseudoscience correct answers-consists of claims, beliefs, or practices presented as being plausible
scientifically, but which are not justifiable by the scientific method.
-Examples of pseudoscience concepts, proposed as scientific though they are not, include acupuncture,
alchemy, ancient astronauts, applied kinesiology, astrology, Ayurvedic medicine, biorhythms, brain types,
cellular memory, homeopathy.
,Monomyth correct answers-In narratology and comparative mythology, the monomyth, or the hero's
journey, is the common template of a broad category of tales that involve a hero who goes on an
adventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory, and then comes home changed or transformed.
Mythomoteur correct answers- the constitutive myth that gives an ethnic group its sense of purpose.
Miracle correct answers-A miracle is an event not explicable by natural or scientific laws
-"Miracle" in the Quran can be defined as a supernatural intervention in the life of human beings - Islam
Underdog correct answers-A person or group in a competition, usually in sports and creative works, who
is popularly expected to lose. The party, team, or individual expected to win is called the favorite or top
dog. In the case where an underdog wins, the outcome is an upset. An "underdog bet" is a bet on the
underdog or outsider for which the odds are generally higher.
Noble lie correct answersIn politics, a noble lie is a myth or untruth, often, but not invariably, of a
religious nature, knowingly propagated by an elite to maintain social harmony or to advance an agenda.
The noble lie is a concept originated by Plato as described in the Republic.
Alternative fact correct answersA phrase used by U.S. Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway
during a Meet the Press interview on January 22, 2017, in which she defended White House Press
Secretary Sean Spicer's false statement about the attendance at Donald Trump's inauguration as
President of the United States. When pressed during the interview with Chuck Todd to explain why
Spicer "utter[ed] a provable falsehood", Conway stated that Spicer was giving "alternative facts." Todd
responded, "Look, alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods."
Skepticism correct answers-Generally any questioning attitude or doubt towards one or more items of
putative knowledge or belief. It is often directed at domains, such as morality (moral skepticism), religion
(skepticism about the existence of God), or the nature of knowledge (skepticism of knowledge).
Cosmic Egg correct answers-the world egg is a beginning of some sort, and the universe or some
primordial being comes into existence by "hatching" from the egg, sometimes lain on the primordial
waters of the Earth.
The concept was resurrected by modern science in the 1930s and explored by theoreticians during the
following two decades. The idea comes from a perceived need to reconcile Edwin Hubble's observation
, of an expanding universe (which was also predicted from Einstein's equations of general relativity by
Alexander Friedmann) with the notion that the universe must be eternally old. Current cosmological
models maintain that 13.8 billion years ago, the entire mass of the universe was compressed into a
gravitational singularity, the so-called cosmic egg, from which it expanded to its current state (following
the Big Bang).
Gaia correct answers-In Greek mythology is the personification of the Earth and one of the Greek
primordial deities. Gaia is the ancestral mother of all life: the primal Mother Earth goddess. She is the
immediate parent of Uranus (the sky), from whose sexual union she bore the Titans (themselves parents
of many of the Olympian gods) and the Giants, and of Pontus (the sea), from whose union she bore the
primordial sea gods. Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra.
Barton Cylinder correct answers-a Sumerian creation myth, written on a clay cylinder in the mid to late
3rd millennium BC. Barton's original translation and commentary suggested a primitive sense of religion
where "chief among these spirits were gods, who, however capricious, were the givers of vegetation and
life." He discusses the text as a series of entreatments and appeals to the various provider and protector
gods and goddesses, such as Enlil, in lines such as "O divine lord, protect the little habitation."[2]Barton
suggests that several concepts within the text were later recycled in the much later biblical Book of
Genesis.
Odin and Ymir correct answers-In Anglo-Saxon England, Odin held a particular place as a euhemerized
ancestral figure among royalty, and he is frequently referred to as a founding figure among various other
Germanic peoples, including the Langobards.
-Poetic Edda refer to Ymir as a primeval being who was born from venom that dripped from the icy rivers
Élivágar and lived in the grassless void of Ginnungagap. Ymir birthed a male and female from the pits of
his arms, and his legs together begat a six-headed being. The godsOdin, Vili and Vé fashioned the Earth
(elsewhere personified as a goddess; Jörð) from his flesh, from his blood the ocean, from his bones the
hills, from his hair the trees, from his brains the clouds, from his skull the heavens, and from his
eyebrows the middle realm in which mankind lives, Midgard.
Unkulunkulu correct answers-the Supreme Creator in the language of the Zulu people. In classical, pre-
colonial Zulu myth, Unkulunkulu brought human beings and cattle from an area of reeds. He created
everything, from land and water to man and the animals. He is considered the first man as well as the
parent of all Zulu. He taught the Zulu how to hunt, how to make fire, and how to grow food. With the
come of christianity, it has grown to become the word for god.
