World Scholar's Cup 2023
There is no time like the present - Answer- Anecdote referring to procrastination
Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. - Answer- George Santayana
The past is just a story we tell ourselves - Answer- Spike Jonze
Diorama - Answer- A three dimens...
World Scholar's Cup 2023
There is no time like the present - Answer- Anecdote referring to procrastination
Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. - Answer- George
Santayana
The past is just a story we tell ourselves - Answer- Spike Jonze
Diorama - Answer- A three dimensional replica of a scene, typically made minature.
Aaron Delehanty - Answer- Uses dioramas to promote conservation
Living-history museum - Answer- A type of museum that recreates historical settings
from long ago to simulate the past and to present the visitors with an experiental
interpretation of history. (The staff acts like how people acted in that time period.)
Spanish Village in Barcelona - Answer- A open air living history museum with 49000
square meters containing 117 historical buildings which Poble Espanyol built for the
1929 world fair.
Heritage Park - Answer- Located in Calgary, it is the largest canadian living history
museum where people can stop for photos and eat ice-cream with traditionally
dressed people.
Millennium City Park - Answer- Located in Kaifeng, China, it has 100 acres of what
was the Northern Song Dynasty.
Frontier land - Answer- A wild west recreation more focused on entertainment than
history made by Disney. It is the land or territory that forms the furthest extent of a
country's settled or inhabited regions. Home to cowboys, pioneers, salons.
'The Woman King' - Answer- The film attracted racist rhetoric even before it was
released. Online commentators condemned the perceived savagery of the Dahomey
kingdom. In those reports, particular attention was given to the "annual customs" in
Dahomey, the palace rituals that sometimes included massive human sacrifices.
Plymouth Patuxent - Answer- A controversial colonial village where visitors explore
the early pilgrimage. However it was criticised for not paying enough attention to
indigenous people who were innately displaced and given smallpox by the pilgrims
and breeding animals to serve as props.
Paleo diet - Answer- A diet that avoids processed foods on the theory that it is
healthier to eat like our ancestors 10000 years ago whos average life expectancy
was 35.
Roman thermopolium - Answer- An ancient version of a fast food restaurant where
hot food on the go was served. The layout was similar to one of a snack bar.
, Isicia omentata - Answer- The ancient roman version of a hamburger.
Medieval Times - Answer- A restaurant that serves medieval food. Although it is not
authentic as it offers tomato soup, and tomatoes didn't exist in Europe before the
Mexican invasion.
Ulster people - Answer- 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.
Tomorrowland - Answer- Museum to lift American spirits concerning the future.
Dysentery - Answer- An infection of the intestines that causes diarrhoea containing
blood or mucus.
Crystal Palace - Answer- An exhibition in Moscow about America.
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
and a method of historical escapism.
Bruce Coville's 1986 novel Operation Sherlock - Answer- About six teenagers who
have no history teacher—their parents are rogue scientists developing the first AI on
an otherwise uninhabited island. They learn about the past by playing historical
simulations.
Simulations - Answer- A possible way to learn history, although some sacrifice
accuracy, they represent minority and attract interest, but are very inaccurate as they
are from the caucasian lense of interpretation.
The Oregon Trail - Answer- An educational game about the road with the same
name that was criticised for celebrating imperialism, discounting environmental
destruction, and for ignoring the perspective of the indigenous peoples whose lands
were being trampled. The developers have made a more recent version of the game
with help from native studies scholars.
Settlers of Catan - Answer- Was called out for endorsing colonialism and was
renamed to Catan.
Column (Literature) - Answer- A recurring piece or article in a newspaper, magazine
or other publication, where a writer expresses their own opinion in few columns
allotted to them by the newspaper organisation.
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