World Scholars Cup 2023
describe the archaeological discovery of 'Lucy'
AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone representing 40 percent of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis.
describe the discovery of the terracotta warriors
Accidental discovery of a few farmers when building a well. Emperor Qin Shi Huang Di was discovered in the chamber in the centre of the army
What does criminal forensics demand?
According to leading figures in the field, criminal forensics demands more than just swabbing for DNA and testing flecks of blood; it requires imagination.
Great Emu War
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.
Millenium Park
in Kaifeng offers hundreds of acres of life in the Northern Song Dynasty (A northern song dynasty).
What is the painting labelled Invasion of ukraine?
it is a painting by a 10 year old girl named andres valencia and portrayed the german bombing of a small town
What does the playing of 'Mr Sandman' represent?
it truly represents the bustle and hustle of the 1950's consumerism and TV Televistas.
Excavation definition
making a hole or channel by digging
carbon dating: a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon
method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the proprties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope.
how was 'the house of wisdom' destroyed?
Another ancient library, the Abbasid Caliphate's House of Wisdom, was destroyed when the Mongols swept by on their way to Hungary and back again.
what did constantine and mussolini fight for?
to put the Roman empire back together
Heritage Park
In Calgary, stop for photos and eat 19th century ice cream with traditionally dressed people.
Borobudur
Located on the island of Java, the magnificent Borobudur temple is the world's biggest Buddhist monument. Built in the 9th century during the reign of the Syailendra dynasty, the temple's design in Gupta architecture reflects India's influence on the region, yet there are enough indigenous scenes and elements incorporated to make Borobudur uniquely Indonesian.
What would happen in our own world if information-tracking resources like Wikipedia and TikTok suddenly vanished?
Lots of information would be lost and many important facts and information would be lost. Also, people would no longer have access to these platforms making it harder for them to learn because you loose a form of instant communication.
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu is a historical place in Peru and is an Incan citadel set high in the Andes Mountains in Per
What is the musical genre Zilizopendwa and where is it popular?
Magic Mushrooms - Them Mushrooms' Embe Dodo is also a nostalgic musical genre-Zilizopendwa (those which were loved)—with enduring popularity in Kenya and Tanzania. It has even inspired academic research on its implications for East African development.
describe the meaning behind the poem: 'A Dog has Died'
'A Dog Has Died' by Pablo Neruda is a heart-wrenching eulogy for the poet's much-loved, deceased dog that also explores the dog's personality and interactions with the speaker. Throughout the poem, the poet takes the reader through the different aspects of his dog's personality. He was not over-affectionate or overbearing. He had the capacity to celebrate his life that humans don't have.
What is the poem 'Kubla Khan'
.Kubla Khan" is considered to be one of the greatest poems by the English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who said he wrote the strange and hallucinatory poem shortly after waking up from an opium-influenced dream in 1797. In the first part of the poem, the speaker envisions the landscape surrounding the Mongol ruler and Chinese emperor Kubla Khan's summer palace, called "Xanadu," describing it as a place of beauty, pleasure, and violence. The speaker suggests that these qualities are all deeply intertwined and, in the final stanza, announces a desire to build a "pleasure palace" of the speaker's own through song.
when was the 'century safe' time capsule created?
1876
This footprint could belong to the fastest man in our known history. It was left by an Aboriginal hunter who crossed a muddy wetland in New South Whales some 20,000 years ago, with four friends.
20,000 year old footprint found in NSW.
what is a column (literature)
A column is 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.
back breeding
Back-breeding aims to concentrate ancestral traits that persist within a population into a single individual using selective breeding.
Super cow:
Big cow. The auroch, that hunters drove into extinction in the 1600s.
how does destroying a society's history impact it?
By destroying societies history, their would be a loss in culture and many traditions.
describe genome editing.
Genome editing (also called gene editing) is a group of technologies that give scientists the ability to change an organism's DNA. These technologies allow genetic material to be added, removed, or altered at particular locations in the genome.
list some CNN operas
CNN operas: 2022 production of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
list some methods of de-extinction?
Cloning or Molecular cloning, genome editing, selective breeding.
cloning or molecular cloning
Cloning, as it relates to genetics and genomics, involves using scientific methods to make identical, or virtually identical, copies of an organism, cell or DNA sequence. These can be used to replicate the DNA of past or extinct creatures in order to resurrect them.
colour-blind casting (give examples as well)
Colour-blind-casting does not take race or ethnicity into account. Examples are white actresses Scarlett Johansson and Emma Stone playing characters of Asian descent.
Dead Sea Scrolls
Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient, mostly Hebrew, manuscripts (of leather, papyrus, and copper) first found in 1947 on the north-western shore of the Dead Sea. Study of the scrolls has enabled scholars to push back the date of a stabilized Hebrew Bible to no later than 70 CE, to help reconstruct the history of Palestine from the 4th century BCE to 135 CE, and to cast new light on the emergence of Christianity and of rabbinic Judaism and on the relationship between early Christian and Jewish religious traditions.
list actors who played nelson mandella
Dennis Haysbert, Danny Glover and Sidney Poitier have also taken turns at playing Mandela. Morgan Freeman.
what is the parody opera 'donald trump' about
Donald Trump is a Cantonese opera Trump searching for his twin brother in China, Kaifeng.
what is the drive through version of Richard Wagner's ring cycle
Drive-through version of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle: Spectators watch the action through their windshields and listen to the music on their car radios.
Plymouth Patuxent
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.
Dysentery
Dysentery is an infection of the intestines that causes diarrhoea containing blood or mucus.
Spanish Village in Barcelona
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.
roman thermopolium
Fast food for ancient romans. Sort of a snack bar and hot food were served.
What is the poem 'Dodo' about?
Henry Carlile's poem Dodo focuses around a person standing in the British museum looking at a taxidermized Dodo and reflecting on how it's lack of evolutionary capabilities meant that it has been reduced to extinction and nothing more than a name in a glass cabinet.
what was India's first newspaper
Hicky's Bengal Gazette. published in the 1780s—but that was, at best, the first in the English muold.
What is the meaning of one track forward one track back?
How our new music is reinterpreting old music. In other words, we are not being creative enough to make our own music
In 2014, renowned Brazilian investigative journalist Rubens Valente published a book entitled Operação Banqueiro. Describe the events that have followed:
In 2014, renowned Brazilian investigative journalist Rubens Valente published a book entitled Operação Banqueiro that detailed the story of a 2008 police operation that captured the attention of the country for involving the imprisonment and immediate release, for acts of corruption, of one of the most powerful bankers in Brazil. Valente was designated to work on the story as a reporter for the journal Folha do São Paulo. Years later, he published a book about it which exposed the role of Federal Supreme Court Justice Gilmar Mendes in ensuring banker Daniel Dantas evaded prison. Operação Banqueiro revealed the collusion between Dantas's bank and members of the judicial system, particularly Justice Yet, shortly after the book was published, Judge Mendes sued Valente for defamation, citing "damage of image and honor. Though in the first instance the judge dismissed Mendes's suit, through a series of appeals, Justice Mendes has openly exploited his connections to completely railroad Valente. In 2016, an appellate court sentenced Mr. Valente to pay compensation for defamation. In another appellate judgment by the Superior Tribunal de Justiça, handed down by a judge who had a close professional relationship with Mendes, Valente was mandated to print Mendes's original petition and the judgment labeling him as defamatory in every new copy of his book. In addition, Valente was also ordered to pay Justice Mendes BRL 310,000 (approximately $60,000) in damages.
Bruce Coville's 1986 novel Operation Sherlock
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.
'The Mountaintop' (play) Controversy
In a sort of inverse of the situation around Hamilton, the director of a play (The Mountaintop) about the Black civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. triggered a controversy in 2015 when he cast a white actor in the title role, hoping to explore issues of identity and authenticity, especially in light of King's own words about not judging people by their skin colour. The original author of the play objected, calling it a disrespectful distortion of history and of her intentions.
What murder took place in the opening episodes of startrek?
In the opening episodes of Star Trek: Picard, two characters need to solve a murder in an apartment—but someone has scrubbed the floors, replaced the windows, and wiped all the alpaca spit from the walls. (The only eyewitness also exploded.) Undeterred, they resort to an alien device that can project a blurry hologram of the recent past.
Ulster people
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.
There is a new approach to Oliver Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, which he first wrote as a German prisoner of war. What are the musical changes made?
It uses a jazz and rock style for a traditional piece.
where is Petra?
Jordan
what is the opera Somnium
Kepler´s "Somnium" ("The Dream"), written around 1611, should be considered the first science-fiction novel ever. The eminent German astronomer Johannes Kepler imagines a trip to the moon and speculates about its inhabitants.
list actresses who played princess diana
Kristen Stewart. Jeanna De Waal Emma Corrin Elizabeth Debicki Bonnie Soper Naomi Watts
describe the haiku 'Kyoto'
Kyoto: is a super short poem- this is it. For Robbins, the poem highlights change and the impossibility of returning to one's past; people change, circumstances change, and returning to the home one remembers is an impossibility, as it has become the past. Bashô wrote the haiku in 1690, near the end of his life, presumably on one of his two visits to Kyoto that year. The city itself has changed, whether from development, population growth, technological advances or other forces that alter the city, Bashô does not say. It could also refer to the differences between the actual city of Kyoto, with all the real world problems associated with cities as compared to, as Shûson writes, the Kyoto that is described in legend and poetry, a more beautiful, mystic place.
What is the difference between mennoties and amish people?
Mennonites and Amish people live outside the modern world. Although the two are similar, unlike the Amish, Mennonites are not prohibited from using motorized vehicles. In addition, Mennonites are also allowed to use electricity and telephones in their homes. When it comes to their beliefs, the Amish and Mennonite faiths are very similar. The differences lie mainly in the outward practice of those beliefs.
What is the poem 'Brazilian Telephone'
Miriam Bird Greenberg wrote a poem called The Brazilian Telephone, which follows two children conducting an experiment that they saw in a textbook, called 'The Brazilian Telephone' where one child is in a bathtub filled with salt water and another is connecting wires and batteries to the kid before turning a power source on. I have no idea if the kid died or not but it sounds very morbid. Neither child knows the dangers of what they're doing- the just think it's a cool experiment.
describe the poem 'On Shakespeare'
On Shakespeare by John Milton: eulogizing the life and work of William Shakespeare- Milton was seeking to honour Shakespeare the man, but more importantly his literary contributions. Basically: great artists live on through their work, and that creating art is thus a means of achieving immortality.
Burning of the Library of Alexandria
Over 100 scholars lived at the Museum full time to perform research, write, lecture or translate and copy documents. The library was so large it actually had another branch or "daughter" library at the Temple of Serapis. The Library, or part of its collection, was accidentally burned by Julius Caesar during his civil war in 48 BC, but it is unclear how much was actually destroyed and it seems to have either survived or been rebuilt shortly thereafter; the geographer Strabo mentions having visited the Mouseion in around 20 BC and the. Edward Gibbon's. Over 200000 scrolls.
Polish Polar Time Capsule
Polish Polar Time Capsule: near the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard, the tube holds smaller containers with samples that include a fragment of a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite, basaltic lava from an Icelandic volcano eruption and Namibian sand hiding particles of kimberlite and diamonds
which American president was wheelchair bound due to polio?
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was almost never photographed using a wheelchair, despite being paralysed from the waist down by polio. Journalists of the era honoured his wishes; so did the original designers of the FDR Memorial in Washington. Only in 2001 did they add a statue of him in a wheelchair.
Which English King died in battle in 1485, and was discovered in 2012 under a carpark?
Richard ||| Ancient Buddhist temple in Pakistan: Archaeologists in northwest Pakistan's Swat Valley have unearthed a roughly 2,000-year-old Buddhist temple that could be one of the oldest in the country
rigoletto
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi:
At the Tomb of Napoleon - describe the quote
Robert G. Ingersoll said this as part of his book The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child. In the quote he recounts how he visited Napolean's tomb and it was magnificent with gold and rare marble to honour the great man. During this time he sees aspects of Napolean's life, like his expedition to Egypt, Russia, and the Battle of Waterloo. While he thinks about his victories, he also recounts his failures and the hurt he has called- like the tears of orphans and his wife leaving him etc. He finishes with how he would rather be a peaceful peasant than a 'force of murder' etc.
describe The Municipal Gallery Revisited poem
The Municipal Gallery Revisited" by W. B. Yeats: In the particular poem, "The Municipal Gallery Revisited," the narrator recalls a visit to the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, at the time known as the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, where he remarks on the faces and legacies painted on the walls. Yeats won the Nobel Prize for literature, and the committee praised his work as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." The poem is basically just Yeats walking around a museum, looking at different paintings and arts and getting emotional at what they each represent. He remembers seeing a painting of a Venetian woman when she was being worked on in a studio 50 years ago, and this makes him emotional because they are like old friends to him.
videogames as a way of revisiting history
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
describe 'Sue' the archaeological discovery
Sue is the nickname given to FMNH PR 2081, which is one of the largest, most extensive, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever found, at over 90 percent recovered by bulk. It was discovered on August 12, 1990, by American explorer and fossil collector Sue Hendrickson, and was named after her. The fossil was auctioned in October 1997 for US$8.3 million, the highest amount ever paid for a dinosaur fossil. Sue is now a permanent feature at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. Found as a result of a flat tyre when looking for Edmontosaurus bones
Where was the oldest ancient Buddhist temple in pakistan found?
Swat Valley
describe the poem 'The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals'
The "Czar" in the title is Nicholas II, Russia's last czar, who abdicated the throne in 1917 and was assassinated with his family by Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1918. Dubie's poem is in the form of a letter from Nicholas to his mother, Maria Fyodorovna Romanova, formerly Dagmar, princess of Denmark, and is written in thirty unrhymed couplets. Traditionally, Christmas letters fill in the person addressed with details of the writer's life over the last year, and this is the approach that Dubie takes. Nicholas tells his mother what his life has been like during his time in captivity in the Ural Mountains. He recounts stories about his servant, Illya, and his wife and daughters.
who wrote the song 'Yesterday' and what is it about?
The Beatles wrote it - McCartney composed the entire melody in a dream one night in his room at the Wimpole Street home of his then girlfriend Jane Asher and her family. melancholy ballad about the break-up of a relationship
What South Africa's earliest newspapers called?
The Colonist.
what is the international time capsule society?
The International Time Capsule Society is dedicated to tracking the world's time capsule to ensure that those that are created are not lost. Paul Hudson founder of ITCS and alumni of Oglethorpe University estimates that more than 80 percent of all time capsules are lost and will not be opened on their intended date.
What was the watergate scandal?
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation.
Sutton Hoo
The discovery in 1939 changed our understanding of that era. Provides one of the richest sources of archaeological evidence for the Anglo-Saxon period of England's history
describe the controversy surrounding 'The Woman King'
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.
american frontierland
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)
Who were the British Luddites?
The original Luddites were British weavers and textile workers who objected to the increased use of mechanized looms and knitting frames. Most were trained artisans who had spent years learning their craft, and they feared that unskilled machine operators were robbing them of their livelihood.
selective breeding
The process of selecting a few organisms with desired traits to serve as parents of the next generation
describe the song 'Memories' by Maroon 5
The song is based on the loss of the band's manager and Levine's friend, Jordan Feldstein who died in December 2017. The band's lead singer, Adam Levine, explained: "This song is for anyone who has ever experienced loss
What was the Weinstein trial?
The trial in Los Angeles commenced in October 2022. Weinstein was charged with 11 counts of rape, forcible oral copulation and sexual battery, stemming from alleged acts between 2004 and 2013. He was found guilty of 3 of 7 charges (four of the initial 11 charges were dropped) on December 19, 2022
What is the CSI effect?
This is the belief by jurors (and the general public) that there are always scientific tests for evidence gathered by forensic scientists. It also is an increase in the general knowledge of procedures and processes that criminalists do in gathering evidence which can be a good thing.
describe Gao Xiaosong | You Who Sat Next to Me
This song is a sentimental message from a man to the long-lost crush who sat next to him at school. The lyrics are nostalgic, and touch on the man's heartfelt wishes for the woman's happiness.
describe Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick | Sunrise, Sunset
This song is performed at the wedding of Tzeitel, Tevye and Golde's eldest daughter. The two parents sing about how they can't believe their daughter and her groom have grown up, while Hodel and Perchik sing about whether there may be a wedding in the nearby future for them.
Renaissance Fairs
a fair that celebrate the renaissance period of history.
who drew a decapitated Josef Stalin head on a woman's head
Vitaly komarm and Alexander melamid (two soviet artists in exile)
Is it possible for us to prepare for events we can't predict?
We can never predict the future (at least no yet) but we care prepare for unpredictability by having the agility to always improve and positioning ourselves to make quick, intelligent pivots when the time comes. Knowledge is power and we can prepare for general things.
why is hamilton controversial
While Hamilton's casting of black actors as white historical political leaders may seem to empower them, it actually forces Black actors to play-act as their own oppressors, exalting the very history that undermined them, and that it may even make modern Americans feel better about people often assumed to be heroes who actually owned slave s—such as George Washington.
Rosetta Stone
a huge stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics, Greek, and a later form of Egyptian that allowed historians to understand Egyptian writing.
Dioramas
a replica of a scene, typically a three-dimensional full size or miniature model.
living history museum
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)
list some plants/animals that scientists tried to bring back to life
american chestnut, woolly mammoth, pyrenean ibx, passenger pigeon, moa.
Paleo Diet
avoid processed food. The idea we should eat no processed food like out ancestors 10000 years ago when life expectancy was only 35 years.
describe the de-extinction attempt of the american chestnut.
basically: american chestnut trees were almost driven to extinction by a blight bc of toxic fungi. Asian chestnut trees were crossbred with the American chestnut. Had some flaws so they did 75% american 25% asian (backcrossing). They then bred between the good trees in that batch and so on.
list actors who played lincoln
benjamin walker. Daniel Day lewis Brennen Harper. Bill Oberst Jr. Raymond Massey. Fritz Klein. Michael Krebs. Frank Mc Glynn Sr. Sam Waterston Robert V Barron. Billy Campbell . Tom Amandes.
describe Ali Haider | Poorani Jeans.
capturing at once a coming of age and loss of innocence, has for years remained an anthem for college functions, playing on loop in days when audio cassettes were still the medium.
Presentism
focusing too much on the 20th and 21st centuries—and against sifting selectively though the past to find support for their current social agendas. President of the American Historical Association warned about this.
old man of shanidar
shanidar cave is in iraq. Dr. Ralph Solecki excavated the bodies of eight adults and two children, thought to have been buried during occupations in the cave between 45,000 and 60,000 years ago. Among some of the remains, Solecki identified evidence that changed our thinking about Neanderthals.
what is the painting of judith beheading holofernes ?
tells the biblical story of judith who saved her people by seducing and beheading the assyrian general holofernes. The painting follows the trope 'female rage'
who tried to return to their old lifestyle?
the British luddites
define Verisimilitude
the appearance of being true or real. She has included photographs in the book to lend verisimilitude to the story.
what critisism did the Oregon trail game face?
the game has also been criticized for celebrating imperialism, for discounting the cost of environmental destruction, and for ignoring the perspective of the indigenous peoples whose lands were being trampled—it was, in a sense, the Oregon Trail of Tears.
Tripitaka koreana
the most exhaustively-catalogued collection of Buddhist scriptures in the world. In the 11th century, Korean monks took 80 years to carve their entire canon into wooden tablets—and then the Mongols destroyed them all. Unfazed, the monks tried again, creating over 80,000 woodblocks.
A Brief History of Toa Payoh
the poem, "A Brief History Of Toa Payoh", written in 1991, captures reflections on the fast pace of Singapore's urban development, stirred by memories of life before things like 'town centres or bus terminals.' The final line and most impactful line is 'in our History's eye, growth is so swift, rebirth also gets short shrift'.
Dendrochronology
the scientific discipline concerned with dating and interpreting past events, particularly paleoclimates and climatic trends, based on the analysis of tree rings
What is Vladimir Putin trying to rebuild?
the soviet union
