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Art & Music

1. Based on his selected work, what country would 6. Which of the following artworks features an
Pedro Alvarez likely want to travel to? American landscape?
A. Colombia A. Llyn-y-Cau | Richard Wilson
B. Cuba B. The Fighting Temeraire | J. M. W. Turner
C. Canada C. Into Bondage | Aaron Douglas
D. Mexico D. Edge of Town | Egon Schiele
E. The Dominican Republic E. The Oxbow | Thomas Cole

2. Which of the following is true regarding 7. Which of the following pairs of works was made
Napoleon Crossing the Alps? by the same artist?

A. The artist was against the French Revolution A. Kalinka | New Moscow
B. In it, Napoleon is juxtaposed with Alexander B. Fountain | Kawsbob
the Great C. Charlie Brown Firestarter | Are You Using That
C. Multiple versions were made Chair
D. Originally commisioned for Austria D. Boulevard of Broken Dreams | Nighthawks
E. Napoleon checked it for accuracy Revisited
E. Liberation of Aunt Jemima | The Strolling Saint
3. How many Campbells’s soup cans did Andy
8. Which of the following is the only song in the
Warhol paint?
list?
A. 10
A. Family Home - Suburban Exterior
B. 16
B. Black Belt
C. 25
C. Master Plan
D. 32
D. Little Boxes
E. 44
E. Life in the Suburbs
4. The origin story for Andreas Gurky’s 99 Cent is
most similar to 9. What was the main reason for Julian van Dieken
using AI in the My Girl with a Pearl art competition?
A. Wandering around a park
B. A tourist walking being fascinated by a foreign A. To gain fame as the sole victor
site B. To receive the $25,000 reward
C. A long road trip around the country C. To show the issues with AI art
D. Permanently moving away from your home D. To create a partnership with the Rijksmuseum
E. Going to the downtown part of a city E. To show the possibilites available with AI art

10. Which part of El Otro Oz is MOST similar to

5. Which of the following songs was made earliest?
The Wizard of Oz?
A. Freedom! 90 | George Michael
B. Torn | Lis Sørensen A. The themes
C. Losing My Religion | REM B. The main character’s backstory
D. I Saved the World Today | Eurythmics C. The music
E. Black Hole Sun | Soundgarden D. The setting
E. The characters’ names

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11. What is Dominique Blain’s Missa meant to 16. Nobuo Sekine would MOST likely agree with
represent? which of the following statements?
A. The contributions of residents to the war effort A. “Things must be fixed at all costs.”
B. The amount of memories lived by citizens B. “We must distance ourselves from our past.”
C. The physical appearances of soldiers C. “Let’s make something with the broken pieces.”
D. The experiences of soldiers in war D. “I’ll combine these two vases next.”
E. The military industrial complex E. “Let’s destroy some things!”

12. The Opening of the Diet would be MOST 17. Pre-1906 San Fransisco was made immediately
interesting to: before
A. Someone learning about the country of Japan A. The arrival of a wave of immigrants
B. Someone wishing to learn about history B. The modernization of the city
C. A group of archaeologists C. A natural disaster
D. Someone interested in traditional art forms D. The passing of an important law
E. A group developing a new diet E. City development into a commerce center

13. I Came and Went as a Ghost Hand can be

described as 18. The renaissance lute was MAINLY used in:
A. A perspective-specific artwork A. East Africa
B. A visual diary B. East Asia
C. A collage C. Oceania
D. A blog D. The Middle East
E. A collection of memories E. Europe

14. Someone looking for a medieval image

19. The main emotion represented in Voudou
depicting the Book of Judith would MOST likely like
Game’s Pas Contente is:
A. Judith on the Red Square | Vitaly Komar and
Alexander Melamid A. relief
B. Judith and Holofernes | Kehinde Wiley B. sadness
C. Judith Slaying Holofernes | Artemisia C. joy
Gentileschi D. dissatisfaction
D. Judith and Holofernes | Pedro Americo E. Concern
E. Judith and Holofernes | Giorgio Vasari

20. What is the literal meaning of “kintsugi?”

15. Which of the following is NOT a detail fixed by
Mort Künstler in his Washington’s Crossing? A. “golden joinery”
B. “repairing what’s lost”
A. The appearance of Washington
C. “broken pieces”
B. The colour of the water
D. “pottery repair”
C. The boat
E. “clear lacquer”
D. The ice formations
E. The sky

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Social Studies

21. Someone wishing to try “ají” would likely be 26. Which of the following could be a valid
involved in which of the following campaigns? criticism of John Urry’s “tourist gaze” concept?
A. Taste of Taiwan A. It has a broad lens
B. Global Hansik B. It gives tourists too much credibility
C. Global Thai Initiative C. It diminishes the importance of tourist sites
D. Cocina Peruana para el Mundo D. It views tourism with a negative lens
E. Pyongyang Restaurant E. It applies to very few tourists

22. Which of the following is a specific name for a 27. The Winkel Tripel map projection is a(n):
type of serif font?
A. Pseudocylindrical projection
A. Calligraphic B. Conic projection
B. Geometric C. Cylindrical projection
C. Casual D. Azimuthal projection
D. Humanistic E. Compromise projection
E. Modern

23. Which of the following is the MOST recent map 28. The Harkness Table is MAINLY meant to:
projection?
A. Allow for proper discussion in classrooms
A. Mercator B. Greater student-teacher interaction
B. Authagraph C. Allow for reduced noise in classrooms
C. Winkel Tripel D. Give teachers more control over their
D. Goode Homolosine classrooms
E. Robinson E. Give students their own personal space

24. Which of the following regions has the largest 29. Which of the following libraries has the largest
amount of countries without an official tourism number of items?
slogan?
A. Russian State Library
A. South Asia B. National Archives
B. The Middle East C. National Library of France
C. West Africa D. National Library of China
D. Southern Europe E. British Library
E. Oceania
30. The Oldowan tool set is named after an
25. Which Washington D.C. metro station archaeological site in what country?
implemented two new fare gate prototypes?
A. Uganda
A. Fort Totten B. Tanzania
B. Shady Grove C. Lesotho
C. Friendship Heights D. Kenya
D. Rosslyn E. South Africa
E. Pentagon City

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31. In recent years, the Amish community has 36. What is the most prominent difference
between serif typefaces and sans-serif typefaces?
A. Closed themselves off from all technology
B. Opened up to use of all technology A. Serif was made in the US; sans-serif in Europe
C. Isolated themselves from the rest of the world B. Serif typefaces have small strokes attached to
population its letters
D. Started campaigns promoting the community C. Serif has higher contrast than sans-serif
E. Opened up to the use of certain technologies D. Serif is more recent than sans-serif
E. Sans-serif is a derivation of the serif

32. The 1908 proposition to build an Egyptian 37. Which of the following archaeological/
pyramid in Detroit was palaeontological discoveries were found closest to
A. Published in a comedy magazine each other?
B. A fully serious initiative
A. Petra | Rosetta Stone
C. Declared as a whimsical idea
B. Sutton Hoo | Taposiris
D. Hated by the Detroit public
C. HMS Endurance | Montevideo Maru
E. Backed by local government officials
D. Borobudur | Rosetta Stone
E. Oldowan toolkit | Ocomtún
33. Gill Sans is a variant of which of the following
fonts? 38. How is Pyongyang Restaurant different from
other similar gastrodiplomacy campaigns?
A. Calibri
B. Courier A. Serves a selection of food from around the
C. Johnson world rather than from a country
D. Helvetica B. It is run in all continents
E. Arial C. It serves a greater economic purpose
D. It is run privately, while other programs are
government-run
34. A “babirusa” was MOST likely found in: E. It promotes greater cultural exchange with its
visitors
A. Palaeolithic Spain
B. Neolithic Eurasia
C. Bronze-Age Mesopotamia 39. Which of the following calendar systems is
D. Palaeolithic Indonesia Lunisolar?
E. Iron-age Egypt
A. Julian calendar
B. Rumi calendar
35. The English King Richard III died in 1485 due to C. Gregorian calendar
which of the following? D. Dangun calendar
E. Islaminc calendar
A. A nautical accident
B. Betrayal
C. Sickness 40. The High Line used to be a
D. A battle
A. railway
E. An ambush
B. skyscraper
C. underground metro tunnel
D. set of housing developments
E. commercial center

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History 46. What was the OLDEST Greek map ever made?
A. Strabo’s Map
41. Someone who would like to be in a historical B. Eratosthenes’ Map
hotel would MOST likely stay at: C. Turin Papyrus Map
D. Anaximander’s Map
A. Parador Alcañiz
E. Hecataeus’ Map
B. Doune Castle
C. The Winter Palace
D. Alnwick Castle
E. St. Donat’s Castle
47. What country is Auschwitz located in?
A. Ukraine
42. Al Capone would be MOST familiar with which B. Germany
of the following sites? C. Poland
D. Austria
A. Hiroshima
E. Czechia
B. Ground Zero
C. Auschwitz
D. Titanic
E. Alcatraz 48. The first Chinatown in San Francisco would
have been relocated if it weren’t for:

43. How old are most of the skeletons in the Paris A. Offers from other cities, giving the Chinese the
Catacombs? opportunity to move
B. The passage of an anti-discrimination act
A. ~500 years old C. Lobbying efforts by the people of the region
B. ~100 years old D. The US entry into war
C. ~800 years old E. An earthquake
D. ~200 years old
E. ~600 years old

44. How many total reactors were planned at 49. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the President of
Chernobyl? the US from

A. 6 A. 1901-1909
B. 12 B. 1933-1945
C. 4 C. 1921-1929
D. 3 D. 1949-1957
E. 18 E. 1913-1917

45. Which of the following would you NOT see at 50. Nagasaki is located in which Japanese region?
the Dreamland Wax Museum?
A. Kyūshū
A. Wax figues of politicians B. Chūbu
B. Wax figures of characters from popular media C. Chūgoku
C. Educational plaques D. Kansai
D. Wax figures of deceased people E. Tōhoku
E. You would see nothing; the museum is closed

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51. How does glass naturally form? 56. What would Andrew Johnson say about the
interview, as a medium?
A. When material is compressed over thousands of
years A. He would recommend ways to improve it, but
B. When sediment accumulates and compacts at would like the medium
the bottom of lava lakes B. He would express support
C. When lava makes quick contact with the C. He would be indifferent towards it
outside elements, like water D. He would banish/outlaw it
D. When deep ocean water makes contact with E. He would speak out against it
underwater ravines
E. It cannot form naturally
57. Which of the following news sources is known
less than The Daily Show (according to polls)?
52. What was the first region mapped by Inō
Tadataka? A. Bloomberg
B. CNN
A. Honshū
C. Huffington Post
B. Kyūshū
D. ABC
C. Hokkaidō
E. The New York Times
D. Okinawa
E. Shikoku
58. Which of the following things did Bill Clinton
NOT mention in his 1996 inaugural speech?
53. Francis Fukuyama would approve MOST of
which of the following countries’ political systems? A. The domination of his political party over the
other party
A. Queen Elizabeth | UK
B. The slowly-uniting world
B. Stalin | USSR
C. The improvement of education in America
C. Mussolini | Italy
D. The promise of American equality
D. Franco | Spain
E. The arrival of the information age
E. Reagan | United States

54. Darren Cullen’s field of journalist work is MOST 59. Vox is a news organization dedicated to which
similar to: type of journalism?
A. A social media account A. Investigative journalism
B. A series of long articles B. Data journalism
C. A memoir C. Explanatory journalism
D. A set of artworks D. Local journalism
E. A graphic novel E. Broadcast journalism

55. A user of YouTube would MOST likely be

familiar with which of the following terms? 60. Jimmy Lai is everything listed, except which of
the following?
A. Explanatory journalism
B. both-sidesism A. A media mogul
C. 24 hour news-cycle B. A supporter of the CCP
D. Content farms C. A convict
E. iPhoneography D. The founder of Next Media Animations
E. The founder of Apple Daily

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Literature & Media 66. What was the first Studio Ghibli movie Disney
released in America?
61. A history teacher wanting to teach their class A. Howl’s Moving Castle
about the Underground Railroad would likely be B. Princess Mononoke
aware of: C. Kiki’s Delivery Service
D. Spirited Away
A. Rampage
E. Castle in the Sky
B. Sid Meier’s Pirates
C. Doom
D. Seven Cities of Gold
67. A technology-obsessed person would MOST
E. Freedom!
likely disagree with the message of
A. Tomorrow is Waiting
62. What is the only thing to appear in colour in
B. Franchise
Schindler’s List?
C. The Veldt
A. The sky D. The Last Question
B. The main subject E. We Will Dream in the Garden
C. A piece of clothing
D. A flower
E. A place 68. How many years passed between the creation
of Condorito and the release of the Condorito
63. Based on their selected works, which of the movie?
following poets would be MOST familiar with A. ~25 years
daffodils (the flower)? B. ~40 years
A. Percy Bysshe Shelley C. ~55 years
B. Joyce Kilmer D. ~70 years
C. John Keats E. ~85 years
D. William Wordsworth
E. Dylan Thomas
69. Which of the following poet pays homage to a
64. A person calling a game “uncanny” would tragic event?
likely use which of the following terms? A. Wisława Szymborska
A. kigē B. Koh Buck Song
B. kamigē C. John Milton Hay
C. bakagē D. Norman Dubie
D. kakugē E. William Butler Yeats
E. kusogē
70. What was the reason for controversy
65. The clothing-based poem which MOST directly developing around the Dynasties TV show?
talks about its subject is A. The rushed production
A. That Man Put on a Wool Coat | Vinod Kumar B. The show’s bad quality
Shookla C. The lack of a good voice actor
B. A Long Dress | Gertrude Stein D. The show’s lack of accuracy
C. Father’s Old Blue Cardigan | Anne Carson E. The crew interfering with its subjects
D. Ode to Socks | Pablo Neruda
E. Fat Southern Men in Summer Suits | Liam
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71. The scenario that Brazilian Telephone 76. Metropolis was made as a result of which of
describes is most similar to the following 20th-century historical contexts?
A. A long-distance phone call A. The arrival of the Second World War
B. The rememberace of a past home B. Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany
C. Paying homage to something you have lost C. The disunification of Austria-Hungary
D. Children doing a science experiment D. The Roaring Twenties
E. Visiting a museum E. The establishment of the League of Nations

72. Which of the following is not true about 77. Which of the following people is the creator of
Suzume? Moneyball?

A. It has a conscious 3-legged chair A. Billy Beane

B. It addresses serious topics in an indirect way B. Daryl Morey
C. It is based off of the 2024 Noto earthquake C. Bill James
D. It features a talking cat D. Shane Battier
E. It is a Shinkai movie E. Michael Lewis

73. How many types of “true story” movies are 78. Someone interested in learning about Greek
there? history would enjoy watching:

A. 4 A. Braveheart
B. 6 B. The Woman King
C. 8 C. Pocahontas
D. 3 D. For All Mankind
E. 2 E. 300

74. The use of personification is MOST visible in 79. Which of the following pairs of games were
released by the same publisher?
A. A Song on the End of the World
B. Main Street A. Ultima V | Assassin’s Creed
C. Poem in October B. The Oregon Trail | Freedom!
D. To a Skylark C. Tetris | Seven Cities of Gold
E. To Autumn D. Rampage | Sid Meier’s Pirates
E. Doom | Ghost of Tsushima
75. “Sabermetrics,” as a term, originated in the
sport of 80. What is something that Guy Gavriel Kay does
when he makes his literary works?
A. Basketball
B. Baseball A. He mixes fantasy with history
C. Rugby B. He subverts expectations
D. Volleyball C. He makes them as realistic as possible
E. Tennis D. He adds simple-to-understand themes
E. He focuses on making a pure fantasy work

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Science & Technology 86. What would Thomas Phinney likely start his
case names with?

81. An ecological climax community is most likely A. “The crimes…”

B. “It was…”
created after:
C. “Case 001:…”
A. A season of heavy rains D. “The font…”
B. Centuries with no outside intervention E. “The Case of the…”
C. Interaction with human contact
D. An earthquake, causing the ecology to reset
87. Which of the following AI-detecting tool
E. A drought
metrics lead these tools to be potentially biased
against non-native speakers?
82. What was the first place to adapt to Daylight A. “readability”
Savings Time? B. “originality”
C. “simplicity”
A. A Japanese Prefecture
D. “perplexity”
B. A province of France
E. “style”
C. A city in Canada
D. The German Empire
E. An international alliance 88. What was the QR code originally created for?
A. To help restaurants display their menus easily
83. Which of the following is one of the MOST B. To increase customer satisfaction in
common concerns about IoT devices? supermarkets
C. To keep track of the parts used to make cars
A. Their high prices D. To add more functionality to modern phones/
B. Their low-quality materials devices
C. Their integration of AI E. To help with book identification
D. Privacy and safety issues
E. The effects of people using them excessively
89. The “Heck cattle” are MOST related to the:
A. Mastodon
84. Which of the following pairs of species went
B. Quagga
extinct in the same location? C. Woolly Mammoth
A. Auroch | American Chestnut D. Thylacine
B. Dodo | Moa E. Auroch
C. Carolina Parakeet | Passenger Pigeon
D. Woolly Mammoth | Pyrenean Ibex 90. What is notable about Model Room at the
E. Mastodon | Thylacine Crystal Palace by Philip Delamotte?
A. Great detail regarding the anatomy of the
85. The Dead Internet Theory is based on the idea beings portrayed
that: B. It was made the same year as the first
depiction of dinosaurs in fiction
A. humans no longer shape the internet C. The lack of scientific basis when it comes to
B. new technologies will make the Internet detail
useless one day D. A depicted fight between two dinosaurs
C. all internet content will be forgotten one day E. The environmental theming of the artwork
D. the Internet will fall under the absolute
control of conglomerates
E. the Internet is fully cuntrolled by the
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91. A large-language model (used for AI) is a kind 96. Before China changed to having one time
of: zone, how many did the nation have previously?
A. denoising A. 5
B. Dataset B. 8
C. semantic segmentation C. 3
D. nerual network D. 7
E. training E. 4

92. Which of the following would be MOST

effective in helping to translate a video into 97. Which of the following is NOT a feature of the
another language, seamlessly? Google “Magic Editor?”

A. HeyGen A. Object repositioning

B. Subtitles B. Upscaling resolution
C. Dubbing C. Photo brightening
D. Revoicing D. Object removal
E. Aloud AI E. Background changing

93. In what US state was the bar code first

98. Which kind of species replaced the
invented?
hemiauchenia paradoxa (llama relative) in South
A. Ohio America?
B. Illinois
C. Florida A. The water buffalo
D. Colorado B. The Sambar deer
E. New York C. The wild boar
D. The hippopotamus
E. The Banteng
94. An Apple iPhone user would be MOST familiar
with which of the following terms? 99. Which of the following species went extinct
A. file sharing most recently?
B. reverse engineering
A. Dodo
C. ad blocking
B. Pyrenean Ibex
D. fansubbing
C. Carolina Parakeet
E. jailbreaking
D. Moa
95. What is the MOST direct consequence of living E. Passenger Pigeon
on the left side of a time zone?
A. Increased communication 100. Carl Sagan was NOT responsible for:
B. Better leisure time
A. Figuring out why Venus temperatures are high
C. Missing out on sleep
B. The “pale blue dot” picture
D. Increased cancer rates
C. The Voyager golden records
E. Decreased productivity
D. Figuring out why Titan looked red
E. The “blue marble” picture

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106. What was the reason for the controversy

Special Area
surrounding the Globe Theatre’s production of
Richard III?

101. The town of Solvang is located in: A. The unfaithfulness to the original play
B. The historical innacurac ies
A. Sweden C. The casting director messing up
B. Minnesota D. A majority of the cast being women
C. Gernany E. The title character’s actor being non-disabled
D. Montana
E. California 107. What party did Imran Khan lead at the time of
his imprisonment?
102. A person who is hopeful about the development
A. Tehreek-e-Insaf (Pakistan Movement for Justice)
of supersonic transport would MOST likely say:
B. Sunni Unity Council
A. “We’ve already done this before! The C. Pakistan People’s Party
technology just needs some changes.” D. Awami National Party
B. “We can empower the next generation E. Pakistan Muslim League
to have it ready by 50 years from now.”
C. “The technology will be ready within 10 years!”
D. “We have it now!” 108. Which of the following was NOT a prediction
E. “Hopefully within the next century it will made by Jean-Marc Côté?
be done, finally.” A. Automated learning machines for schools
B. An automated orchestra
103. What is the meaning of the new name for C. A video call system
Russian McDonalds, “Vkusno y Tochka?” D. Personal space travel vehicles
E. Radium fireplaces
A. “Tasty, and that’s it.”
B. “Fast and Easy.”
109. How does dropshipping PRIMARILY help the
C. “Home of Burgers.”
D. “Taste and Quality.”
business-owner?
E. “Food Excellence.” A. More awareness of the products being sold
B. No input needed from the owner
C. Owner doesn’t worry about shipping
104. Which of the following colors has NEVER been
D. Less taxes spent overall
an Air India brand color? E. More money gained via customer purchases
A. Gold
B. Green 110. If someone wanted to chat with a past
C. Purple historical figure, what AI tool could be used?
D. White
E. Red A. Character.AI
B. Artbreeder
C. Aloud
105. How many flag designs went into the final D. Project December
elimination round during the NZ flag redesign? E. SuperBrain Ghost Bot
A. 4
B. 12
C. 5
D. 20
E. 40

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111. The first Apple restructuring occurred

116. Ötzi the Iceman is named for:
approximately how many years after the company’s
founding? A. The way he died
B. The time period he was from
A. 5 years
C. The valley he was found in
B. 7 years
D. The museum his remains are located in
C. 9 years
E. The hikers who found him
D. 15 years
E. 23 years

117. Farming for the Future is located in what

112. Who is the most played character in any form
country?
of media?
A. Germany
A. Sherlock Holmes
B. The United States
B. Dracula
C. The United Kingdom
C. Napoleon Bonaparte
D. Canada
D. Spiderman
E. Australia
E. Hamlet
118. What happened to most symbols of the Soviet
113. Before Times New Roman, what font did the Union after the nation collapsed in 1991?
US Department of State use for its documents? A. They were destroyed, but not banned as a
symbol of rememberance
A. Aptos
B. Some were removed, while others were
B. Garamond
transferred to a park
C. Calibri
C. Most were kept in place as symbols of artistic
D. Courier
heritage
E. Helvetica
D. They were destroyed and banned
E. They were sold to other countries
114. “Alameda Research” would be term MOST
recognizable to which of the following people? 119. Buying printer ink every few weeks for a
printer one already owns is an example of:
A. Satish Kumbhani
B. Steve Girsky A. Freemium
C. Elon Musk B. The razor-and-blades model
D. Mark Zuckerberg C. Value-added reselling
E. Sam Bankman-Fried D. Dropshipping
E. Subscription
115. Repositioning restructuring is MOST like:
A. Renting your house 120. What was the MAIN reason for why the The
B. Sharing a room with a roommate to save costs Gap redesign was so hated?
C. Someone being saved from declaring
bankruptcy A. It was too oversimplified
D. A person changing their schedule to adapt to a B. It added too much detail
new job C. It was hard to identify
E. A person holding a yard sale, selling things they D. It looked too similar to another logo
do not need E. It threw away years of brand recognition

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