World Scholars Cup: Social Studies Exam Study Guide 2024 /2025
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World Scholars Cup: Social Studies Exam
Study Guide 2024 /2025
Nostradamus - Ans:-()
-French
-Physician and Reputed Seer
-Published famous collections of prophecies
-Credited for predicting: The Great Fire of London, Rise of Napoleon and Hitler, 9/11 and others.
-Predicted a great comet, Nib...
- Made accurate weather predictions, named "forecasts"
- Created primary version of Met office, and taught sailors and fisherman to predict weather.
- directed design and distribution of barometer
Michio Kaku - Ans:✔✔-(Janurary 24/ 1947 -)
- theoretical physicist, futurist and science popularizer.
- Written several books about the future.
Ray Kurzweil - Ans:✔✔-(Feburary 12/ 1948 -)
-author, computer science, invertor and futurist
-wrote books on a variety of topics and is involved in fields like text to speech synthesis, speech
recognition, etc.
-public advocate for futurist and transhumanism movements.
-predicted that, in 2005, supercomputers with the computational capacities to simulate protein folding
will be introduced, it happened in 2010 with a small amount of protein.
Nate Silver - Ans:✔✔-(Janurary 13. 1978 -)
- staistician and writer, basebal and election analyst
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