WSC Practice Challenge - Special Area (Mistakes & Recoveries)

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A 30 question practice challenge about most of the 2020 Special Area curriculum in WSC. Scores are given upon completion for you to see your strengths and areas for improvement. Tune in next week at avansalpacaresources.weebly.com for the next Practice Challenge.

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Which of these software programs guarantees safety from not backing up?

1 point

Google Drive

Microsoft Word

Keynotes

Photoshop

All of the above

Clear selection

An accidental "Reply all" comes in the form of a...

1 point

Text message

Voice recording

Telephone call

All of the above

Clear selection

An "email storm" is most likely to occur if...

1 point

One person replies all to an email

The group being addressed is racially diverse

The content of the email is spam

The email is sent to a smaller group of people

None of the above

Clear selection

Insomnia:Parasomnia

1 point

Can't Sleep:Always sleeps

Sleepwalks:Sleeptalks

Dreaming:Unconsciousness

Inability to Sleep:Texting while sleeping

Medical:Genetic

Clear selection

Which of these passwords would give you the greatest chance of successfully "hacking" someone's account?

1 point

abcdf

their mother's maiden name

the name of their pet

12345

Their birthdate

Clear selection

If your friend is trapped in a cycle of compound interest, they're most likely guilty of committing...

1 point

Overspending

Underspending

Credit Card Debt

Procrastination

Not Backing Up

Clear selection

Which of these factors contributed to Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia?

1 point

The failure of the Continental System

The Duchy of Warsaw

Failure to cement the Russo-French alliance

The annexation of the Duchy of Oldenburg

All of the above

Clear selection

“Friendly fire is on” would be most applicable to which of these historical mistakes?

1 point

Great Emu War

Battle of Karansebes

Fall Gelb

“Mokusatsu”

Charge of the Light Brigade

Clear selection

Which of these military mishaps occurred most recently?

1 point

Charge of the Light Brigade

Battle of Karansebes

Wounded Knee Massacre

Battle of Changping

Battle of Adwa

Clear selection

The Charge of the Light Brigade took place during which war?

1 point

Anglo-Zulu War

Crimean War

First World War

American Revolutionary War

Peninsular War

Clear selection

The Sioux tribe was involved in which of these military mishaps?

1 point

Battle of Adwa

"Mokusatsu"

Ghost Dance of Pine Ridge

Wounded Knee Massacre

Battle of Changping

Clear selection

Your teacher says that the Spanish Armada failed due to British military brilliance. What would you most likely say in response?

1 point

"That's true to an extent, but the weather played a far greater role"

"Actually the Prussians also pitched in to help defeat the Spanish"

"The Spanish leadership didn't know what their mission actually was"

"Their Dutch allies never showed up, so the fleet was left without a purpose"

"The Spanish Armada wasn't actually that powerful"

Clear selection

“Mistranslations can be forgiven in politics”. Who would most likely disagree with this claim?

1 point

Moon Jae-In

Cheryl Thomas

Kantaro Suzuki

Pope Francis

Scott Morrison

Clear selection

The Dunning-Kruger effect is best summarised with which of these phrases?

1 point

“Skill isn’t everything”

“Mind must be master of the body”

“To lose attention is human”

“Confidence doesn’t compensate experience”

“Double the power, twice the fall”

Clear selection

The Halifax Explosion was a result of...

1 point

Poor communication

Faulty captaining

Unfortunate timing

The wartime pressures

All of the above

Clear selection

Stanley Lord, William Alden Smith and Lord Mersey were key figures in the...

1 point

Sinking of the Titanic

Halifax Explosion

Challenger Explosion

Crash on Tenerife

Ford Pinto Design Disaster

Clear selection

Which Soviet Premier was in power during the Chernobyl Disaster?

1 point

Joseph Stalin

Boris Yeltsin

Yuri Andropov

Mikhail Gorbachev

Leonid Brezhnev

Clear selection

Which of these disasters took place most recently?

1 point

Halifax Explosion

Challenger Explosion

The Crash on Tenerife

Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

The Titanic Sinking

Clear selection

Which of these phrases best summarises the lesson learnt from the "New-Coke" mistake?

1 point

"Consumers don't always dictate what a company should produce"

"A CEO should never assume they know what is best for a corporation"

"Statistics aren't everything when it comes to evaluating potential product success"

"Don't let profit overcome safety"

"Make sure your product actually works before releasing it"

Clear selection

Which part of the Ford Pinto eventually led to it being a commercial flop?

1 point

The cost

The manufacturing time

The environmental concern

The design

All of the above

Clear selection

George Washington probably died as a result of which medical procedure?

1 point

Bloodletting

The Frontal Lobotomy

Insulin Shock Therapy

Cocaine-enhanced Medicine

Phrenology

Clear selection

Dr. Jacob Lowe earned a patent for inventing which of these questionable products?

1 point

Radioactive cosmetics

Cocaine-enhanced medicine

The electric chair

The shoe-fitting fluoroscope

None of the above

Clear selection

The shoe-fitting fluoroscope was banned as a result of what event?

1 point

A major plutonium shortage in the US

The Cold War

The Atomic bombings of World War II

Marie Curie’s radioactivity research

None of the above

Clear selection

Albert Nieman, Angela Mariana and Sigmund Freud all championed what?

1 point

Insulin Shock Therapy

Lobotomies

Bloodletting

Cocaine-enhanced Medicine

Phrenology

Clear selection

The “Covfefe” tweet is an example of what gaffe?

1 point

Hot Mike

Glaring Factual Error

Kinsley

Out-of-Context

Undisciplined Surrogate

Clear selection

Which of these figures was mocked over a hand slap?

1 point

Pope Francis

Scott Morrison

Moon Jae-In

Cheryl Thomas

Hillary Clinton

Clear selection

Which of these lines best describes the Kinsley Gaffe?

1 point

"Make sure you've got your facts right"

"Your supporters shouldn't always voice their views"

"Honesty isn't always the best policy"

"The press are vultures, don't let them hear everything"

"Whatever you say should be understood by everyone"

Clear selection

A unitary conversion error caused which of these scientific endeavours to fail?

1 point

Ariane 5

Challenger Space Shuttle

Therac-25

Mars Climate Orbiter

MCAS

Clear selection

The "MissingNo" glitch can be encountered in which videogame?

1 point

Super Mario Bros.

Millipede

Tetris

Pokemon Red and Blue

DonkeyKong Country

Clear selection

Fault:Error

1 point

Game:Code

Hidden:Visible

Program:Programmer

Inability:Stupidity

Result:Process

Clear selection

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