Master 200 World Trivia Flashcards: Historiography, Earth's Extreme Points and Pop Culture
A study guide to the 200-card World Trivia deck: what its three blocks really contain, 10 sample cards, four fixes and the best review order.
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Deck XL8970 — World Trivia: History, Geography & Culture — holds 200 cards, but the pub-quiz promise of the title is misleading. It is three encyclopedia articles sewn together: cards 1–98 are the study of history, cards 99–177 are Earth's extreme points, cards 178–200 are pop-culture theory. Only the middle block is trivia in the party sense, and knowing where the seams fall turns a grab bag into three clean study sessions.
Study this deck: World Trivia: History, Geography & Culture
1 / 10What is the definition of history as an academic discipline?
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What each block really covers
Cards 1–98 — historiography, not history. Source criticism, periodization, the three-age system, the Annales school, then a tour of the branches (political, diplomatic, military, economic, social, intellectual, environmental, quantitative, oral, counterfactual, Big History, microhistory, public history) and of the traditions: Herodotus and Thucydides, Sima Qian's Shiji, the Tang bureau of history founded in 629 CE, Isnad in Islamic writing, Ibn Khaldun, Eusebius and Bede. Almost no battles or kings.
Cards 99–177 — the genuinely fun part. Superlatives with coordinates, metres and dates attached. This is the block worth showing off.
Cards 178–200 — cultural studies. Adorno's culture industry, Storey's neo-Gramscian reading, penny dreadfuls, the 1950s birth of pop. No films, no bands, no celebrities.
Ten cards that show the range
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| What point on Earth is farthest from Earth's centre? | Chimborazo, Ecuador — 6,384.4 km from the centre |
| Why is Chimborazo farther out than Everest? | Earth is an oblate spheroid; Chimborazo sits 2,168 m farther from the centre despite being lower |
| What is the fastest point on Earth? | The summit of Cayambe, Ecuador — 1,675.89 km/h |
| What is the lowest point on dry land? | The Dead Sea shore — 432.65 m below sea level |
| What is the lowest major city on Earth? | Baku, Azerbaijan — 28 m below sea level |
| What is the highest permanent human settlement? | La Rinconada, Peru — 5,100 m |
| What is Earth's lowest recorded temperature? | −89.2 °C at Vostok Station, 21 July 1983 |
| What is the oceanic pole of inaccessibility? | Point Nemo, South Pacific — farthest place from any land |
| What does the Annales school emphasise? | Long-term social and economic trends, quantitative and interdisciplinary methods |
| What term did Adorno use for popular culture? | The culture industry |
Four fixes before your first review
- Delete card 4. Its front asks about the CIA triad in information security and its back answers this is a trick question — leftover editor junk that will only waste reps.
- Update two stale answers. Card 127 names Krubera Cave (2,199 m, record set 2006) as the deepest known cave; Veryovkina Cave, in the same Abkhazian massif, overtook it in 2018 at roughly 2,212 m. Card 10 dates anatomically modern humans to about 200,000 years ago, a figure the 2017 Jebel Irhoud finds in Morocco pushed back to around 300,000.
- Merge the duplicates at the seams. Cards 10 and 19 give the same date, 11 and 25 the same first civilisations, 74 and 76 the same Neolithic Revolution, 6 and 90 the same positivism. Keep the one with the extra detail.
- Finish the continental table. Africa, Antarctica, Europe, North America, Oceania and South America each get a highest point, lowest point and two temperature records. Asia gets one card (Oymyakon, −67.7 °C). Write the three missing ones yourself — they are the easiest cards in the deck to look up and the ones a quiz will ask for.
A study order that works
Do the extreme points first: the numbers are concrete and 79 cards of visible progress buys motivation for the drier blocks. Then take the historiography block by branch rather than in card order — answer the thirteen what does X history study cards as a single set, because their backs are close cousins and only discrimination practice separates them. Save pop culture for last; 23 cards, one pass.
Deck XL8970, World Trivia: History, Geography & Culture, 200 cards, is in the Flip It library. For another Wikipedia-derived deck handled the same way, see Learn the Timeline of Science: 200 Flashcards from the Nippur Cubit Rod to the Microprocessor.
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