--- title: Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · History description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 75 «Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news» of the history course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, let… # Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news The 16 questions of lesson 75 «Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news» of the history course of Mova's primary school with their options, 102 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/t1/) — Ali: "Our numbers came from India via the Arabs." His mate from Florence: "Fun fact, Florence literally banned 'em!" Who's right? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/t2/) — In Europa Universalis the printing press spreads from province to province in a few decades. What was paper's real journey from China to Spain? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/t3/) — Zara: "A was an ox head? No way, that's mad!" Her nan: "Aye, pet, letters were pictures once." ("Pet" means dear, in the North East.) What's true? — right ✓ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/t4/) — Ethan: "Confucius, Buddha and Socrates lived at the same time? Did they, like, have a group chat?" Best answer? — right ✓ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/t5/) — Ollie's Gen X dad: "Back in my day, news took ages, not like your phones." How long did news of Waterloo take to reach London in 1815? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/t6/) — Kai's cousin: "Chess is proper English, innit, knights and castles." What's the correction? — right ✓ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/t7/) — Ella's friend: "Cinderella's Disney, end of." Ella: "Nah, there's a Chinese one from ages ago." Who's right? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/t8/) — Aisha asks which religions have the most people. Her mate says, "Islam is, like, mid-size." ("Mid" here means middling.) What does a big 2020 count say? — right ✓ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/t9/) — Tom: "The Greeks had a steam toy and didn't make trains? Big L." ("L" means loss.) What would they have needed? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/t10/) — Lily's bro shares a fake video: "It's got a million views, it's legit." ("Legit" means real.) What's the wise reply? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/t11/) — Aarav: "Scholars in Toledo translating books? Like Google Translate, but slow?" What did they actually do? — right ✓ · ★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/t12/) — What would have happened if paper had never left China? — right ✓ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/e1/) — Identify the region from which the digits now employed in arithmetic originated. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the dissemination of paper from China? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the origin of the game of chess. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/e4/) — Ascertain the principal finding of a study published in two thousand and eighteen concerning false news upon social media. — right ✓ · exam - ← previous: [74. 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