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title: Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★ — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · History
description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 85 «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» 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.
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# Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★

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The 16 questions of lesson 85 «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» of the history course of Mova's primary school with their options, 93 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/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t1/) — ★★★ Jayden from Texas, all hyped: «Cleopatra's like, SUPER ancient, basically pyramid-building era, no cap.» Fix him. — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t2/) — ★★★ Nan in Cardiff: «Rome began in 753 BC and Caesar died in 44 BC, so Rome was 709 years younger, lush.» What's her slip? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t3/) — ★★★ Liam in Dublin: «A man born in 5 BC who died in AD 5 lived 10 years, grand.» How long, really? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t4/) — ★★★ Mia's teacher writes «the 18th century» and Mia writes «1800 to 1899». What should it be? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t5/) — ★★★ Sipho in Durban: «The big party was 1 January 2000, so that's when the 21st century began, lekker!» True? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t6/) — ★★★ Ava texts: «my history test's taking literally a thousand years lol». How many generations is a real 1,000 years? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t7/) — ★★★ A comic shows a Viking raider at Lindisfarne in 793 reading a printed book. What's the problem? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t8/) — ★★★ Grandad: «Back in my day, 1969, I watched the Moon landing on the telly.» In 2026, how long ago was that? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t9/) — ★★★ Kai lines up cards by date: Sputnik, Chornobyl, Gagarin's flight, Ukraine's independence. Which card is third? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t10/) — ★★★ Freya in Somerset: «The last mammoths died long before the pyramids, proper job, everyone knows.» Right? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t11/) — ★★★ Ollie: «The war was 1914 to 1918, so five years of fighting, easy.» What's the catch? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t12/) — ★★★ Zoe's great-gran turns 100 in 2026. «She remembers the First World War», says Zoe. Likely? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/e1/) — Identify the earliest of the following years. — right ✓ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/e2/) — State the century within which the year 1492 falls. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/e3/) — Calculate the number of years elapsing between 10 BC and AD 10, there being no year zero. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/e4/) — Ascertain whether Cleopatra lived nearer in time to the building of the Great Pyramid or to the first Moon landing. — wrong ✗ · exam

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