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title: Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★ — how Mova does on the tests · History
description: Lesson 85 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 12 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★

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**Tests:** 5 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★★ · **Understood:** 5 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 85 of the history course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/).

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### Test 1 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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★★★ Jayden from Texas, all hyped: «Cleopatra's like, SUPER ancient, basically pyramid-building era, no cap.» Fix him.

- **1.** Right, she lived about 50 years after the pyramid was built — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** She lived 2,500 years after the pyramid but 2,000 before us — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** Right, she watched the Great Pyramid being built as a girl — no support
- **4.** She lived after the Moon landing, so she is not ancient at all — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 80, line 2: «Games give you a tech tree in a fixed order, neat borders in one colour per country, «barbarians» with no culture, «empty» land to settle, wonders built by one…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+3); the same property (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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★★★ 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?

- **1.** The gap is only 44 years, since Caesar's year counts — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** None; a bigger BC number is always the later year — no support
- **3.** The gap is 797 years, since BC years must be added — no support
- **4.** Rome is 709 years older: bigger BC is earlier — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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★★★ Liam in Dublin: «A man born in 5 BC who died in AD 5 lived 10 years, grand.» How long, really?

- **1.** About 9 years: there is no year 0 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** About 11 years, as you add a year 0 — no support
- **3.** No years at all, as both numbers are 5 — no support
- **4.** Exactly 10 years; Liam's sum is grand — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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★★★ Mia's teacher writes «the 18th century» and Mia writes «1800 to 1899». What should it be?

- **1.** 1601 to 1700 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 1801 to 1900 — no support
- **3.** 1800 to 1899 — no support
- **4.** 1701 to 1800 — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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★★★ Sipho in Durban: «The big party was 1 January 2000, so that's when the 21st century began, lekker!» True?

- **1.** Not quite: 2000 ended the 20th century, and the 21st began in 2001 — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** No, the 21st century will only begin in the year 2100 — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** No, the 21st century began in 1901, a hundred years before — score 4
- **4.** Yes: every new century starts in a year that ends in 00 — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 85, line 10: «A century is 100 years: the 1st century is the years 1 to 100, the 11th century is 1001 to 1100, the 19th century is 1801 to 1900, and the 21st century began o…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «begin» (+2); the same doer «21st century» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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★★★ Ava texts: «my history test's taking literally a thousand years lol». How many generations is a real 1,000 years?

- **1.** About 1,000, one for every year — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Just 1, because she said literally — no support
- **3.** About 40, at 25 years each — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** About 4, at 250 years each — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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★★★ A comic shows a Viking raider at Lindisfarne in 793 reading a printed book. What's the problem?

- **1.** Printing in Europe came about 650 years later — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Nothing, Vikings printed books — no support
- **3.** Nothing, except the book should be in Latin — no support
- **4.** Vikings had no writing at all — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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★★★ Grandad: «Back in my day, 1969, I watched the Moon landing on the telly.» In 2026, how long ago was that?

- **1.** 69 years — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 47 years — no support
- **3.** 57 years — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** 67 years — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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★★★ Kai lines up cards by date: Sputnik, Chornobyl, Gagarin's flight, Ukraine's independence. Which card is third?

- **1.** Chornobyl — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Ukraine's independence — no support
- **3.** Sputnik's launch — no support
- **4.** Gagarin's flight — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 85, line 4: «A century is a hundred years, and its name is one more than its hundreds: 1066 is in the 11th century, 1492 in the 15th, 2026 in the 21st. The trap is a round…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «century» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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★★★ Freya in Somerset: «The last mammoths died long before the pyramids, proper job, everyone knows.» Right?

- **1.** No, a few lived on an Arctic island until about 4,000 years ago — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **2.** Yes, every mammoth died out with the dinosaurs — no support
- **3.** Yes, the last one died about a million years ago — no support
- **4.** No, mammoths still live in the far north of Canada — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 85, line 7: «Woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic until about 4,000 years ago, so a few mammoths were still alive after the Great Pyramid was built.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «wrangel island» (+5); the same action «survive» (+2); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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★★★ Ollie: «The war was 1914 to 1918, so five years of fighting, easy.» What's the catch?

- **1.** It touched five years but lasted just over four — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** None; it lasted exactly five full years — no support
- **3.** It touched four years and lasted three — no support
- **4.** It lasted 18 years, from 1900 to 1918 — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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★★★ Zoe's great-gran turns 100 in 2026. «She remembers the First World War», says Zoe. Likely?

- **1.** Yes: she would have been about 20 then — no support
- **2.** Yes: she was born right in the middle of it — no support
- **3.** No: she was born after the Second one, too — no support
- **4.** No: she was born in 1926, after it ended — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 34, line 17: «The war ended in Europe in May 1945 and in Asia in August 1945, after the USA dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki; each single…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «end» (+2); the same doer «war» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/t12/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Identify the earliest of the following years.

- **1.** 776 BC — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** AD 476 — no support
- **3.** AD 988 — no support
- **4.** 44 BC — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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State the century within which the year 1492 falls.

- **1.** The nineteenth century — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The fourteenth century — no support
- **3.** The fifteenth century — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The sixteenth century — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Calculate the number of years elapsing between 10 BC and AD 10, there being no year zero.

- **1.** Twenty — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Nineteen — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Ten — no support
- **4.** Twenty-one — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Ascertain whether Cleopatra lived nearer in time to the building of the Great Pyramid or to the first Moon landing.

- **1.** Exactly halfway between the two — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Nearer to the Moon landing — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** At the very time of the builders — no support
- **4.** Nearer to the Great Pyramid — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/e4/)

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