Question
One of the first works of "big history" was this author's The Outline of History, which sold 10 times more than any of his novels in his lifetime. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author who also advocated for a "World-State" of unified nations, which inspired the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
ANSWER: H. G. Wells [or Herbert George Wells]
[10e] Later "big history" writer Jared Diamond argued that these weapons, along with "Germs" and "Steel," were key to Eurasian hegemony.
ANSWER: guns [accept firearms or muskets or rifles]
[10m] Yuval Noah Harari's "big history" book Homo Deus has also been called an "end of history book," a reference to this political scientist’s influential 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man.
ANSWER: Francis Fukuyama [or Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama]
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
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| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 42 | 14.52 | 95% | 45% | 5% |