Q 01/05

What does the name EPCOT originally stand for?

A) Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow

B) Educational Playground Created On Tomorrow

C) Environmental Park Celebrating Our Technology

D) Epic Presentation of Cultures Of Today

Answer · why

A) Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow

EPCOT stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, the working city Walt Disney planned for the Florida property; after his death in 1966 ...

Q 02/05

In which year did EPCOT Center open?

A) 1979

B) 1982

C) 1971

D) 1975

Answer · why

B) 1982

EPCOT Center opened on October 1, 1982, as Walt Disney World's second theme park, three years to the day after its groundbreaking.

Q 03/05

Spaceship Earth is what kind of structure?

A) A cantilevered dome

B) A tensegrity tower

C) A geodesic sphere

D) A hyperbolic paraboloid

Answer · why

C) A geodesic sphere

Spaceship Earth is a geodesic sphere 165 feet across, clad in more than 11,000 triangular panels; Buckminster Fuller popularised both the geodesic for...

Q 04/05

Epcot is often described as a permanent what?

A) Botanical garden

B) Science museum

C) Olympic village

D) World's fair

Answer · why

D) World's fair

Epcot is often called a permanent world's fair; in the mid-1990s Disney even branded it Epcot '94 and Epcot '95, the way expos carry their year.

Q 05/05

How many nation pavilions does World Showcase have?

A) 11

B) 7

C) 5

D) 9

Answer · why

A) 11

World Showcase has 11 national pavilions around its lagoon; nine opened with the park and two more were added later in the 1980s.