IMAT Flashcards
Capital City of Scotland
Edinburgh
The most recent event
The fall of Berlin Wall(1989)
Who discovered blood circulation?
William Harvey
When did the war in Kosovo end?
1999
Who was the Father of modern medicine?
Hippocrates
Who was the founder of modern anatomy?
Andreas Vesalius
What was Guy de Chauliac discovered?
Bubonic Plague and Pneumonic Plague
When did Yugoslavia disintegrated?
1992
When was the Fall of Berlin Wall?
1989
When did World War I begin?
1914
When did World War I end?
1918
When did World War II begin?
1939(Germany invaded Poland)
When did World War II end?
1945(Japan Surrendered)
Where was Adolf Hitler born?
Austria
Where was John F.Kennedy assassinated?
(35th American President)
Dallas
Founding countries of EU
Belgium,France,Germany,Italy,Luxembourg,Netherlands
When was the Treaty of Rome to establish the EU?
1957
When was the Treaty of Paris?
1951
When was the Treaty of Lisbon?
2007
Capital city of France
Paris
How many countries in EU?
27
Is Switzerland part of EU?
No
Which country does NOT have euro as currently?
Denmark
How many countries included in Eurozone?
20 countries
European Commission Purpose
Proposes new EU laws and policies and monitors their implementation
When was the Treaty of Amsterdam?
1997
Capital city of Netherlands
Amsterdam
What is the purpose of UN peacekeeping?
Helps countries navigate the difficult path from conflict to peace
What is the best description of Bundestag in Germany?
Federal lower house
When did US invade Afghanistan?
2001
What is the name of Chinese President
Xi JinPing
On what continent do you find Suriname?
South America
Capital City of Spain
Madrid
Capital city of Russia
Moscow
Capital city of India
New Delhi
Capital city of Brazil
Brasilia
Capital city of Madagascar
Antananarrivo
Capital city of Kenya
Nairobi
Capital city of Egypt
Cairo
Capital city of Greece
Athens
Capital city of Mexico
Mexico city
Capital city of Japan
Tokyo
Capital city of South Korea
Seoul
Capital city of North Korea
Pyongyang
Capital city of Australia
Canberra
Capital city of Thailand
Bangkok
Capital city of Indonesia
Jakarta
Capital city of Malaysia
Kaula Lampur
Capital city of Iran
Tehran
Capital city of Kazachstan
Nursultan
Capital city of Sweden
Stockholm
Capital city of Ireland
Dublin
When was the first case of usage of atomic bombs on civilian?
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What is the oldest university in Italy?
University of Bologna
How many regions are in Italy?
20
What is the biggest island of Italy?
Sicily
Monument of Rome
Sistine Chapel
Monument of Venice
Saint Mark’s Basilica
Monument of Milan
La Scala
Monument of Bologna
Piazza Maggiore
Monument of Rome
Trevi Fountain
Monument of Rome
Pantheon
Monument of Florence
Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore
Who founded Facebook?
Mark Zuckerberg
Who founded twitter?
Jack Dorsey
Who founded TikTok?
Zhang Yiming
Who founded Instagram?
Kevin Systrom
Who founded LinkedIn?
Reid Hoffman
Who is Greta Thunberg?
environmental activist
What is the longest running animated TV show in the US?
The Simpsons
Vicodin related series
House MD
How many languages in Indo-European language family?
445 languages
Indo European languages
Albanian,Armenian
Baltic,
Slavic,Celtic
Germanic,Greek
Iranian,Indo-Aryan,Italic(Romance)
Nuristani
Who refused Noble Prize?
Sartre
Who was never awarded a Nobel Prize?
Mahatama Gandhi
Kazuo Ishiguro
Japanese-British novelist
won Nobel Prize in Literature (2007)
Albert Camus
France Philosopher
Won Novel Prize in Literature (1957)
Le Duc Tho and Nobel Prize
Vietnamese revolutionarie who refused Nobel Prize
For what is awarded the Pritzker Prize?
Architecture
Biggest Nobel prize for environment
Goldsmith Prize
Biggest Nobel prize for architecture
Pritzker Prize
Who was not awarded for Nobel Peace Prize?
Mahatma Gandhi
When was the first Nobel Prize invented?
1901
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Marie Curie(Research on radioactivity)
Albert Einstein won Novel Prize for Physics in 1921 for what research?
The photoelectric effect
What field was NOT included at the times of first Nobel Prize established?
Economics
Famous Physicist who does not win Nobel Prize?
Stephen Hawking
Who never received a Novel Prize in Literature?
H.G.Wells
In which field,Nobel Prize is not awarded?
Psychology
Capital city of Estonia
Tallinn
In 1901,Nobel Prize was not given for which field?
Economic
In which country Nobel Peace Prize is awarded?
Norway(Oslo)
Capital city of Latvia
Riga
In which country,Nobel Prize was awarded?
Sweden(Stockholm) only 5 Prizes
Peace Prize was awarded in Norway
In what year did Italy become its own country?
1861
Italy bordering countries
Switzerland
France
Monaco
Austria
Slovenia
San Marino
Florence Nightingale was born in Italy on 12th May what year?
1820
In what Italian city was pizza invented?
Nepales
Who wrote the opera ‘La Borhme’?
Puccini
Highest mountain in Italy
Mount Bianco
Gelato is famous for which food?
Ice Cream
Italian explorer
Christopher Columbus
Italian polymath
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian astronomer who invented Telescope
Galileo Galilei
Longest river in Italy
The Po
Where is the hard-quarters of UN?
New York City
What is the first case of usage of atomic bomb in civillians?
Bombing of Hiroshima Nagasaki
Nuclear accident occurred in 26th Apr 1986
Chernobyl disaster
The surprise military strike by Japanese Navy Air Service upon US
Attack on Pearl Harbor
At the beginning pf WW 2(1945),a joint attack on which country by Nazi Germany,Slovak Republic and Soviet Union?
Poland republic
Invasion of Poland
4 coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by the militant Islamic extremist network al-Qaeda against US took place on?
11/Sep/2001
When was the revolution in Berlin also known as Fall of Berlin Wall?
1989
Which Italian is often credited as the inventor of radio and he shared the 1909 Nobel prize in Physics?
Guglimelo Marconi
The creator of the world’s first nuclear reactor,the Chicago Pile-1 and won Nobel Prize in 1938
Enrico Fermi
also known as architect of the nuclear age and architect of atomic bomb
An Italian physicist who works mainly in the field of quantum gravity and also a founder of loop quantum gravity theory
Carlo Rovelli
The author of “The earthy tales in the Decameron”
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian writer,poet and coressepondent of Petrarch,also an important Renaissance humanist
What is the largest island in Mediterranean Sea?
Sicily
What is the third largest island in Mediterranean Sea?
Cyprus
Who composed The Marriage of Figaro(Le nozze di Figaro)?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart(Italian Composer)
Who composed The Marriage of Figaro(Le nozze di Figaro)?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart(Italian Composer)
Who composed La Mer?
Claude Debussy (French composer)
Franz Joseph Haydn(Austrian composer)
1.One of the greatest masters of classical music
2.He wrote more than 100 Symphonies
3.He was Mozart’s mentor
4.He taught Beethoven
Who was the greatest violinist of all time and also known as “The Devil’s Violinist”?
Niccolò Paganini(Italian Violinist)
German-British composer well known for his opears,oratorios,anthems,concerti grossi
George Frideric Handel
What is the capital of Ukraine?
Kyiv
What is the capital city of Belarus?
Minsk
What is the capital of Slovakia?
Bratislava
What was the Manhattan Project?
A nuclear project run from an office in Manhattan,NYC
Elements of Algebra
Book written by Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician,physicist,astronomer,geographer and engineer
Principia Mathematica
Book written by Alfred North Whitehead and bertrand Russell
(British philospher-mathematician)
Book by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern
Theory of Games And Economic Behaviour
Book by Gerolamo Cardano
Ars Magna
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Book by Issac Newton
What country is NOT the founding country of the EU?
Great Britain
What country is the founding country of the EU(European Union)?
Germany,
France,
Italy,
Netherlands,
Belgium,
Luxembourg
(also known as Inner six)
EU was founded in which year?
1 Nov 1993(Maastricht,Netherlands)
How many members are there in EU?
27 members
What is the 27th member of EU?
Croatia(1 July 2013)
Which country leave EU?
Brexit(The UK)
When did the UK leave EU?
31 Jan 2020
The War of roses was fought between which of these two families?
Lancaster and York
Which state is the part of Yugoslavia?
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia
Macedonia
Montenegri
Serbia
Slovenia
What state is not a part of Yugoslavia?
Slovakia
How many Uralic language are there?
38 languages
Uralic language countries
Northen regions of Norway and Swedan
Finland
Estonia
Hungary
Parts of Russia
Uralic Language
Finnish
Estonian
Hungarian
Karelian(Finnish branch)
Not Uralian Language
Latvian(Lithunian Language)
What is the capital of Nigeria?
Abuja
What is the capital of Mozambique?
Maputo
What is the capital of Niger?
Niamey
What is the capital of Angola?
Luanda
What is the capital of Rwanda?
Kigali
Who wrote “The Rights of Man-And The Age of Reason”?
Thomas Paine(English born political activist)
Writer of Notes on the State of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson
3rd President of US
Thomas Jefferson
Who wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding?
John Locke(Founder of a school of thought known as British Empiricism)
Book by Benjamin Franklin
Quotation by Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin is best known as?
Founding father of US b/c he is one of a singer of US declaration of Independence and(US constitution) also the first US Postmaster General
6th President of Pennysylvania
Book by Samuel Adams(one of the founding father of US)
The revolutionery:Samuel Adams
Most famous Founding Fathers of United State
George Washington
Principle Founding Fathers of US
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Hamilton
John Jay
James Madison
What is the biggest planet in the solar system?
Jupiter
What is the smallest planet in the solar system?
Mercury(also known as Morning Star)
What is the brightest planet in the solar system?
Venus
What is the coldest planet in the solar system?
Uranus
What is the hottest planet in the solar system?
Venus
What is the closest planet to earth in the solar system?
Mercury
Size of Planets(ascending order)
Marcury,Mars,Venus,Earth,Neptune,Uranus,Saturn,Jupiter
What is the full name of AU?
African Union
How many members are there in African Union?
55 members
North American Union countries
Canada
Mexico
United States
When was the treaty of Rome to establish the EU?
1957
Who was never awarded a Novel Prize?
Mahatama Gandhi
When did EU get Nobel Prize?
10 Dec 2012(Nobel Peace Prize)
When was Barack Obama won Nobel Prize?
9 Oct 2009(Nobel Peace Prize)
Who is the 44th president of United States?
Barack Obama
Who has win 3 Nobel Prizes?
Swiss-based The International Committee of the Red Cross(Nobel Peace Prize in 1917,1944,1963)
When was Sir Winston Churchill won Nobel Prize?
1953(Nobel Prize in Literature)
Churchill was a Britain’s Prime minister during the WW2
Who is the last Nobel Prize winner?
Alain Aspect,John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger (Novel Prize in Physics 2022)
Who refused Nobel Prize?
Author Jean-Paul Sartre(1964 Nobel Prize in Literature)
Which country was once ruled by warlords called shoguns?
Japan
What country is shogun?
Japan
What is the capital of Columbia?
Bogotá
What is the capital of Argentina?
Buenos Aires
What is the capital of India?
New Delhi
What is the capital of Brazil?
Brasilia
What is the capital of Chile?
Santiago
What is the national newspaper of Germany?
Süddeutsche Zeitung
What is the national newspaper of France?
Le Monde
Le Figaro
What is the national newspaper of Denmark?
Berlingske,former Berlingske Tidende
What is the national newspaper of Slovakia?
Novy Čas
What is the national newspaper of UK?
The Times
Author of Lords of the Rings
JRR Tolkien(John Ronald Reuel Tolkien)
Country names without Republic
Andorra
UK,US,UAE
Liechtenstein
Denmark,Swiss
Russia
How many countries are members of NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
30
Founder of NATO
US,UK,Canada,Belgium,Denmark,France,Iceland,Italy,Luxembourg,Netherlands,Norway,Portugal(1949)
Rigoletto was written by
Giuseppe Verdi(Italian composer)
Giacomo Puccini(Italian composer)’s most famous artwork
La Bohème
Tosca
Madama Butterfly
Other famous Italian opera composer
Gioacchino Rossini
Vincenzo Bellini
Italian Medicine Nobel Prize
Camillo Golgi(1906)
Daniel Bovet(1957)
Salvador Luria(1969)
Renato Dulbecco(1975)
Rita Levi Montalcini(1986)
Mario Capecchi(2007)
Italian Literature Nobel Prize
Giosuè Carducci(1906)
Grazia Deledda(1926)
Luigi Pirandello(1934)
Salvatore Quasimodo(1959)
Eugenio Montale(1975)
Dario Fo(1997)
Italian Physics Nobel Prize
Guglielmo Marconi(1909)
Enrico Fermi(1938)
Emilio Gino Segrè(1959)
Carlo Rubbia(1984)
Riccardo Giacconi(2002)
Giorgio Parisi(2021)
Italian Peace Nobel Prize
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta(1907)
Italian Chemistry Nobel Prize
Giulio Natta(1963)
Italian Economic Nobel Prize
Franco Modigliani
In which Italian city can you find the Colosseum?
Rome
What is the largest canyon in the world?
Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Caryon
What is the largest active volcano in the world?
Mauna Loa(Hawaii)
Monuments in Rome
1.Traja column
2.Colloseum
3.Pyramid of cestius
4.Markets of Trajan
5.Baths of Caracalla
6.Theatre of Marcellus
7.Flavian amphitheater
7 wonders of ancient world
1.Great Pyramid of Giza
2.Hanging Gardens of Babylon
3.Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
4.Lighthouse of Alexandria
5.Statue of Zeus at Olympia
6.Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
7.Colossus of Rhodes
7 wonders of modern world
1.Great walls of China
2.Taj Mahal in India
3.Colosseum in Rome
4.Chicken itza of Maxico
5.Machu Picchu of Peru
6.Christ the redeemer of Brazil
7.Petea
Machu Picchu is in
Peru
The ancient city of Incas cascades down the steep walls on each side of the mountain,with terrace steps
Older than colosseum in Rome,The pyramid of Giza in _____
Egypt
The Pyramid of Giza were built for ____ around _____ BC
Pharaohs
2560BC
What country is NOT the founding country of the EU?
Great Britain
What country is the founding country of the EU?
Germany
When was the Treaty of Rome to establish the EU?
1957
When was the Treaty of Paris?
1951
When was the Treaty of Lisbon?
2007
What country is NOT part of the EU?
Switzerland
Which country does NOT have Euro as currency?
Denmark
What statement is true about the European Commission?
proposes new EU laws and policies and monitors their implementation
When was the Treaty of Amsterdam signed?
1997
What is the purpose of UN peacekeeping?
helps countries navigate the difficult path from conflict to peace
Where is the headquarters of the UN?
New York City
Which of the following is NOT an organ of the UN?
National Parliament
What is the work of the Security Council of the UN?
maintaining the security and international peace
What organ of the UN is composed of representatives from all Member States?
General Assembly
What organ of the UN prepares the Territories for self-government?
Trusteeship Council
What is the name of the arrangement that formed the basis of the modern international trade system after World War II?
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
What does P for OPEC stand for?
Petroleum
What does E in OECD stand for?
Economic
What does E in UNEP stand for?
Environment
What does the first A in NASA stand for?
Aeronautics
What does first A in IAEA stand for?
Atomic
What does C in ICJ stand for?
Court
What does W in OPCW stand for?
Weapons
What does I in OIC stand for?
Islamic
What does T in UNWTO stand for?
Tourism
What is the full name of WWF?
World Wide Fund for Nature
What is the full name of WEF?
World Economic Forum
What is the full name of ASEAN?
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
What is the full name of WB?
World Bank
What is the full name of APEC?
Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Which of the following is NOT a member of APEC?
Laos
Which of the following is NOT a member of APEC?
None (all are members)
Which of the following countries is NOT characterized as The Four Asian Tigers?
Japan
Which of the following countries is NOT a member of Group of Seven (G7)?
China
Which of the following was a member of G8 but not G7?
Russia
Which of the following countries is NOT a member of BRICS?
Mexico
What is the full name of the AU?
African Union
What is the best description of WHO?
an agency of the UN responsible for international public health
What is the best description of WTO?
deals with the rules of trade between nations
What is the best description of UNESCO?
promoting international cooperation in education, the sciences and culture
What is the best description of UNICEF?
saves children’s lives and defends their rights
What is the best description of the IMF?
monitors the international monetary system and provides loans experiencing actual or potential balance of payments problems
What is the best description of the World Bank?
provides financial products and technical assistance
What is the best description of FAO?
leads to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security
What is the best description of NATO?
constitutes a system of collective security
What is the best description of NASA?
US agency building civilian space program
What is the best description of UNHCR?
UN agency protecting refugees
What is the name of the nuclear doctrine in which a country pledges not to use nuclear weapons unless attacked with them first?
No-first-use policy
What was the Manhattan Project?
A defense project of the US during World War II
How many countries are known to have given up nuclear weapons they once possessed?
4
