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1
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Capital City of Scotland

A

Edinburgh

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2
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The most recent event

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The fall of Berlin Wall(1989)

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3
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Who discovered blood circulation?

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William Harvey

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4
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When did the war in Kosovo end?

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1999

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5
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Who was the Father of modern medicine?

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Hippocrates

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6
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Who was the founder of modern anatomy?

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Andreas Vesalius

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7
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What was Guy de Chauliac discovered?

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Bubonic Plague and Pneumonic Plague

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8
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When did Yugoslavia disintegrated?

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1992

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9
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When was the Fall of Berlin Wall?

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1989

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10
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When did World War I begin?

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1914

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11
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When did World War I end?

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1918

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12
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When did World War II begin?

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1939(Germany invaded Poland)

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13
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When did World War II end?

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1945(Japan Surrendered)

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14
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Where was Adolf Hitler born?

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Austria

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15
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Where was John F.Kennedy assassinated?
(35th American President)

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Dallas

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16
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Founding countries of EU

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Belgium,France,Germany,Italy,Luxembourg,Netherlands

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17
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When was the Treaty of Rome to establish the EU?

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1957

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18
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When was the Treaty of Paris?

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1951

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19
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When was the Treaty of Lisbon?

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2007

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20
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Capital city of France

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Paris

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21
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How many countries in EU?

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27

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22
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Is Switzerland part of EU?

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No

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23
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Which country does NOT have euro as currently?

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Denmark

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24
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How many countries included in Eurozone?

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20 countries

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25
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European Commission Purpose

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Proposes new EU laws and policies and monitors their implementation

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26
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When was the Treaty of Amsterdam?

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1997

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27
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Capital city of Netherlands

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Amsterdam

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28
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What is the purpose of UN peacekeeping?

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Helps countries navigate the difficult path from conflict to peace

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29
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What is the best description of Bundestag in Germany?

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Federal lower house

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30
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When did US invade Afghanistan?

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2001

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31
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What is the name of Chinese President

A

Xi JinPing

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32
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On what continent do you find Suriname?

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South America

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33
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Capital City of Spain

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Madrid

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34
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Capital city of Russia

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Moscow

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35
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Capital city of India

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New Delhi

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36
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Capital city of Brazil

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Brasilia

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37
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Capital city of Madagascar

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Antananarrivo

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38
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Capital city of Kenya

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Nairobi

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39
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Capital city of Egypt

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Cairo

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40
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Capital city of Greece

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Athens

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41
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Capital city of Mexico

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Mexico city

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42
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Capital city of Japan

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Tokyo

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43
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Capital city of South Korea

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Seoul

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44
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Capital city of North Korea

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Pyongyang

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45
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Capital city of Australia

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Canberra

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46
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Capital city of Thailand

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Bangkok

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47
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Capital city of Indonesia

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Jakarta

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48
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Capital city of Malaysia

A

Kaula Lampur

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49
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Capital city of Iran

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Tehran

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50
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Capital city of Kazachstan

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Nursultan

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51
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Capital city of Sweden

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Stockholm

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52
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Capital city of Ireland

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Dublin

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53
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When was the first case of usage of atomic bombs on civilian?

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Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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54
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What is the oldest university in Italy?

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University of Bologna

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55
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How many regions are in Italy?

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20

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56
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What is the biggest island of Italy?

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Sicily

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57
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Monument of Rome

A

Sistine Chapel

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58
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Monument of Venice

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Saint Mark’s Basilica

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59
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Monument of Milan

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La Scala

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60
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Monument of Bologna

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Piazza Maggiore

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61
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Monument of Rome

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Trevi Fountain

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62
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Monument of Rome

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Pantheon

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63
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Monument of Florence

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Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore

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64
Q

Who founded Facebook?

A

Mark Zuckerberg

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65
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Who founded twitter?

A

Jack Dorsey

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66
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Who founded TikTok?

A

Zhang Yiming

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67
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Who founded Instagram?

A

Kevin Systrom

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68
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Who founded LinkedIn?

A

Reid Hoffman

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69
Q

Who is Greta Thunberg?

A

environmental activist

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70
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What is the longest running animated TV show in the US?

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The Simpsons

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71
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Vicodin related series

A

House MD

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72
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How many languages in Indo-European language family?

A

445 languages

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73
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Indo European languages

A

Albanian,Armenian
Baltic,
Slavic,Celtic
Germanic,Greek
Iranian,Indo-Aryan,Italic(Romance)
Nuristani

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74
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Who refused Noble Prize?

A

Sartre

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75
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Who was never awarded a Nobel Prize?

A

Mahatama Gandhi

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76
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Kazuo Ishiguro

A

Japanese-British novelist
won Nobel Prize in Literature (2007)

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77
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Albert Camus

A

France Philosopher
Won Novel Prize in Literature (1957)

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78
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Le Duc Tho and Nobel Prize

A

Vietnamese revolutionarie who refused Nobel Prize

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79
Q

For what is awarded the Pritzker Prize?

A

Architecture

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80
Q

Biggest Nobel prize for environment

A

Goldsmith Prize

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81
Q

Biggest Nobel prize for architecture

A

Pritzker Prize

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82
Q

Who was not awarded for Nobel Peace Prize?

A

Mahatma Gandhi

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83
Q

When was the first Nobel Prize invented?

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1901

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84
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Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

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Marie Curie(Research on radioactivity)

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85
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Albert Einstein won Novel Prize for Physics in 1921 for what research?

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The photoelectric effect

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86
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What field was NOT included at the times of first Nobel Prize established?

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Economics

87
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Famous Physicist who does not win Nobel Prize?

A

Stephen Hawking

88
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Who never received a Novel Prize in Literature?

A

H.G.Wells

89
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In which field,Nobel Prize is not awarded?

A

Psychology

90
Q

Capital city of Estonia

A

Tallinn

91
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In 1901,Nobel Prize was not given for which field?

A

Economic

92
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In which country Nobel Peace Prize is awarded?

A

Norway(Oslo)

93
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Capital city of Latvia

A

Riga

94
Q

In which country,Nobel Prize was awarded?

A

Sweden(Stockholm) only 5 Prizes
Peace Prize was awarded in Norway

95
Q

In what year did Italy become its own country?

A

1861

96
Q

Italy bordering countries

A

Switzerland
France
Monaco
Austria
Slovenia
San Marino

97
Q

Florence Nightingale was born in Italy on 12th May what year?

A

1820

98
Q

In what Italian city was pizza invented?

A

Nepales

99
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Who wrote the opera ‘La Borhme’?

A

Puccini

100
Q

Highest mountain in Italy

A

Mount Bianco

101
Q

Gelato is famous for which food?

A

Ice Cream

102
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Italian explorer

A

Christopher Columbus

103
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Italian polymath

A

Leonardo da Vinci

104
Q

Italian astronomer who invented Telescope

A

Galileo Galilei

105
Q

Longest river in Italy

A

The Po

106
Q

Where is the hard-quarters of UN?

A

New York City

107
Q

What is the first case of usage of atomic bomb in civillians?

A

Bombing of Hiroshima Nagasaki

108
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Nuclear accident occurred in 26th Apr 1986

A

Chernobyl disaster

109
Q

The surprise military strike by Japanese Navy Air Service upon US

A

Attack on Pearl Harbor

110
Q

At the beginning pf WW 2(1945),a joint attack on which country by Nazi Germany,Slovak Republic and Soviet Union?

A

Poland republic

Invasion of Poland

111
Q

4 coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by the militant Islamic extremist network al-Qaeda against US took place on?

A

11/Sep/2001

112
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When was the revolution in Berlin also known as Fall of Berlin Wall?

A

1989

113
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Which Italian is often credited as the inventor of radio and he shared the 1909 Nobel prize in Physics?

A

Guglimelo Marconi

114
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The creator of the world’s first nuclear reactor,the Chicago Pile-1 and won Nobel Prize in 1938

A

Enrico Fermi

also known as architect of the nuclear age and architect of atomic bomb

115
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An Italian physicist who works mainly in the field of quantum gravity and also a founder of loop quantum gravity theory

A

Carlo Rovelli

116
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The author of “The earthy tales in the Decameron”

A

Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian writer,poet and coressepondent of Petrarch,also an important Renaissance humanist

117
Q

What is the largest island in Mediterranean Sea?

A

Sicily

118
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What is the third largest island in Mediterranean Sea?

A

Cyprus

119
Q

Who composed The Marriage of Figaro(Le nozze di Figaro)?

A

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart(Italian Composer)

120
Q

Who composed The Marriage of Figaro(Le nozze di Figaro)?

A

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart(Italian Composer)

121
Q

Who composed La Mer?

A

Claude Debussy (French composer)

122
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Franz Joseph Haydn(Austrian composer)

A

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

123
Q

Who was the greatest violinist of all time and also known as “The Devil’s Violinist”?

A

Niccolò Paganini(Italian Violinist)

124
Q

German-British composer well known for his opears,oratorios,anthems,concerti grossi

A

George Frideric Handel

125
Q

What is the capital of Ukraine?

A

Kyiv

126
Q

What is the capital city of Belarus?

A

Minsk

127
Q

What is the capital of Slovakia?

A

Bratislava

128
Q

What was the Manhattan Project?

A

A nuclear project run from an office in Manhattan,NYC

129
Q

Elements of Algebra

A

Book written by Leonhard Euler

Swiss mathematician,physicist,astronomer,geographer and engineer

130
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Principia Mathematica

A

Book written by Alfred North Whitehead and bertrand Russell

(British philospher-mathematician)

131
Q

Book by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern

A

Theory of Games And Economic Behaviour

132
Q

Book by Gerolamo Cardano

A

Ars Magna

133
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Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica

A

Book by Issac Newton

134
Q

What country is NOT the founding country of the EU?

A

Great Britain

135
Q

What country is the founding country of the EU(European Union)?

A

Germany,
France,
Italy,
Netherlands,
Belgium,
Luxembourg
(also known as Inner six)

136
Q

EU was founded in which year?

A

1 Nov 1993(Maastricht,Netherlands)

137
Q

How many members are there in EU?

A

27 members

138
Q

What is the 27th member of EU?

A

Croatia(1 July 2013)

139
Q

Which country leave EU?

A

Brexit(The UK)

140
Q

When did the UK leave EU?

A

31 Jan 2020

141
Q

The War of roses was fought between which of these two families?

A

Lancaster and York

142
Q

Which state is the part of Yugoslavia?

A

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia
Macedonia
Montenegri
Serbia
Slovenia

143
Q

What state is not a part of Yugoslavia?

A

Slovakia

144
Q

How many Uralic language are there?

A

38 languages

145
Q

Uralic language countries

A

Northen regions of Norway and Swedan
Finland
Estonia
Hungary
Parts of Russia

146
Q

Uralic Language

A

Finnish
Estonian
Hungarian
Karelian(Finnish branch)

147
Q

Not Uralian Language

A

Latvian(Lithunian Language)

148
Q

What is the capital of Nigeria?

A

Abuja

149
Q

What is the capital of Mozambique?

A

Maputo

150
Q

What is the capital of Niger?

A

Niamey

151
Q

What is the capital of Angola?

A

Luanda

152
Q

What is the capital of Rwanda?

A

Kigali

153
Q

Who wrote “The Rights of Man-And The Age of Reason”?

A

Thomas Paine(English born political activist)

154
Q

Writer of Notes on the State of Virginia

A

Thomas Jefferson

155
Q

3rd President of US

A

Thomas Jefferson

156
Q

Who wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding?

A

John Locke(Founder of a school of thought known as British Empiricism)

157
Q

Book by Benjamin Franklin

A

Quotation by Benjamin Franklin

158
Q

Benjamin Franklin is best known as?

A

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

159
Q

Book by Samuel Adams(one of the founding father of US)

A

The revolutionery:Samuel Adams

160
Q

Most famous Founding Fathers of United State

A

George Washington

161
Q

Principle Founding Fathers of US

A

George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Hamilton
John Jay
James Madison

162
Q

What is the biggest planet in the solar system?

A

Jupiter

163
Q

What is the smallest planet in the solar system?

A

Mercury(also known as Morning Star)

164
Q

What is the brightest planet in the solar system?

A

Venus

165
Q

What is the coldest planet in the solar system?

A

Uranus

166
Q

What is the hottest planet in the solar system?

A

Venus

167
Q

What is the closest planet to earth in the solar system?

A

Mercury

168
Q

Size of Planets(ascending order)

A

Marcury,Mars,Venus,Earth,Neptune,Uranus,Saturn,Jupiter

169
Q

What is the full name of AU?

A

African Union

170
Q

How many members are there in African Union?

A

55 members

171
Q

North American Union countries

A

Canada
Mexico
United States

172
Q

When was the treaty of Rome to establish the EU?

A

1957

173
Q

Who was never awarded a Novel Prize?

A

Mahatama Gandhi

174
Q

When did EU get Nobel Prize?

A

10 Dec 2012(Nobel Peace Prize)

175
Q

When was Barack Obama won Nobel Prize?

A

9 Oct 2009(Nobel Peace Prize)

176
Q

Who is the 44th president of United States?

A

Barack Obama

177
Q

Who has win 3 Nobel Prizes?

A

Swiss-based The International Committee of the Red Cross(Nobel Peace Prize in 1917,1944,1963)

178
Q

When was Sir Winston Churchill won Nobel Prize?

A

1953(Nobel Prize in Literature)

Churchill was a Britain’s Prime minister during the WW2

179
Q

Who is the last Nobel Prize winner?

A

Alain Aspect,John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger (Novel Prize in Physics 2022)

180
Q

Who refused Nobel Prize?

A

Author Jean-Paul Sartre(1964 Nobel Prize in Literature)

181
Q

Which country was once ruled by warlords called shoguns?

A

Japan

182
Q

What country is shogun?

A

Japan

183
Q

What is the capital of Columbia?

A

Bogotá

184
Q

What is the capital of Argentina?

A

Buenos Aires

185
Q

What is the capital of India?

A

New Delhi

186
Q

What is the capital of Brazil?

A

Brasilia

187
Q

What is the capital of Chile?

A

Santiago

188
Q

What is the national newspaper of Germany?

A

Süddeutsche Zeitung

189
Q

What is the national newspaper of France?

A

Le Monde
Le Figaro

190
Q

What is the national newspaper of Denmark?

A

Berlingske,former Berlingske Tidende

191
Q

What is the national newspaper of Slovakia?

A

Novy Čas

192
Q

What is the national newspaper of UK?

A

The Times

193
Q

Author of Lords of the Rings

A

JRR Tolkien(John Ronald Reuel Tolkien)

194
Q

Country names without Republic

A

Andorra
UK,US,UAE
Liechtenstein
Denmark,Swiss
Russia

195
Q

How many countries are members of NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?

A

30

196
Q

Founder of NATO

A

US,UK,Canada,Belgium,Denmark,France,Iceland,Italy,Luxembourg,Netherlands,Norway,Portugal(1949)

197
Q

Rigoletto was written by

A

Giuseppe Verdi(Italian composer)

198
Q

Giacomo Puccini(Italian composer)’s most famous artwork

A

La Bohème
Tosca
Madama Butterfly

199
Q

Other famous Italian opera composer

A

Gioacchino Rossini
Vincenzo Bellini

200
Q

Italian Medicine Nobel Prize

A

Camillo Golgi(1906)
Daniel Bovet(1957)
Salvador Luria(1969)
Renato Dulbecco(1975)
Rita Levi Montalcini(1986)
Mario Capecchi(2007)

201
Q

Italian Literature Nobel Prize

A

Giosuè Carducci(1906)
Grazia Deledda(1926)
Luigi Pirandello(1934)
Salvatore Quasimodo(1959)
Eugenio Montale(1975)
Dario Fo(1997)

202
Q

Italian Physics Nobel Prize

A

Guglielmo Marconi(1909)
Enrico Fermi(1938)
Emilio Gino Segrè(1959)
Carlo Rubbia(1984)
Riccardo Giacconi(2002)
Giorgio Parisi(2021)

203
Q

Italian Peace Nobel Prize

A

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta(1907)

204
Q

Italian Chemistry Nobel Prize

A

Giulio Natta(1963)

205
Q

Italian Economic Nobel Prize

A

Franco Modigliani

206
Q

In which Italian city can you find the Colosseum?

A

Rome

207
Q

What is the largest canyon in the world?

A

Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Caryon

208
Q

What is the largest active volcano in the world?

A

Mauna Loa(Hawaii)

209
Q

Monuments in Rome

A

1.Traja column
2.Colloseum
3.Pyramid of cestius
4.Markets of Trajan
5.Baths of Caracalla
6.Theatre of Marcellus
7.Flavian amphitheater

210
Q

7 wonders of ancient world

A

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

211
Q

7 wonders of modern world

A

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

212
Q

Machu Picchu is in

A

Peru

The ancient city of Incas cascades down the steep walls on each side of the mountain,with terrace steps

213
Q

Older than colosseum in Rome,The pyramid of Giza in _____

A

Egypt

214
Q

The Pyramid of Giza were built for ____ around _____ BC

A

Pharaohs

2560BC