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Who was the commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and chief of staff of the Israeli defence forces during the 1956 Suez Crisis?

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Mosche Dayan

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Who was Indian president from 2002-2007?

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Abdul Kalam

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Who was the first Indian president from 1950-62?

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Rajendra Prasad

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Who was UN Secretary general from 1997-2006?

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Kofi Annan (Ghana)

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Who was UN Secretary general from 2007-2016?

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Ban Ki-Moon (S. Korea)

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Who was UN Secretary general from 1972-1981?

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Kurt Waldheim (Austria)

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Who was UN Secretary general from 1961-1971?

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U Thant (Burma)

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Who was UN Secretary general from 1992-1996?

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Boutros Boutros Ghali

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Who is the current UN Secretary General?

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Antonio Guterres

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Who was the world’s first female PM, in Sri Lanka?

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Sirimavo Bandaranaike

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Currency of Khazakstan?

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Tenge

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Who was the first president of Bangladesh

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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

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‘Margherita’ is a peak of which African mountain?

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Mount Stanley

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‘Miracle on the Han’ refers to which country’s rapid economic development?

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South Korea

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Which island group has been contested over by UK and Mauritius?

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Chagos Islands

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What name links an asteroid and ancient Egyptian mythological bird?

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Bennu

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Who designed the White House?

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James Hoban

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Who designed ‘notre dame du haut’ in Ronchamp?

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Le Courbusier

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Who invented the aqua lung?

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Jaques Cousteau

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Who, in 1960, reached the mariana trench in ‘Trieste’?

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Jaques Piccard and Don Walsh

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Galena is an ore of which metal?

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Lead

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What are odontocetes?

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Toothed whales

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What are mysticetes?

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Baleen whales

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24
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What substance are fingernails made from?

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Keratin

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Who designed Farnsworth House?

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Miles Van der Rohe

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Who designed Farnsworth House?

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Miles Van der Rohe

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Who was Michealangelo’s trainer?

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Ghirlandaio

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Which political figure introduced Pancasila (5 principles)?

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Sukarno

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Which pop artist created a painting called “still life #20” which features an image of a Mondrian painting?

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Tom Wesselmann

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Who introduced Christianity to Japan, and is considered the greatest missionary since Saint Paul?

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Francis Xavier

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Who wrote the longest novel (and what is it)?

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Marcel Proust - In search of lost time (A la Recherche du temps perdu)

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Which French doctor and epidemiologist was the father of Marcel Proust?

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Adrienne Proust

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What is the name of the religious book in Zoroastrianism?

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Avesta

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What is the name given to the collection of Hindu texts?

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the Vedas

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Who was the founder-prophet of the Bahai faith?

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Baha’u’llah

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What is the highest mountain in the Atlas mountains?

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Toubkal (Morrocco)

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What name describes limited drainage basins?

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endorheic

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What name is given to a steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations?

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Escarpment

39
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What is another name for the second coming?

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Parousia

40
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Mr Javis Lorry and Lucie Manette are characters in which novel?

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A tale of two cities

41
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Who devised the trolley problem?

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Phillipa Foot

42
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Which epic poem by Voltaire is written in honour of the life of Henry IV of France and is a celebration of his life?

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La henriade

43
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In what year was “Letters concerning the English nation?

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1733

43
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In what year was “Letters concerning the English nation?

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1733

44
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Who wrote Doctor Zhivago?

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Boris Pasternak

45
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In what year was Doctor Johnson’s dictionary finally published?

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1755

46
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In what year was Candide published?

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1759

47
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David Strauss, Bruno Bauer, Ludwig Feuerbach and Karl Marx were all members of which political group, founded after the namesake died in 1831?

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Young Hegelians

48
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One of the most important figures in German idealism, who wrote ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’ and
‘Science of Logic’?

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

49
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Theodor Adorno was a member of which school?

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Frankfurt School

50
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Who spilt hot oil of Eros?

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Psyche

51
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Name 3 prominent American suffragettes?

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Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Staton and Lucy Stone

52
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Who was Odysseus’ son?

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Telemachus

53
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Which two Greek monsters were described as living on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina (Sicily and Calabria)?

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Scylla and Charybdis

54
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William Gowland and Edward Morse are associated with the archaeology of which country?

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Japan

55
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Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara and Hugo Ball are associated with which artistic movement?

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Dadaism

56
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What is the name of the Indian national anthem, and who composed it?

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Jana Gana Mana and Rabindranath Tagore

57
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What is the name of the political family of the Philippines, whose members include Ferdinand (president from 1965-1986), Imelda and Bongbong, the current president of the country?

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Marcos

58
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In what year was the people’s power revolution?

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1986 (February)

59
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Who was the second and last communist leader of Romania, serving from 1965 to 1989?

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Nicolae Ceaușescu (CHAO SHESH KOO)

60
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What is the name of the late neolithic site in Turkey, with rooftop streets and ladders?

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Çatalhöyük

61
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Who wrote the poem ‘The Unknown Citizen’?

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WH Auden

62
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Produced by Italian instrument-maker Andrea Amati in the mid-16th century, what is the name of the oldest cello in the world?

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The King, (Charles XI)

63
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What is the name in Italian for Italian reunification?

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Risorgimento

64
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What is the invertebrate phylum of roundworms?

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nematodes

65
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Who designed many buildings in the city of Vicenza, and the ‘La Rotonda’ building?

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Andrea Palladio

66
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Who solved Fermat’s last theorem?

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Andrew Wiles

67
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Who was the first female president of Africa, namely in Liberia?

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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

68
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Which argentinian writer wrote ‘The buenos aires affair’ and ‘Kiss of the spider woman’?

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Manuel Puig

69
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Which palestianian writer was born in 1941, famous for penning ‘The Adam of two Edens’ and ‘Journal of an ordinary grief’?

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Mahmoud Darwish

70
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When was the edict of Milan, and the first council of Nicea?

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313AD and 325AD

71
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marenka, micha and jenik feature in which opera?

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bartered bride

72
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who designed vietnam memorial (also designed the women’s table and the civil rights memorial)

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maya ying lin

73
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who coined the terms scientist and physicist

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william whewell

74
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who first flew across the english channel

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louis bleriot

75
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first atlantic flight?

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charles lindberg 1927

76
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who is the greek god of medicine

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asclepius

77
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who wrote catch 22

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joseph heller

78
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which us state is the diamond state

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delaware

79
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which us state is the beehive state?

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utah

80
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what is bob dylan’s real name?

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robert allen zimmerman

81
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who wrote the bonfire of the vanities?

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tom wolfe

82
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who was the first woman to get a medical degree in the us?

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elizabeth blackwell

83
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who was the first woman to qualify as a surgeon in the uk?

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elizabeth garett anderson

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who wrote the house of seven gables?

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nathanial hawthorne

85
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what was the first spacecraft to land on mars

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viking 1

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