Cultura Generale Flashcards

(30 cards)

1
Q

The first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Physics was:

A

Guglielmo Marconi

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2
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Which poem was set to music in 1814 and became a patriotic song and later America’s national anthem in 1931?

A

The Star-Spangled Banner

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3
Q

Choose the only country which is not landlocked:
Botswana
B. Zambia
C. Gabon
D. Niger
E. Ciad

A

Gabon

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4
Q

David Foster Wallace died in 2008. His most remarkable book is the novel:

A

Infinite Jest

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5
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Which one of the following theories was publicly announced to the Prussian Academy of Science on 25th November 1915?

A

Einstein
general theory of relativity

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6
Q

Italy joined NATO in

A

1949

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7
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Which of the following institutions of the Republic of Italy is democratically elected by direct universal suffrage?

A

SENATO
Non il governo!

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8
Q

The Fields medal is a prestigious award in the field of

A

Mathematics

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9
Q

The International Committee of the Red Cross was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize x times

A

3

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10
Q

Which one of the following introduced the metaphor of the ?invisible hand’ in relation to a free trade economy

A

Adam Smith

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11
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An Italian citizen has been denied entry into the USA. Which law has been applied?

A

DOMESTIC Law!

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12
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Quanti membri ha la NATO?

A

29

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13
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The first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine was:

A

Camillo golgi

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14
Q

cosa vuol dire esiziale?

“un clima esiziale per gli europei”

A

dannoso

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15
Q

da chi è stato composto l’Inno alla Gioia?

A

Beethoven

scritto da Schiller (tedesco)

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16
Q

anno del Protocollo di Kyoto

17
Q

La politica del New Deal varata dal Presidente americano Franklin Delano Roosevelt è spesso associata alle teorie di quale celebre economista?

A

John Maynard Keynes

18
Q

L’aumento di valore della parità monetaria di una valuta in regime di cambi fissi è detto

A

rivalutazione

19
Q

da cosa dipende il susseguirsi delle stagioni per una stessa località della Terra?

A

dall’inclinazione dell’asse terrestre rispetto al piano dell’orbita

20
Q

Di quale quotidiano è stato fondatore Eugenio Scalfari?

A

La Repubblica

21
Q

che cos’è stata la COP24?

A

La 24a conferenza delle parti della Convenzione delle Nazioni Unite sui cambiamenti climatici

22
Q

chi fu Mario Capecchi?

A

un genetista italiano

Premio Nobel per la Medicina

23
Q

chi furono Werner Heisenberg e Niels Bohr?

A

fisici

Premio Nobel per la Fisica nel 1932

24
Q

Where is A Midsummer Night’s Dream set?

25
Which writer had to decline the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958?
Pasternak
26
Where was the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) estabilished?
Paris
27
The Nobel Prize was awarded for the first time in:
1901
28
Chi scrisse il Contratto Sociale?
Rousseau
29
A quale filosofo va attribuita la proposizione: "L'Essere è, il non essere non è"?
Parmenide
30
La lingua (italiana, inglese, giapponese etc) esemplifica uno dei fattori caratterizzanti ogni comunicazione: di quale fattore si tratta?
Codice