IMAT Flashcards
(264 cards)
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Capital City of Scotland
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Edinburgh
2
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The most recent event
A
The fall of Berlin Wall(1989)
3
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Who discovered blood circulation?
A
William Harvey
4
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When did the war in Kosovo end?
A
1999
5
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Who was the Father of modern medicine?
A
Hippocrates
6
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Who was the founder of modern anatomy?
A
Andreas Vesalius
7
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What was Guy de Chauliac discovered?
A
Bubonic Plague and Pneumonic Plague
8
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When did Yugoslavia disintegrated?
A
1992
9
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When was the Fall of Berlin Wall?
A
1989
10
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When did World War I begin?
A
1914
11
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When did World War I end?
A
1918
12
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When did World War II begin?
A
1939(Germany invaded Poland)
13
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When did World War II end?
A
1945(Japan Surrendered)
14
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Where was Adolf Hitler born?
A
Austria
15
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Where was John F.Kennedy assassinated?
(35th American President)
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Dallas
16
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Founding countries of EU
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Belgium,France,Germany,Italy,Luxembourg,Netherlands
17
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When was the Treaty of Rome to establish the EU?
A
1957
18
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When was the Treaty of Paris?
A
1951
19
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When was the Treaty of Lisbon?
A
2007
20
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Capital city of France
A
Paris
21
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How many countries in EU?
A
27
22
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Is Switzerland part of EU?
A
No
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Which country does NOT have euro as currently?
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Denmark
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How many countries included in Eurozone?
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20 countries
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European Commission Purpose
Proposes new EU laws and policies and monitors their implementation
26
When was the Treaty of Amsterdam?
1997
27
Capital city of Netherlands
Amsterdam
28
What is the purpose of UN peacekeeping?
Helps countries navigate the difficult path from conflict to peace
29
What is the best description of Bundestag in Germany?
Federal lower house
30
When did US invade Afghanistan?
2001
31
What is the name of Chinese President
Xi JinPing
32
On what continent do you find Suriname?
South America
33
Capital City of Spain
Madrid
34
Capital city of Russia
Moscow
35
Capital city of India
New Delhi
36
Capital city of Brazil
Brasilia
37
Capital city of Madagascar
Antananarrivo
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Capital city of Kenya
Nairobi
39
Capital city of Egypt
Cairo
40
Capital city of Greece
Athens
41
Capital city of Mexico
Mexico city
42
Capital city of Japan
Tokyo
43
Capital city of South Korea
Seoul
44
Capital city of North Korea
Pyongyang
45
Capital city of Australia
Canberra
46
Capital city of Thailand
Bangkok
47
Capital city of Indonesia
Jakarta
48
Capital city of Malaysia
Kaula Lampur
49
Capital city of Iran
Tehran
50
Capital city of Kazachstan
Nursultan
51
Capital city of Sweden
Stockholm
52
Capital city of Ireland
Dublin
53
When was the first case of usage of atomic bombs on civilian?
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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What is the oldest university in Italy?
University of Bologna
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How many regions are in Italy?
20
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What is the biggest island of Italy?
Sicily
57
Monument of Rome
Sistine Chapel
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Monument of Venice
Saint Mark’s Basilica
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Monument of Milan
La Scala
60
Monument of Bologna
Piazza Maggiore
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Monument of Rome
Trevi Fountain
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Monument of Rome
Pantheon
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Monument of Florence
Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore
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Who founded Facebook?
Mark Zuckerberg
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Who founded twitter?
Jack Dorsey
66
Who founded TikTok?
Zhang Yiming
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Who founded Instagram?
Kevin Systrom
68
Who founded LinkedIn?
Reid Hoffman
69
Who is Greta Thunberg?
environmental activist
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What is the longest running animated TV show in the US?
The Simpsons
71
Vicodin related series
House MD
72
How many languages in Indo-European language family?
445 languages
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Indo European languages
Albanian,Armenian
Baltic,
Slavic,Celtic
Germanic,Greek
Iranian,Indo-Aryan,Italic(Romance)
Nuristani
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Who refused Noble Prize?
Sartre
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Who was never awarded a Nobel Prize?
Mahatama Gandhi
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Japanese-British novelist
won Nobel Prize in Literature (2007)
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Albert Camus
France Philosopher
Won Novel Prize in Literature (1957)
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Le Duc Tho and Nobel Prize
Vietnamese revolutionarie who refused Nobel Prize
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For what is awarded the Pritzker Prize?
Architecture
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Biggest Nobel prize for environment
Goldsmith Prize
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Biggest Nobel prize for architecture
Pritzker Prize
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Who was not awarded for Nobel Peace Prize?
Mahatma Gandhi
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When was the first Nobel Prize invented?
1901
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Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Marie Curie(Research on radioactivity)
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Albert Einstein won Novel Prize for Physics in 1921 for what research?
The photoelectric effect
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What field was NOT included at the times of first Nobel Prize established?
Economics
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Famous Physicist who does not win Nobel Prize?
Stephen Hawking
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Who never received a Novel Prize in Literature?
H.G.Wells
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In which field,Nobel Prize is not awarded?
Psychology
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Capital city of Estonia
Tallinn
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In 1901,Nobel Prize was not given for which field?
Economic
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In which country Nobel Peace Prize is awarded?
Norway(Oslo)
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Capital city of Latvia
Riga
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In which country,Nobel Prize was awarded?
Sweden(Stockholm) only 5 Prizes
Peace Prize was awarded in Norway
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In what year did Italy become its own country?
1861
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Italy bordering countries
Switzerland
France
Monaco
Austria
Slovenia
San Marino
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Florence Nightingale was born in Italy on 12th May what year?
1820
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In what Italian city was pizza invented?
Nepales
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Who wrote the opera ‘La Borhme’?
Puccini
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Highest mountain in Italy
Mount Bianco
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Gelato is famous for which food?
Ice Cream
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Italian explorer
Christopher Columbus
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Italian polymath
Leonardo da Vinci
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Italian astronomer who invented Telescope
Galileo Galilei
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Longest river in Italy
The Po
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Where is the hard-quarters of UN?
New York City
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What is the first case of usage of atomic bomb in civillians?
Bombing of Hiroshima Nagasaki
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Nuclear accident occurred in 26th Apr 1986
Chernobyl disaster
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The surprise military strike by Japanese Navy Air Service upon US
Attack on Pearl Harbor
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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
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4 coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by the militant Islamic extremist network al-Qaeda against US took place on?
11/Sep/2001
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When was the revolution in Berlin also known as Fall of Berlin Wall?
1989
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Which Italian is often credited as the inventor of radio and he shared the 1909 Nobel prize in Physics?
Guglimelo Marconi
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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
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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
Carlo Rovelli
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The author of “The earthy tales in the Decameron”
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian writer,poet and coressepondent of Petrarch,also an important Renaissance humanist
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What is the largest island in Mediterranean Sea?
Sicily
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What is the third largest island in Mediterranean Sea?
Cyprus
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Who composed The Marriage of Figaro(Le nozze di Figaro)?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart(Italian Composer)
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Who composed The Marriage of Figaro(Le nozze di Figaro)?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart(Italian Composer)
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Who composed La Mer?
Claude Debussy (French composer)
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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
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Who was the greatest violinist of all time and also known as “The Devil’s Violinist”?
Niccolò Paganini(Italian Violinist)
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German-British composer well known for his opears,oratorios,anthems,concerti grossi
George Frideric Handel
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What is the capital of Ukraine?
Kyiv
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What is the capital city of Belarus?
Minsk
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What is the capital of Slovakia?
Bratislava
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What was the Manhattan Project?
A nuclear project run from an office in Manhattan,NYC
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Elements of Algebra
Book written by Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician,physicist,astronomer,geographer and engineer
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Principia Mathematica
Book written by Alfred North Whitehead and bertrand Russell
(British philospher-mathematician)
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Book by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern
Theory of Games And Economic Behaviour
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Book by Gerolamo Cardano
Ars Magna
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Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Book by Issac Newton
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What country is NOT the founding country of the EU?
Great Britain
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What country is the founding country of the EU(European Union)?
Germany,
France,
Italy,
Netherlands,
Belgium,
Luxembourg
(also known as Inner six)
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EU was founded in which year?
1 Nov 1993(Maastricht,Netherlands)
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How many members are there in EU?
27 members
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What is the 27th member of EU?
Croatia(1 July 2013)
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Which country leave EU?
Brexit(The UK)
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When did the UK leave EU?
31 Jan 2020
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The War of roses was fought between which of these two families?
Lancaster and York
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Which state is the part of Yugoslavia?
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia
Macedonia
Montenegri
Serbia
Slovenia
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What state is not a part of Yugoslavia?
Slovakia
144
How many Uralic language are there?
38 languages
145
Uralic language countries
Northen regions of Norway and Swedan
Finland
Estonia
Hungary
Parts of Russia
146
Uralic Language
Finnish
Estonian
Hungarian
Karelian(Finnish branch)
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Not Uralian Language
Latvian(Lithunian Language)
148
What is the capital of Nigeria?
Abuja
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What is the capital of Mozambique?
Maputo
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What is the capital of Niger?
Niamey
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What is the capital of Angola?
Luanda
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What is the capital of Rwanda?
Kigali
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Who wrote “The Rights of Man-And The Age of Reason”?
Thomas Paine(English born political activist)
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Writer of Notes on the State of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson
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3rd President of US
Thomas Jefferson
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Who wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding?
John Locke(Founder of a school of thought known as British Empiricism)
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Book by Benjamin Franklin
Quotation by Benjamin Franklin
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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
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Book by Samuel Adams(one of the founding father of US)
The revolutionery:Samuel Adams
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Most famous Founding Fathers of United State
George Washington
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Principle Founding Fathers of US
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Hamilton
John Jay
James Madison
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What is the biggest planet in the solar system?
Jupiter
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What is the smallest planet in the solar system?
Mercury(also known as Morning Star)
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What is the brightest planet in the solar system?
Venus
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What is the coldest planet in the solar system?
Uranus
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What is the hottest planet in the solar system?
Venus
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What is the closest planet to earth in the solar system?
Mercury
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Size of Planets(ascending order)
Marcury,Mars,Venus,Earth,Neptune,Uranus,Saturn,Jupiter
169
What is the full name of AU?
African Union
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How many members are there in African Union?
55 members
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North American Union countries
Canada
Mexico
United States
172
When was the treaty of Rome to establish the EU?
1957
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Who was never awarded a Novel Prize?
Mahatama Gandhi
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When did EU get Nobel Prize?
10 Dec 2012(Nobel Peace Prize)
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When was Barack Obama won Nobel Prize?
9 Oct 2009(Nobel Peace Prize)
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Who is the 44th president of United States?
Barack Obama
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Who has win 3 Nobel Prizes?
Swiss-based The International Committee of the Red Cross(Nobel Peace Prize in 1917,1944,1963)
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When was Sir Winston Churchill won Nobel Prize?
1953(Nobel Prize in Literature)
Churchill was a Britain’s Prime minister during the WW2
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Who is the last Nobel Prize winner?
Alain Aspect,John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger (Novel Prize in Physics 2022)
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Who refused Nobel Prize?
Author Jean-Paul Sartre(1964 Nobel Prize in Literature)
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Which country was once ruled by warlords called shoguns?
Japan
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What country is shogun?
Japan
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What is the capital of Columbia?
Bogotá
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What is the capital of Argentina?
Buenos Aires
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What is the capital of India?
New Delhi
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What is the capital of Brazil?
Brasilia
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What is the capital of Chile?
Santiago
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What is the national newspaper of Germany?
Süddeutsche Zeitung
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What is the national newspaper of France?
Le Monde
Le Figaro
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What is the national newspaper of Denmark?
Berlingske,former Berlingske Tidende
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What is the national newspaper of Slovakia?
Novy Čas
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What is the national newspaper of UK?
The Times
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Author of Lords of the Rings
JRR Tolkien(John Ronald Reuel Tolkien)
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Country names without Republic
Andorra
UK,US,UAE
Liechtenstein
Denmark,Swiss
Russia
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How many countries are members of NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
30
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Founder of NATO
US,UK,Canada,Belgium,Denmark,France,Iceland,Italy,Luxembourg,Netherlands,Norway,Portugal(1949)
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Rigoletto was written by
Giuseppe Verdi(Italian composer)
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Giacomo Puccini(Italian composer)’s most famous artwork
La Bohème
Tosca
Madama Butterfly
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Other famous Italian opera composer
Gioacchino Rossini
Vincenzo Bellini
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Italian Medicine Nobel Prize
Camillo Golgi(1906)
Daniel Bovet(1957)
Salvador Luria(1969)
Renato Dulbecco(1975)
Rita Levi Montalcini(1986)
Mario Capecchi(2007)
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Italian Literature Nobel Prize
Giosuè Carducci(1906)
Grazia Deledda(1926)
Luigi Pirandello(1934)
Salvatore Quasimodo(1959)
Eugenio Montale(1975)
Dario Fo(1997)
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Italian Physics Nobel Prize
Guglielmo Marconi(1909)
Enrico Fermi(1938)
Emilio Gino Segrè(1959)
Carlo Rubbia(1984)
Riccardo Giacconi(2002)
Giorgio Parisi(2021)
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Italian Peace Nobel Prize
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta(1907)
204
Italian Chemistry Nobel Prize
Giulio Natta(1963)
205
Italian Economic Nobel Prize
Franco Modigliani
206
In which Italian city can you find the Colosseum?
Rome
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What is the largest canyon in the world?
Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Caryon
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What is the largest active volcano in the world?
Mauna Loa(Hawaii)
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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
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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
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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
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Machu Picchu is in
Peru
The ancient city of Incas cascades down the steep walls on each side of the mountain,with terrace steps
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Older than colosseum in Rome,The pyramid of Giza in _____
Egypt
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The Pyramid of Giza were built for ____ around _____ BC
Pharaohs
2560BC
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What country is NOT the founding country of the EU?
Great Britain
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What country is the founding country of the EU?
Germany
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When was the Treaty of Rome to establish the EU?
1957
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When was the Treaty of Paris?
1951
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When was the Treaty of Lisbon?
2007
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What country is NOT part of the EU?
Switzerland
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Which country does NOT have Euro as currency?
Denmark
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What statement is true about the European Commission?
proposes new EU laws and policies and monitors their implementation
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When was the Treaty of Amsterdam signed?
1997
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What is the purpose of UN peacekeeping?
helps countries navigate the difficult path from conflict to peace
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Where is the headquarters of the UN?
New York City
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Which of the following is NOT an organ of the UN?
National Parliament
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What is the work of the Security Council of the UN?
maintaining the security and international peace
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What organ of the UN is composed of representatives from all Member States?
General Assembly
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What organ of the UN prepares the Territories for self-government?
Trusteeship Council
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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)
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What does P for OPEC stand for?
Petroleum
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What does E in OECD stand for?
Economic
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What does E in UNEP stand for?
Environment
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What does the first A in NASA stand for?
Aeronautics
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What does first A in IAEA stand for?
Atomic
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What does C in ICJ stand for?
Court
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What does W in OPCW stand for?
Weapons
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What does I in OIC stand for?
Islamic
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What does T in UNWTO stand for?
Tourism
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What is the full name of WWF?
World Wide Fund for Nature
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What is the full name of WEF?
World Economic Forum
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What is the full name of ASEAN?
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
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What is the full name of WB?
World Bank
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What is the full name of APEC?
Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation
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Which of the following is NOT a member of APEC?
Laos
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Which of the following is NOT a member of APEC?
None (all are members)
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Which of the following countries is NOT characterized as The Four Asian Tigers?
Japan
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Which of the following countries is NOT a member of Group of Seven (G7)?
China
249
Which of the following was a member of G8 but not G7?
Russia
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Which of the following countries is NOT a member of BRICS?
Mexico
251
What is the full name of the AU?
African Union
252
What is the best description of WHO?
an agency of the UN responsible for international public health
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What is the best description of WTO?
deals with the rules of trade between nations
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What is the best description of UNESCO?
promoting international cooperation in education, the sciences and culture
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What is the best description of UNICEF?
saves children’s lives and defends their rights
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What is the best description of the IMF?
monitors the international monetary system and provides loans experiencing actual or potential balance of payments problems
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What is the best description of the World Bank?
provides financial products and technical assistance
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What is the best description of FAO?
leads to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security
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What is the best description of NATO?
constitutes a system of collective security
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What is the best description of NASA?
US agency building civilian space program
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What is the best description of UNHCR?
UN agency protecting refugees
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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
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What was the Manhattan Project?
A defense project of the US during World War II
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How many countries are known to have given up nuclear weapons they once possessed?
4
