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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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What substance are fingernails made from?

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Keratin

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Who designed Farnsworth House?
Miles Van der Rohe
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Who designed Farnsworth House?
Miles Van der Rohe
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Who was Michealangelo's trainer?
Ghirlandaio
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Which political figure introduced Pancasila (5 principles)?
Sukarno
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Which pop artist created a painting called "still life #20" which features an image of a Mondrian painting?
Tom Wesselmann
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Who introduced Christianity to Japan, and is considered the greatest missionary since Saint Paul?
Francis Xavier
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Who wrote the longest novel (and what is it)?
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?
Adrienne Proust
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What is the name of the religious book in Zoroastrianism?
Avesta
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What is the name given to the collection of Hindu texts?
the Vedas
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Who was the founder-prophet of the Bahai faith?
Baha'u'llah
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What is the highest mountain in the Atlas mountains?
Toubkal (Morrocco)
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What name describes limited drainage basins?
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?
Escarpment
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What is another name for the second coming?
Parousia
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Mr Javis Lorry and Lucie Manette are characters in which novel?
A tale of two cities
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Who devised the trolley problem?
Phillipa Foot
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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?
La henriade
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In what year was "Letters concerning the English nation?
1733
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In what year was "Letters concerning the English nation?
1733
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Who wrote Doctor Zhivago?
Boris Pasternak
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In what year was Doctor Johnson's dictionary finally published?
1755
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In what year was Candide published?
1759
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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?
Young Hegelians
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One of the most important figures in German idealism, who wrote 'Phenomenology of Spirit' and 'Science of Logic'?
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Theodor Adorno was a member of which school?
Frankfurt School
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Who spilt hot oil of Eros?
Psyche
51
Name 3 prominent American suffragettes?
Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Staton and Lucy Stone
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Who was Odysseus' son?
Telemachus
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Which two Greek monsters were described as living on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina (Sicily and Calabria)?
Scylla and Charybdis
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William Gowland and Edward Morse are associated with the archaeology of which country?
Japan
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Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara and Hugo Ball are associated with which artistic movement?
Dadaism
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What is the name of the Indian national anthem, and who composed it?
Jana Gana Mana and Rabindranath Tagore
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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?
Marcos
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In what year was the people's power revolution?
1986 (February)
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Who was the second and last communist leader of Romania, serving from 1965 to 1989?
Nicolae Ceaușescu (CHAO SHESH KOO)
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What is the name of the late neolithic site in Turkey, with rooftop streets and ladders?
Çatalhöyük
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Who wrote the poem 'The Unknown Citizen'?
WH Auden
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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?
The King, (Charles XI)
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What is the name in Italian for Italian reunification?
Risorgimento
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What is the invertebrate phylum of roundworms?
nematodes
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Who designed many buildings in the city of Vicenza, and the 'La Rotonda' building?
Andrea Palladio
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Who solved Fermat's last theorem?
Andrew Wiles
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Who was the first female president of Africa, namely in Liberia?
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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Which argentinian writer wrote 'The buenos aires affair' and 'Kiss of the spider woman'?
Manuel Puig
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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'?
Mahmoud Darwish
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When was the edict of Milan, and the first council of Nicea?
313AD and 325AD
71
marenka, micha and jenik feature in which opera?
bartered bride
72
who designed vietnam memorial (also designed the women's table and the civil rights memorial)
maya ying lin
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who coined the terms scientist and physicist
william whewell
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who first flew across the english channel
louis bleriot
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first atlantic flight?
charles lindberg 1927
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who is the greek god of medicine
asclepius
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who wrote catch 22
joseph heller
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which us state is the diamond state
delaware
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which us state is the beehive state?
utah
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what is bob dylan's real name?
robert allen zimmerman
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who wrote the bonfire of the vanities?
tom wolfe
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who was the first woman to get a medical degree in the us?
elizabeth blackwell
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who was the first woman to qualify as a surgeon in the uk?
elizabeth garett anderson
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who wrote the house of seven gables?
nathanial hawthorne
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what was the first spacecraft to land on mars
viking 1

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