Tag: general knowledge

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Coldest place on the earth ?
general knowledge

  1. Verkonyansk

  2. Northice

  3. Vostok

  4. Snag

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Correct Option: C

World’s oldest know city ?

general knowledge

  1. Aleppo

  2. Athens

  3. Byblos

  4. Damascus

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Correct Option: D

The great medieval mathematician known as Fibonacci produced a series of important works in the early 13th century. One important innovation in his writings was...
general knowledge

  1. Failing to include a specifically religious preface

  2. Using Arabic numeric notation instead of Roman

  3. Using his native Italian instead of Latin or Greek

  4. Using specially trained scribes to ensure accuracy

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Correct Option: B

Biggest island of the world ?
general knowledge

  1. New Guinea

  2. Greenland

  3. Madagascar

  4. Sumatra

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Correct Option: B

Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), the great mathematician, physician, astrologer and scholar who founded probability theory, led a colorful and controversial life that included time spent in prison for the crime of...

general knowledge

  1. Casting the horoscope of Jesus Christ

  2. Employing the square roots of negative numbers

  3. Murdering his daughter-in-law

  4. Practising medicine without a license

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Correct Option: A

William Harvey, a 17th-century English scientist, made an important contribution to biology with his:
general knowledge

  1. Explanation of the circulatory system

  2. Invention of the microscope

  3. Research on vaccination to immunize against disease

  4. Study of the electrical nature of nerve impulses

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Correct Option: A

The 18th-century French intellectual François-Marie Arouet is better known by another name. He was:
general knowledge

  1. King Louis XIV

  2. Diderot, the encyclopedist

  3. Laplace, the physicist and mathematician

  4. Voltaire, the philosophe

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Correct Option: D

What were the professional skills of Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (1743-1795)?
general knowledge

  1. Alchemist, healer and magician

  2. Author, composer and flautist

  3. Exorcist, rabble-rouser and witch-hunter

  4. Explorer, linguist and missionary

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Correct Option: A

Ludwig van Beethoven declared in 1806 that another composer of his acquaintance was the greatest of any then living. Which of his contemporaries had impressed him so deeply?

general knowledge

  1. Luigi Cherubini

  2. Franz Josef Haydn

  3. Johann Nepomuk Hummel

  4. Franz Liszt

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Correct Option: A

The 19th-century French archeologist Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832) is most famous for his discovery of:
general knowledge

  1. The answer to the “riddle of the Sphinx”

  2. How to decipher ancient Egyptian inscriptions

  3. The techniques used to prepare mummies

  4. The tomb of Tutankhamen

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Correct Option: B