General KnowledgeWhich treaty ended the Thirty Years' War?
A) Treaty of Utrecht
B) Treaty of Westphalia
C) Treaty of Versailles
D) Treaty of Tordesillas
The Peace of Westphalia (1648) concluded the Thirty Years' War and established principles of sovereign states and non-intervention.
General Knowledge
A)
William of Normandy
B)
Harold Godwinson
C)
Richard I
D)
Edward the Confessor
William of Normandy defeated Harold at Hastings in 1066, beginning Norman rule in England. This is a well-documented historical or scientific fact.
General Knowledge
A)
J.J. Thomson
B)
Ernest Rutherford
C)
Niels Bohr
D)
James Chadwick
J.J. Thomson discovered the electron using cathode ray experiments in 1897, earning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906.
General Knowledge
A)
1500
B)
1666
C)
1750
D)
1805
The fire of 1666 devastated London, destroying much of the medieval city but leading to improved urban planning.
General Knowledge
A)
Assyrian
B)
Babylonian
C)
Sumerian
D)
Akkadian
Hammurabi’s Babylonian code (18th century BCE) was one of the earliest legal codes, inscribed on stone steles.
General Knowledge
A)
Armstrong
B)
Gagarin
C)
Glenn
D)
Shepard
Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human in space on April 12, 1961, aboard Vostok 1.
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