General KnowledgeWho first measured the speed of light accurately in 1676?
A) Isaac Newton
B) Ole Rømer
C) Christiaan Huygens
D) Albert Michelson
Ole Rømer, a Danish astronomer, calculated light’s finite speed by observing Jupiter’s moon Io, a breakthrough in physics.
General Knowledge
A)
Rome
B)
Paris
C)
Madrid
D)
Berlin
The Louvre in Paris is the world’s largest art museum, housing the *Mona Lisa* and countless treasures of global civilization.
General Knowledge
A)
Language Relativity
B)
Structuralism
C)
Universal Grammar
D)
Pragmatism
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis suggests language influences thought and worldview, highlighting the relativity between culture and speech.
General Knowledge
A)
Seleucid
B)
Ptolemaic
C)
Achaemenid
D)
Macedonian
The Library of Alexandria was founded in the 3rd century BCE under the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt, becoming a hub of ancient learning.
General Knowledge
A)
Andrew Wiles
B)
Pierre de Fermat
C)
Euler
D)
G. H. Hardy
Andrew Wiles proved Fermat's Last Theorem in the 1990s, resolving a problem that had stood for over 350 years.
General Knowledge
A)
John von Neumann
B)
Alan Turing
C)
Claude Shannon
D)
Donald Knuth
Alan Turing laid foundations of computation and artificial intelligence, creating the Turing Machine model and breaking wartime codes.
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