English
Which 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)
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.
General Knowledge
A)
Louis Pasteur
B)
Alexander Fleming
C)
Robert Koch
D)
Joseph Lister
Alexander Fleming observed mold inhibiting bacterial growth, leading to the discovery of penicillin, revolutionizing antibiotic treatment.
General Knowledge
A)
Babylonian
B)
Assyrian
C)
Sumerian
D)
Hittite
The Code of Hammurabi, Babylonian king’s laws from 1754 BCE, is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length.
General Knowledge
A)
Sudan
B)
Ethiopia
C)
Eritrea
D)
Somalia
Abyssinia is the historical name for Ethiopia, a nation with a rich history of independence and ancient Christian heritage.
General Knowledge
A)
Magic Particle
B)
God Particle
C)
Quantum Particle
D)
Ghost Particle
The Higgs Boson, discovered in 2012, is nicknamed the “God Particle” because it explains how particles acquire mass in physics.
General Knowledge
A)
Montesquieu
B)
Rousseau
C)
Hobbes
D)
Locke
Montesquieu in *The Spirit of Laws* (1748) emphasized separation of powers, inspiring modern democratic constitutions like the US.
General Knowledge
A)
Jordan
B)
Syria
C)
Israel
D)
Egypt
The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in caves near Qumran, Israel, in the 1940s, containing ancient Jewish manuscripts.
General Knowledge
A)
Roman
B)
Nabataean
C)
Persian
D)
Byzantine
Petra in Jordan was built by the Nabataeans, known for rock-cut architecture and advanced water systems.
English
A)
Jorge Luis Borges
B)
Gabriel García Márquez
C)
Pablo Neruda
D)
Mario Vargas Llosa
Gabriel García Márquez wrote "One Hundred Years of Solitude", a landmark of magical realism and Latin American literature.
English
A)
Galileo
B)
Newton
C)
Kepler
D)
Einstein
Isaac Newton formulated universal gravitation, showing that bodies attract with a force proportional to mass and inversely to distance squared.
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