General Knowledge
Who first proposed the atomic theory in modern science?
A) Newton
B) Dalton
C) Rutherford
D) Bohr
John Dalton (1803) proposed modern atomic theory, stating matter consists of indivisible atoms with specific weights.
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)
Mozart
B)
Haydn
C)
Beethoven
D)
Brahms
Ludwig van Beethoven composed the Ninth Symphony, whose final movement sets Schiller's "Ode to Joy" and celebrates human solidarity.
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.
General Knowledge
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)
United Nations Economic and Social Council
B)
United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization
C)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
D)
United Nations Environmental, Social, and Cultural Organization
UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, founded in 1945 to promote peace through knowledge.
General Knowledge
A)
Charles Darwin
B)
Alfred Wegener
C)
James Hutton
D)
Harry Hess
Alfred Wegener proposed continental drift in 1912, suggesting continents once formed a supercontinent Pangaea, later separating.
General Knowledge
A)
2000
B)
2012
C)
1999
D)
2020
The Mayan Long Count calendar ended a cycle in December 2012, which led to widespread doomsday speculations.
General Knowledge
A)
Russian
B)
French
C)
American
D)
Chinese
The Bastille’s fall in 1789 marked the start of the French Revolution, symbolizing the people’s fight against tyranny.
General Knowledge
A)
Avogadro
B)
Mendeleev
C)
Dalton
D)
Rutherford
Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic Table in 1869, arranging elements by properties and predicting undiscovered ones accurately.
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.
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