general culture

Multiple Choice

Who is credited with the phrase "I only know that I know nothing"?

• Sófocles

• Aristóteles

• Sócrates

• Nietszche

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In what period of prehistory was fire discovered?

• Paleolithic

• Stone Age

• Metal Age

• Middle Ages

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Who is the author of the phrase "I think, therefore I am"?

• Galileo Galilei

• Platón

• Descartes

• Socrates

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Edson Arantes do Nascimento is better known as:

• Nicolas Copernicus

• Pelé

• Richard Feynman

• Nicolas Copernicus

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Which is the largest and smallest country in the world?

• China and Nauru

• United States and Malta

• Russia and the Vatican

• India and San Marino

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What is the best-selling book in the world after the Bible?

• The Little Prince

• One Hundred Years of Solitude

• Don Quixote

• The Odyssey

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What is the highest mountain in the Americas?

• Mount Everest

• Aconcagua

• Pico Bolívar

• Monte Fuji

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Who painted the work "Guernica"?

• Frida Kahlo

• Pablo Picasso

• Paul Cézanne

• Diego Rivera

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How long does it take for sunlight to reach Earth?

• 12 minutes

• 8 minutes

• 1 day

• 12 hours

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What are the names of the three wise men?

• Gaspar, Nicholas, and Nathaniel

• Simon, Judas, and Matthew

• Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar

• Abraham, Noah, and Moses

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What is the capital of Mongolia?

• Muharin-Den

• Pyongyang

• Ulaanbaatar

• Dhaka

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The longest lake in the world is:

• The Caspian Sea

• Lake Tanganyika

• Lake Winnipeg

• Lake Victoria

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Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Raphael

• Boticelli

• Miguel Angel

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What is the capital of Australia?

• Melbourne

• Adelaide

• Perth

• Canberra

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When did World War I start?

• November 11, 1918

• June 28, 1919

• July 28, 1914

• September 2, 1945

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What is the largest planet in the solar system?

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Neptune

• Pluto

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The author of "The Metamorphosis" is:

• Richard Hawkins

• Franz Kafka

• Isabel Allende

• William Shakespeare

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Who is the author of "The Prince"?

• Charles of Wales

• Friedrich Nietzsche

• Nicholas Machiavelli

• Dante Allighieri

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Who was the first man to walk on the moon?

• Yuri Gagarin

• Michael Collins

• Neil Armstrong

• Buzz Aldrin

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Which countries does Ecuador share borders with?

• With Brazil and Colombia

• With Colombia and Venezuela

• With Peru and Bolivia

• With Bolivia and Brazil

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Who is known as "the human calculator"?

• Alan Turing

• Srinivasa Ramanujan

• Katherine G. Johnson

• Malba Tahan

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Who is considered the father of science and philosophy?

• Pythagoras

• Aristotle

• Democritus

• Thales of Miletus

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What metal has the chemical symbol Au?

• Gold

• Antimony

• Aluminum

• Antimony

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Who was the creator of Greek tragedy?

• Aeschylus

• 
  Euripides

• Sophocles

• Homer

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The French Revolution began with what event?

• The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789

• The economic crisis in France in 1780

• The flight of King Louis XVI in 1791

• The end of the monarchy of King Louis XVI in 1792

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The economic crisis that originated with the Wall Street stock market crash in 1929 is known as:

• The Great Recession

• The Great Revolution

• The Great Hold

• The Great Depression

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Where is Lake Titicaca located?

• Asia

• South America

• Oceania

• Central America

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The official currency of Japan is:

• Yuan

• Yan

• Yen

• Yun

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Who was Plato's teacher?

• Socrates

• Diogenes

• Aristotle

• Zeus

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Which of these countries straddles two continents?

• Greenland

• Philippines

• Russia

• Egypt