General Culture
(II.)
20 Questions
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Tut-Ankh-Amun's portrait mask (Question 8)
1) Operation Barbarossa was the subtitle of the plan of attack on this country by the nazis in the World War II .
Hungary
Poland
Soviet Union
Egypt
2) To which of these regions did the Mongolian Empire never extend to?
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
India
Singapore
3) To which of these U.S. states that are mostly surrounded by water?
Michigan
Oregon
Texas
Denver
California
4) The state of ......was once a monarchy:
Alaska
Hawaii
New Mexico
Louisiana
5) Pavlov, a physiologist from ........studied conditioned reflexes in animals.
Czech
Hungary
Russia
Germany
USA
6) Who developed the steam engine?
James Watt
Thomas Alva Edison
Robert Brown
Daniel Rutherford
George Stephenson
7) In 1945, Mussolini was shot down and hung upside down in the street.
True
False
8) Who discovered the tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amun?
Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon
Jean-François Champollion
Günter Grass
Fabio Testi
9) What year did Columbus "discover" America?
1485
1492
1498
1502
10) Hitler was a vegetarian.
True
False
11) The Peloponnesian war was fought between Athens and:
Chartago
Firenze
Sparta
Rome
12) In the Greek Mythology Who was Cerberus?
Saturnus's second daughter
The three headed, dragon-tailed dog at the gates of Hades
Son of Ares by the Naiad Harmonia
Brother of Leucippe and Theonoë
13) How many times a year does the sun set and rise in the Arctic?
zero
once
twice
14) In which order does physical development normally occur?
Bottom to top (feet to head)
Top to bottom (head to feet)
In no order
15) The closest planet to the Earth is:
Mars
Venus
Jupiter
Pluto
16) Agoraphobia is
a fear of open space
fear of spiders
fear of heights
fear of panonrama elevators
17) Which country has won more winter Olympic medals than any other?
USSR
United States
Norway
Italy
18) What is the "courgette"?
cabbage
cukkini
pumpkin
paprika
19) If you were to say "mea culpa", what would you mean?
Sorry about, it's my fault
It's not my problem
I don't know
I don't care
20) Choose the word that is most similar in meaning to: arhaic
dizzy
cripple
antiquated
pitiful