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