1. What is Matthew Arnold’s profession besides being a poet?
(a) Painter
(b) Musician
(c) Critic
(d) Historian
2. Which of the following is NOT a major theme in Matthew Arnold’s poetry?
(a) Loss and nostalgia
(b) Social criticism
(c) Religious doubt
(d) Romantic idealism
3. In which poem does Matthew Arnold famously describe the sea as “wandering between deserts of the shore”?
(a) “Dover Beach”
(b) “Thyrsis”
(c) “The Scholar-Gypsy”
(d) “The Forsaken Merman”
1. What was William Blake’s primary profession besides being a poet?
(a) Sculptor
(b) Musician
(c) Painter
(d) Actor
2. In which English city was William Blake born?
(a) Manchester
(b) London
(c) Liverpool
(d) Birmingham
3. Blake’s poetry is often associated with which literary movement?
(a) Romanticism
(b) Realism
(c) Modernism
(d) Postmodernism
1. What was Langston Hughes’ primary profession?
(a) Painter
(b) Musician
(c) Writer
(d) Actor
2. In what city was Langston Hughes born?
(a) New York City
(b) Chicago
(c) Joplin, Missouri
(d) Harlem, New York
3. Langston Hughes was a prominent figure in what literary movement?
(a) Romanticism
(b) Harlem Renaissance
(c) Modernism
(d) Realism
1. What was Beatrix Potter’s first published book?
(a) The Tale of Peter Rabbit
(b) The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
(c) The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
(d) The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
2. Beatrix Potter was known for her illustrations. What type of animals did she often feature in her drawings?
(a) Dinosaurs
(b) Sea creatures
(c) Farm animals
(d) Birds
3. Where did Beatrix Potter get her inspiration for her stories?
(a) From her travels to exotic locations
(b) From her imagination
(c) From her experiences on a farm she owned
(d) From fairy tales and legends
1) When did Papua New Guinea become independent?
a) 10 March 1964
b) 12 May 1948
c) 16 September1975
d) 21 December 1971
2) Who is Papua New Guinea’s head of state?
a) President
b) Chancellor
c) Dutch monarch
d) British monarch
3) What is the area of Papua New Guinea?
a) 98,750 sq. mi.
b) 178,704 sq. mi.
c) 3,240,228 sq. mi.
d) 5,600 sq. mi.
1. Which state is to the north of Arkansas?
a) Missouri
b) Texas
c) Rhode Island
d) Maine
2. Which state is to the south of Arkansas?
a) Vermont
b) Louisiana
c) New Jersey
d) Wyoming
3. Who founded Arkansas Post?
a) Joseph Francois Dupleix
b) Charles Joseph Patissier
c) Henri de Tonty
d) Rene Robert Cavalier
1. When did Wilhelm Ostwald win Nobel Prize for Chemistry?
a) 1903
b) 1905
c) 1909
d) 1907
2. When was Wilhelm Ostwald born?
a) 7 November 1857
b) 5 June 1854
c) 2 September 1853
d) 6 January 1852
3. Where was Wilhelm Ostwald born?
a) Riga
b) Moscow
c) St. Petersburg
d) Warsaw
1. When was Georgia founded?
a) 1732
b) 1620
c) 1661
d) 1707
2. Who got the charter for founding Georgia?
a) Hernando de Soto
b) Rufus Bullock
c) James Edward Oglethorpe
d) Thomas Watson
3. After whom was Georgia named?
a) George I
b) George II
c) George III
d) George IV
1. What was Mickey Rooney’s original name?
a) Joe Yule, Jr.
b) Max Goldmann
c) Jacob Gershvin
d) Archibald Alexander Leach
2. When was Mickey Rooney born?
a) 29 February 1916
b) 7 May 1925
c) 23 September 1920
d) 25 December 1922
3. Where was Mickey Rooney born?
a) Philadelphia
b) New York
c) Atlanta
d) New Orleans
1) Who won Nobel Prize 2022 for Medicine?
a) Alfred Gilman, Martin Rodbell
b) Barbara McClintock
c) Stanley Prusiner
d) Svante Paabo
2) For what was Nobel Prize 2022 for Medicine given?
a) Discovery of Prions
b) Discovery of G-Proteins
c) Discoveries concerning genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution
d) Discovery of mobile genetic elements
3) Who won Nobel Prize 2022 for Physics?
a) Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, Anton Zeilinger
b) Frederic Reines
c) Martin Perl
d) Georges Charpak