1. When was Samuel Beckett born?
a) 1 January 1901
b) 13 April 1906
c) 2 August 1904
d) 5 October 1905
2. Where was Samuel Beckett born?
a) Wexford
b) Limerick
c) Foxrock
d) Boyle
3. Which school did Samuel Beckett attend?
a) St. Patrick’s School
b) Portola Royal School
c) St. John’s School
d) Holy Family School
1. When was Kim Dae-jung sworn in as President of South Korea?
a) 14 April 1971
b) 3 October 1975
c) 25 February 1998
d) 26 August 1995
2. When was Kim Dae-jung born?
a) 9 February 1914
b) 6 May 1918
c) 3 July 1926
d) 3 December 1925
3. Where was Kim Dae-jung born?
a) Haeuido
b) Tokyo
c) Saigon
d) Manila
4. Which high school did Kim Dae-jung attend?
a) St. Joseph’s High School
b) Korean National High School
c) Mokpo Commercial High School
d) Seoul High School
1. When did William Faulkner get Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1941
b) 1949
c) 1945
d) 1938
2. When was William Faulkner born?
a) 3 February 1864
b) 17 May 1862
c) 25 September 1897
d) 30 December 1865
3. Where was William Faulkner born?
a) New Albany
b) Springfield
c) New Orleans
d) Baton Rouge
1. When did Henry Dale win Nobel Prize for Medicine?
a) 1912
b) 1905
c) 1929
d) 1936
2. When was Henry Dale born?
a) 12 October 1885
b) 9 June 1875
c) 2 September 1861
d) 27 January 1862
3. Where was Henry Dale born?
a) Bristol
b) Manchester
c) London
d) Ipswich
1. When did Albert Schweitzer get Nobel Prize for Peace?
a) 1948
b) 1952
c) 1956
d) 1964
2. When was Albert Schweitzer born?
a) 14 January 1875
b) 11 May 1880
c) 31 July 1882
d) 5 December 1886
3. Where was Albert Schweitzer born?
a) Hamburg
b) Bremen
c) Kayserberg
d) Aachen
4. Which university did Albert Schweitzer attend?
a) Berlin
b) Munich
c) Frankfurt
d) Strasbourg
1. When did Andrey Sakharov get Nobel Prize for Peace?
a) 1946
b) 1957
c) 1975
d) 1979
2. When was Andrey Sakharov born?
a) 12 March 1919
b) 21 May 1921
c) 29 July 1912
d) 18 November 1922
3. Where was Andrey Sakharov born?
a) Moscow
b) Tomsk
c) Volgograd
d) Astana
1. When did Santiago Ramon y Cajal win Nobel Prize for Medicine?
a) 1903
b) 1905
c) 1904
d) 1906
2. When was Santiago Ramon y Cajal born?
a) 7 November 1857
b) 1 May 1852
c) 15 September 1859
d) 5 January 1851
3. Where was Santiago Ramon y Cajal born?
a) Petilla de Aragon
b) La Mancha
c) Pamplona
d) Salamanca
1. When was Ingrid Bergman born?
a) 31 January 1914
b) 3 May 1918
c) 29 August 1915
d) 8 December 1923
2. Where was Ingrid Bergman born?
a) Helsinki
b) Oslo
c) Stockholm
d) Brussels
3. Which was Ingrid Bergman’s first film?
a) Saratoga Trunk
b) Munkbrogreven
c) The Greatest Love
d) Autumn Sonata
4. Who of the following was not a co-star of Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca?
a) Humphrey Bogart
b) Paul Henreid
c) Michael Curtiz
d) Clark Gable
1. When was Bertrand Russell born?
a) 4 March 1868
b) 18 May 1872
c) 9 August 1881
d) 14 November 1869
2. Where was Bertrand Russell born?
a) Cardiff
b) Greenwich
c) Trelleck
d) Windsor
3. Which college did Bertrand Russell attend?
a) Pembroke College
b) Trinity College
c) Christ’s College
d) St. Xavier’s College
1. Which book won Carl Sandburg Pulitzer Prize in 1940?
a) Good Morning, America
b) The People, Yes
c) Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
d) The American Songbag
2. When was Carl Sandburg born?
a) 6 January 1878
b) 9 April 1882
c) 12 July 1876
d) 18 October 1874
3. Where was Carl Sandburg born?
a) Milwaukee
b) Galesburg
c) Pittsburg
d) Gary
4. During which war was Carl Sandburg in the army?
a) Mexican
b) Vietnam
c) Spanish-American
d) Korean
5. Of which party was Carl Sandburg member?
a) Republican
b) Social Democratic
c) Green
d) Conservative