1. When was Anne Bronte born?
a) 17 January 1820
b) 21 April 1816
c) 30 July 1818
d) 6 November 1812
2. Where was Anne Bronte born?
a) Hampshire
b) Liverpool
c) Tweed
d) Thornton
3. Which school did Anne Bronte attend?
a) Queen Anne School
b) Kilkenny Grammar School
c) Miss Wooler’s School
d) St. Mary’s School
1. When did Paul Ehrlich get Nobel Prize for Medicine?
a) 1906
b) 1909
c) 1905
d) 1908
2. When was Paul Ehrlich born?
a) 5 June 1851
b) 14 March 1854
c) 6 August 1861
d) 1 November 1868
3. Where was Paul Ehrlich born?
a) Strehlen
b) Salzburg
c) Freiburg
d) Bremen
4. From which university did Paul Ehrlich get his medical degree in 1878?
a) Breslau
b) Frankfurt
c) Leipzig
d) Munich
7) To which political party did Calvin Coolidge belong?
a) Democratic
b) Liberal
c) Republican
d) National
8) What did Calvin Coolidge say to a woman who said she had a bet that she would make him say at least three words?
a) All the best.
b) You should not bet.
c) It was very courageous of you.
d) You lose.
9) Which country’s citizens were excluded from immigration to USA by Immigration Act 1924?
a) UK
b) Canada
c) France
d) Japan
1. When did Kyrgyzstan proclaim independence?
a) 12 February 1968
b) 18 May 1974
c) 31 August 1991
d) 12 November 1982
2. Which country is to the south of Kyrgyzstan?
a) Tajikistan
b) Lebanon
c) Syria
d) Turkey
3. Which country is to the east of Kyrgyzstan?
a) Burma
b) China
c) Philippines
d) Armenia
4. Which is the capital of Kyrgyzstan?
a) Bishkek
b) Naryn
c) Talas
d) Osh
1. What did the Romans call Guernsey?
a) Hispania
b) Sarnia
c) Teutonia
d) Ellas
2. When was Guernsey separated from Normandy?
a) 1066
b) 1155
c) 1204
d) 1417
3. When was Guernsey under German occupation?
a) 1940-1945
b) 1914-1918
c) 1919-1939
d) 1896-1914
1) What was Mark Twain’s real name?
a) Eric Arthur Blair
b) Michael Marian Morrison
c) James Hadley Chase
d) Samuel Langhorne Clemens
2) Where was Mark Twain born?
a) Miami, Florida
b) Florida, Missouri
c) Sacramento, California
d) Austin, Texas
3) When did Mark Twain become a licensed river pilot?
a) 1839
b) 1844
c) 1858
d) 1870
1. When was Theodor Herzl born?
a) 2 February 1865
b) 2 May 1860
c) 2 September 1861
d) 15 December 1862
2. Where was Theodor Herzl born?
a) Budapest
b) Jerusalem
c) Hebron
d) Tel Aviv
3. Which university did Theodor Herzl attend?
a) Warsaw
b) Moscow
c) Vienna
d) Oxford
1) Who won Nobel Prize 2008 for Chemistry?
a) Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfi, Roger Tsien
b) Bruce Merrifield
c) George A. Olah
d) Ahmed Zewail
2) For what was Nobel Prize 2008 for Chemistry was given?
a) Invention of solar panel
b) Discovery and development of green fluorescent protein (GFP)
c) Studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces
d) Rates of reaction, chemical equilibrium, and osmotic pressure.
3) Who won Nobel Prize 2008 for Physics?
a) Stephen Hawking
b) Hargobind Khorana
c) Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa, Yochiro Nambu
d) Neil Armstrong
1. Who discovered Norfolk Island?
a) Robin Cook
b) James Cook
c) Richard Chancellor
d) Willem Barents
2. When did Norfolk Island become a British possession?
a) 1576
b) 1620
c) 1685
d) 1788
3. When were people of Norfolk Island shifted to Van Diemen’s Land?
a) 1798
b) 1814
c) 1789
d) 1821
1. When was Basil D’Oliveira born?
a) 14 June 1936
b) 11 March 1914
c) 4 October 1931
d) 8 July 1948
2. Where was Basil D’Oliveira born?
a) Wellington
b) Cape Town
c) Perth
d) Bristol
3. Where did Basil D’Oliveira make Test debut?
a) Sydney
b) Christchurch
c) Edgbaston
d) Lord’s