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General Knowledge
QuizUCB 2010TEACHER:
Juan Pablo VanegasNew Bld.
Welcome!Clan B
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QuizUCB 2010
Welcome!Clan A
TEACHER: Luis Carlos AdamAdm. Bld.
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QUESTION
Challenge
Are you
worldly wise?
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Who was the 16th
president of the USA?
Who was the Italian explorer
whose name inspired the
name of the new world “America”
in 1507?
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Abraham Lincoln
Americo Vespucio Amerigo Vespucci
Americus Vespucci
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What`s the nickname of
New York City?According to UNESCO, what is the largest World Heritage Area?The Great __________ Reef (Australia)
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Big Apple
barrier
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_____ `s fairy godmother gives her a
beautiful dress and turns a
pumpkin into a carriage.
Who was the first European known to have encountered
the cacao plant, from
which chocolate is
made?
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Cinderella Christopher
Columbus
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It is now believed that ________
became extinct
because of a meteorite impact.
Who was the Italian scientist,
inventor and artist that was considered a
genius?
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dinosaurs
Davinci
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The Eiffel Tower was built by
Alexander ____.
The platypus and the
echidna are the only
mammals that lay ___.
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Eiffeleggs
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Paris is the capital city
of what country?
What is the name
of the second book in the
“Lord of The Rings” Trilogy?
The ______ of the Ring.
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FranceFellowship
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The Olympic ___are held
every four years.
What was the pseudonym of
the famous British writer Eric Arthur
Blair, known for his
masterpiece “Animal Farm”?
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games
George Orwell
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What is the fictitious nameof Milles Cyrus?
An android is a mobile
robot usually with a
_______ form.
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Hannah Montana
human
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_____ members of the Quechuan
peoples of Peru maintaining an empire until the
Spanish conquest.
IQ__________ : a number used to express the apparent relative _________ of a person.
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Incas intelligence
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Famous singer
of The Beatles.
What type of music did
Louis Armstrong
play?
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John LennonJazz
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What is the last name of the
former U.S president John Fitzgerald ?
One of a pair of vertebrate organs situated in the body cavity near the spinal column that excrete waste products of metabolism …
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kennedy
kidneys
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What is the capital city of England?
“Misch metal” a substance that ignites when scratched, is widely used in the manufacture of what commonplace object? Cigarette __________
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Londonlighter
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It is now believed that dinosaurs became extinct because of a _______ impact.
Who wrote and delivered the famous speech "I have a dream"?
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Martin LutherKing,Jr.
meteorite
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After being defeated at Waterloo, ______was taken as a prisoner to St. Helena, an island in the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is the current president of France?
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NicolasSarkozy
Napoleon
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The American short story writer William Sydney Porter, author of “The Gift of the Magi” is better known as ______ .
What is the name of the Italian composer that wrote the lyrics of the Colombian National Anthem?
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OresteSindici
O.Henry
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Mother Teresa is recognized for her hard work with the ____.
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poorparking
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Synonym for friend, and also
name of a product that has to do with
oat meals.
The metal mercury which is liquid at room temperature and quite poisonous is also called __________.
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quicksilver
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The author of Harry Potter
books. JK _____
The great medieval mathematician known as Fibonacci, produced a series of important works in the early 13th century. One of the most relevant innovations related to numbers was the use of Arabic system notation instead of _________ .
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RowlingRoman
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important cities in Australia?
It is one the three countries that had the highest per capita consumption of chocolate in 2005, including Ireland, and Great Britain.
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Sydney
Switzerland
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for his ____ of the relativity.
To get married can also be said with the expression “____ the knot”.
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theory
Tie
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Which is the English country with the highest
rate of immigration?
What does the “U” stand for in the acronym “UN”?
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United States
United
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What is the smallest
country in the world?
The 18th-century French intellectual François-Marie Arouet is better known by another name. He was ____________ , the philosopher.
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Vatican City
Voltaire
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What represents
the chemical formula H2O?
The first coin-operated vending machine dates from at least the first century BC. What product did the machine dispense?Holy ______.
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water
water
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It is a twelve-month period of time.
What is the America's first national park that is located in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho and it is home of a large variety of wildlife including grizzly bears, wolves, and bison?
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year
YellowstonePark
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Don Diego de la Vega
was better known as ____ .
By 1934, The Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha company was founded in Japan. Today, under the initials YKK Co., the company is one of the main world wide industries. What´s the product they manufacture?
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Zorro
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QuizUCB 2010Thank you!