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This Burmese scholar and diplomat became the third U.N Secretary-General in 1961 upon the death of Dag Hammarskjold.What was this gentleman's name? |
U Nu
U Thant
U Aung San
U Saw Maung
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Much attention revolves around the involvement of Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and Emperor Hirohito in the Japanese war effort in the 1940s, but which of these individuals was the the Japanese army chief of staff during the latter years of world war II? |
Tana Umaga
Yoshijiro Umezu
Naomi Uemura
Morihei Usehiba
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3 |
Name the winner of the Pulitzer in 1926 for Arrowsmith and who also won Nobel Prize in literature in 1930? |
John Steinbeck
Edith Wharton
William Faulkner
Sinclair Lewis
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4 |
Name Pulitzer winner in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea,who also won Nobel Prize in literature in 1954. |
William Faulkner
Herman wouk
Ernest Hemingway
Upton Sinclair
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One of the most significant world leaders of the 20th century was Walter Ulbricht.With which of these projects/events he is associated? |
The de-Nazification of Germany
The launching of the Sputnik
The building of the Berlin wall
The founding of the Warsaw pact
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6 |
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilee made the first: |
thermometer
telescope
both of these
none of these
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), was the physician, neurologist, and founder of psychoanalysis.He is called father of modern psychology.To which country he Belonged? |
Germany
Australia
America
Austria
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In modern times,this chemist was the first to suggest that matter is composed of atoms.who was this interesting fellow? |
Alphonse Daudet
Stuart Davis
William Dampier
John Dalton
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Two years after the death of Genghis Khan, his second son was elected Great Khan leader of the Mongols.Who was his son that carried on his father's goal pf conquering the known world? |
Ogedai
Oradour
Omri
Orkhan
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This man was the first president of Indonesia, and the founder of the Indonesia was the name of this key figure in the history of that country? |
Suharto
Sulu
Sulawesi
Sukarno
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