General Quiz

bobbym · 2014-07-10 03:46:02

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Jai Ganesh · 2014-07-10 13:01:11

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The Answer #5226 is correct. Excellent, bobbym!

#5227. Who is the author of The Deserted Village? (It is a poem published in 1770. It is a work of social commentary, and condemns rural depopulation and the pursuit of excessive wealth.)

#5228. Who is the author of Diplomacy (book)? (It is a book written in 1994).

bobbym · 2014-07-10 23:36:24

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Maburo · 2014-07-11 02:25:38

Jai Ganesh · 2014-07-11 13:02:39

Hi bobbym and Maburo,

The Answer #5227 is correct, bobbym! Remarkable!

#5229. Name the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. He was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as Vice President twice and whom he succeeded as President in 1970.

#5230. Name the retired German racing driver; he is a seven-time Formula One (F1) World Champion and is widely regarded as one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time. He was named Laureus World Sportsman of the Year twice. He holds many of Formula One's driver records, including most championships, race victories, fastest laps, pole positions and most races won in a single season – 13 in 2004 (the last of these records was equalled by fellow German Sebastian Vettel nine years later).

bobbym · 2014-07-11 20:14:26

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Jai Ganesh · 2014-07-12 00:01:00

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The Answers #5229 (Anwar Sadat) and #5230 (Michael Schumacher) are correct. Remarkable!

#5231. Name the English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He is famous for his remark, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."

#5232. Name the renowned 19th-century English physician and scientist. He is traditionally regarded as one of the "great men" of Guy's Hospital in London. Among other pathologies he discovered a degenerative disease of the adrenal glands, and pernicious anemia, a hematological disorder later found to be caused by failure to absorb vitamin B12.

bobbym · 2014-07-12 00:21:47

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Jai Ganesh · 2014-07-12 13:27:41

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The Answer #5231 (John Acton) is correct. Neat job!

#5233. Name the pioneer in computing, being the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer. He studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and later obtained his PhD in physics at Harvard University in 1939. During this time, he encountered differential equations that he could only solve numerically. He envisioned an electro-mechanical computing device that could do much of the tedious work for him. This computer was originally called the ASCC (Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator) and later renamed Harvard Mark I.

#5234. Name the Chilean physician and politician, known as the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections. His involvement in Chilean political life spanned a period of nearly forty years. As a member of the Socialist Party, he was a senator, deputy and cabinet minister. He unsuccessfully ran for the presidency in the 1952, 1958, and 1964 elections. In 1970, he won the presidency in a close three-way race. He was elected in a run-off by Congress as no candidate had gained a majority.

bobbym · 2014-07-12 20:21:07

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Jai Ganesh · 2014-07-13 00:44:40

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The Answer #5233 (Howard Hathaway Aiken) is correct. Splendid!

#5235. Name the French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics". On his deathbed in 1836, he ordered that an inscription be placed upon his tombstone: Tandem Felix (Happy at Last).

#5236. Name the Norwegian explorer of polar regions; he led the Antarctic expedition (1910–12) to become the first men to reach the South Pole in December 1911. In 1926, he was the first expedition leader to be recognized without dispute as having reached the North Pole.

bobbym · 2014-07-13 00:47:35

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Maburo · 2014-07-13 02:02:31

Jai Ganesh · 2014-07-13 16:42:28

Hi bobbym and Maburo,

The Answers #5235 (Maburo) and #5236 (bobbym) are correct. Marvelous!

#5237. Name the British novelist best known as the author of the fantasy series. The books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies. They have become the best-selling book series in history and been the basis for a series of films which became the highest-grossing film series in history. Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, she was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she conceived the idea for the series on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990.

#5238. Name the British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, social critic and political activist; he is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, colleague G. E. Moore, and his protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. He is widely held to be one of the 20th century's premier logicians. With A. N. Whitehead he wrote Principia Mathematica, an attempt to create a logical basis for mathematics.

bobbym · 2014-07-13 22:54:25

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Maburo · 2014-07-14 01:37:20

Jai Ganesh · 2014-07-14 15:17:21

Hi bobbym and Maburo,

bobbym : The Answer

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The Answer #5238 (Bertrand Russell) is correct, bobbym! Neat work!

Maburo : The Answers #5237 and #5238 are both correct. Excellent!

#5239. Name the Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological, and educational thought. His novel Émile, or On Education is a treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novel Julie, or the New Heloise was of importance to the development of pre-romanticism and romanticism in fiction.

#5240. Name the American business magnate and philanthropist; he was a co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. He revolutionized the petroleum industry, and along with other key contemporary industrialists such as Andrew Carnegie, defined the structure of modern philanthropy. In 1870, he co-founded Standard Oil Company and actively ran it until he officially retired in 1897.

bobbym · 2014-07-14 19:31:11

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Jai Ganesh · 2014-07-15 15:12:47

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The Answers #5239 (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) and #5240 (John Davison Rockefeller, Sr.) are correct, bobbym! Marvelous!

#5241. Name the British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story, and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.

#5242. Name the Russian nuclear physicist, Soviet dissident and human rights activist; He became renowned as the designer of the Soviet Union's Third Idea, a code name for Soviet development of thermonuclear weapons. He was an advocate of civil liberties and civil reforms in the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. A prize which is awarded annually by the European Parliament for people and organizations dedicated to human rights and freedoms, is named in his honor.

bobbym · 2014-07-15 15:29:59

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Jai Ganesh · 2014-07-16 00:23:55

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The Answer #5242 is correct. Excellent, bobbym!

#5243. Name the American medical researcher (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) and virologist; he discovered and developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine. Until 1957, when the vaccine was introduced, polio was considered the most frightening public health problem of the post-war United States. Annual epidemics were increasingly devastating. The 1952 epidemic was the worst outbreak in the nation's history. Of nearly 58,000 cases reported that year, 3,145 people died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis, with most of its victims being children.

#5244. Name the Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has been lost; however, her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.

bobbym · 2014-07-16 00:25:37

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Maburo · 2014-07-16 03:35:40

Jai Ganesh · 2014-07-16 14:16:47

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Marvelous, bobbym!

Don't loose heart, Maburo! Keep trying!

#5245. Name the French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980). He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but refused it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution".

#5246. Name the German—and later French—theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary in Africa, also known for his interpretive life of Jesus (14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965). He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life", expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining a Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa (then French Equatorial Africa).

bobbym · 2014-07-16 16:29:12

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