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The document contains trivia questions about various topics including history, geography, science and pop culture. It asks for the correct answer to multiple choice questions about figures like Erwin Rommel, Alexander Fleming and events like the founding of Google. It also includes questions testing knowledge of architecture like Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house and world leaders such as Adolf Hitler.

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ECON336 Document 2

The document contains trivia questions about various topics including history, geography, science and pop culture. It asks for the correct answer to multiple choice questions about figures like Erwin Rommel, Alexander Fleming and events like the founding of Google. It also includes questions testing knowledge of architecture like Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house and world leaders such as Adolf Hitler.

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1. Which German field marshal was known as the Desert Fox?

a. Ernst Busch
b. !Erwin Rommel
c. Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen
d. Wilhelm List

2. Who discovered Penicillin?


a. !Alexander Flemming
b. Alfred Nobel
c. Louis Pasteur
d. Marie Curie

3. When was Google founded?


a. !September 4, 1998
b. December 12, 1989
c. Feburary 7th, 2000
d. October 9, 1997

4. Which building was set aflame on August 24th, 1812?


a. !The White House
b. Palace of the Nation
c. Grand National Assembly Building
d. Parliament Building

5. Which historical conflict killed the most people?


a. Mongol conquests
b. Taiping Rebellion
c. Three Kingdoms War
d. !World War II

6. Adolf Hitler was accepted into the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.
a. !False
b. True

7. The Fallingwater House, located in Pennsylvania, was designed by which


architect?
a. !Frank Lloyd Wright
b. Le Corbusier
c. Antoni Gaudi
d. Frank Gehry

8. What was the name of one of the surviving palaces of Henry VIII located near
Richmond, London?
a. St James039;s Palace
b. !Hampton Court
c. Buckingham Palace
d. Coughton Court

9. These two countries held a commonwealth from the 16th to 18th century.
a. North Korea and South Korea
b. !Poland and Lithuania
c. Bangladesh and Bhutan
d. Hutu and Rwanda

10. How old was Adolf Hitler when he died?


a. !56
b. 43
c. 47
d. 65

11. Before the American colonies switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1752, on
what date did their new year start?
a. June 1st
b. September 25th
c. December 1st
d. !March 25th

12. Which Roman Emperor led the Roman Empire to reach its maximum territorial
extent?
a. !Trajan
b. Julius Caesar
c. Claudius
d. Constantine the Great

1. What geometric shape is generally used for stop signs?


a. Circle
b. Hexagon
c. Triangle
d. !Octagon

2. Which one of the following rhythm games was made by Harmonix?


a. Guitar Hero Live
b. !Rock Band
c. Meat Beat Mania
d. Dance Dance Revolution

3. Which Americanowned brewery led the country in sales by volume in 2015?


a. !D. G. Yuengling and Son, Inc
b. Anheuser Busch
c. Miller Coors
d. Boston Beer Company

4. Which one of these Swedish companies was founded in 1943?


a. Clas Ohlson
b. Lindex
c. !IKEA
d. H amp; M

5. In flight systems, what does the initialism quot;TCASquot; stand for?


a. Traffic Communication Alert System
b. !Traffic Collision Avoidance System
c. Traffic Configuration Alignment System
d. Traffic Callsign Abbreviation System

6. If you planted the seeds of Quercus robur, what would grow?


a. !Trees
b. Vegetables
c. Grains
d. Flowers

7. In the MMO RPG quot;Realm of the Mad Godquot;, what dungeon is widely considered
to be the most difficult?
a. The Puppet Master039;s Theater
b. The Tomb of the Acient039;s
c. !The Shatter039;s
d. Snake Pit

8. The Mexican Beer quot;Coronaquot; is what type of beer?


a. Baltic Porter
b. !Pale Lager
c. Pilfsner
d. India Pale Ale

1. What was William Frederick Cody better known as?


a. Wild Bill Hickok
b. !Buffalo Bill
c. Billy the Kid
d. Pawnee Bill

2. Joseph Smith was the founder of what religion?


a. Christianity
b. Hinduism
c. Buddhism
d. !Mormonism

3. United States President John F. Kennedy was assassinated during his presidential
motorcade in Atlanta, Georgia on November 22nd, 1963.
a. !False
b. True

4. What is the bloodiest event in United States history, in terms of casualties?


a. DDay
b. Pearl Harbor
c. September 11th
d. !Battle of Antietam

5. The Hagia Sophia was commissioned by which emperor of the Byzantine Empire?
a. Arcadius
b. !Justinian I
c. Constantine IV
d. Theodosius the Great

6. During the Winter War, the amount of Soviet Union soliders that died or went
missing was five times more than Finland039;s.
a. False
b. !True

7. Who was the only US President to be elected four times?


a. Theodore Roosevelt
b. !Franklin Roosevelt
c. George Washington
d. Abraham Lincoln

8. Who crowned Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day in 800?


a. Pope Urban IV
b. !Pope Leo III
c. Pope Stephen V
d. Pope Valentine

9. In 1453, which important city fell?


a. !Constantinople
b. Hamburg
c. Rome
d. Athens

10. Which famous military commander marched an army, which included war elephants,
over the Alps during the Second Punic War?
a. Alexander the Great
b. Garmanicus
c. Tiberius
d. !Hannibal

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