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ECO817: Essay

2018-04-26

1) Who became President of France after Charles de Gaulle?:

1) Jaques Chirac

2) François Mitterrand

3) Gaston Doumergue

4) Georges Pompidou

2) Which of these dishes would you most expect to find in Georgia?:

1) Ropa Vieja

2) Nasi Lemak

3) Moussaka

4) Khachapuri

3) If someone typed the letters 'DAE' in a message, what would they mean?:

1) Dumb And Energetic

2) Doubtful About Everything

3) Dogs and Elephants

4) Does Anyone Else

4) When did the Weimar Republic of Germany get replaced by the Third Reich?:

1) 1945

2) 1919

3) 1955

4) 1933

5) Which of these colors is included on the flag of Guatemala?:

1) Orange

2) Maroon

3) Black
4) Blue

6) What is the French word for 'eight'?:

1) Otto

2) Acht

3) Six

4) Huit

7) Which actor played the role of Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever?:

1) Joe Pesci

2) Malcolm McDowell

3) Errol Flynn

4) John Travolta

8) What is the capital of Tennessee?:

1) Memphis

2) Knoxville

3) Jackson

4) Nashville

9) Which toy is a multi-colored block you have to reorganize?:

1) Furby

2) Playmobil

3) Hula Hoop

4) Rubik's Cube

10) What is Hierology the study of?:

1) the history, languages, and cultures of the Indian subcontinent

2) the Sumerians

3) crayfish

4) a more inclusive term for theology


11) Which philosopher famously said 'Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy,

but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness'?:

1) Jean-Paul Sartre

2) Spinoza

3) St. Augustine

4) Immanuel Kant

12) The language 'Chhattisgarhi' belongs to which language family?:

1) Austroasiatic

2) Uralic

3) Niger–Congo

4) Indo-European

13) Who is reputed to have said said: "Let them eat cake"?:

1) Queen Victoria

2) Abraham Lincoln

3) Cleopatra

4) Marie Antoinette

14) What is Switzerland's most populous city?:

1) Bern

2) Geneva

3) Basel

4) Zurich

15) What area of Manhattan precedes 'Shake' and 'Shuffle' in the names of dances?:

1) Greenwich

2) Chelsea

3) Midtown

4) Harlem
16) What hip-hop group is the first to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?:

1) Run-DMC

2) The Beastie Boys

3) Public Enemy

4) Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

17) In Star Wars, who is Luke Skywalker's father?:

1) Obi-Wan Kenobi

2) Han Solo

3) Yoda

4) Darth Vader

18) In French anatomy, what does 'La langue' refer to?:

1) The skin

2) The brain

3) The heart

4) The tongue

19) Who wrote the book 'The Shining' on which the 1980 Stanley Kubrick film was based?:

1) George Orwell

2) John Steinbeck

3) Tom Clancy

4) Stephen King

20) When was Nelson Mandela elected as South Africa’s first black president?:

1) 1979

2) 1984

3) 1989

4) 1994

21) The language 'Polish' belongs to which language family?:


1) Dravidian

2) Sino-Tibetan

3) Turkic

4) Indo-European

22) Which of these is a hockey team based in Seattle?:

1) Seattle Indians

2) Seattle Sharks

3) Seattle Wizards

4) Seattle Kraken

23) What is a female walrus known as?:

1) A Worker

2) A Jenny

3) A Soar

4) A Cow

24) What's heaven to fallen Norse warriors?:

1) Trondheim

2) Odinsbahn

3) Asgard

4) Valhalla

25) Who was the monarch of The United Kingdom during the time period 1936-1936?:

1) George IV

2) Edward IV

3) William II

4) Edward VIII

26) Which Part Of A Computer Is Responsible For Carrying Out Instructions?:

1) Motherboard
2) RAM

3) Hard Drive

4) CPU

27) Which of these was an empire on the Indian subcontinent? :

1) Ming Empire

2) Khmer Empire

3) Siamese Empire

4) Maurya Empire

28) Which country did Angela Merkel lead from 2005 to 2021?:

1) France

2) Hungary

3) Russia

4) Germany

29) Which band was Geri Halliwell a member of?:

1) The Supremes

2) TLC

3) All Saints

4) Spice Girls

30) What is the name of a French pastry known for its flaky layers of puff pastry and pastry cream filling?:

1) Antoinette

2) Charles de Gaulle

3) Eclair

4) Napoleon

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