General Knowledge Quiz 47

General Knowledge Quiz 47

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1. Name the Iraqi human rights activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize 2018

Nadia Murad
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh
Linda Sarsour
Dalia Mogahed

2. Waterloo, famous for the Battle of Waterloo, lies in which country?

Germany
Belgium
Spain
Italy

3. A candle behind a barbed wire is the logo of which International NGO?

Amnesty International
CARE International
Cure Violence
Mercy Corps

4. On which country's postal stamps will you find the inscription "Hellas"?

Holand
Greece
Honduras
Armenia

5. Who was the first woman to become the prime minister of a country?

Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Indira Gandhi
Elisabeth Domitien
Golda Meir

6. Who defined democracy as a "Government of the people, by the people and for the people"?

Aristotle
Karl Marx
Noam Chomsky
Abraham Lincoln

7. In which field did Frances Arnold receive Nobel Prize in 2018?

Physics
Medicine
Chemistry
Economics

8. Who said "Ballot is stronger than bullet"?

Mahatma Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
Abraham Lincoln
Martin Luther King

9. What does OECD stand for?

Organisation for Environmental Conservation and Development
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Organisation for Ecological Conservation and Development
Organisation for Economical Consolidation of Data

10. Who was the founder of the pan-Islamic militant organisation, Al-Qaeda?

Ahmad Umar
Osma bin Laden
Ayatollah Khomeini
Saddam Hussain

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