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Economics & Politics & Persons: Nobel-Prize-Winners

1. Did Winston Churchill receive the Nobel prize for literature or the Nobel peace prize?
2. For what did Konrad Lorenz receive the Nobel Prize?
3. For what did Mikhail Gorbachev receive the Nobel Prize?
4. For what did Alexander Fleming receive the Nobel Prize?
5. For what did Albert Camus receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
6. When did Albert Camus receive the Nobel Prize in literature?
7. When did Heinrich Böll receive the Nobel Prize in literature?
8. When did Willy Brandt receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
9. Which electrician and trade unionist was elected President and also received the Nobel Peace Prize?
10. Who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004?
11. Who declined the Nobel Prize in literature?

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Economics & Politics & Persons: People

1. From which country does the UN secretary general Kofi Annan come from?
2. From which country does the tenor Placido Domingo come from?
3. Where was Roger Withaker born?
4. In what city was Willy Brandt mayor?
5. In what city was J.F.Kennedy murdered?
6. Beethoven studied in Vienna with whom?
7. With whom was Michael Jackson married from 1994 to 1996?
8. What are the names of the children of Queen Elisabeth II?
9. Under which name is Francois Marie Arouet better known?
10. Under which name is Samuel Clemens known?
11. Under which name did Sara Stina Hedberg become popular?
12. During what period was Adenauer mayor of the city of Colonge?
13. Why did Shah Resa Padlawi divorce his wife Soraya?
14. What was the former profession of Fidel Castro?
15. Which profession did Ulrich Zwingli have?
16. Which villages were founded by Hermann Gmeiner?
17. Which artist assocation was found by Gustav Klimt?
18. Which nationality does Herbert von Karajan have?
19. What sect was found by Joseph Smith in 1830 in the USA?
20. Which US President suffered from Polio?
21. Before he became a comedian, what occupation did Karl Valentin have?
22. What name did Gracia Patricia have before she married Rainer III in 1956?
23. What is the real name of the Virgin of Orleans?
24. Which African ex-president spent 27 years in prison because of his fight for civl rights?
25. What American President threatened with impeachment, resigned his office?
26. Which Asian used non-violent protest to force Britain to withdraw from India?
27. What Chinese Politician commanded the occupation of Tibet?
28. What politician of South Africa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993?
29. What child of Maria Theresia, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Arch Dutchess of Austria 1740-1780, was executed in France in 1793?
30. Who was the first human ever to set foot on the moon?
31. Who said the famous sentence: "I am the state!"?
32. Who coined the phrase "I think, therefore I am"?
33. Who founded the International Red Cross?
34. Who founded the first nursing school of the world?
35. Who founded Scientology?
36. Whose experiments with dogs proved the concept of conditioned reflex?
37. Who directs "Wetten dass"?
38. Who organised the overthrowing of the government of Hungary under Alexandr Kerenski?
39. Who was the first human to orbit the Earth?
40. Who was Abraham Lincoln?
41. Who was Alexander the Great?
42. Who was Prime Minister of Hungary when the national uprising happened in 1956?
43. Who was Camus?
44. Who was the first democratically elected president of Russia?
45. Who was commander of Apollo 13?
46. Who was the teacher of Alexander the Great?
47. Who was the first woman that received the Nobel Peace Prize?
48. Who was the successor of Ferdinando Marcos?
49. What was Friederich Stowasser's real name?
50. Who was the student of Platon and later on the teacher of Alexander the Great?
51. Who was Friedrich Dürrenmatt?
52. Who was Heinrich Schliemann?
53. Who was Henry Ford?
54. Who was Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili?
55. Who was Samuel Longhorne?
56. Who is protected by the Swiss Guard?
57. Who was elected as president of Poland in 1990?
58. Who was executed in 1793 as "Citizen Capet"?
59. Platon was the student of whom?
60. Whose daughter was Queen Elisabeth I?
61. How old was Anne Frank, whose diary became world famous?
62. What was the name of the British Prime Minister, who because of his affair with Christine Keeler had to resign?
63. What was the name of the British Postal robber who fled to Brazil in 1965?
64. What is the name of the Indian poet and philosopher who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913?
65. What was the name of the monk who had great influence over Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra?
66. What was the name of the constructor of the Suez Canal?
67. What is the name of Princess Caroline's first husbnad?
68. What was the former name of Willy Brandt?
69. What was Cassius Clay's later name?
70. How many children did Maria Theresia, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Arch Dutchess of Austria 1740-1780 have?
71. Where is Christopher Columbus buried?
72. Where is Karl Marx buried?
73. For what is F. de Lesseps famous?

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Economics & Politics & Persons: Politics

1. To whom did the Merovingians lose their power?
2. What are the legislative, executive as well as the judicial powers?
3. Name all the Bundeskanzlers of Germany up to and including 2005!
4. Name all the German Presidents up to and including 2005!
5. When was the Weimar Republic?
6. What is an execution?
7. What is the executive branch of the government?
8. What is the opposite of Bourgeoisie?
9. What is the goal of a separatist?
10. What is the 2 plus 4 agreement?
11. What is a demagogue?
12. What is a despot?
13. What is an edict?
14. What is an emigrant?
15. What is deportation?
16. What is hegemony?
17. What is known as the Iron Curtain in politics?
18. Who are the political rivals of the Whigs?
19. What was the agreement made in the Versailles treaty?
20. What 12 nations founded NATO?
21. What British chemist became Prime Minister?
22. Which countries belonged to the Warsaw Pact?
23. What Presidents of the German Reich ruled during the Weimar Republic?
24. What magazine embarrassed itself in publishing the faked diaries of Hitler?
25. What nick name did people give to the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher?
26. Which relative of Katharine II, Empress of Russia allowed her to be murdered?
27. Which German politician was Lord Mayor of Munich, Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs, Fedreal Minister of Justice and was also a candidate for Chancellor?
28. Which plan provided for the rebuilding of Germany and western Europe after WWII?
29. Who is considered to be the murderer of the US President John F. Kennedy?
30. Who coined the term "Iron Curtain"?
31. Who was author of the Communist Manifesto?
32. Who was the leader of the Indian independence movement?
33. Who was the last President of the Soviet Union?
34. Who was successor of Lenin?
35. Who was Wladimir illjitsch Uljanow?
36. Who became the first French Prime Minister?
37. Who was named Duke of Florence in 1531 by the Holy Roman Emporer Charles V?
38. What is the name of the parliament of Israel?
39. What was the name of the Romanian dictator who was executed with his wife in 1989?
40. What was the name of the Swedish Prime Minister that was shot in 1986?
41. What was the name of the woman who became head of government of Pakistan as the first woman ever?
42. What was the name of the Federal President in Germany after the Second World War?
43. What was the name of the first American President?
44. How long is the term in office of the Federal President in Germany?
45. What was the name of the secret police of the Nazi party in Germany?
46. What was the name of the secret society in America that was against equal rights for Blacks and did not shy away from using lynchings for justice?
47. How you call the right of freedom of prosecution?
48. What do you call the members of the UN peacekeeping force?
49. How many years did Austrian Emperor Franz Josef govern?
50. What are people called, whose political philosophy exalts nation and often race above the individual?
51. What is the other name of the conservative party of England?
52. What was the German youth organization called that existed 1926 to 1945?

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Economics & Politics & Persons: Economics

1. When was the German Mark introduced?
2. What do people possess if they have a certain user right?
3. What is on the German 20 cent coin?
4. What is a creditor?
5. What is a countertrade?
6. What is a selfmademan?
7. What is a depression?
8. What is a dividend?
9. What is an issue of shares on the stock market?
10. What does a company declare if it is unable to pay its debts no longer?
11. What you need to pay if you bring goods over the border?
12. What is meant by effects?
13. What is meant by funds at the stock market?
14. What was Black Friday?
15. What is the Hanseatic League?
16. What is booked on the credit side of an account?
17. What information is entered in the title register?
18. What was caused by Black Friday?
19. What animal was on the 1 Mark coin?
20. Who established the first post route in Europe?
21. What do you call money that is borrowed and must be paid back with interest?
22. How do you call a signed check with no monetary amount written in?
23. What do you call the agricultrual oriented associations in the soviet Union?
24. What do you call a group of many industrial companies in communistic countries?
25. What do you call the associations of craftsmen?
26. What do you call borrowed capital?
27. What is it called, when you are charged far more for something than what it's worth?
28. What do you call it, when you purchase a large amount of the same item and pay a lesser price?
29. What do you call the monetary amount a renter must give when he signs a rental agreement?
30. What is the name of the cultural part of a newspaper?
31. What do you call the agreement between an employer and a union that sets worker's wages and work hours?
32. What do you call the process of fixing the price of goods?
33. What do you call it, where an employer gives an employee the means to conduct business in the employer's name?
34. What you you call the process in which property is lawfully confiscated and then sold (if the owner can not pay his debt within a certain time) to pay off the debts of the owner?
35. What do you call the process of paying back debts?
36. What do you call the value of sold goods?
37. What is it called, when businesses with like interests watch and limit competion?
38. What do you call the purchase of things in a company?
39. What is the difference between the credit column and the debit column called?
40. What is an agricultural settlement in Israel called?
41. What is it called when only one party contols a commodity?
42. What is the term for all goods, inventory and money held by a company?
43. What is the amount called, that is profit after a sum of money is invested for a specific amount of time?
44. What do you call the commission of a business procurement?
45. What is the section in a newspaper that lists the publisher, editor, etc.?
46. What is the payment called, where all services are included in the price?
47. What do you call an expected but unsafe profit?
48. What is a short ironical comment about a current event?
49. What do you call unmovable things like houses and properties?
50. Between which two cities was Europe's first postal service established?

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Science: Science

1. About what are the Mendelian laws?
2. Why does ice float in water?
3. What is an axiom?
4. What is a gene?
5. What are the three basic principles in the Mendelian laws?
6. What is the biggest honor for a scientist?
7. Who was Friedrich Gauß?
8. Who was the founder of psychoanalysis?
9. What is the name of the old pictography of the Egyptians?
10. What are the two singular threads of chromosomes called?

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Science: Astronomy

1. On which tropic is gemini?
2. On which tropic is capricorn?
3. Is the star sign of cancer on the northern or southern tropic?
4. Name the planets of our solar system.
5. Am I heavier or lighter on the moon?
6. In regards to size, how big is the earth in our solar system?
7. The Earth is the ? planet away from the sun?
8. Does the moon turn around the earth or is it fixed?
9. Does the sun turn around the earth or is it the other way around?
10. Through what location does the prime meridian run?
11. Would a human being be able to survive on other planets in our solar system?
12. Name all the signs of the Zodiac!
13. Name the planet in our solar system with the same name as the Latin God of War?
14. Name the planet with rings?
15. Which star was originally thought to be two stars?
16. When is the shortest day on the northern hemisphere?
17. When is the shortest day on the southern hemisphere?
18. When was the last solar eclipse in Southern Germany?
19. When was Uranus discovered?
20. What happens by an eclipse of the moon?
21. Which is the biggest planet we know?
22. What is the famous distinguishing mark of saturn?
23. How long does it take for light to travel from the sun to the earth?
24. What is a halo?
25. What is a lightyear?
26. What you can see in a planetarium?
27. What are the 12 houses?
28. What are fixed stars?
29. What are meteorites?
30. What are satellites?
31. What are black holes?
32. What are white dwarfs?
33. What type of galaxy is the Milky Way?
34. Which temperature is on the sun?
35. Which temperature is on Mercury?
36. What is the diameter of the moon?
37. Which planet has a ring?
38. Which planet has the most moons?
39. Which planet has a ring made of meteor pieces?
40. Which planet is closest to the sun?
41. Which star is closest to earth?
42. Who landed on the moon first and when?
43. Who was the first German in space and conducted experiments in the Spacelab?
44. What are meteor showers on the 13th of November called?
45. What are the names of the Zodiac?
46. What is the name of the planet that is the furthest away from the sun?
47. What is the name of Jupiter's moon that has the same name as a continent here on Earth?
48. How long does it take for a light beam to reach the earth from the sun?
49. How long does it take for the moon to circle the Earth?
50. How long does it take the Earth to spin once on it's axis?
51. How long does the earth need to circuit the sun?
52. What do you call the hottest days of the year?
53. The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year is called?
54. What are bright slow meteors called?
55. What do you call the different positions of the moon, the sun and the planets to each other?
56. How many moons does Uranus have?
57. How many days does the earth need to circle the sun?
58. How many days are in a moon-year?
59. What was the name of the first artificial satellite?
60. Where do you find the Sea of Fertility?
61. What creates a solar eclipse?
62. What causes the tides?

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Science: Metals

1. Brass is made of what?
2. For what is beryllium mainily used?
3. For which metal does the sign Au stands for?
4. Is there a metal that by normal temperatures is a liquid?
5. After what planet was uranium named?
6. What is verdigris?
7. What does refining mean?
8. What is alpaca?
9. What is bronze?
10. What is casting?
11. What is patina?
12. What is harder? A diamond or granite?
13. What is brass?
14. How is patina made?
15. What is tin foil?
16. What is tombac or red brass?
17. What is sheet metal?
18. What are ores?
19. What are metal oxides?
20. What is added to steel to make it rust-free?
21. How much gold in 24 carat gold?
22. What metal is made out of kaolin?
23. What metal is protected from corrosion by anodization?
24. What heavy metal is named after the old Norse Goddess Freya?
25. What is the common name used when iron combines with oxygen?
26. What are compounds containing mercury called?
27. What comprises type metal?
28. How are metal salts made?
29. What will disolve gold and platinum?

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Science: Chemistry

1. What is the chemical sign for astatine?
2. Name some alkali metals!
3. What is the result when sulfur, salt peter and carbon mixed in the proper proportions?
4. What are bases in chemistry?
5. What chemical compound is mostly used in nail polish remover?
6. What chemical element is used as a disinfectant in swimming pools?
7. Which chemical sign stands for hydrogen?
8. Which inert gas is used as a luminescent material in tubes?
9. Which metal is found in brass as well as in bronze?
10. Which metal has the chemical sign "Au"?
11. What mineral is made of pure, cubic crystalline carbon?
12. What are the 5 most lightweight chemical elements?
13. Name the shiny silvery heavy metal with the symbol Cr?
14. What is the melting point of gold?
15. What is the melting point of platinum?
16. What is the melting point of silver?
17. What is the melting point of wolfram?
18. What is the melting point of tin?
19. What is the chemical sign for barium?
20. What is the chemical sign for beryllium?
21. What is the chemical sign for lead?
22. What is the chemical sign for cadmium?
23. What is the chemical sign for calcium?
24. What is the chemical sign for caesium?
25. What is the chemical sign for iron?
26. What is the chemical sign for antimony?
27. What is the chemical sign for argon?
28. What is the chemical sign for berkelium?
29. What is the chemical sign for boron?
30. What are carbon compounds called?
31. A diamond consists of what?
32. For which processes in human organisms is calcium necessary?
33. To which metal group does boron belong?

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Science: Discoveries

1. For which discovery is Albert Einstein famous?
2. By what name is the rotary piston engine better known?
3. What did the Austrian chemist Karl Landsteiner discover in 1901?
4. What did the American chemist and geophysisist Willard Frank Libby invent?
5. Who discovered electromagnetic waves?
6. Who discovered chloroform?
7. Who discovered the serum against diphtheria?
8. Who discovered the law of the free fall?
9. Who discovered radium?
10. Who discovered the serum against rabies?
11. How discovered the fact that the planets move around the sun?
12. Who discovered electromagnetism?
13. Who discovered oxygen?
14. Who discovered nitrogen?
15. Who discovered dynamite?
16. Who reached the South Pole first of all?
17. Who created the theory of relativity?
18. Name the Portuguese mariner who explored the sea route to India via the Cape of Good Hope?
19. For what did Albert Einstein receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?

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Science: Inventions

1. Since when is aspirin sold as medicine?
2. For whom is the sterilization process whereby milk is slowly heated to 80 C named?
3. Since when does the "Compact Disc" exist?
4. Since when does teletext exist?
5. When was the first gas lantern used?
6. When did the internet start to develop?
7. What is a nuclear fusion?
8. Name the invention that Phillipp Reis publicly intorduced in 1861 in Germany
9. What life-saving medicine did Alexander Flemming invent?
10. Who invented the first globe?
11. Who invented the megaphone?
12. Who invented the telephone?
13. Who invented the lithograph?
14. Who invented the air pump?
15. Who invented the sewing machine?
16. Who invented the marine propelling screw?
17. Who invented the astronomic telescope?
18. Who invented the steerable rigid airship?
19. Who invented the lightning arrester?
20. Who invented printing with movable letters?
21. Who invented the revolver?
22. Who invented the steam engine?
23. Who invented the dynamo?
24. Who received the Nobel Prize in 1945 for the discovery of Penicillin?
25. Who invented the dynamite?
26. Why was the invention of celluloid so important to elephants?

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Science: Science-Theory

1. With what is heraldry concerned?
2. What is the study of genes called?
3. What does the study of arithmetic mean?
4. What does the study of chromatic mean?
5. What does the study of heraldry mean?
6. What does the study of cosmogony mean?
7. What does the study of mythology mean?
8. What does the study of optics mean?
9. What does the study of physiology mean?
10. What does the study of agronomy mean?
11. What does the study of anatomy mean?
12. What does the study of hygiene mean?
13. What does the study of theology mean?
14. What does the study of zoology mean?
15. What is surgery?
16. A toxicologist does what?
17. What is stoichiometry?
18. What is meant by gerontology?
19. What do you call the study of belief?
20. What is the study of sound called?
21. What is the study of weather called?
22. What is the name of the study of antiquity?
23. What is the study of consistency of thinking?
24. What is the name of the study of navigation?
25. What is the name of the study of the stars?
26. What is the name of the study of time?
27. What is the name of the study of coins?
28. What is the name of the study of people?
29. What is the name of the study of agriculture?
30. What is the name of the study of languages?
31. What is the study for the treatment of speech disorders called?
32. What is the study of research of development of life on earth called?
33. What is the research of the earth history called?
34. What is the name of the study of insects?
35. What is the study of moving objects called?
36. What is the study of the origin and/or evolution of words called?
37. The study of the human body and it's organs is called?

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Science: Measures

1. After whom is the celsius scale on thermometers named?
2. At what degree in Fahrenheit does water freeze?
3. In which month does winter start?
4. What unit is used to measure illuminance?
5. What unit is used to measure the load capacity of ships?
6. What means gross?
7. What is one light year?
8. What is measured in diopters?
9. What was the first clock thousands of years ago?
10. How many km/h is one knot?
11. How long is an inch?
12. What values can a bit take?
13. Which year is also called the millennium year?
14. Which word expresses the rise of speed?
15. What is the name of the tool with which you record earthquakes?
16. What is the name of the measurement of noise?
17. What SI unit is used to measure illuminance?
18. How long is a yard in inches, feet, and meters?
19. How long is a semester?
20. What is the name of a unit of electric capacity?
21. What is the name of the unit of measurement used for data transmission speed?
22. What is the name of the device used to measure water content in the air?
23. What do you call the weight of jewels?
24. What is the name of the measurement to define the weight of gemstones?
25. How fast must a supersonic plane fly at the minimum?
26. What is the weight of an ounce?
27. How many gramme is one carat?
28. How many gramme does a squash ball have?
29. How many litres are in a barrel?
30. How many zeros does a quadrillion have?
31. How much less does an object weigh on the moon?
32. How many seasons are there?
33. How many square kilometres are one hectare?
34. How many seconds does an hour have?
35. How many days does a year have?
36. What is the official definition of a fathom, a nautical unit of distance?
37. How you assess density?
38. Is the measurment "inches" also used in Germany?
39. Where is the international kilogram standard of platinum-iridium kept?

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Science: Mathematics

1. Name the first seven digits of Pi?
2. Name the first 3 prime numbers
3. Name the 4 prime numbers between 50 and 70
4. Name some prime numbers!
5. What is the opposite of an acute triangle?
6. What is a rhombus?
7. What is an acute triangle?
8. What is a hypotenuse?
9. What is planimetry or stereometry?
10. Name the four basic arithmetic operations
11. Which Greek mathematician first described geometry?
12. Who authored the first German arithmetic book in 1522?
13. What do you call an object with six equal sides?
14. What do you call the area of mathematics that is concerned with equations and inequalities?
15. In Math, what do you call a number that describes a portion of a whole number?
16. How much is one million billion?
17. How many zeros does a sextillion have?

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Science: Medicine

1. From which Greco-Roman God is the symbol of doctors named? (a snake wrapped around a staff)
2. After whom is the 2300 year old oath of doctors named?
3. How is AIDS transmitted?
4. How is yellow-fever spread?
5. Paul Ehrloch discovered a medicine in 1910 for what disease?
6. Is the blood group a genetic factor?
7. Name another word for cavities
8. Name a few children´s diseases!
9. Under what name is acetylsalicylic acid known?
10. What disease does one have when the pancreas produces too little insulin?
11. What does omphaloskepsis mean?
12. What is a corn?
13. What is meadowsweet?
14. What is acne?
15. What is cholera?
16. What is an abscess?
17. What is a coitus interruptus?
18. What is a furuncle?
19. What is a lumbago?
20. What is an ejaculation?
21. What is embolism?
22. What is an epidemic?
23. What is an erection?
24. What is a fontanelle?
25. What is a fracture?
26. What is gastritis?
27. What is ovulation?
28. What is a sepsis?
29. What is heartburn?
30. What does an urologist do?
31. What are arteries?
32. What are the main elements of human food?
33. What are leucocytes?
34. What is meant by euthanasia?
35. Who swears the Hippocratic Oath?
36. Which organ is iritated when you have a normal hepatitis?
37. Which organ suffers most under smoking?
38. What animal in 1984 had it's heart donated to a human baby?
39. When one suffers from Triskaidekaphobia, what is one afraid of?
40. Who discovered the laws of genetics by cross-pollinating peas?
41. What are the pathways in the body called in which blood flows?
42. What do you call the colored portion of the eye?
43. What do you call the time from infection until the break out of a disease?
44. How long is the bowel of human beings?
45. What is the medical term for receding gums?
46. What is the name of the specialty in medicine for women's diseases and obsterics?
47. What do we call the antidotal that you get when bitten by a snake?
48. What is the name of the instrument a doctor uses to listen to the heart or lungs?
49. What is the name of the branch of medicine that usees mostly natural remedies?
50. How you call the bones of the shoulder of human beings?
51. How we call the daily visit of the doctor in hospital?
52. What is the bottom-most ending part of the human spinal column called?
53. How you call the tropical disease that is carried by mosquitoes?
54. What do you call the male glands that produce sperm?
55. What do you call the inflamation of the stomach lining or the small intestine?
56. What do you call the disease of the bronchien, whereby dangerous bouts of breathing difficulties may occur?
57. How many bones do human beings have?
58. How many teeth does an adult have?
59. Where are rods and cones found in the body?
60. What are barbiturates?

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Science: Physics

1. About what is geophysics concered?
2. After whom is the physical unit of power named?
3. Name in order the speed that sound is propagated in a vacuum, steel, air and water
4. What freezes faster: hot water or cold water?
5. What is an electrolyte?
6. What is a geiger counter?
7. What physisist coined the terms anode, cathode and electrolysis?
8. How long does it take for light to travel the 384000 kilometers from the Earth to the Moon?
9. What is the definition of velocity?
10. What is the condition called when a gas transforms into a liquid?
11. What do you call a machine moves by itself without the addition of external energy?
12. What do you call a lens that bends inwards?
13. What are the rays called that redden and brown the skin and are invisible to our eyes?
14. What do you scientifically call the condition of complete emptiness?
15. How heavy is an electron?
16. Where are positive ions orientated in the electric field?
17. How you can recognize that a plane is flying faster than the sonic barrier?

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Answers for Economics & Politics & Persons: Nobel-Prize-Winners

1. The Nobel prize for literature in 1953 for his work about World War 2.
2. Behaviour research of animals
3. 1990 - Nobel Peace Prize for his policy of detente
4. Nobel Prize for in medicine - discovery of penicillin
5. For his efforts for policy of detente in the east-west conflicts
6. 1957
7. 1972
8. 1971
9. Lech Walesa
10. Wangari Maathai from Kenia
11. Jean Paul Sartre

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Answers for Economics & Politics & Persons: People

1. Ghana
2. Spain
3. Kenia
4. Berlin (1957-1966)
5. Dallas
6. Joseph Haydn
7. Lisa Maria Presley
8. Charles (heir apparent), Anne, Andrew, Edward
9. Voltaire
10. Mark Twain
11. Zarah Leander
12. 1917 to 1933
13. Because she couldn't have children
14. Lawyer
15. Pastor
16. SOS children`s villages
17. Vienna Secession
18. Austrian
19. Mormon
20. Franklin D. Roosevelt
21. Coffin maker
22. Grace Kelly
23. Joan of Arc
24. Nelson Mandela
25. Richard Nixon
26. Mahatma Gandhi
27. Mao Tse Tung
28. Nelson Mandela
29. Marie Antoinette
30. Neil Armstrong
31. Louis XIV (The sun king)
32. Rene Descartes, Philosopher and founder of rationalism
33. Henri Dunant
34. Florence Nightingale
35. Ron Hubbard
36. Pavlov
37. Frank Elstner
38. Leon Trotzky
39. Yuri Gagarin
40. A president of the USA
41. King of Macedon
42. Imre Nagy
43. A French Author
44. Boris Jelzin
45. Neil Armstrong
46. The Philosopher Aristotle
47. Bertha von Suttner
48. Corazon Aquino
49. Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian painter and graphic artist
50. Aristoteles
51. A Swiss narrator and dramatist
52. A researcher of antiquity
53. Founder of the Ford Motor Company
54. Joesph Stalin
55. Mark Twain
56. The Pope
57. Lech Walesa
58. King Louis XVI
59. Sokrates
60. King Henry VIII
61. 16
62. John Profumo
63. Ronald Biggs
64. Rabindranath Tagore
65. Rasputin
66. Ferdinand de Lesseps
67. Philippe Junot
68. Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm
69. Muhammad Ali
70. 16
71. in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
72. In London
73. He built the Suez Canal

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Answers for Economics & Politics & Persons: Politics

1. Carolingian
2. They are the 3 branches of a democratic republic
3. Konrad Adenauer, Ludwig Erhard, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl, Helmut Schröder, Angela Merkel
4. Theodor Heuss, Heinrich Lübke, Gustav Heinemann, Walter Scheel, Karl Carstens, Richard von Weizäcker, Roman Herzog, Johannes Rau, Horst Köhler
5. 1919 to 1933
6. Someone is put to death
7. The branch of the government that is responsible for the exectution of laws.
8. Proletariat
9. To form separate or independent state.
10. It is the agreement used to reunify Germany
11. A leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power.
12. A tyrant
13. A degree or order
14. Someone who leaves his country because of political, religious or racial reasons
15. One is forced to leave a country.
16. The influence of one group over another
17. The border between the democratic Western Europe and the communistic East Europe.
18. The Tories
19. It was the peace treaty between the German Empire and it's foes after WW1.
20. USA, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, France, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Portugal
21. Margaret Thatcher
22. Sowjet Union, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, German Democratic Republic, Albania
23. Friedrich Ebert and Paul von Hindenburg
24. Der Stern
25. The Iron Lady
26. Her husband, Emporer Peter III
27. Hans-Jochen Vogel
28. The Marshall Plan
29. Lee Harvey Oswald
30. Winston Churchill 1946
31. Marx and Engels
32. Mahatma Gandhi
33. Mikhail Gorbachev
34. Stalin
35. Lenin
36. Charles de Gaulle
37. Alessandro de Medici
38. Knesset
39. Nicolai Chauscescu
40. Olaf Palme
41. Benazir Bhutto
42. Theodor Heuss
43. George Washington
44. 5 years, reelection is only possible one time
45. Gestapo
46. Ku-Klux-Klan
47. Privilege
48. Blue helmets
49. 68 years
50. Fascists
51. Tory
52. HJ (Hitler Jugend) Hitler Youth

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Answers for Economics & Politics & Persons: Economics

1. 1948 with the currency reform
2. A license
3. The Brandenburger Tor
4. Someone who lends money and then may call in the loan
5. A barter deal
6. A person that worked his way on its own
7. a) A mental disease b) decrease of economic development
8. The paid out share of profit
9. The release of new stocks
10. Bankruptcy, insolvency
11. Customs duty
12. Securities, stocks
13. Several assets
14. 25.January 1929 - on this day the stock exchange dramatically crashed
15. At first it was a trade association and then became a federation of city-states along the coast and interior of Germany in the 13th to 17th centuries.
16. Incoming payments
17. The amount and length of a mortage against the property.
18. The world economic crisis
19. The eagle
20. Franz von Taxis 1495
21. Loan
22. A blank check
23. A collective farm
24. Combines
25. Guilds
26. Outside capital
27. Usury
28. Discount / quantity discount
29. Caution money or rental deposit
30. Feuilleton
31. Collective agreement
32. Calculation
33. Power of attorney is given
34. Seizure
35. Redemption
36. Sales
37. Cartel
38. Investvent
39. Account balance
40. Kibbuz
41. Monopoly
42. Capital
43. Yield or rate of return
44. Provision
45. Masthead
46. Flat fee
47. Speculation
48. Squib
49. Real estate
50. Vienna and Brussels 1495

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Answers for Science: Science

1. Genetics
2. When water freezes, it expands, the specific gravity is lowered and so it floats
3. A statement widely accepted to be true
4. A unit that contains genetic information
5. Uniformity, independence and division
6. To receive the Nobel Prize
7. An important mathematician
8. Sigmund Freud
9. Hieroglyphics
10. Chromatins

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Answers for Science: Astronomy

1. On the northern one
2. On the southern one
3. On the northern one
4. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Earth, Uranus, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto, Jupiter
5. Lighter
6. The fifth largest
7. The third
8. Moon turns around the earth
9. Earth around the sun
10. Through Greenwich, a district of London
11. No
12. Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Scorpio, Sagittarius
13. Mars
14. Saturn
15. Venus, because people saw it as a morning star and as an evening star
16. On december 21st
17. On june 21st
18. 36383
19. 1781
20. The full moon is covered by the Earth's shadow
21. Jupiter
22. The Ring
23. 8 minutes, 19 seconds
24. An observed ring around a point of light, especially the moon and large stars
25. The distance light travels in one year (9.5 billion km)
26. Stars
27. The 12 areas of the firmament defined by astrologers to forcast horoscopes
28. Stars, that hardly move their positions
29. Pieces of meteors that reach the Earth
30. Orbs that move around the planets
31. A star so massive that not even light can escape its gravity well.
32. A class of stars that are very small and very bright
33. Spiral Galaxy
34. Around 5700 degrees
35. About 550 degrees centigrade on the sun side and -200 degrees centigrade on the shadey side
36. 3476 km
37. Saturn
38. Jupiter (11 moons)
39. Saturn
40. Mercury
41. The sun
42. Neil Armstrong on 20.July 1969
43. Ulf Merbold
44. Leonid meteor showers
45. Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Scorpio, Sagittarius
46. Pluto
47. Europa (Europe)
48. 8 minutes 30 seconds
49. 1 month
50. 24 hours
51. 1 year
52. Dog days of summer
53. Light-year
54. Fireballs
55. Aspects
56. Five
57. 365 days
58. 354
59. Sputnik
60. On the moon
61. When the moon covers the solar disk
62. Moon

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Answers for Science: Metals

1. Copper and zinc
2. This hard lightweight metal is used in aviation and space craft as well as in copper and nickel alloys
3. Gold (aurum)
4. Yes, mercury
5. Uranus
6. Oxidized copper
7. The separation of gold and silver using sulfuric acid
8. German silver made of copper, zinc and silver
9. An alloy of copper and tin
10. The pouring of molten metal
11. A gray-green coating on copper or bronze
12. Diamond
13. An alloy of copper and zinc
14. Through a gradual oxydation of the copper or bronze metal
15. thinly rolled pewter
16. A gold colored alloy of copper and zinc
17. Rolled metal
18. Metal-containing minerals
19. Compounds of oxygen and metals
20. Chrome
21. 1
22. Aluminium
23. Aluminium
24. Vanadium (V), after the surname of the Goddess Freya, Vanadis
25. Rust
26. Amalgam
27. An alloy of lead, antimony and tin
28. A combination of metal and acid
29. Nitrohydrochloric acid

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Answers for Science: Chemistry

1. At
2. Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Cesium und Francium
3. Black Powder
4. Chemical compounds that react with acids to form salts or when mixed with water form hydroxyl ions.
5. Acetone
6. Chlorine
7. H
8. Neon
9. Copper
10. Gold (aurum)
11. Diamond
12. H - hydrogen, He - helium, Li - lithium, Be - beryllium, B - boron
13. Chromium
14. 1063 degrees
15. 1770 degrees
16. 960 degrees
17. 3380 degrees
18. 231 degrees
19. Ba
20. Ber
21. Pb
22. Cd
23. Ca
24. Cs
25. Fe
26. Sb
27. Ar
28. Bk
29. B
30. Carbonates
31. pure carbon
32. For growing bones and teeth
33. Semi-metal

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Answers for Science: Discoveries

1. Theory of relativity
2. Wankel engine
3. The three most often blood groups
4. Atomic Clock
5. Heinrich Hertz
6. At the same time Justus von Liebig, Sonbeiron and Guthrie
7. Emil von Behring
8. Galileo Gallilei
9. Pierre and Marie Curie
10. Louis Pasteur
11. Nikolaus Kopernikus
12. Hans Christian Oersted
13. Josef Priestly and Karl Wilhelm Scheele
14. Sir Ernest Rutherford
15. Alfred Nobel
16. Amundsen (1911)
17. Albert Einstein
18. Vasco de Gama
19. For his work about quantum therories

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Answers for Science: Inventions

1. 1899
2. Louis Pasteur
3. 1983
4. 1980
5. 1807
6. 1969
7. The fusion of atomic cores
8. The telephone
9. Penicillin
10. Van Behaim form Nuremberg in 1492
11. Thomas Aiva Edison
12. Phillip Reis
13. Aloys Senefelder
14. Otto von Guericke
15. Josef Madersperger
16. Joseph Ressel
17. Johannes Kepler
18. Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin
19. Benjamin Franklin
20. Johannes Gutenberg
21. Samuel Colt
22. James Watt
23. Werner von Siemens
24. Alexander Fleming
25. Alfred Nobel
26. Billiard balls could be made using this formable plastic instead of using ivory

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Answers for Science: Science-Theory

1. The orign and history of emblems, crests and coat of arms
2. Genetics
3. The study of numbers
4. The study of colours
5. The study of weapons
6. The study of the development of the earth
7. The study of myths (deities) of the people
8. Light description
9. The study of creatures
10. The study of agriculture
11. The study of segmentation
12. The study of health
13. The study of God
14. The study of animals
15. It is the medical speciality whereby injuries due by accidents require operative proceedures
16. A researcher who analyses toxin
17. The study of the composition of chemical connections
18. Research of aging
19. Dogmatic
20. Acoustics
21. Meteorology
22. Archaeology
23. Logic
24. Nautics
25. Astronomy
26. Chronology
27. Numismatics
28. Ethnology
29. Economy
30. Linguistics
31. Logopedics
32. Palaeontology
33. Geology
34. Entomology
35. Ballistics
36. Etymology
37. Anatomy

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Answers for Science: Measures

1. Anders Celsius
2. 32
3. December
4. Lux
5. Register tons
6. A quantum without deductions
7. The distance light covers in one year (about one billion km)
8. The refractive index of a lens
9. Sun-dial
10. 1852 km/h
11. 25,4 mm
12. binary zero or binary one
13. 2000
14. Speed-up
15. Seismograph
16. Decibel, phon or sone
17. Candela (replaces lux)
18. 36 inches, 3 feet, 0.9144 meters
19. 6 months / half a year
20. F
21. Baud, 1 Baud is one bit per second
22. Hygrometer
23. Carat
24. Carat
25. 1200 km/h
26. 28,3 Gramme
27. 0,2 Gramme
28. 24
29. 158,987 litres
30. 15 zeros
31. The object weighs only 1/6 because graviation is less
32. 4
33. 0,1
34. 3600
35. 365
36. One thousandth of a sea mile
37. Quotient of mass and volume
38. Yes, mostly for pipe diameter and bicycle tire size
39. Sevres near Paris in the international office for Weights and Measures

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Answers for Science: Mathematics

1. 3,141592
2. 3, 5, 7
3. 53, 59, 61, 67
4. 11, 13 or 17, 19 or 29,31
5. Obtuse triangle
6. A parallelogram with 4 equal sides with no right angles
7. All three angles are less than 90 degrees
8. The biggest side of a perpendicular triangle
9. Forms and figures on plane or in space
10. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
11. Euclid
12. Adam Riese
13. Cube
14. Algebra
15. Fraction
16. 1 trillion (one with 18 zeros)
17. 21

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Answers for Science: Medicine

1. Aesculapius
2. Hippocrates, Hippocratic Oath
3. Through the HIV virus which is transmitted through blood, saliva and breast milk. It is not spread by bodily contact.
4. By the yellow-fever-mosquito
5. Syphillis
6. Yes
7. Caries
8. Measles, Mumps, Rubella
9. Aspirin
10. Diabetes
11. Navel-gazing
12. A painful thickening of calous mostly found on the feet
13. Related to the spirea, it is used in herbal remedies
14. A skin irritation that happens mostly in puberty
15. An infectious disease caused mostly by unsanitary conditions such as unclean drinking water
16. A sanious blastoma caused by an infection
17. An interrupted sexual intercourse
18. A suppuration
19. A sudden low-back-pain
20. Spouting of the male sperm out of the penis
21. The costiveness of a vein caused by a blood clot
22. A plague or outbreak of an infectious disease in a specific region
23. A stiffening of the male sex organ
24. A space between the bones of the skull in newborns
25. A broken bone
26. An inflamation of the stomach lining
27. When the ovary releases an egg
28. A blood poisoning
29. A stomach disease
30. An urologist is a doctor who treats problems of the urinary passage
31. Veins that transport blood to the heart
32. Carbohydrates, fats, proteins
33. The white blood corpuscie
34. Medically assisted suicide
35. Doctors
36. The liver
37. The lung
38. Pavian
39. The number 13
40. Gregor Johann Mendel
41. Veins
42. Iris
43. Incubation time
44. Up to 8 metres
45. Periodontosis
46. Gynecology
47. Serum
48. Stethoscope
49. Homeopathy
50. Wishbone
51. Ward round
52. Coccyx (tailbone)
53. Malaria
54. Testes
55. Gastritis
56. Asthma
57. around 208
58. 32
59. The eyes (retina)
60. Sleeping pills

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Answers for Science: Physics

1. With the physical conditions that are found in water, air and earth
2. Sir Isaac Newton
3. Air 340m/s, Water 1500m/s, Steel 5000m/s, sound can not propagate in a vacuum
4. Hot water. The reason is the faster evaporation of the hot water
5. a substance that in liquid form conducts electricity
6. A tool to measure radioactivity
7. Michael Faraday
8. 2.56 seconds
9. The rate at which the position of a body changes expressed with respect to a given direction v=s/t
10. Condensation
11. Pepetual moton machine
12. Concave lens
13. Ultraviolet light (UV rays)
14. Vacuum
15. 0.00000000000000000000000000091 Gram (0.91 times 10 to the power of minus 27)
16. To the cathode
17. You can hear a bang

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