WSC GR practice 1

What was the name of India's first newspaper?

• Hicky's Bagel Gazette

• Hicky's Bengal Gazette

• Hockey's Bengal Gazette

• Hacky's Bangal Gazette

What is the famous Watergate success story based on?

• The Golden gate falling down

• A flood over the London gate

• A burglary at the Watergate complex

• A reinvention of the Watergate complex.

Who wrote the short story "The Ugly Little Boy"?

• Isaac Asimov

• Isaac Newton

• Arnold Asimov

• Asimov Newton

What inspired the term the term 'steampunk'?

• The famous punk rock group

• Steam from a kettle

• The British inventors

• The invention of steam-powered everything

What is the name of the famous poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about an Asian emperor?

• Kyoto

• Kubla Khan

• The Czars

• Quasimodo

Who invented the shower?

• The Chinese emperor

• The Spanish colony

• The Ancient Greeks

• The Arab traders

Which famous group sang 'Because'?

• Queen

• The Beatles

• The Carpenters

• The Rolling stones

Where can you watch the famous multimedia opera Somnium?

• Japan

• USA

• Hong Kong

• China

Which two cultures are merged to create Orpheus (Orfeo)?

• Greek and Indian

• Greek and Spanish

• Greek and Russian

• Greek and Italian

Which movie is the following scene from: Picard, two characters need to solve a murder in an apartment—but someone has scrubbed the floors, replaced the windows, and wiped all the alpaca spit from the walls.

• Guardians of the Galxy

• Star Wars

• Star trek

• Aliens on Mars