Who was first to propose that evolution is a result of natural selection?
Charles Darwin
Which musician lost his hearing?
Ludwig van Beethoven
This piece belongs to what art movement?
Dadaism
Find all positive integers N for which 2^N - 1 is divisible by 7. (IMO 1964)
All values where N is a multiple of 3.
What is the closest still existing language to the Baltic language tree?
Sanskrit
What is the least developed animal phylum (division)?
Porifera (sponges)
Which musician was accused of selling his soul to the Devil?
Niccolo Paganini
In Raphael’s "The School of Athens," this ancient philosopher is depicted pointing upwards.
Plato
What do you call a number that is the same forwards and backwards?
Palindrome
Which wars did the treaty of Westphalia end?
Thirty Years' War (in the Holy Roman Empire) and the Eighty Years' War (between Spain and the Dutch Republic)
Relation (+/0)
Commensalism
What were the first flutes made out of?
Animal bones
What year was Pablo Picasso born?
1881
The number of ways to arrange n pairs of parentheses such that they are correctly matched is described by a famous sequence that also counts binary trees with n nodes and paths that stay below the diagonal in a grid. What is this sequence called?
Catalan numbers
What is the name of the Ukrainian wife of Sultan Suleiman I?
Roksolana or Sultan Hurrem.
What is the world's largest winged cockroach called?
Megaloblatta longipennis
Who is the composer to the opera "Sprīdītis"?
Jānis Mediņš
Which Latvian artist painted his father's corpse?
Leo Svemps
What is the name of a shape with 20 sides?
Icosagon
This ancient civilization, located in the Indus Valley, is known for its advanced urban planning, including grid-pattern streets and sophisticated drainage systems, yet its written language remains undeciphered.
Harappan civilization
This molecule, essential for cellular energy transfer, is composed of adenine, ribose, and three phosphate groups.
ATP
Which 20th-century composer, a leading figure in the development of electronic music, created the groundbreaking work Gesang der Jünglinge, which combined electronically generated sounds with a recorded boy's voice?
Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Which obscure 19th-century English artist, largely forgotten today, was known for his highly detailed, almost photographic watercolors of nature and animals, and for creating the iconic The Hay Wain, a piece that initially faced public criticism but later became a symbol of English romanticism?
John Constable.
What is the name of the paradox where, through a seemingly logical process, you can show that an object can be in two places at the same time, often demonstrated through thought experiments involving infinite sets or points?
Zeno’s Paradox
This Central Asian empire was founded by Genghis Khan's grandson Kublai Khan and ruled over much of China.
Yuan Dynasty