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Which is the smallest and the biggest country in the world?
a) Vatican and Russia
b) Nauru and China
c) Monaco and Canada
d) Malta and The USA
e) San Marino and India
a) Vatican and Russia
Vatican, Cathlic church headquarters, has only 44 hectare (0,44km²). Russia, located in two continents (Asia and Europe), has 17 million in km².
Which Brasilian president was known by the nickname of Jango?
a) Jânio Quadros
b) Jacinto Anjos
c) Getúlio Vargas
d) João Figueiredo
e) João Goulart
e: João Goulart.
João Belchior Marques Goulart was the 24th president of Brazil, from 1961 to 1964
Nowadays, how many chemical elements are there in the Periodic Table?
a) 113
b) 109
c) 108
d) 118
e) 92
d: 118.
The last elements added to the Periodic Table were: 113 (Nihonium), 115 (Moscovium), 117 (Tennessine) and 118 (Oganesson).
What is the minimum number of players in a soccer match?
a) 8
b) 10
c) 9
d) 5
e) 7
e: 7.
A soccer match has a maximum number of 11 players and the minimum of 7, counting with the goalkeeper, in each team.
Which are the two dates celebrated in November in Brazil?
a) Independence of Brazil and Flag Day.
b) Proclamation of the Republic and Black Awareness Day.
c) Doctor's Day and Saint Luke's Day.
d) Day of the Dead and National Book Day
e) Black Friday and Tree Day
b: Proclamation of the Republic and Black Awareness Day.
The Proclamation of the Republic is celebrated on Nobember 15th, date that Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca proclamed the Republic in 1889.
The Black Awareness Day is celebrated on November 20th, date that Zumbi dos Palmares died, in 1695.
Who painted the Guernica painting?
a) Paul Cézanne
b) Pablo Picasso
c) Diego Rivera
d) Tarsila do Amaral
e) Salvador Dalí
b: Pablo Picasso.
Pablo Picasso painted the Guernica painting, one of his most highlighted works, in 1937. The painting made in oil on canvas portraits the bombing to the spanish city Gernica in April 26th 1937, during the Spanish Civil War.
How long does it take for the sunlight hit the Earth?
a) 12 minutes
b) 1 day
c) 12 hours
d) 8 minutes
e) 12 seconds
d: 8 minutes.
This is a matter that is optical substantiated. It is calculated based on the distance of the sun related to Earth, which is, approximately, 150 million km, considering that the speed of light in the vacumn is 300 thousand km/s.
Which is Che Guevara's nationality?
a) Cuban
b) Peruvian
c) Panamanian
d) Bolivian
e) Argentinian
e: Argentinian.
Known as one of the Cuban Revolution leaders, alongside the Fidel and Raúl Castro brothers, Ernesto Guevara de La Serna was born in Rosário, Argentina, on June 14th 1928.
Which is the hight of the net on the male and female volleyball games respectively?
a) 2.4 for both
b) 2.5 m and 2.0 m
c) 1.8 m and 1.5 m
d) 2.45 m and 2.15 m
e) 2.43 m and 2.24 m
e: 2.43 m and 2.24 m.
Back then, the hight was 1.98 m. Nowadays it is 2.43 m for adult male players and 2.24 m for adulto female players. The net's hight also varies according to the age of the players.
"twenty past six”. What time is it?
a) 12:06
b) 6:20
c) 2:20
d) 6:02
e) 12:20
b: 6:20.
Which is the highest hill in Brazil?
a) Neblina Peak
b) Paraná Peak
c) Roraima Mount
d) Friburgo's Major Peak
e) Bandeira Peak
a: Neblina Peak.
Neblina Peak is Brazil's highest peak, it is 2.995 meters high. Located in Amazonas, in the Venezuela and Colombia boarder.
Where in Asia the Portuguese languague is one of the official langauges?
a) India
b) The Philippines
c) Mozambique
d) Macau
e) Portugal
d: Macau.
Macau has two official languages, Mandarin and Portuguese. Macau, a special region in China, was a Portuguese territory until 1999.
Which period of the prehistory was the fire discovered in?
a) Neolithic
b) Paleolithic
c) Metal Ages
d) Polished Stone Ages
e) Middle Ages
b: Paleolithic.
It was on the Paleolithic period that the fire began to be used, when men learned that it was possible to obtain fire by the friction of pieces of wood and stone.
How did men explain the origin of things in the past?
a) By Philosophy
b) By Biology
c) By Mathemathics
d) By Astronomy
e) By Mithology
e: By Mithology.
Mithology was a belief system that included a series of narratives and legends, which were part of the collective imaginarium of various ancient civilizations. In this, in the beginning of the human development, many peoples used the mithology to explain some phenomena and the origin of things.
Which is the correct order of the planets in the Solar System?
a) Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury
b) Mercury, Earth, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
c) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune
d) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
d) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Which was Aleijadinho's real name?
a) Alexandrino Francisco Lisboa
b) Manuel Francisco Lisboa
c) Alex Francisco Lisboa
d) Francisco Antônio Lisboa
e) Antônio Francisco Lisboa
e: Antônio Francisco Lisboa.
Aleijadinho was the nickname of Antônio Francisco Lisboa, he was one of the biggest representative of the Brasilian Baroque. He received this nickname due to a disease that deformed his hands and feet. Even in this condition he continued working as an sculptor, carver, carpenter and arctect.
What is the theme of the famous speech "I Have a Dream" by Marting Luther King?
a) Race equality
b) Justice for the disadvantaged
c) Religious intolerance
d) Peace Nobel prize
e) Fight against Apartheid.
a: Race equality
Martin Luther King Jr. was a leader and activist that fought against the racial discrimination in the USA. In 1963, the "March on Washington", that gathered 250 thousand people, he spoke his famous speech "I Have a Dream".
Which world leader was known as the Iron Lady?
a) Dilma Rousseff
b) Angela Merkel
c) Margaret Thatcher
d) Hillary Clinton
e) Christine Lagarde
c: Margaret Thatcher.
Margaret Thatcher was known as the Iron Lady, she was the British Prime Minister and the first woman to occupy this position. Her governmen had as the main objective to implant the neoliberalism in the UK.
Who was the scientist who discovered the vaccine for rabies?
a) Marie Curie
b) Blaise Pascal
c) Louis Pasteur
d) Antoine Lavoisier
e) Charles Darwin
c: Louis Pasteur.
Loius Pasteur was a Franch scientist who discovered, in 1862, the process of sterilization of food, know as the pasteurization. Beyond that, in 1885, he discovered the vaccine against rabies treating a boy who was bitten by a dog.
What is the name of the vessels that transport the blood from the heart to the extremities of the body?
a) veins
b) atria
c) ventricles
d) arteries
e) auricles
d: arteries.
Arteries are a kind of blood vessels that transport the arterial blood (with oxygen and nutrients) from the heart to the body.
Which is the world's biggest archipelago?
a) the Philippines
b) Indonesia
c) the Bahamas
d) Finland
e) the Maldives
b: Indonesia.
Indonesia is a country located between Asia and Oceania, its capital is Jacarta. It is considered the world's biggest archipelago, it has 17.508 islands.
Which metal is represented by the chemical symbol Au?
a) Copper
b) Silver
c) Mercury
d) Gold
e) Manganese
d: Gold.
Which century was the European continent devastated by the Bubonic plague in?
a) In the 10th Century
b) In the 11th Century
c) In the 12th Century
d) In the 13th Century
e) In the 14th Century
e: In the 14th Century.
The Bubonic plague or Black Death, hit the european population in the 14th Century, the epidemic peak happened between 1347 and 1353. It is estimated that 1/3 of the population died because of this lung disease, something around 25 million people.
Which city held the Eco-92, The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development?
a) Buenos Aires
b) Rio de Janeiro
c) Montevideo
d) Asunción
e) Caracas
b: Rio de Janeiro.
Focusing in discussing the planet's environmental problems, Eco-92 was organized by UN - United Nations, and realized between June 3rd and 14th 1992, in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
What is the Brexit?
a) the exit of the UK of Euro Zone.
b) the exit of the UK of the European Union
c) the exit of England of the UK
d) the end of the monarchy in the UK
e) the change of government system in the UK
b: the exit of the UK of the Euorpean Union
The term Brexit comes of the junction of the words BRitain and EXIT. This process started in June 23rd 2016. On January 2020, the United Kingdon definitely left the European Union, becoming the first country to do it.