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Karl Marx and Communist Manifesto: General Knowledge USA Quiz.

By knowledgeterminal - January 21, 2019

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Quarks: General Knowledge USA Quiz.

By knowledgeterminal - January 20, 2019

Section one: USA states by number of presidents born

Section two: World desert map

Section three: USA historical events

1927

Warner's released The Jazz Singer, which had synchronized dialogue (and singing) in a feature film.

Section four: world historical events

100 BC in China paper was invented in China.

In 105 AD Ts’ai Lun ( during the Han dynasty) was the first to start a paper-making industry.

Section five: Quarks Facts

1. Particle physics / high energy physics) is a branch of physics dealing with the nature of the particles (smallest detectable ) that constitute matter and radiation.

2. The Standard Model is the dominant theory explaining these fundamental particles and their interaction.

3. Quarks and Leptons are the "elementary particles" which are the basic building blocks of matter.

4. There are six flavors or types of quarks (up, down, charm, strange, top, bottom).

5. Mesons are particles of intermediate mass and they are made up of pair of quark and antiquark. Three quark combinations are called baryons. Proton and neutron, build from up and down quarks are the most common quarks.

6. Quarks appear only in mixture of two quarks

7. The baryon number is one-third the difference between number of quarks and antiquarks. Baryons which has two quarks and one antiquark have a baryon number of 1 and meson have a baryon number of 0

8. The most popular quarks are the up and down quarks and they have the least mass because they make up protons and neutrons.

Type	Sign	Charge
Up	U	+2/3
Down	D	-1/3
Charm	C	+2/3
Strange	S	-1/3
Top	T	+2/3
Bottom	B	-1/3

Section six: quiz

QUESTIONS

Which is the world’s highest navigable lake?

ANSWERS

Lake Titicaca ( border between Peru and Bolivia )

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Cancer: General Knowledge USA Quiz.

By knowledgeterminal - January 19, 2019

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Sect. 1: USA map with Expressways

Sect 2: World map with oil revenue

Sect. 3: USA Event

1920-1933: Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages

Sect. 4: world Event

1895-1898: The Cuban War of Independence was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain

Sect. 5: Cancer Facts

1. Definition: In a human body, cells get replaced by cells created by the process of cell division. When cell multiplication out of control leads a tumor which is a mass composed of a cluster of such abnormal cells is created. Cancerous tumors formed around healthy cells, affect normal body function.

2. Cancers continue to grow and spread by direct extension or through a process called metastasis, whereby the

3. Cancerous cells go to other parts of the body through the lymphatic or blood vessels and form tumors there (development of secondary malignant growth also called Metastasis)

4. Types: There are more than 100 types of cancer

· Carcinomas in the skin, lungs, breasts, pancreas, and other organs and glands.

· Lymphomas are cancers of lymphocytes.

· Leukemia is cancer of the blood.

· Sarcomas in bone, muscle, fat, bloodvessels, cartilage, or other soft or connective tissues of the body. They are relatively uncommon.

· Melanomas in the cells that make the pigment in skin

5. Cancer has been detected thousands of years ago

6. Cause: Factors like tobacco, obesity, poor diet, lack of physical activity or excessive drinking of alcohol, infections (like Helicobacter pylori, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, human papillomavirus), exposure to ionizing radiation and environmental pollutants, Epstein–Barr virus and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) promote changing the genes of a cell.

7. The most common types of cancer in males are lung cancer. In females, the most common types are breast cancer, colorectal cancer

8. Diagnosis: Cancer specialists are called oncologists. Laboratory studies of blood, urine, and stool can detect abnormalities that may indicate cancer. Imaging tests such as X-rays, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound, and fiber-optic endoscopy can detect the cancer's location and size. In a biopsy tissue sample is removed from the suspected tumor and studied under a microscope.

9. Treatments:

· Surgery to remove tumors, tissue, or areas with cancer cells by Laser surgery, Electrosurgery, Cryosurgery

· Chemotherapy to kill cancer cells by an injection into a vein or as an ointment on skin.

Sect. 6: quiz

What is the basic building block of nervous system?
What is the mixture of potasium nitrate, powered charcoal and sulphur called?

Answers:
Neuron
Gun Powder

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Asia Map

Homer- Iliad and Odyssey: General Knowledge USA Quiz.

By knowledgeterminal - January 12, 2019

Section I: Map: Lakes of USA

Section II: Map: World seas of South Asia

Section III: Event in USA history

Around 1972
The Democratic-Republican Party also called Jefferson's Republican Party was an American political party was formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

Section IV: Event in world history

1300 – 1600
The Renaissance (“rebirth”), lively period of European cultural, artistic, scientific and political fields in the thirteenth century, in which Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli and the Medici family were in the forefront.

Section V: Homer- Iliad and Odyssey

Homer Facts

11. writer of the epic poems of the Iliad and the Odyssey

2. Homer lived around the early 9th or late 8th century BCE

3. in Ionia a city in what is now considered Turkey

4. he's often depicted as being blind Homer

5. belonged to an oral poetry tradition based on the writing style of the poems these stories were passed down through memorization and were sung by a poet for an audience that's right that means all of the Iliad was passed on between different communities in spoken storytelling formats traditionally these stories were likely the length of what could be performed from beginning to end in the course of an evening

6. Homer seems to have stitched a number of stories together into one complex epic story such a poem could only have been performed over the course of many days

7. Iliad was written using initial form of Greek alphabet and contained elements of the writing and this new technique of writing played a part in the development and preservation of such a long and complex work

8. Homer was an oral poet who read out the Iliad to a literate assistant or composed it in writing himself continues to be debated by scholars and historians to this day

Iliad Facts

1. is an ancient Greek epic poem

2. Period: 10 year long siege of the city of Troy by a n alliance of Greek states as a result of a quarrel (Trojan War) between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.

Odyssey Facts

1. sequel to the Iliad
2. Odyssey is a true epic in every sense filled with literary devices like similes metaphors and mythology to tell a story broken into 24 books key
3. themes in this book include hubris pride or arrogance worst-case-scenario stupidity that really drives the action temptation that develops the characters hospitality homecoming it's the journey deception faked where the will of the gods meets the ability of the characters justice and vengeance