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__1__ Who was the first to apply the telescope to the study of the skies?
A Kepler
B Copernicus
C Galileo
D Newton
__2__ Whose discovery of the law of the universal gravitation is the most important of all his achievement in physics?
A Kepler
B Issac Newton
C Galileo
D Copernicus
__3__The three biggest newspapers are of the following except ___.
A New York Times
B Washington Post
C Los Angeles Times
D Reader’s Digest
__4__Metropolitan Museum is in__.
A Washington D.C.
B Boston
C New York
D Philadelphia
__5__The New Frontier was put forward by __.
A Kennedy
B Johnson
C Nixon
D Benjamin Franklin
__6__Who resigned because of Watergate Scandal, the first president to do so in American history?
A Kennedy
B Johnson
C Richard Nixon
D Truman
__7__Empire State Building is in___.
A Chicago
B New York
C Washington D.C.
D Detroit
__8__ “Knowledge is power.” Was said by__.
A Francis Bacon
B Shakespeare
C Thomas Hobbes
D John Locke
__9__Which of the following philosophers believed that man is selfish by nature?
A John Locke
B Descartes
C Pierre Gassendi
D Thomas Hobbes
__10__Jazz, a great contribution to the world popular music, was originated from the music of __.
A Indians
B Spanish
C Negroes
D Portuguese