General Knowledge - Very Difficult III

A German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and identity were a central element in the development of the Haskalah, or 'Jewish Enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

What country is closest to Australia?

An indigenous hunter-gatherer peoples of the Great Lakes Region in Central Africa, called Twa, or “Pygmies" (though this is considered derogatory, particularly by the Twa themselves). They are also known as the ____.

In the late 16th century, we moved away from a heliocentric understanding to a __centric version of our solar system.

A religious ethno group of people who practice Zoroastrianism. They were targeted by ISIS (Daesh) as devil-worshippers. Daesh committed genocide against them in 2014-2015

Tawusi Malek is a central figure within the religion of the above mentioned people. He is also called the ____ God.

Thus spoke _______ (1883) a famous book by Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche was born 15 October 1844, Röcken Germany and died 25th August 1900 (age 55 years) in Weimar, Germany. What did he die off?

A living French Philosopher whose work is heavily informed by philosophical applications of mathematics, in particular set theory and category theory. Communist, major ideas touch upon concepts of being, event and subject.

A French philosopher, novelist and literary critic. Considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy, was an existentialist.

A famous quote from the above philosopher, "hell is _____"

A French philosopher, wrote major feminist text, The Second Sex (1949) which was banned by the Vatican.

French-Algerian absurdist who wrote The Stranger (1942), The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) and The Plague (1947).

A far-right, neo-Nazi, ultranationalist criminal organisation and former political party in Greece. ______ rose to prominence during Greece's financial crisis of 2009, becoming the third most popular party in the Greek parliament in the January 2015 election.

An Anatolian Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of Bronze Age West Asia. Possibly originating from beyond the Black Sea, they settled in modern-day Turkey in the early 2nd millennium BC.

A branch of physics that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, entropy, and the physical properties of matter and radiation.

An umbrella term for the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and their affiliate in the United States, the Fenian Brotherhood. They were secret political organisations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish Republic. Today, this term is used as a slur for the Irish.

An ethnic group of people who live in northern Sudan and southern Egypt.

The founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire.Hailing from Persis, he brought the Achaemenid dynasty to power by defeating the Median Empire and embracing all of the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East

________ Greece (or the ______civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC. It represents the first advanced and distinctively Greek civilization in mainland Greece with its palatial states, urban organization, works of art, and writing system

Saddam Hussein's two sons, ___ (39) and Qusay (37), were killed by US troops in Mosul, Iraq on 22nd July 2003.

The most feared prison in Iran

The Gang of Four was a Maoist political faction composed of four Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. They came to prominence during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) and were later charged with a series of treasonous crimes due to their responsibility for the excesses and failures in the Cultural Revolution. The gang's leading figure was _____ (Mao Zedong's last wife). The other members were Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen

The Wolfe Tone Rebellion was a major uprising in Ireland in ____ against British rule. The rebellion was led by Theobald Wolfe Tone, a barrister and Irish revolutionary

A 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.

The Cattle Raid of Cooley, or more commonly, the ___ is an epic from Irish mythology. It is often called "the Irish Iliad".

A range of revolutionary and reactionary ideas in left-wing and right-wing ideologies that call for the drastic intensification of capitalist growth, technological change, infrastructure sabotage and other processes of social change to destabilize existing systems and create radical social transformations.

The last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed in 476 by ______ a Germanic general. This marked the end of the Western Roman Empire and the beginning of the Early Middle Ages in Europe.

The Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the _______ Empire, fell in 1453 when the Ottoman Turks captured Constantinople. The fall of the Eastern Roman Empire marked the end of the Roman Empire, which began in 27BC

The four official languages of Switzerland are German, French, Italian, and ______.