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1.- Portugal fought wars in Africa in the 70´ to defeat pro-independence rebellions in its African colonies of… A.- Morocco and Mauritania B.- Senegal and Cameroon C.- Ethiopia and Somalia D.- Angola and Mozambique

Questionnaire 1968 1989

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Page 1: Questionnaire 1968 1989

1.- Portugal fought wars in Africa in the 70´ to defeat pro-independence rebellions in its African colonies of…

A.- Morocco and MauritaniaB.- Senegal and CameroonC.- Ethiopia and SomaliaD.- Angola and Mozambique

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2.- In Spain, in February 1981, a couple added by military men and policemen happened to…

A.- Abolish the young democracy and to establish an authoritarian right-wing regimeB.- Abolish the young democracy and to establish a communist regimeC.- Take off Spain from EU and NATOD.- Get the independence for Catalonia and Basque Country

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3.- The Italian prime minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped and murdered on May 1978 by…

A.- A fascist terrorist group called Patriot BrigadesB.- A pro-independence terrorist group called Padanian BrigadesC.- A communist terrorist group called Red BrigadesD.- A Jihadist terrorist group called Muhammad´s Brigades

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4.- The Munich Olympic Games of 1972 were dramatic because…

A.- An earthquake caused eleven athletes diedB.- A fire in the Olympic village caused eleven Israeli athletes diedC.- Eleven marathon runners died for having consumed an illegal and dangerous drugD.- A terrorist Palestinian group killed eleven Israeli athletes 

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5.- The end of the communist dictatorship and the arrival of democracy to Poland were boosted by…

A.- The UN and International Amnesty activitiesB.- The activities of the union leader Lech Walesa and the Pope John Paul IIC.- The spectacular economic development and the Polish people ´s travels abroadD.- The pressures from the Warsaw Pact and Soviet Union

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6.- The German Prime Minister Willy Brand had to resign when it was discovered that…

A.- He did not pay the maintenance for his two sons to his first wife, Helga SchwenteigerB.- He had beaten his second wife, Eva Müller, after a domestic quarrelC.- His personal assistant, Gunter Guillaume was really a spy at the service of the Soviet UnionD.- He had spied on a journalist called Helmut Canaris who was writing a series of political articles against him

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7.- Romania had a certain support from the democratic western countries in the 70´ because…

A.- The Ceausescu’s Romanian government gave to its citizens more freedom than other communist countriesB.- The Ceausescu’s Romanian government allowed the publishing of books and magazins from Western European countriesC.- The Ceausescu’s government did not follow strictly the directives from Soviet UnionD.- The Ceausescu’s government called free election on 1984

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9.- The Charter 77 was…

A.- A document signed in 1977 by the prime ministers of the Union European countries asking for the end of Berlin Wall

B.- A document signed by more than 200 Czechoslovakian intellectuals (among them, Vaclav Havel) asking for a democracy in Czechoslovakia

C.- A request from 77 Russian intellectuals for the inclusion of their books and works in the Moscow universitiesD.- A request from 77 Swedish women asking for right of vote for women from all European countries

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10.- Tansu Çiller was famous because…

A.- She was the first Turkish woman who acceded to a Turkish university in 1993B.- She was the first Turkish woman who participated in Olympic Games in 1993C.- She was the first black woman who got to be prime minister in an European countryD.- She was the first Turkish woman who was prime minister in her country

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12.- The Colonels s´ Dictatorship in Greece (1967-1974) is called like that because…

A.- It was established by some pro-soviet colonels of communist ideology who did a coupB.- It was established by some pro-USA colonels of right-wing ideology who did a coupC.- A group of colonels entrenched themselves in the centre of Athens to defend democracy against the pro-coup faction within the armyD.- The pro-coup faction within the government dressed up as veteran colonels celebrating a commemorative dinner to go unnoticed

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12.- The Bulgarian-American artist Christo Javecheff is famous because..

A.- He paints his paintings with cheap markers and pencils of school useB.- He paints his paintings with liquid foods such as milk, wine, oils, orange juice, etc.C.- He wraps up great buildings or constructions as if they were huge packagesD.- He climbs the facades of buildings to spread from the flat roofs his huge canvasses

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13.- The Hyperrealism is known for

A.- Representing the reality in a detailed and meticulous way, resulting its paintings similar to photosB.- Representing the reality in a detailed and meticulous way, but using unreal colorsC.- Representing the reality in a detailed and meticulous way, but like in a nightmareD.- Representing the reality in a detailed and meticulous way, but reversed, the sky down and the earth up

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15.- The English-Irish painter Francis Bacon painted a series of paintings that represented:

A.- The old people´s death in a miserable elderly residential homeB.- His mother´s death who suffered a cancer in bones that distorted her figure C.- His brother´s death run over by a lorryD.- His lover´s death who suicide eating pills for sleeping and alcohol

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15.- The French-Greek cinema director Constantin Costa-Gavras was well known because

A.- His adventures movies similar to the Indiana Jones ´onesB.- His romantic comedies similar to the Willy Wilder´s onesC.- His philosophical movies similar to the Ingrid Bergman´s onesD.- His movies of political and historical contents

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16.- The organic architecture is known because A.- The use of steel and concrete in great skyscrapers with glass facadesB.- The buildings built over pillars that allow the people´s and vehicles passC.- The harmony between the human and natural environmentD.- The construction of buildings using disposal materials

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17.- The famous Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev died in 1993 being 54 years old because..

A.- A heroin overdoseB.- He was shot by the customs Soviet police when he tried to defect from RussiaC.- He caught AIDSD.- He died in a plane accident when his dance Company went to perform in the Scala of Milan

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18.-  The  Hungarian  writer  Nobel  Prize  Imre  Kertesz  (2002)  wrote  genial  works  about  a traumatic experience of his teens in the 40´s of the 20th century:

A.- He was prisoner in several Nazi concentration camps because he was JewB.- He saw to die his mother in an ally bombing in the WWIIC.- When he was left an orphan from his father he entered in a gang of young criminalsD.- He realized he was an adopted child

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19.- The Portuguese novelist and Nobel Prize Jose Saramago provoked a great polemic in his country when he published in 1991 a novel…

A.- about two young homosexual peopleB.- that criticized strongly the Lisbon bourgeoisieC.- about Jesus ChristD.- that praised the Cuban dictatorship

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20.- The Romanian philosopher and historian Mircea Eliade is considered the founder of…

A.- The classic economic liberalismB.- The European social democracyC.- The history of myths and religionsD.- The Existentialism

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21.- “We are condemned to be free” it is a sentence from…

A.- HeideggerB.- HusserlC.- Erich FrommD.- Jean Paul Sartre

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22.- Who was the Jewish philosopher who attended the trial against the Nazi Adolf Eichmann and she later stated that the biggest moral problem was the “Banality of Evil” A.- Hannah ArendtB.- Simone de BeauvoirC.- Celia AmorósE.- Simone Weil

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23.- Indicate among them a postmodern philosopher

A.- Ortega y GassetB.- Giles DeleuzeC.- WittgensteinD.- Albert Camus

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24.- The Nobel Prize Francis Crick, who discovered the structure of the DNA molecule, wrote a book about the human conscience titled…

A.- Mind and BrainB.- The scientific search for soulC.- Artificial IntelligenceD.- Psicology of Mind

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25.- In wich Stanley Kubrik´s film is denounced the social violence through a young psychopath’s story fascinated by the Beethoven´s music?

A.- Death in VeniceB.- A Space OdysseyC.- Jeremiah JhonsonD.- A Clockwork Orange

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26.- The Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran was interested in his works mainly in…

A..- happiness and successB.- Political problems and resurgence of nationalismC.- Corrption and ReligionD.- truth and lie

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27.- This famous singer from The Beatles was killed in 1980 in New York:

A,. Ringo StarrB.- John LennonC.- Bob MarleyD.- Paul McCartney

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28.- Several years before the fall of the Berlin Wall it was published a rock record titled “The Wall” from the Rock group…

A..- SupertrampB.- The RamonesC.- Pink FloydD.- Eagles

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29.- In the same year of the fall of the Berlin Wall it was got to clone an embryo of a

A.- GoatB.- SheepC.- FlyE.- Bee

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

22.- The Galileo system is a scientific and technological program designed by the European Union not to depend on USA in…

A.- the design of fighter-bombersB.- The navigation guided by satellite and GPSC.- The investigation about human genomeD.- The investigation about stem cells

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22.- CERN is an European organization that manages:

A.- One of the biggest particle accelerator in the worldB.- One of the biggest space laboratories in the worldC.- One of the biggest space telescope in the worldD.- One of the biggest electronic microscope in the world

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23.- The Europea Space Agency launches many of its rockets from…

A.- Kazajstan in Central AsiaB.- Cape Canaveral, in FloridaC.- French Guaiana in South AmericaE..- Svalbard islands, near Arctic Circle

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24.- Many of the rockets launched by the European Space Agency ara called:

A.- Tycho BraheB.- GalileoC.- EuropeD.- Ariane

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25.- The Bristish physicist Peter Higgs won the Physics Nobel Prize in 2013 because…

A.- CERN detected the Higgis´s boson, particle foreseen by him in 1964B.- Craig Venter finished of sequencing the human genome using a computer program designed by Higss in 1978C.- This same year a cancer was detected in Higss and they wanted to award him before his deathD.- He published a brilliant article in “Physical Review” that corrected the Einstein´s especial relativity theory

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26.- The neccessary fuel to started the fusion energy is:

A.- Uranium and PlutoniumB.- Petroleum and natural gasC.- Deuterium and TritiumD.- Any organic rest from animal or vegetable origin

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27.- The Hungarian physicist Dennis Gabor was awarded with the Nobel Prize in 1971 because his Discovery of holography, that consists of…

A..- Reaching the absolute zero (-273ºC) to get superconductivity in metals B.- Transmitting thousands phone calls simsimultaneously through optical fiberC.- Identifying genes in DNA through microscopes with tunnel effectD.- Creating 3-D images

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28.- The computerized axial tomography scan (CAT scan) is a technology that allows…

A.- To detect supernovas with the Hubble telescopeB.- To detect black holes with the Hubble telescopeC.- To detect neutrón stars with the Hubble telescopeD.- To visualize cuts or sections of the inner human body for medical purposes

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29.- The worry about the ozone layer hole began In the middle of the 80´s. This problem can provoke…

A.- The increase of cancer of skin and cataract in eyesB.- The increase of epidemics of cholera in the countries with insufficient drain systemsC.- The increase of heart attacksD. The increase of births of Down´s syndrome children

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31.- Internet was born

A.- in 1979 from a communication net between computers in the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)B.- In 1969 from an American communication military net between computers called ARPANETC.- In 1989 from a communication net between computers belonging to CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)D.- In 1959 from a communication net between computers belonging to the Soviet intelligence agency called KGB