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9931
Robert Edwards was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the development of:
A. In vitro fertilization (IVF)
B. Cloning
C. Stem cell therapy
D. Gene therapy
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Edwards developed human IVF therapy, which led to the birth of the first 'test-tube baby', Louise Brown, in 1978.
9932
Who is the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes (Chemistry 1954, Peace 1962)?
A. Linus Pauling
B. Albert Einstein
C. Marie Curie
D. Frederick Sanger
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Pauling won the Chemistry prize for his work on the nature of the chemical bond and the Peace prize for his campaign against nuclear weapons testing.
9933
Which German author wrote 'Faust', a tragic play in two parts?
A. Schiller
B. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
C. Thomas Mann
D. Hermann Hesse
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Goethe's 'Faust' is considered by many to be the greatest work of German literature.
9934
'The Kite Runner' is the debut novel of which Afghan-American author?
A. Mohsin Hamid
B. Khaled Hosseini
C. Jhumpa Lahiri
D. Arundhati Roy
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Published in 2003, 'The Kite Runner' tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul.
9935
Who is the author of the epic poem 'The Divine Comedy'?
A. Petrarch
B. Boccaccio
C. Dante Alighieri
D. Machiavelli
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'The Divine Comedy' is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, widely considered one of the greatest works of world literature.
9936
Who wrote *The Brothers Karamazov*?
A. Leo Tolstoy
B. Ivan Turgenev
C. Fyodor Dostoevsky
D. Maxim Gorky
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*The Brothers Karamazov* is one of Dostoevsky’s greatest novels.
9937
Who wrote the famous Spanish novel *Don Quixote*?
A. Lope de Vega
B. Miguel de Cervantes
C. Federico García Lorca
D. Jorge Manrique
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*Don Quixote* is considered one of the greatest works of Western literature.
9938
Which English playwright is known for works like *Hamlet*, *Macbeth*, and *Othello*?
A. John Milton
B. William Shakespeare
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Christopher Marlowe
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Shakespeare is considered one of the greatest playwrights in history.
9939
*The Odyssey*, one of the greatest epic poems, is attributed to which ancient poet?
A. Sophocles
B. Euripides
C. Homer
D. Virgil
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Homer is traditionally credited with writing *The Odyssey*.
9940
Occupy Wall Street was a protest movement that began in 2011 against:
A. War in Iraq
B. Economic inequality and corporate greed
C. Climate change
D. Gun control
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Occupy Wall Street was a protest movement that began on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district, against economic inequality.