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    Who is known as the 'saint of the gutter's?
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    Which one of the following statements about the Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793) is correct?
    Solution
    Olympe de Gouges (7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793), born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience. She was an outspoken advocate against the slave trade in the French colonies in 1788. In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality.
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    Who among the following used the term Industrial Revolution for the first time in English to describe the changes that occurred in the British industrial development between 1760 and 1820?
    Solution
    Industrial revolution is a broad term used to define the revolutionary changes which occurred in Great Britain (later spread to other parts of the world) starting from the 1760s to between 1820s and 1840s which changed the manufacturing processes forever. Arnold Toynbee used the term Industrial Revolution for the first time in English to describe the changes in the British Industrial development during the said period.
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    The Julian Calendar introduced by Julius Caesar was the calendar that most countries used in the West for a long time. But the Julian calendar erred because it introduces an error of $$1$$ day every $$128$$ years. So that, in every $$128$$ years the tropical year shifts one day backward. Who rectified this error and created the modern calendar?
    Solution
    Pope Gregory XII was bishop of Castello in the Papal States (1380). The error in the Julian calendar was solved by Pope Gregory XII.
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    The currency of a country is the money it uses. Yon is the currency of ______.
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    We all love to eat pizzas. Of which country is pizza a traditional dish? 

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    Our currency in rupee. What is the currency of Thailand?
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    • Thailand is a country in Southeast Asia. The Thai Baht is the currency of the Kingdom of Thailand.
    • Thailand’s central bank, the Bank of Thailand, manages the currency and issues it in banknote denominations.
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    The explorer, Marco Polo, spent many years in the court of this emperor, who was the grandson of Genghis Khan and also the founder of the Yuan dynasty in China. who was he?

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    • Kublai Khan was a Mongolian leader who made an impact on China, not only through conquest but also by ruling successfully. He was the greatest of the Mongol emperors after Genghis Khan and founder of the Yuan Dynasty in China.
    • In 1275, Marco Polo, a Venetian explorer, visited China and a relationship of trust was formed between the two. Polo’s reports on the culture of China were new to Western Europeans and sparked further interest in eastern world exploration.
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    The French Revolution resulted in the storming of the Bastille and subsequently the overthrow of the French Monarchy. In which year did the storming of the Bastille occur?
    Solution
    On 14th July 1789, the Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France. It was after this violent attack that led to the French Revolution. There were around 1000 men who participated in the attack.
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    The first recorded landfills were found in $$3000 BC$$ which comprised waste that was placed in a pit and covered with dirt at different levels. Name the country in which it was found.
    Solution
    • A landfill is an area that is used to dispose off solid waste material.
    • Archaeological evidence of first landfills dates back to 3000 BC at Crete in Greece where waste was deposited in pits that were subsequently covered up with earth when full.
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