GK Video Notes: Medicine, Religion, Prizes, Literature, Geography, and Exploration

Vocabulary-style flashcards covering notable figures in medicine, religion, literature, science, geography, and exploration as presented in the video notes.

Hippocrates

Father of Medicine.

Andreas Vesalius

De humani corporis fabrica; first modern anatomy book.

William Harvey

Discovered blood circulation.

Edward Jenner

Developed the smallpox vaccine.

Sigmund Freud

Founder of psychoanalysis.

Carl Linnaeus

Creator of the binomial nomenclature in taxonomy.

Bible

Old Testament and New Testament.

Quran

Holy book of Islam.

Torah

Central text of Judaism.

Hadith

Sayings of Prophet Muhammad.

Confucius

Chinese philosopher.

Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)

Founder of Buddhism.

Nobel Prize

Prize founded by Alfred Nobel (Sweden, 1895).

Nobel Prize categories

Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, Economic Sciences.

Marie Curie

First woman Nobel laureate.

Academy Awards

Film awards (Oscars).

Grammy Awards

Awards for achievement in music.

Pulitzer Prize

Prestigious prize for journalism, literature, and music.

Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes; Don Quixote (Spain).

Dumas

French author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.

Zola

Émile Zola; Germinal (France, Naturalism).

Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen; A Doll’s House (Norway).

Chekhov

Anton Chekhov; The Cherry Orchard (Russia).

Beckett

Samuel Beckett; Waiting for Godot (Ireland/France).

Vatican City

Smallest country in the world.

Russia

Largest country in the world.

India

Most populous country (recently surpassed China).

Tokyo

Most populous city (metro).

France

Country with most time zones (overseas territories).

Marco Polo

Venetian explorer who reached Asia.

Christopher Columbus

Made the 1492 voyage; connected Europe to the Americas.

Ferdinand Magellan

First circumnavigation of the Earth.

Vasco da Gama

Sea route to India.

Thomas Edison

Light bulb and phonograph inventions.

Alexander Graham Bell

Invented the telephone.

Wright brothers

First powered flight in 1903.