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	Easy World Today Quiz 1 - What do the countries colored in green below have in common? They are the members of the Francophonie They are the founding members of the Organisation of Coffee-Producing Countries They were the first countries to ratify the treaty abolishing anti-personal landmines They are the only countries currently ahead of their Kyoto protocol targets 2 - What is the capital of Morocco? Rabat Casablanca Marrakesh Tangiers 3 - Who was the last President of the USSR? Vladimir Putin Boris Yeltsin Mikhaïl Gorbachev Andreï Gromyko 4 - When did the Korean War officially end? 1949 1951 1953 It never ended 5 - Which dynasty rules Jordan? Hashemite Saudi Uthmanli None, Jordan does not have a monarchy 6 - What's the name of Germany's lower house of parliament? Bundesrat Bundestag Bundesversammlung Bundeskanzler 7 - Who was the only President of the United States to serve more than two terms? Harry Truman Franklin D. Roosevelt Dwight D. Eisenhower Theodore Roosevelt 8 - Which of the following affirmations is NOT true for Nigeria in 2003? It launched its first satellite, on a Russian rocket A woman was condemned to death by stoning for adultery It committed troops to a West African peacekeping force in Ivory Coast The election of the first female governor, provoking violent protests in Lagos 9 - Which of these countries is not a monarchy? Norway Finland Sweden Denmark 10 - To which ethnic and linguistic minority group belong Spain's most active terrorist group, once even plotting (unsucessfully) to kidnap Antonio Banderas? the Catalans the Basques the Gallicans the Andalucians 11 - Which Latin American country defaulted (failed to pay its debts) in 2001, provoking a severe economic crisis? Argentina Brazil Mexico Venezuela 12 - Who is the current president of Egypt? Abbas Al-Menoufiyah Said Balain Anwar Sadat Hosni Mubarak 13 - Before becoming President of Russia, what post did Vladimir Putin occupy? Governor of the Siberian province of Novosibirsk Ambassador to Kazakhstan Director of Russia's biggest energy company KGB agent 14 - Of the following statements concerning the American base in Guantanamo Bay, which is FALSE? As of November 2003, approximatively 650 'illegal combatants' were held in the base Bill Clinton considered using the base to temporarily host Kosovo refugees Although the US pays a rent of around 4000$/year for it, the Cuban government refuses to cash the check The United States gained control of it in the last years of the Cuban Civil War, just before Castro's accession to power 15 - What is the population of the United States (in 2003)? 95 million 160 million 215 million 290 million 16 - Where is the British Island of Diego Garcia, home to a common US-UK military base, located? Eastern Mediterranean Indian Ocean Between Indonesia and Australia In the gulf of Guinea 17 - Where were the 2008 Olympics held? Beijing, China Delhi, India Shanghai, China Athen, Greece 18 - Which language is the mother tongue of the largest number of EU citizens? French English German Spanish 19 - When did the United Kingdom grant independence to India and Pakistan? 1919 1936 1947 1958 20 - In which African country did the US briefly send peacekeepers in 2003? Liberia Congo Ivory Coast Zimbabwe Homepage