1 - What is the FARC?

The Brazialian air-controller trade union, who went on a two-month-long strike in 2002

An extremist British animal right organisation, responsible for the violent destruction of labotaries

The ruling political party in South Korea

Colombia's biggest guerilla organisation

2 - What is the capital of Morocco?

Rabat

Casablanca

Marrakesh

Tangiers

3 - Who is pictured below?

The ex-Japanese Prime Minister, Koizumi Junichiro The Emperor of Japan, Akihito The South Korean president, Roh Moo-hyun Ex-Chinese President Jiang Zemin

4 - Which two countries are the only neighbours of Costa Rica?

Mexico and Canada

Panama and Mexico

Nicaragua and Canada

Panama and Nicaragua

5 - In which country, currently divided in two parts, did the prospect of adhesion to the EU fueling the first serious reunification talks since partition?

Croatia

Ukraine

Georgia

Cyprus

6 - What is the only catholic-majority country in Eastern Asia?

South Korea

Japan

Malaysia

The Philippines

7 - 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

8 - The tower below, currently in construction, is the tallest building in the world. In which city is it located?

Tapei, Taiwan Dubai, UAE Chicaco, United States Shangai, China

9 - Before his election as Brazilian President, which have been the former professional activities of Luis Ignacio 'Lula' da Silva?

Senator, labor union leader, lawyer

Truck driver, labor union spokesman, minister of labor

Congressman, fisherman, journalist

Factory worker, labor union leader, congressman

10 - Who was the only US President to have headed a labor union?

Gerald Ford

Bill Clinton

Ronald Reagan

Jimmy Carter

11 - What is the population of the United States (in 2003)?

95 million

160 million

215 million

290 million

12 - Who is David Kelly?

A British WMD expert

The leader of the Unionist in Northern Ireland

An American accused of collaborating with Al Qaeda captured in Afghanistan

The teenager behind the Slammer virus

13 - 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

14 - What's the name of Germany's lower house of parliament?

Bundesrat

Bundestag

Bundesversammlung

Bundeskanzler

15 - Which of the followings is the only country in Southeast Asia that has never been ruled by a western country?

Thailand

Philippines

Indonesia

East Timor

16 - Of the following statements concerning Zimbabwe, which was not true in 2003?

Mugabe committed several thousand more troops to the Congo civil war

EU diplomatic sanctions on the country were renewed

Newly-introduced laws forced much of the press to close

A train crash caused over forty victims

17 - When did the United Kingdom grant independence to India and Pakistan?

1919

1936

1947

1958

18 - Which of these names is not closely connected with political theory?

Thomas Hobbes

Karl Marx

John Locke

Friedrich Schiller

19 - Who is Lula da Silva?

The last Emperor of Mexico, executed at the beginning of the 19th century

The left-wing President of Brazil

A high-ranking UN official killed in Bagdad

The only latino in George Bush's cabinet

20 - Where were the 2008 Olympics held?

Beijing, China

Delhi, India

Shanghai, China

Athen, Greece

 

  

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