1 - 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

2 - Who are the five permanent members of the UN Security Council?

United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, France

China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States

United States, France, Germany, India, Canada

Russia, United States, Germany,India, Japan

3 - 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

4 - 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

5 - Who is the current president of Egypt?

Abbas Al-Menoufiyah

Said Balain

Anwar Sadat

Hosni Mubarak

6 - 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

7 - 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

8 - What is the name of the main guerilla mouvement to fight the Peruvian government in the 80'?

FARC

ELN

MR-8

Sendero Luminoso

9 - Which dynasty rules Jordan?

Hashemite

Saudi

Uthmanli

None, Jordan does not have a monarchy

10 - Which of these SE Asian countries is not a member of ASEAN, the regional group for SE Asia?

Vietnam

Myanmar

East Timor

Brunei

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

1919

1936

1947

1958

12 - Who was the last President of the USSR?

Vladimir Putin

Boris Yeltsin

Mikhaïl Gorbachev

Andreï Gromyko

13 - George Bush and Tony Blair are famous for their closeness. To which of the following pairs have they been compared?

George Bush Senior and John Major

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Tatcher

Winston Churchill and Dwight Eisenhower

Ian Duncan Smith and Bill Clinton

14 - What are, in order, the most populated nations today?

China, India, the United States

The United States, China, Japan

China, the United States, Japan

India, China, Brazil

15 - What current American ally has never been at war with the USA?

Great Britain

France

Spain

Italy

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 - What are the three regions (Gewesten) of Belgium?

Flanders, Brabant and Luxembourg

Brussels, Luxembourg and Flanders

Flanders, Brabant and Brussels

Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia

18 - Before Chirac and Schroeder, other French Presidents and German Chancellors famously worked together. Of the following, which formed a comparable team?

François Mitterand and Helmut Kohl

Valerie Giscard d'Estaing and Helmut Kohl

François Mitterand and Konrad Adenauer

Charles de Gaulle and Gerhard Schroeder

19 - 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

20 - 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

 

  

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