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	Easy World Today Quiz 1 - What is the name of the main guerilla mouvement to fight the Peruvian government in the 80'? FARC ELN MR-8 Sendero Luminoso 2 - What is the most populated Muslim-majority nation today? Indonesia Saudi Arabia Iran Egypt 3 - Who was Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany before Angela Merkel? Gerhard Schröder Hans Chirac Helmut Kohl Edmund Stoiber 4 - 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 5 - 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 6 - 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 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 - Which of these countries is not a monarchy? Norway Finland Sweden Denmark 9 - 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 10 - 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 11 - What are the three regions (Gewesten) of Belgium? Flanders, Brabant and Luxembourg Brussels, Luxembourg and Flanders Flanders, Brabant and Brussels Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia 12 - 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 13 - 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 14 - Which Chinese greater metropolitan area recently passed 20 million inhabitants, becoming China's largest urban center? Beijing Shanghai Hong Kong Guangzhou 15 - Of the following countries, which one is a declared nuclear power? Iran Pakistan Japan Israel 16 - Hillary Clinton is the current American Secretary of State. What would her position be called in most other countries? Defence Minister Foreign Minister Prime Minister Interior Minister 17 - Where were the 2008 Olympics held? Beijing, China Delhi, India Shanghai, China Athen, Greece 18 - In which city is the International Criminal Court situated? New York Geneva The Hague Rome 19 - Which dynasty rules Jordan? Hashemite Saudi Uthmanli None, Jordan does not have a monarchy 20 - By which countries was the European Economic Community, the ancestor of the European Union, established? France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Germany and Belgium France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria Homepage