The World Quiz > Easy World Today Quiz

	Easy World Today Quiz 1 - 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 2 - Who was the last President of the USSR? Vladimir Putin Boris Yeltsin Mikhaïl Gorbachev Andreï Gromyko 3 - Who was the only US President to have headed a labor union? Gerald Ford Bill Clinton Ronald Reagan Jimmy Carter 4 - 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 5 - Who was Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany before Angela Merkel? Gerhard Schröder Hans Chirac Helmut Kohl Edmund Stoiber 6 - What was the official Russian court language during the reign of Nicholas II? Russian Siberian French English 7 - How long has Fidel Castro ruled Cuba? 20 years 35 years 45 years 63 years 8 - 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 9 - 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 10 - Which of these names is not closely connected with political theory? Thomas Hobbes Karl Marx John Locke Friedrich Schiller 11 - 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 12 - What is the currency of South Korea? The Yuan The Yen The Won The South Korean Dollar 13 - Which dynasty rules Jordan? Hashemite Saudi Uthmanli None, Jordan does not have a monarchy 14 - 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 15 - 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 16 - In which African country did the US briefly send peacekeepers in 2003? Liberia Congo Ivory Coast Zimbabwe 17 - 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 18 - What is the population of the United States (in 2003)? 95 million 160 million 215 million 290 million 19 - 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 20 - Which of those countries gained its independence definitively the first? Canada Belgium Greece Brazil Homepage