The World Quiz > Easy World Today Quiz

	Easy World Today Quiz 1 - What's the name of Germany's lower house of parliament? Bundesrat Bundestag Bundesversammlung Bundeskanzler 2 - In which city is the International Criminal Court situated? New York Geneva The Hague Rome 3 - 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 4 - What is the capital of Morocco? Rabat Casablanca Marrakesh Tangiers 5 - 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 6 - 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 7 - Which of these names is not closely connected with political theory? Thomas Hobbes Karl Marx John Locke Friedrich Schiller 8 - 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 9 - In which African country did the US briefly send peacekeepers in 2003? Liberia Congo Ivory Coast Zimbabwe 10 - When did the United Kingdom grant independence to India and Pakistan? 1919 1936 1947 1958 11 - Who was Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany before Angela Merkel? Gerhard Schröder Hans Chirac Helmut Kohl Edmund Stoiber 12 - How long has Fidel Castro ruled Cuba? 20 years 35 years 45 years 63 years 13 - Which two countries are the only neighbours of Costa Rica? Mexico and Canada Panama and Mexico Nicaragua and Canada Panama and Nicaragua 14 - What is the most populated Muslim-majority nation today? Indonesia Saudi Arabia Iran Egypt 15 - 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 16 - Which Latin American country defaulted (failed to pay its debts) in 2001, provoking a severe economic crisis? Argentina Brazil Mexico Venezuela 17 - In which of the following countries is a Maoist guerilla challenging the governement? Nepal Thailand Sri Lanka Argentina 18 - 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 19 - Which of these SE Asian countries is not a member of ASEAN, the regional group for SE Asia? Vietnam Myanmar East Timor Brunei 20 - Which of those countries gained its independence definitively the first? Canada Belgium Greece Brazil Homepage