Hardest World Today Quiz

 

1 - What happened to Chechen rebel Akhmed Zakayev in November 2003?

2 - In what country or U.S. state was the world's first oil well sunk in 1859?

3 - In 2002, Lula da Silva won the Brazilian presidential election. What other candidate did he beat in the second round?

4 - Which French daily was accused of conflict of interests and biased objectivity in a best-seller published in 2003?

5 - What is the only African country with a daily German newspaper?

6 - Where is the Asian Development Bank headquartered?

7 - who is the president of Mali as of june 2003

8 - Which Canadian city claims it is the coldest city with a population of over 500,000?

9 - Who were the two vice-Presidents of the Prodi European Commission?

10 - During Putin's first term, Russia re-adopted the old Soviet national anthem, although with new lyrics. Why had the original post-Soviet anthem fallen out of favor?

11 - In what country did carbon dioxide gas building up at the bottom of Lake Nyos bubbled out of the lake and killed some 1,700 villagers living nearby in 1986?

12 - Name the highest political office in Hong Kong.

13 - Of the following countries, which intervened in the Congolese Civil War?

14 - How were French departements originally numbered?

15 - Which balkan nation has failed to elect a president three times in 2002-2003 due to insufficent voter turnout?

16 - Which is the northernmost Chinese province?

17 - Who is the president of the main Japanese opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan?

18 - Which Dutch Prime Minister resigned in 2002, along with his governement, following the publication of a report accusing his governement's mismanagement of Dutch peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia of having provoked the Srebrenica massacre?

19 - Which country is shown in red below?

20 - Who was the only president in U.S. history to fill that office without having been elected either President or Vice-President?

 

  

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