Hardest World Today Quiz

 

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

2 - How were French departements originally numbered?

3 - With which nation did Japan recently conclude a Free Trade agreement?

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

5 - 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?

6 - Which country contains the greatest number of speakers of Welsh, after the UK?

7 - Roughly how many French soldiers are currently enforcing the cease-fire in Ivory Coast, as of early 2005?

8 - Which of those ex-SSR has the smallest Russian minority (in percentage of population)?

9 - The flag below is the official flag of two countries. Which?

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

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

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

13 - 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?

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

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

16 - What is the second most populated member of the Commonwealth (after India)?

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

18 - 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?

19 - Where is the Asian Development Bank headquartered?

20 - Which of these areas is not under dispute between China and Russia?

 

  

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