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	Easy World Today Quiz 1 - 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 2 - Which Latin American country defaulted (failed to pay its debts) in 2001, provoking a severe economic crisis? Argentina Brazil Mexico Venezuela 3 - Which of these names is not closely connected with political theory? Thomas Hobbes Karl Marx John Locke Friedrich Schiller 4 - 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 5 - 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 6 - What is the population of the United States (in 2003)? 95 million 160 million 215 million 290 million 7 - Who is the current President of Mexico? He was elected in 2000, breaking the seven-decade monopoly of the Institutional Revolutionary Party on Mexico's government. Francisco Labastida Esteban Loaiza Vicente Fox Cuauhtemoc Cardenas 8 - Who was the only US President to have headed a labor union? Gerald Ford Bill Clinton Ronald Reagan Jimmy Carter 9 - 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 10 - What is the currency of South Korea? The Yuan The Yen The Won The South Korean Dollar 11 - Which language is the mother tongue of the largest number of EU citizens? French English German Spanish 12 - 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 13 - Who is the current president of Egypt? Abbas Al-Menoufiyah Said Balain Anwar Sadat Hosni Mubarak 14 - Who was the last President of the USSR? Vladimir Putin Boris Yeltsin Mikhaïl Gorbachev Andreï Gromyko 15 - Which of those countries does not have a dollar as its currency? Canada Taiwan Zimbabwe South Africa 16 - Where were the 2008 Olympics held? Beijing, China Delhi, India Shanghai, China Athen, Greece 17 - 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 18 - Which two countries are the only neighbours of Costa Rica? Mexico and Canada Panama and Mexico Nicaragua and Canada Panama and Nicaragua 19 - Which of those countries gained its independence definitively the first? Canada Belgium Greece Brazil 20 - 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 Homepage