1 - Who is Lula da Silva?

The last Emperor of Mexico, executed at the beginning of the 19th century

The left-wing President of Brazil

A high-ranking UN official killed in Bagdad

The only latino in George Bush's cabinet

2 - Which of these countries is not a monarchy?

Norway

Finland

Sweden

Denmark

3 - Who was the last President of the USSR?

Vladimir Putin

Boris Yeltsin

Mikhaïl Gorbachev

Andreï Gromyko

4 - 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

5 - Which language is the mother tongue of the largest number of EU citizens?

French

English

German

Spanish

6 - What are the three regions (Gewesten) of Belgium?

Flanders, Brabant and Luxembourg

Brussels, Luxembourg and Flanders

Flanders, Brabant and Brussels

Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia

7 - What is the capital of Morocco?

Rabat

Casablanca

Marrakesh

Tangiers

8 - 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

9 - 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

10 - Who are the five permanent members of the UN Security Council?

United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, France

China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States

United States, France, Germany, India, Canada

Russia, United States, Germany,India, Japan

11 - Which dynasty rules Jordan?

Hashemite

Saudi

Uthmanli

None, Jordan does not have a monarchy

12 - Which of these names is not closely connected with political theory?

Thomas Hobbes

Karl Marx

John Locke

Friedrich Schiller

13 - 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

14 - In which city is the International Criminal Court situated?

New York

Geneva

The Hague

Rome

15 - When did the Korean War officially end?

1949

1951

1953

It never ended

16 - 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

17 - 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

18 - Where were the 2008 Olympics held?

Beijing, China

Delhi, India

Shanghai, China

Athen, Greece

19 - Which African country is shown below?

Republic of Liberia Federal Republic of Nigeria Republic of Zimbabwe Democratic Republic of the Congo

20 - How long has Fidel Castro ruled Cuba?

20 years

35 years

45 years

63 years

 

  

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