The World Quiz > Easy World Today Quiz

	Easy World Today Quiz 1 - Who was Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany before Angela Merkel? Gerhard Schröder Hans Chirac Helmut Kohl Edmund Stoiber 2 - Who was the only President of the United States to serve more than two terms? Harry Truman Franklin D. Roosevelt Dwight D. Eisenhower Theodore Roosevelt 3 - Which of those countries does not have a dollar as its currency? Canada Taiwan Zimbabwe South Africa 4 - 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 5 - Who was the last President of the USSR? Vladimir Putin Boris Yeltsin Mikhaïl Gorbachev Andreï Gromyko 6 - Which Latin American country defaulted (failed to pay its debts) in 2001, provoking a severe economic crisis? Argentina Brazil Mexico Venezuela 7 - In which of the following countries is a Maoist guerilla challenging the governement? Nepal Thailand Sri Lanka Argentina 8 - What is the currency of South Korea? The Yuan The Yen The Won The South Korean Dollar 9 - How long has Fidel Castro ruled Cuba? 20 years 35 years 45 years 63 years 10 - Which of these SE Asian countries is not a member of ASEAN, the regional group for SE Asia? Vietnam Myanmar East Timor Brunei 11 - In which city is the International Criminal Court situated? New York Geneva The Hague Rome 12 - When did the United Kingdom grant independence to India and Pakistan? 1919 1936 1947 1958 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 - 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 15 - Of the following countries, which one is a declared nuclear power? Iran Pakistan Japan Israel 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 - 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 18 - 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 19 - 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 20 - What's the name of Germany's lower house of parliament? Bundesrat Bundestag Bundesversammlung Bundeskanzler Homepage