Hardest World Today Quiz

 

1 - 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?

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

3 - In Korea, what is known as the Hangul?

4 - Of the various European countries who voted on adhesion to the EU in 2003, which voted in favor with the biggest margin?

5 - Which countries disputes the Nagorno Karabakh area?

6 - Which is the northernmost Chinese province?

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

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

9 - Senator Jim Jefford left the US Republican party in 2001, throwing control of the US Senate to the Democrats until 2003. What state was he from?

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

11 - Which of those religions is not recognised by Iran's constitution?

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

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

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

15 - Name the highest political office in Hong Kong.

16 - How many wars have India and Pakistan fought primarily over Kashmir?

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

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

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

 

  

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