Hardest World Today Quiz

 

1 - How were French departements originally numbered?

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

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

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

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

6 - 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?

7 - Name the highest political office in Hong Kong.

8 - 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?

9 - Which is the oldest currently existing guerrilla group in Latin America?

10 - Which activity as a student and young adult helped shape Chief Justice Margaret Marshall's (of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court) views?

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

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

13 - Which is the northernmost Chinese province?

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

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

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

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

18 - Who is Andrés Manuel Lopez?

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

20 - who is the president of Mali as of june 2003

 

  

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