1 - In 2002, Lula da Silva won the Brazilian presidential election. What other candidate did he beat in the second round?
2 - In what country or U.S. state was the world's first oil well sunk in 1859?
3 - 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?
4 - Name the highest political office in Hong Kong.
5 - who is the president of Mali as of june 2003
6 - Where is the Asian Development Bank headquartered?
7 - Which country contains the greatest number of speakers of Welsh, after the UK?
8 - How were French departements originally numbered?
9 - In Korea, what is known as the Hangul?
10 - Which of these areas is not under dispute between China and Russia?
11 - How many wars have India and Pakistan fought primarily over Kashmir?
12 - What happened to Chechen rebel Akhmed Zakayev in November 2003?
13 - Which of those religions is not recognised by Iran's constitution?
14 - Who were the two vice-Presidents of the Prodi European Commission?
15 - Who is the president of the main Japanese opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan?
16 - Which balkan nation has failed to elect a president three times in 2002-2003 due to insufficent voter turnout?
17 - Roughly how many French soldiers are currently enforcing the cease-fire in Ivory Coast, as of early 2005?
18 - Which is the oldest currently existing guerrilla group in Latin America?
19 - Who was the only president in U.S. history to fill that office without having been elected either President or Vice-President?
20 - Which French daily was accused of conflict of interests and biased objectivity in a best-seller published in 2003?
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