Hardest World Today Quiz

 

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

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

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

4 - Who is Andrés Manuel Lopez?

5 - The flag below is the official flag of two countries. Which?

6 - Which country is shown in red below?

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

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

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

10 - Which countries disputes the Nagorno Karabakh area?

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

12 - How were French departements originally numbered?

13 - With which nation did Japan recently conclude a Free Trade agreement?

14 - Name the highest political office in Hong Kong.

15 - 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?

16 - Where is the Asian Development Bank headquartered?

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 - During Putin's first term, Russia re-adopted the old Soviet national anthem, although with new lyrics. Why had the original post-Soviet anthem fallen out of favor?

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

 

  

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