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World Today Quiz

There are 15 questions in this quiz. Good luck!
Passing grade is 70% = C.
1) Who is the president of the main Japanese opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan?
       a) Naoto Kan
       b) Katsuya Okada
       c) Heizo Takenaka
       d) Mitsuo Horiuchi

2) Who were the two vice-Presidents of the Prodi European Commission?
       a) Pascal Lamy (France) and Günter Verheugen (Germany)
       b) Loyola de Palacio (Spain) and Michel Barnier (France)
       c) Chris Patten (UK) and Antonio Vitorino (Portugal)
       d) Neil Kinnock (UK) and Loyola de Palacio (Spain)

3) Which is the northernmost Chinese province?
       a) Jilin
       b) Heilongjiang
       c) Hebei
       d) Jiangxi

4) Name the highest political office in Hong Kong.
       a) Governor
       b) Chief Executive
       c) Prime Minister
       d) Chief Minister

5) Where is the Asian Development Bank headquartered?
       a) Singapore
       b) Tokyo
       c) Manila
       d) Bangkok

6) Which of these areas is not under dispute between China and Russia?
       a) Ili Valley in Central Asia
       b) Islands on the Amur river
       c) Outer Mongolia
       d) Russian Maritime Province

7) What is the name of the pedophile whose arrest shocked Belgium in 1996?
       a) Connerotte
       b) Nihoul
       c) Dutroux
       d) Duchatelet

8) In Korea, what is known as the Hangul?
       a) The writing system
       b) The traditional military formation.
       c) The agricultural system.
       d) The tax collection system.

9) Which Canadian city claims it is the coldest city with a population of over 500,000?
       a) Yellowknife
       b) Winnipeg
       c) Saskatoon
       d) Edmonton

10) Of the various European countries who voted on adhesion to the EU in 2003, which voted in favor with the biggest margin?
       a) Slovenia, with 85.6%
       b) Lithuania, with 89.92%
       c) Hungary, with 95.3%
       d) Slovakia, with 92.4%

11) In which U.S. state was the world's first oil well sunk in 1859?
       a) Texas
       b) Pennsylvania
       c) Alaska
       d) California

12) Which is the oldest currently existing guerrilla group in Latin America?
       a) The Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) in Peru
       b) The National Liberation Army (ELN) in Colombia
       c) The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Colombia
       d) The Zapatista Army for National Liberation (EZLN) in Mexico

13) In 2002, Lula da Silva won the Brazilian presidential election. What other candidate did he beat in the second round?
       a) Jose Serra
       b) Anthony Garotinho
       c) Ciro Gomes
       d) Fernando Henrique Cardoso

14) Who was the only president in U.S. history to fill that office without having been elected either President or Vice-President?
       a) Richard Nixon
       b) Lyndon Johnson
       c) Dwight Eisenhower
       d) Gerald Ford

15) What is the second most populated member of the Commonwealth (after India)?
       a) United Kingdom
       b) Nigeria
       c) Pakistan
       d) Bangladesh





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