Hardest World Today Quiz

 

1 - Where is the Asian Development Bank headquartered?

2 - 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?

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

4 - In what country or U.S. state was the world's first oil well sunk in 1859?

5 - Roughly how many French soldiers are currently enforcing the cease-fire in Ivory Coast, as of early 2005?

6 - 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?

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

8 - Who was the only president in U.S. history to fill that office without having been elected either President or Vice-President?

9 - Which countries disputes the Nagorno Karabakh area?

10 - Name the highest political office in Hong Kong.

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

12 - Which is the northernmost Chinese province?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20 - What is the name of the pedophile whose arrest shocked Belgium in 1996?

 

  

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