history quiz

Question 1

leader of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua

Answer 1

Daniel Ortega

Question 2

saw the longest war against guerrilas

Answer 2

Guatemala (36 years)

Question 3

government of Mexico

Answer 3

IRP

Question 4

liberal leader of Canada

Answer 4

Pierre Trudeau

Question 5

Canada’s 1st female prime minister

Answer 5

Kim Campbell

Question 6

Conservative Party leader and new Prime Minister of Canada

Answer 6

Stephen Harper

Question 7

president after Ronald Reagan

Answer 7

George H. W. Bush

Question 8

president after H.W. Bush

Answer 8

Bill Clinton

Question 9

first female secretary of state in America

Answer 9

Madeline Albright

Question 10

elected president and led the way in the war on terror

Answer 10

George W. Bush

Question 11

accounts for 45% of the worlds’ trade

Answer 11

APEC

Question 12

president of the Philippines until he forced to flee

Answer 12

Ferdinand E. Marcos

Question 13

Indonesia’s 1st president

Answer 13

Sukarno

Question 14

replaced Sukarno and sought assistance from the West

Answer 14

Suharto

Question 15

“Land of the Free”’ the only South East Asian country to never have been ruled by a Western power

Answer 15

Muang Thai

Question 16

1st nation to pace itself under U. N. jurisdiction

Answer 16

Australia

Question 17

Prime Minister of India who focused on bettering India’s domestic condition and standing worldwide

Answer 17

Singh

Question 18

an ethnic group of nomadic Muslims

Answer 18

Kurds

Question 19

Palestine occupied territories in Israel

Answer 19

Intifada

Question 20

“Land for Peace”

Answer 20

Oslo accords

Question 21

conservative Prime Minister of Israel

Answer 21

Benjamin Netanyahu

Question 22

peace between Israel and Palestine

Answer 22

Hebron Accords

Question 23

IDF pursuit of Yassir Arafat

Answer 23

Operation Defensive Shield

Question 24

Israeli reoccupation of territory previously ceded to Palestine

Answer 24

Operation Determined Path

Question 25

hurricane that struck the U.S. in 2005; one of the greatest natural disasters America has ever experienced

Answer 25

Katrina

Question 26

linking together of military and university computers

Answer 26

ARPANET

Question 27

Radio Frequency Identification chips; tracking system associated with GPS technology

Answer 27

RFID

Question 28

1st Chinese Taikonaut in Space

Answer 28

Yang Liwei

Question 29

The study of moral implications and applications of biological research

Answer 29

Bioethics

Question 30

the killing of the weak or infirmed; 1st legalized in Holland

Answer 30

Euthanasia

Question 31

the idea that some biological systems are irreducibly complex (Michael Behe)

Answer 31

Irreducible Complexity

Question 32

belief that order in the universe is not the result of random combinations but the design of an intelligent being

Answer 32

Intelligent Design (ID)

Question 33

idea of God-given absolute standard of ethics

Answer 33

Metanarrative

Question 34

animals and plants are on the same level of importance as humans

Answer 34

Modern Environmentalism

Question 35

required nations to reduce greenhouse emissions to baselines used during the 1900s (“carbon credits”)

Answer 35

Kyoto Protocol