World Easy General knowledge Quiz

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

(a) Argentina
(b) The United States
(c) Canada
(d) Australia

The Correct option is – (a) Argentina

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

(a) Estonia
(b) Latvia
(c) Lithuania
(d) Ukraine

The Correct option is – (c) Lithuania

3. 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

The Correct option is – (a) Naoto Kan

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

(a) She was a leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa
(b) She was involved in the organization of several import anti-Vietnam War manifestations
(c) She served as a nurse in the Doctors without Borders organization
(d) She created an anti-death penalty organization.

The Correct option is – (a) She was a leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa

5. Of the following countries, which intervened in the Congolese Civil War?

(a) Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Angola
(b) Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Angola
(c) Rwanda, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Angola
(d) Rwanda, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Angola

The Correct option is – (a) Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Angola

6. Which French daily was accused of conflict of interests and biased objectivity in a best-seller published in 2003?

(a) Libération
(b) Le Monde
(c) Le Figaro
(d) La Tribune

The Correct option is –(b) Le Monde

7. Who is Andrés Manuel Lopez?

(a) Lula da Silva's Minister of Industry
(b) The popular left-wing mayor of Mexico City
(c) The richest media owner in Spain, after only the Italian Silvio Berlusconi
(d) The leader of Conservative opposition to Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's populist president

The Correct option is – (b) The popular left-wing mayor of Mexico City

8. What happened to Chechen rebel Akhmed Zakayev in November 2003?

(a) A British judge refused to extradite him to Russia.
(b) He was killed by the Russian army
(c) He was accused by Russia of having participated in the organisation of the Moscow Theater hostage-taking
(d) Russia announced his surrendering, announcement which he promptly denied

The Correct option is – (a) A British judge refused to extradite him to Russia.

9. Which Dutch Prime Minister resigned in 2002, along with his government, following the publication of a report accusing his government’s mismanagement of Dutch peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia of having provoked the Srebrenica massacre?

(a) Wim Kok
(b) Van den Berg
(c) Jan Peter Balkenende
(d) Eveline Herfkens

The Correct option is – (a) Wim Kok

10. 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)

The Correct option is – (d) Neil Kinnock (UK) and Loyola de Palacio (Spain)