Welcome to

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Welcome to Academic
WorldQuest 2005
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Academic WorldQuest
was created by
Jennifer Watson Roberts and the Charlotte World
Affairs Council
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Windham World Affairs Council Milton Eaton,
Board Chairperson Margo B. Neale, WorldQuest
Committee Chairperson
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Moderator Guy MacMillin
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Thank You to Our Judges Tom French Seth Harter
Paul Micou Mel Shakun
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Thank You to Our Teams Brattleboro Union High
School Fall Mountain Regional High School Leland
and Gray High School The Putney School
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Thank You to Our Principal Sponsor Vermont
Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation
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And Sponsors Brattleboro Rotary Brooks Memorial
Library C S Wholesale Grocers Inc. World
Learning and the School for International Training
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And Special Contributors
Sam Bunker Alan
Carter Milt and Sylvia Eaton Paul Micou
Mel and Norma Shakun Ann Tobey Winfred
Vogt
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And Thank You! Special thanks to the Membership
of the Windham World Affairs Council
of Vermont who made Academic WorldQuest 2005
possible.
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• How to Play  
• There are 10 rounds of 4-6 questions each.
• All the questions are multiple choice or
  identification of an image. 
• Identity questions do not require perfect
  spelling, as long as the Judges can understand a
  Teams answer. Last names of people will suffice.
  
• Teams have 1 minute to answer each question.
• Teams have 1 answer sheet for each round. Make
  sure your Teams name or Table Number is on each
  answer sheet.

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• How to Play  
• Mark your Teams answer on the answer sheet. Turn
  your answer sheet over when you have completed a
  question.
• Answer sheets will be collected at the end of
  each round.
• After Rounds 5 and 10, the Moderator will
  indicate correct answers.
• Team standings will be announced after
  Intermission and again after Round 10.

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• How to Play / Scoring
• Teams receive 1 point for each correct answer.
• There is no penalty for wrong answers or answers
  left blank.
• In the event of a tie at the end of Round 10,
  sudden-death, tie-breaker questions will be
  asked.

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Round 1 People in the News
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People in the News
Who was the final winner of the Presidential
elections in Ukraine?

• Alyaksandr Lukashenka
• Viktor Yushchenko
• Viktor Yanukovich
• Leonid Kuchma

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People in the News
Which of the following changes in the
Israeli/Palestinian conflict has not occurred
following the death of Yasser Arafat?

• A democratic election among the Palestinians.
• An informal truce between Palestinian and Israeli
  leaders.
• Israeli plan to pull-back troops from the Gaza
  Strip.
• Israeli pledge to release Palestinian prisoners.

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People in the News
Abdul Qadir Khan is important because he

• is the right hand man for Osama bin Laden.
• is the secular leader in Iran.
• sold nuclear secrets in many parts of the world.
• led the U.S. to Saddam Hussein.

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People in the News
The President of South Africa is

• Thabo Mbeki
• Steve Biko
• Nelson Mandela
• Desmond Tutu

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People in the News
Carol Bellamy is currently the Executive Director
of

• United Nations High Commission for Refugees
  (UNHCR).
• World Health Organization (WHO).
• United Nations International Childrens Emergency
  Fund (UNICEF).
• Catholic Relief Services (CRS).

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Round 2 Great Decisions 2004
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Great Decisions 2004
The U.S. policy articulated in The National
Security Strategy of the U. S. (September, 2002)
has had an immediate impact on which one of the
following

• North Korea
• Iraq
• Russia
• Iran

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Great Decisions 2004
Which Southeast Asian country receives the most
military aid from the United States?

• Indonesia
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Malaysia

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Great Decisions 2004
The process often referred to as European
integration refers to

• an improved integration of railways in Europe.
• the expansion of the European Union.
• the expansion of NATO.
• the integration of immigrants into European
  countries.

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Great Decisions 2004
These leaders met in Yalta to discuss

• the Battle of Stalingrad.
• the Allied invasion of Normandy.
• the post-war division of Germany.
• the bombing of Dresden.

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Great Decisions 2004
Which country has the largest percentage of its
population under the age of fourteen?

• United States
• Yemen
• India
• Japan

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Great Decisions 2004
According to Great Decisions 2004, which one of
the following countries exhibits the least
political and economic stability?

• Mexico
• Brazil
• Chile
• Ecuador

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Round 3 World Languages
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World Languages
The family of languages with the greatest array
of languages spoken is

• Uralic
• Indo-European
• Altaic
• Dravidian

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World Languages
Which language family introduced a written
alphabet to the world?

• Munda
• Semitic
• Indic
• Urali

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World Languages
The most widely spoken language in the world
today (by population) is

• English
• Mandarin Chinese
• Hindi/Urdu
• Spanish

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World Languages
In which country is Tagalog spoken?

• Columbia
• Virgin Islands
• Peru
• Philippines

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World Languages
In which two of the following countries are
Aymara and Quechua spoken?

• Peru
• Brazil
• Ecuador
• Paraguay

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Round 4 Africa
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Africa
The most populous African country is

• Egypt
• Nigeria
• South Africa
• Ethiopia

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Africa
Which of the following African leaders has not
won the Nobel Peace Prize?

• Desmond Tutu
• Kofi Annan
• Hosni Mubarak
• Wangari Maathai

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Africa
Which of the following is not a goal of the
International Monetary Funds poverty reduction
strategy in Uganda

• Fight terrorism
• Reduce the impact of AIDS
• Improve natural resource management
• Increase quality of education 

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Africa
Which of these is not a purpose of the African
Union?

• Stop genocide, war crimes, or human rights abuses
• Form a bank
• Coordinate the sharing of natural resources
• Form a supranational court

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Africa
The Short-Term Darfur Accords were signed in
Abuja, Nigeria on November 9, 2004 by the
Sudanese Government and

• Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and
  Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)
• National Movement for Reform and
  Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)
• Janjaweed and Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)
• Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and
  National Movement for Reform

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Round 5 Flags
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Flags
Identify the flag of this nation, featured in a
2005, Oscar-nominated film that has been compared
to Schindlers List
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Flags
The crescent on a flag frequently represents
Islamic affiliation. Which flag pictured does
not represent that affiliation?
b.
a.
d.
c.
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Flags
Three of these flags represent small Caribbean
nations. The fourth flag represents the worlds
smallest republic, with a total population less
than Brattleboros. Select this fourth flag
b.
a.
c.
d.
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Flags
Which of these flags represents the nation that
has most recently declared a state of political
emergency?
b.
a.
d.
c.
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Flags
The cross on a flag frequently connotes Christian
affiliation. Which one of the following flags
represents the Christian affiliation of a
non-European country?
b.
a.
d.
c.
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Flags
Monaco, one of the worlds smallest nations,
bears a remarkable similarity to the flag of
which, much larger nations flag, pictured to the
right?
Monaco
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Intermission
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Round 6 European Union
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European Union
In which year was the concept of a European Union
proposed by Robert Schuman?

• 1945
• 1950
• 1992
• 1972

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European Union
How many countries are in the European Union?

• 20
• 25 
• 30
• 32

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European Union
Which of these countries does not use the Euro?

• Italy
• Switzerland
• France
• Germany

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European Union
Which of the countries listed below remains a
candidate country for the EU?

• Bulgaria
• Slovenia
• Cyprus
• Hungary

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European Union
Which of the following countries is in both the
EU and NATO?

• Cyprus
• Estonia
• Austria
• Ireland

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Round 7 Countries
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Countries
Which of the following countries is the most
populous?

• India
• Brazil
• Russia
• United States

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Countries
Which country has the most international borders?

• Brazil
• Congo
• Russia
• China

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Countries
How many time zones does China use?

• 8
• 5
• 6
• 1

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Countries
Which islands are still at issue between Japan
and Russia?

• Aleutian Islands
• Faeroe Islands
• Nicobar Islands
• Kuril Islands

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Round 8 World Religions
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World Religions
When Muslims pray, they face

• Jerusalem
• Medina
• Mecca
• Islamabad

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World Religions
Ramadan comes at a different time each year
because it is determined

• at the discretion of local religious leaders.
• by the lunar calendar.
• by the Georgian calendar.
• by Muslim nations separately.

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World Religions
Which nation has the largest Muslim population?

• Pakistan
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Nigeria

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World Religions
Which of the following religions is not
widely-practiced in China?

• Buddhism
• Islam
• Hinduism
• Confucianism

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World Religions
Which of the following religions is not
monotheistic?

• Islam
• Christianity
• Shintoism
• Judaism

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Round 9 Major Treaties and Conventions
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Major Treaties and Conventions
Which country most recently ratified the Kyoto
Protocol?

• Russia
• Great Britain
• United States
• Sweden

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Major Treaties and Conventions
2004 was the 25th Anniversary of which major
treaty?

• Egypt-Israel peace treaty
• Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• START II Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty
• Maastricht Treaty (Treaty on European Union)

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Major Treaties and Conventions
Which major, industrialized country has not
signed the 1982 UN Law of the Sea Treaty?

• United Kingdom
• United States
• France
• Germany

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Major Treaties and Conventions
Which international organization came into being
with the Treaty of Versailles?

• The United Nations (UN)
• The League of Nations
• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• The World Trade Organization (WTO)

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Major Treaties and Conventions
Which one of these countries has not signed the
1997 Treaty to Ban Landmines?

• Russia
• Cambodia
• Yemen
• Afghanistan

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Round 10 Current Events
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Current Events
In which country did recent elections require a
revote?

• Afghanistan
• China
• Ukraine
• Palestine

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Current Events
The recently announced results of the Iraqi
elections indicated that

• Sunni candidates had the most votes.
• Kurdish candidates had the most votes.
• Shiite candidates had the most votes.
• Secular candidates had the most votes.

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Current Events
Who is the current U.S. Ambassador to Iraq?

• Richard Meyers
• John Negroponte
• Paul Bremmer
• Jay Garner

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Current Events
Who is the newly-elected Prime Minister of
Canada?

• Brian Mulroney
• Paul Martin
• Jean Chretian
• Pierre Elliot Trudeau

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Current Events
Which country recently prohibited the use of the
dollar in commercial transactions?

• Iran
• Russia
• Cuba
• South Africa

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End of Final Round
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Thank you! to ALL of our WorldQuest
participants!