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12/06/2008

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Term
cheif of supreme court
Definition
john roberts
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supreme justices
Definition

Thomas

Ginsberg

Alito

Stevens

Souter

Scalia

Kennedy

breyer

Term

speaker of the house

Definition
nancy pelosi
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majority leader of the senate
Definition
harry reid
Term
secretary of state
Definition

clinton

Term
secretary of defense
Definition
robert gates
Term
secretary of treasury
Definition

gilhtner

 

Term
attorney genral
Definition

holder

Term
secretary of interior
Definition

salazar

Term
secretary of health and human services
Definition
sebilious
Term
secretary of education
Definition

duncan

Term
secretary of labor
Definition

solis

Term
chairmen of the federal reserve
Definition
ben bernanke
Term
president of mexico
Definition

philipe caldaron

Term
prime minester of canada
Definition
harper
Term
secretary of homeland security
Definition

nepoliotano

Term
prime minister of israel
Definition
netenyahu
Term
president of palestines
Definition
abu Bakar
Term

president of the palestines is also called

Definition
abu Mason
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prime minister of great britain
Definition
gordon brown
Term
president of france
Definition
sarkozi
Term
fema
Definition
federal emergeny management agency
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leader of afghanistan
Definition
karzai
Term
extreme fundimentalist group controlled Afghanistan from 1996- 2001
Definition
taliban
Term
president of russia
Definition

medvedev

Term
prime minester of russia
Definition
putin
Term
leader of al-Qaeda
Definition
osama benladin
Term
pope
Definition
benedict 16th
Term
cia
Definition
central intellegence agency
Term
33rd president US
Definition
truman
Term
war 1939- 1945
Definition
wwII
Term
a document describing the system of laws and princeaples of a government
Definition
consitution
Term
three major groups in iraq are
Definition
sunni shia kurds
Term
what two cities were the atom bomb dropped on
Definition
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Term
what religion is represented by a star and a cresent
Definition
islam
Term
epa
Definition
Term
what are the two parts of congress
Definition
house of representives and senate
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US goverment program that helps pay medical expences for elderly people

Definition
medicare
Term
minority leader of the house
Definition
boehner
Term
nasa
Definition
national aeronautics and space administration
Term
ACLU
Definition
american civil liberty's union
Term
congress shalll make no law respectingan establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof is found where
Definition
1st amendment
Term
prime minester of india
Definition

Singh

Term
president of iran
Definition
admadinejad
Term
king of jordan
Definition
abdulla 2
Term
president of eygpt
Definition

mubbarak

Term
president of syria
Definition
asad
Term
______ developed the theory of evolution
Definition
 charles darwin
Term
secretery general of the United Nations
Definition
Ban Kee Mun
Term
fourth rock from the sun
Definition
mars
Term
californa was part of _____ before it was part of US
Definition
mexico
Term
the governments fiscal year begins
Definition
October 1
Term
pres of austraila
Definition
kevin rudd
Term
hispanola
Definition
hati and dominican republic
Term
FCC
Definition
federal communications commision
Term
human treatment act
Definition
geniva convention
Term
pres of venesula
Definition
chaves
Term
pres of brazil
Definition
Lula de silva
Term
pres of columbia
Definition
uribe
Term
tax on imported goods
Definition
tariff
Term
pres of pakistan
Definition
Zardari
Term
pres of indonesia
Definition
Yudhoyono
Term
pres of DRO congo
Definition
joseph kabila
Term

how many memeber sit on the on the security cousil at one time?

 who are permenent members

Definition

15

US

Great britten

France

China

Germany

Term
pres of turkey
Definition
Erdogan
Term
three branchs of the government
Definition

Judicail

legislative

executive

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which amendemendment deals with the seperation of church and state
Definition
1st
Term
right people have when they are under arrest
Definition
miranda rights
Term
what is legislative redrawing of a states congressional district
Definition
gerry  mandering
Term
after WWII what four powers divided germany into four zones.
Definition

US

russia

france

Great Brittan

Term
nobel prize is awarded in what six areas
Definition

physics

peace

chemistry

literiture

medicine

Economics

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2008 nobel peace prize
Definition
Marti Ahtisaari
Term
chancellor of germany
Definition
angela murkel
Term
president of rwanda
Definition
kagame
Term
president of the philippines
Definition
arroyo
Term
pres of zimbabwe
Definition
mugabe
Term
king of saudia arabia
Definition
abdula
Term
leader of libya
Definition
al-gaddafi
Term

SEC

Definition
Security exchange commision
Term

WTO

Definition
world trade organision
Term
covered with a thin layer of gold
Definition
guilded
Term
a period of slow economic growth- a decrease in economic productivity
Definition
recession
Term
nafta
Definition

north american free trade agreement

Term
PEOPLE IN THE LARGEST PART OF IRAQ largest ethnic group
Definition
kurds
Term
how many people in china
Definition
1.3 billion
Term
us ambassordor to UN
Definition
rice
Term
pres of china
Definition
hu jing toaw
Term
how many people in US
Definition

300 million

Term
hong Kong was part of what contry till 1997
Definition
Great Brittan
Term
pre is liberia
Definition
sirleaf
Term
pres of boliva
Definition
eva Morales
Term
world population
Definition
6.6billion
Term
Name the four beatles
Definition
Ringo Starr, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul Mc Cartney
Term
when were the worlds under god added to the pledge of aleagence
Definition
1954
Term
old faithful is in
Definition
yellow stone
Term
the scale used to measure earthquakes
Definition
Rictor scale
Term
pres of ukriane
Definition
yushchenko
Term
terrorist group who won lrge maojity seats in plaestinian elections and control Gaza
Definition
hamas
Term
president of chile
Definition
michelle bachelet
Term
before becomeing pres of russia and now prime minester , putin worked for
Definition

KGB

 

Kelly's giant belly

Term

what is the title and the name of the person who leads us department of justice

 

Definition

attorney genral

eric holder

Term
a system of governmentor an economic system i nwhich the state owns and controls business
Definition
communism
Term

president of nigeria

Definition
yaradao
Term
charimen of the federal reserve
Definition
Ben Bernaki
Term
director of the CIA
Definition
panneta
Term
director of national intelligence
Definition
blair
Term
cheif of staff to bush
Definition
emanuael
Term
nato
Definition
north atlantic treaty  organisation
Term
national security advisor
Definition
jones
Term
capital afghanistan
Definition
kabul
Term
head of FBI
Definition
mueller
Term
chairment of joint cheifof staff
Definition
mullen
Term
terrorist fought with isreal
Definition
hesbula
Term
prez of ecuador
Definition
correa
Term
ICE
Definition
immagrations and customs enforcement
Term
cspital of somalia
Definition
mogadishu
Term
president of sudan
Definition
omar al bashir
Term
prime minester of italy
Definition
birlisconi
Term
darfur refugees croosing into
Definition
chad
Term
senate minority leader
Definition
mcconal
Term
capital of iraq
Definition
baghdad
Term
chairmen of joint cheif of staff
Definition
mullen
Term
senior senator texas
Definition
kay baily hutchison
Term
the pra of venezuela want to move towards a
Definition
socialist republic
Term
composes dance peices
Definition
choreographer
Term
founder of NYC ballet
Definition
bolanchine
Term
the nutcracker
Definition
tchaikousky
Term
assinated presidents
Definition
JFK Lincon, grafield, mckiney
Term
dispute between syria and isreal
Definition
gullen hieghts
Term
tallest building in the world
Definition
burge dubia
Term
what country is the burge dubia
Definition
UAE
Term
leader of taliban
Definition
Omar
Term
three financal classes
Definition
stocks bonds cash
Term
a short term drop in stock market prices
Definition
correction
Term
names for stocks bonds or any kind of financial classes that can be traded
Definition
securities
Term
white house press secretay
Definition
gibs
Term
ancestral puebloans who livid in chaco canyon
Definition
Anaszsi
Term
a deer related disease ito mad cow is
Definition
chronic waste
Term
a very rare human mad cow is
Definition
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Term
father of political carttoning
Definition
mast
Term
supreme religious leader or iran
Definition
khameni
Term
capital of china
Definition
bejing
Term
ecomnomic system in china
Definition
communism
Term
hong kong 1997
Definition
great brittan
Term
now hong kong is part of what country
Definition
china
Term
hong kong was aloud to keep its ______ system
Definition
capitalist
Term

the unexpected winner of 1948 election---

he defeated whom

Definition

trumen

dewey

Term

ford pardoned

Definition
nikon
Term
nikon charged for
Definition
watergate
Term
north and south korea signed a
Definition
truce
Term

what measures the un employment rate

Definition
the percent of people out out work and looking for a job
Term

when farmers get payed for their crops

Definition
substiy
Term
the right to copy and sell a ork of art, music or litterature
Definition
copy right
Term
sesonal winds that bring rains
Definition
monsoon
Term
restiction on trade
Definition
embargo
Term
largest cat
Definition
tiger
Term
carnivore
Definition
meat eater
Term
endangered
Definition
close to extinction
Term
in order three largest tradeing partners
Definition
canada china mexico
Term
an art form in which artist interprents reality based on his or her inner feelings about the object he or she is painting
Definition
expressionism
Term
view of toledo
Definition
EL GRECO
Term
the earths outer crust
Definition
litosphere
Term
father of policiacl cartooning
Definition
mast
Term
what is the party of the palestian prez
Definition
fatah
Term
secretary of energy
Definition
chu
Term
secretary of veterans affiars
Definition
shiriseki
Term
lesotho is in what country
Definition
south africa
Term
school segregastion case
when?
Definition
brown verses board
1954
Term
eisenhower sent federal troops to ----, arkansas to protect black students
Definition
little rock
Term
mush of what we know about socrates is from
Definition
pluto
Term
what is the historical name for dutch in africa
Definition
boers
Term
first african american supreme court
Definition
thurgood marshal
Term
a student or specialist of how people should act
Definition
philosipher
Term
socretes from where
Definition
greece
Term
socrates drank to die
Definition
helock
Term
hospital for army in DC where there were reports of substandard care in the form of housing and bueracracies
Definition
walter reed army medical center
Term
prison in iraq wheer americans abused iraquis
Definition
aba ghrib
Term
prime minester of iraq
Definition
nuri al maliki
Term
OSHA
Definition
ocupational saftey and health adminatration
Term
IRA leader
Definition
adams
Term
IRA
Definition
irish republican army
Term
an infection fighting subtance produced by blood
Definition
antiboddy
Term
the region rules by the ottoman turks
Definition
ottoman empire
Term
father of turks
Definition
atturk
Term
a work place where employees work long hours for low wages under poor condishions
Definition
sweat shop
Term
austrailia big desert
Definition
outback
Term
austrailias earliest population
Definition
aborigoni
Term
mayor of dallas
Definition
lepert
Term
secetary of housing and development
Definition
donaven
Term
secetary of agriculture
Definition
vilsack
Term
special advisor on gulf and south west asia
Definition
ross
Term
special envoy with isreali-palestinian portfolio
Definition
michel
Term
special envoy to af-pak
Definition
holbrooke
Term
historic figure who served as mexican prez led mexican army
Definition
santa ana
Term
battle ground in pensilvania where licon made his speech
Definition
gettesburg
Term
35 pres USA
Definition
JFK
Term
man who shot jfk
Definition
oswald
Term
vice pres under
jfk
Definition
jonhson
Term
in car with
JFK while dieing
Definition
conely
Term
day JFK died
Definition
nov 22 1963
Term
cooler spots on suns surface
Definition
sun spots
Term
eruption from the suns surface
Definition
solar flare
Term
halo of gas and particles around sun
Definition
corona
Term
pres of south korea
Definition
lee
Term
prz of cuba
Definition
CASTRO
Term
leader of burma
Definition
fang shui
Term
kosovo was part of what contry
Definition
serbia
Term
PTSD
Definition
post tramatic stress dissorder
Term
leader of hati
Definition
preval
Term
secretary of commerce
Definition
block
Term
FARC
Definition
revalutionary aremd forces of columbia
Term
two leaders in powe in kenya
Definition
odinga kabaki
Term
pres-elecct taiwan
Definition
ma
Term
the chief justice of pak supreme court
Definition
chaudtry
Term
april 4 assination
Definition
MLK
Term
mlk shot in
Definition
memphis tennesse
Term
MLK helped organise
Definition
strike for sanation workers
Term
annual inflation rate of zimbabwe
Definition
231,000
Term
what percent has fled form zimbabwe
Definition
25
Term
whst percent of zimbabweans are jobless
Definition
95
Term
how long has china ruled tibet
Definition
58y ears
Term
2014 olupics
Definition
sochi russia
Term
castro will alouw
Definition
farm land not used by state
Term
previous dfictator of cuba
Definition
basita
Term
voodoo mixes
Definition
chistianity and anamism
Term
voodoo orignis are in
Definition
west africa
Term
mexico wants to stop smugleing
Definition
cash guns
Term
obama dog
named after
Definition
boe
boe diddly
Term
what country expelled un nuclear
Definition
north korea
Term
us will start negotiating a dea lto cut stategies with
Definition
russia
Term
toutre giving the feeling of drowning
Definition
water boarding
Term
a ----- slae is the sale of a security that isn't owned by the seller, but is promised to be delivered
Definition
short
Term
bernie madoff
Definition
ponzi scheme
Term
hosuing crises began with
Definition
sub prime morgages
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