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History
10th Grade
02/10/2010

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What was the former colonial name of Zambia?
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Northern Rhodesia
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What nation is known as the most important banking center of Southeast Asia?
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Singapore
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What nation is connected to the Pan Am Flight #103 that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988?
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Libya
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What nation has as its founding father a man by the name of Mohammad Ali Jinnah?
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Pakistan
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What is the present name of the city formerly known as Saigon?
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Ho-Chi-Minh City
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What country that we have studied was established from the previous Yogoslavia?
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Slovenia
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What is the world's second largest exporter of cotton?
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Uzbekistan
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What was Belize formerly known as?
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British Honduras
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There are three nations on the island of_________
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Borneo
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What nation has the largest Muslim population in the world?
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Indonesia
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What nation is the second poorest in the Western Hemisphere?
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Nicaragua
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What nation did the Sandinistas once rule?
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Nicaragua
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Which country's government did the Tamil Tigers try to topple?
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Sri Lanka
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What is the name of the vital water way through which much of the West's oil passes and is threatened with blockade?
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Straits of Hormuz
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Which country has its last elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, under house arrest for the last 20 years?
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Myanmar
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What country supplies the US with 20% of its oil imports?
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Venezuela
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What nation is being threatened by the Taliban, or "Students of Religion"?
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Afghanistan
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In what country was Joseph Stalin born?
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Tbilisi
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What nation is located on the Horn of Africa?
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Somalia
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What nation has a Chinese minority population of 24%?
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Malaysia
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What nation has been fighting with one of its neighbors over the province of Kashmir?
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Pakistan
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Which country was traded to the Netherlands for the land that became New York City?
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Suriname
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Which country in Africa is currently in a civil war?
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Sudan
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Which countries that we have studied have island capital cities?
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Equatorial Guinea, United Arab Emirates
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Which nation is the world's number one supplier of opium?
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Afghanistan
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Muammar Qaddafi is the leader of this nation.
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Libya
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Which country held American hostages for 444 days?
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Iran
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This nation is the only Arab state to sign a peace treaty with Israel.
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Egypt
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Which nation is the number one producer of cocoa in the world?
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Cote d'Ivoire
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Which nation has the highest inflation rate in the world?
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Zimbabwe
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Oil rich Cabinda province is attempting to declare its independence from which country?
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Angola
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Who established the Republic of Turkey in 1923?
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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What is the family that keeps tensions high between many Arab nations?
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al-Assad
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Who created the Bath Party?
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Hafez al-Assad
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What was the first country to overthrow a dictator and give him a fair trial?
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Iraq
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15 percent of which country is Kurdish?
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Iraq
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Which country is ruled by the House of Saud?
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Saudi Arabia
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Which Islamic group in Saudi Arabia is incredibly strict?
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Wahabi Sect
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Who runs the main party in Russia?
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Vladimir Putin
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Which African country has the greatest population?
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Nigeria
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Which country has a ready-fit military greater than double the size of the US population?
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China
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Who was the founder of the modern Turkish state?
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Ataturk
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Which nations have been ruled by the Baath Party?
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Syria and Iraq
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What nation is called the "Pure Country"
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Pakistan
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Which nation has the largest inflation rate?
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Zimbabwe
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Which nation got its independence from Italy in 1947?
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Libya
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Where did Suharto and Sukarno rule?
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Indonesia
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Which nation is the most densely populated?
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Bangladesh
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Which country was formerly known as Ceylan?
Definition
Sri Lanka
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The Gulf of Riga is bound by which two countries?
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Latvia and Estonia
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Which European nation had a close relationship with China in the 20th century?
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Albania
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Which country is Alexander Lucashanko (sp?) president of?
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Belarus
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Which country has its prime minister as the main ruler instead of the president?
Definition
Russia
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90% of which country's plants are not found anywhere else on earth?
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Madagascar
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Who is president of Belarus?
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Alexander Lushashenko
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Which nation was attacked by the Soviet Union, which occupation became the USSR's so called "Vietnam"?
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Afghanistan
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What small country is squeezed between Ukraine and Romania?
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Moldova
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What nation rose up against the Soviet Union in 1956 and held off tanks for a week?
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Hungary
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What was the name of the West German capital during the Cold War?
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Bonn
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What is the world's largest supply of fresh water and where is it?
Definition
Lake Baikal, Russia
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Which nation guards the Strait of Hormuz?
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Oman
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What six nations originated from the former Yugoslavia?
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Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedona, Serbia, Montenegro
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