PHILOSOPHERS
WORLD LEADERS
GEOGRAPHY
CURRENT AFFAIRS
HUMAN RIGHTS I
100
According to Rawls, this is the hypothetical position in which people decide principles of justice.
What is the Original Position?
100
The current prime minister of Great Britain.
Who is David Cameron?
100
Present day city that was once the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Istanbul?
100
Portmanteau for restructuring of the European Union.
What is Brexit?
100
The year American women got the right to vote.
What is 1920?
200
This is the condition before society is formed.
What is the state of nature? (natural state)
200
The currently longest serving woman head of government.
Who is Angela Merkel?
200
The second longest river in the world.
What is the Amazon?
200
Donald Trump recently praised this former dictator.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
200
Current Sudanese leader indicted by the International Criminal Court.
Who is Omar al-Bashir?
300
This moral theory is associated with maximizing your benefits.
What is Utilitarianism?
300
17th century French monarch also known as the Sun King.
Who is Louis XIV?
300
The fourth most populous country.
What is Indonesia?
300
City recently regained from ISIS control by Iraqi forces.
What is Fallujah?
300
Eleanor Roosevelt was involved in the drafting of this major human rights document.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
400
This thinker said: "Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why?"
Who is Karl Marx?
400
South African lawyer who would go on to lead a nonviolent movement.
Who is Gandhi?
400
The number of countries in the European Union today.
What is 28?
400
This celebrity was banned from China after appearing with the Dalai Lama for an interview Sunday on Facebook Live.
Who is Lady Gaga?
400
Ancient legal code that consists of 282 laws.
What is the Hammurabi Code?
500
Thomas Jefferson plagiarized this thinker when he wrote that men have inalienable rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Who is John Locke?
500
U.N. Secretary-General whose first name repeats itself twice.
Who is Boutros-Boutros Ghali?
500
Country with the most indiginous languages spoken.
What is Papua New Guinea? (820!)
500
Recently impeached Brazilian leader.
Who is Dilma Rousseff?
500
The year Amnesty International won the Nobel Peace Prize.
What is 1977?
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