Geography
Name one aspect of "good living conditions" as defined by the United Nations Human Settlement Programme
Any of:
Durable Housing
Sufficient living space
Easy access to safe water
Access to adequate sanitation
Name every type of imagery
Olfactory, gustatory, visual, auditory, tactile
Number of female Italian prime ministers
0
Meaning "openness" and "reconstruction", these 2 terms were the slogan for Mikhail Gorbachev's policy reform of the Soviet Union
Glanost and Perestroika
The only flag of a sovereign state not containing red, white, or blue
Jamaica
A steep and near-vertical rock face found along coasts. It is indicated by closely-spaced contour lines on a topographical map
Cliff
A literary technique that creates a semblance of truth in a usually fictional text
Verisimilitude
If neo-fascist/fascist is the political epithet of the Right, the political epithet of the Left is?
(You can answer this question without knowing the definition of epithet)
Communist/Socialist
What did Ho Chi Minh seek to accomplish on his trip to France in 1919, months before the signing of the Treaty of Versailles?
To secure Vietnamese independence
The study of flags is known as
Vexillology
Peter visits Auschwitz in Poland and the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia.
What type of tourism is Peter participating in?
Dark Tourism
A post-WW2 designation for largely European plays that express a belief that human existence is meaningless and therefore symbolise a breakdown in communication
Theatre of the Absurd
Any US state whose current polling averages for Democratic and Republican senate candidates for the 2022 Midterms (according to 538) are within 5 points of each other
Any of: Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania
Why did Stalin offer to resign from his position as General Secretary of the Communist Party soon after Lenin's death?
Lenin's testament, released after his death, criticised Stalin and some other members of the Communist Party
The flag of a sovereign state which has the highest percentage of black by area
Libya
Liz Trussed uses sand from an external source (e.g. another beach or the sea floor) to replenish the sand on a depleted beach. What engineering measure was used in this case?
Beach nourishment
"I had a wonderful day." Besides diction and declarative sentence, what technique was used in this extract?
Transferred epithet
This religious organisation, formerly affiliated with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has been criticised for having large amounts of influence and connections in Japanese politics, and its approval rating tanked after the assasination of Shinzo Abe
Unification Church
This communist figure was the first leader to have his country, Yugoslavia, leave the Soviet-established Cominform in 1948.
Josip Broz (Tito)
The country whose flag was most recently modified, and the modification made
Honduras, lightening the shade of blue used
This model for urban planning was first proposed in 1882. Its features include:
A general elongated city built alongside a river
Segregated residential, enterprise, industrial, agricultural and park zones
Provision for the dominant wind to blow from the residential areas to the industrial areas
Future expansion being further elongation of the city, rather than widening
Saudi Arabia has adapted this model in its planning for The Line, part of the planned Neom megacity (Saudi dictator fever dream)
Notable cities somewhat conforming to this model include Khabarovsk and Volgograd.
Linear city/Linear design
Malaysia's current literary laureate/Sasterawan Negara
Rahman Shaari
In its contemporary meaning, a critical or satirical term to denote capitalism’s distortions of human life and psyche in the post-neoliberal era, or the rise of fascism in the 21st century.
In more historical interpretations, this term can denote capitalism emerging out of the Second World War, characterised by the rise of multinational corporations
Late stage capitalism / Late capitalism / End-stage capitalism
What political theory did Muammar Gaddafi, the former leader of Libya, rule by, and how does it differ from conventional Marxism and Marxism-Leninism?
The Third International Theory, which supports Islam (opposing the atheist element of Marxism)
The name of the 5th and final flag added to the final ballot of the New Zealand flag referendum
Red Peak