TRANSMITTAL MINUTIAE
A-SIX TRIVIA
CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATIONS
"The State of Things"
COUNTRY BANNERS
100

With respect to signing Transmittal Letters, the USG prefers these individuals to do the signing.

What are Empowered Officials?

100

The values placed within the (a)(6) table should be based on the duration of the agreement, which for a baseline agreement cannot exceed this span of years.

What is ten?

100

The 36(c) notification threshold is a mere one million for this category of items.

What is One?

100

This intense condition can describe the nation during war.

What is a state of emergency?

100

For these two "NATO +5" Plus-Five countries, what distinguishes their flags are color of, count of, and the number of points on the stars represented on their fields of blue.

What are New Zealand and Australia?

200

According to the "Guidelines for Preparing Agreements," there are five sections to a Transmittal Letter, the first of which provides a concise description of what the package includes and the purpose of the request.  This section is referred to as "The  __________."

What is the Preamble?

200

Within the (a)(6) table, "hardware" is broken down into permanent exports, temporary exports, and these.

What are temporary imports?

200

For agreements previously notified due to 36(c) reasons, an increase in value by this percent will require a second notification.

What is ten?

200

This U.S. political speech refers to the formal address the President delivers annually to Congress. 

What is the State of the Union?

300

When listing addresses of end users to an agreement, providing one of these is specifically called out as being insufficient.

What are P.O. Boxes?

300

**DAILY DOUBLE**

For agreement amendments the number of columns reflecting values in the (a)(6) table expands from one, as required for basic agreements, to this number.

What is three?

300

For most USML categories, this class of equipment is associated with Congressional Notification thresholds of $14M and $25M for non-NATO and NATO countries, respectively.

What is Major Defense [equipment]?

300

The Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 is famous for establishing the principle of national sovereignty for this type of political entity.

What is the modern nation-state?

400

Section (a)(3) identifies relevant USG contracts under which equipment or tech data was generated.  This section is most significant because it addresses relationships to these kinds of cases.

What are FMS?

400

The (a)(6) table should not include values associated with these particular items, which reflect EAR-controlled items only.

What is Paragraph (x)?

400

While 36(d) notifications are based on the manufacture of SME, 36(c) notifications are based on this.

What is value?

400

In 1976, pianist Billy Joel co-wrote with crooner Tony Bennett a song whose title refers to a New York one of these.

What is "State Of Mind"?

500

Section (a)(2) identifies the agreement expiration date, agreement scope, and these.

What are agreement parties?

500

The Part 124 section of the ITAR from which the "(a)(6) table" is derived is _____________.

What is 124.12?

500

**DAILY DOUBLE**

For agreements previously notified pursuant to 36(d), a renotification is required for three reasons: a certain increase in value, an increase in authorized sales territory, and this...

What is a significant expansion of scope?

500

The Sufi tradition, including Rumi’s works, often refers to this elevated “state” of consciousness beyond ordinary awareness.

What is the state of fana (annihilation of the ego)? (Also acceptable: enlightenment, spiritual awakening, divine union, or consciousness)

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