Physical Geography
What is a river?
This ongoing war in Europe has led to NATO expanding to Sweden and significant increases in energy prices in Europe
What is the Russia-Ukraine War?
This American President has upended international trade relations since his 2024 election
Who is Donald Trump?
This originally Middle Eastern religion is the fastest growing in the world
What is Islam?
This country has the world’s lowest birth rates
What is South Korea?
The name for the volcanic activity around countries facing the Pacific Ocean
What is the Ring of Fire?
This small African country, known for its eponymous genocide in the 1990s, is currently supporting militias in neighboring Congo
What is Rwanda?
The largest trade volume in the world passes through this country
What is China?
By actively supporting restaurants around the world with loans and grants, this Asian country has become famous for its cuisine, boasting ubiquitous restaurants in the US especially
What is Thailand?
This country has the fourth largest population in the world
What is Indonesia?
This geographical feature is statistically associated with civil wars due to its utility as a base for insurgencies
What are mountains?
This North American head of state is the first woman to lead a country in the continent
Who is Claudia Sheinbaum?
This German economist theorized that value is produced by labor, and profit is the difference between the value produced by labor and wages paid for labor
Who is Karl Marx?
These two countries are the only to enforce a universal hijab mandate
What are Iran and Afghanistan?
This social service is the most significant determinant of birth rates in a given country
What is women’s access to healthcare/family planning?
This small island system/nation is home to one of the largest nuclear waste sites in the world
What are the Marshall Islands?
DAILY DOUBLE: This South American head of state has become a right-wing hero for his aggressive cuts to government, symbolized in his campaign by a chainsaw
Who is Javier Milei?
Ricardo proposed this theory of trade, pushing countries to specialize and exchange rather than produce everything independently
What is comparative advantage?
This Chinese philosophical tradition underpins much of Asian cultural practices and beliefs
What is Confucianism?
This nationality’s refugee population has its own UN agency, the UN Relief and Works Agency or UNRWA
What are Palestinians?
These mountains are inhabited mostly by the non-Arab indigenous people of North Africa
What are the Atlas Mountains?
This province of China is known for its Muslim population, the Uyghurs
What is Xinjiang?
DAILY DOUBLE: South American countries in the 20th century followed this strategy for development, which centered on using income from extracted mineral exports and tariffs to support their industrialization
What is import substitution industrialization?
This internationally famous cartoon hero is known throughout the world for his signature hairdo, fighting ability, and carefree stupidity
Who is Goku?
This island in Asia, beginning with “Ja”, has the highest population density in the world
What is Java?