Africa
True or False: South Sudan is the newest country in the world, forming in 2013.
True
True or False: Over 80% of the women in Middle Eastern countries work and have jobs.
False
True or False: China currently has the largest population of any country, with close to 1.4 Billion.
False
Which country was once a colony of Britain, where 50,000 criminals were sent too in the 18th century?
Australia
Which movie series based on a book was famously filmed in New Zealand?
Lord of the Rings
What disease has a significantly high number of cases in Sub-Saharan African nations like Nigeria, and South Africa?
HIV/AIDS
What is the most common religion in Israel?
Judaism (Jewish)
Vodka, a popular alcoholic beverage in Russia is made with what crop?
Potatoes
This country has had many instances of volcanic eruptions over the last million or so years.
New Zealand
A chain of islands, like Japan and the Philippines, is known as what geographic term?
An archipelago
True
An important Holiday in the Islamic faith, where practitioners fast all day long to develop discipline and develop empathy for those less fortunate?
Ramadan
What was the name of the war that separated North and South Korea into two nation in 1953?
The Korean War
What were the names of the two Japanese cities that were bombed with nuclear weapons by the USA at the end of WWII?
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Which country is known for sponsoring terrorist groups in the Middle East, by funding, arming and training them.
Iran
South Africa historically was colonized by Great Britian, in which an apartheid state was created between whites and blacks. Which person fought against this apartheid, was jailed, and later became president of South Africa?
Nelson Mandela
What is the name of the city in Saudi Arabia that Muslim people MUST visit, and revolve around a black cube, to get to heaven in the Islamic faith?
Mecca
Hong Kong is a special economic district in which Asian country?
China
Which 3 nations have historically controlled the Philippines through colonial means?
Spain, France, and the USA.
The second largest rainforest in the world, after the Amazon, is located in which Sub-Saharan African Nation?
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC or Congo)
Which 3 countries have the highest GDP in Africa? These 3 countries make up almost HALF the entire GDP of the continent.
Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa.
Today, a form of legal slavery exists in the Middle East where people sign a contract to work for a company/group, with very little benefit other than food and shelter. What is this system called?
Kafala
What is the main religion people of India practice?
Hinduism
What 3 climate zones are prominent within Australia?
Tropical (North)
Temperate (East)
Arid/Desert (West)
Which country in the Middle East loves wrestling, but they takes it up a notch by lathering each other in oil first?
Turkey