EUROPEAN UNION
"THE WASHINGTON CONSENSUS"
ENVIRONMENTALISM
CONSUMER CULTURE
Modern Architecture
100
This economic and political union began with six Western European countries in 1957
What is the European Community?
100
This agreement on free trade and tariff reduction was signed in 1947
What is GATT?
100
This cartel created the oil shocks of the 1970s
What is OPEC?
100
This American theme park opened near Paris in 1992
What is Disneyland Paris (or Euro Disney Resort)
100
Modern Architecture is related to the global growth of this
What is population?
200
This treaty, signed in Belgium in 1991, committed the EC member states to a monetary union
What is the Maastricht Treaty?
200
This bank provides loans to developing countries
What is the World bank?
200
This protocol to limit greenhouse gas was signed in 1997
What is the Kyoto Accord?
200
This American painter was the most prominent Abstract Expressionist until he died in a car crash in 1956
What is Jackson Pollack?
200
Modern Architecture was partly a response to this nineteenth century trend
What is Gothic Revival?
300
The name for critics of the European Union
Who are "Euro-pessimists?" (or Euro-skeptics)
300
This organization supervises and adjudicates trade agreements between nation states
What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
300
W.G. Bush would not sign the Kyoto Accord unless it contained this measure
What are pollution rights (or "cap and trade")
300
This small record label discovered Elvis Presley
What is Sun REcords
300
The Pruitt-Igo modern apartment complexes were demolished in this city in 1972
What is St. Louis?
400
After this country rejected the proposed European Constitution, it was streamlined and renamed the European Treaty
What is France (or Netherlands)
400
This economic theory states that if wealth is created at the top of the income ladder, everyone will eventually become richer
What is "Trickle Down" economics?
400
This country shut down smokestacks in 2008 because it feared an international backlash
What is China? (2008 Olympics)
400
Before LPs, these records were made of Shellac
What are 78s?
400
This famous opera house quotes the ocean surroudnings
What is the Sydney Opera House?
500
This country rejected membership in the EU because it is economically self-sufficient
What is Norway?
500
This American economist from the "Chicago School" spread the ideas of the free market that influenced Reagan and Thatcher
What is Milton Friedman?
500
Some scientists predict the earth will warm this many degrees by 2100
What is six degrees?
500
This avant-garde composer of electronic music influenced Paul McCartney
Who is Karlheinz Stockman?
500
The postmodern Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Gehry opened in this Spanish city in 1997
What is Bilbao?
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