Geography
This city is the capital of Spain.
What is Madrid?
A conflict that split the world into three geopolitical camps that we refer to as the first world, the second world, and the third world.
What was the Cold War?
This currency is currently used as the world's reserve currency.
What is the dollar?
This is Canada's official form of government.
This is the longest river in the world, flowing over 6,000 kilometres through north-eastern Africa.
What is the Nile?
The Japanese city where the first atomic bomb was dropped.
What is Hiroshima?
This term means the financial responsibility of the owners (or shareholders) of a business is limited to the amount they have invested in the business.
What is limited liability?
This is the official number of countries that currently have nuclear weapons at their disposal.
What is nine countries?
This term describes the movement of people from rural areas to cities, often for better job opportunities.
What is urbanisation?
This was the name for the final dynasty in China that ended in the year 1912.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
This tax is imposed by a government on imported goods and services.
What is a tariff?
This organisation has a blue flag with a circle of 12 stars.
What is the EU?
This is the oldest and deepest lake in the world where the only species of freshwater seal live.
What is Lake Baikal?
The name given to the outbreak of the plague in the 14th century that killed up to a third of all the people alive at the time.
What was the Black Death?
This term describes a situation where individuals acting in their own self-interest deplete a shared resource, even if it's detrimental to the overall group.
What is the tragedy of the commons?
This island's government officially became Chinese on 1st July 1997.
What is Hong Kong?
This is the youngest country in the world.
What is South Sudan?
This countries democratic government was overthrown by the CIA and the British Intelligence Service in 1953.
What is Iran?
This is the total monetary value of goods and services produced within a country's borders in a given period of time, usually a year.
These countries are involved in the dispute over the territories in Kashmir.
Who are Pakistan, India, and China?