IR Theory
This type of power comes from military prowess and economic leverage.
What is hard power?
This U.S. President oversaw the tense period known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The nationalists who lost China's civil war subsequently fled to this island.
What is Taiwan?
This was the Israeli Prime Minister who was assassinated following attempts to negotiate a peace agreement with Palestinian leaders.
Who is Yitzhak Rabin?
Mr. Reingold's favorite baseball team most recently won the World Series in this year.
What is 2016?
This tenuous equilibrium prevented the Cold War rivalry from erupting into an all-out war.
What is mutually assured destruction?
This term refers to a member of Russia's elite political and economic class.
What is an oligarch?
This is the economic tool utilized by recent U.S. administrations to counter China's dominance in manufacturing.
What are tariffs?
This was the first attempt by the international community at creating a two-state solution.
What was the UN Partition Plan of 1947? (Or something like that.)
As a junior in high school, Mr. Reingold "starred" in this musical, which takes place in France.
What is Les Miserables?
This 2015 agreement saw most countries around the world agree to reduce their emissions in the future.
What is the Paris Climate Accord? (Or Paris Climate Agreement?)
Russia's justification for the 2022 invasion of Ukraine included an opposition to Ukraine wanting to join this organization.
What is NATO?
In China, students learn that the historical period following the First Opium War is called this.
What is the century of humiliation?
This is the British letter from 1917 which promised the establishment of a "national home" for Jews in Palestine.
What is the Balfour Declaration?
Mr. Reingold spent a college semester studying abroad in this city.
What is Jerusalem?
This is the agreement that first established the principle of state sovereignty on the European continent.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
This Russian dissident and anti-corruption activist was killed by poisoning in 2024.
Who is Alexie Navalny?
This is the item that the United States shot down over its airspace in 2023.
What is a (suspected) Chinese spy balloon?
This is the Arabic term for the War of 1948 and the subsequent displacement of around 750,000 Palestinians.
What is the Nakba?
Mr. Reingold drives this brand of car.
What is a Subaru?
This famous American isolationist was also the first pilot to fly nonstop over the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's famous "Iron Curtain speech" was delivered in this year. (Must be correct within 1 year.)
What is 1946? (1945 or 1947 will also receive credit.)
This is the year that Chinese President Xi Jinping originally came to power. (Must be correct within 1 year.)
What is 2013? (Will also receive credit for 2012 or 2014.)
These are the Jewish and Muslim terms for the holiest sites in Jerusalem.
What are the Western Wall and the Al-Asqa Mosque (or Haram al-Sharif?)
Mr. Reingold eats one of these almost every morning.
What is a banana?