Trade & Finance
Established in 1995, this organization deals with the rules of trade between states and aims to ensure that trade flows as freely as possible
What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
Celebrated since 19 June 1865
What is Emancipation Day (Juneteenth)?
This major global city is located on two continents
What is Istanbul?
This Indian figure practiced non-violence and helped lead his country to independence from the United Kingdom
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
In 1878, an amendment for this was introduced in the U.S. Congress, but it didn’t occur until 1920
What is women’s suffrage?
The economic principle that explains how countries can benefit from trade by specializing in the production of goods in which they have a lower opportunity cost
What is comparative advantage?
Signed on 15 June 1215
What is the Magna Carta?
This country has the most pyramids in the world
What is Sudan?
The last leader of one of the 20th century’s superpowers, this person played a key role in the ending of the Cold War
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
The 2014 Nobel laureate: “I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because….it is the story of many girls”
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
The agreement implemented in 1994 that established the world's largest free trade area between the United States, Canada, and Mexico
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
Died on 28 June 1914
Who was Franz Ferdinand?
In 1889, this US city experienced a fire causing its residents to rebuild and elevate the street level. Now it has a neighborhood of restored underground buildings primarily used for tours
What is Seattle?
This member of the clergy made the case for reconciliation and forgiveness in an African country after the end of a horrifically abusive racist regime
Who is Bishop Desmond Tutu?
The first woman to run for president of the United States?
Victoria Woodhull
Three of the five countries in North Africa and the Middle East with which the US has comprehensive free trade agreements in force
What are Israel, Bahrain, Jordan, Oman, and Morocco?
Surrendered on 18 June 1815
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
This lake in Russia is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume (more water than all the great lakes combined), is in what we call a rift valley, and is slightly larger than the country of Belgium
What is Lake Baikal?
She was the second female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Who is Theresa May?
As the first female Prime Minister of India, she was assassinated by her own bodyguards in 1984
Who is Indira Gandhi?
Replaced in January 2022, this was the key interest rate that was the standard for banks around the world when they borrowed money from each other for short periods
What is LIBOR (or London Interbank Offered Rate)?
Launched on 22 June 1941
What was Operation Barbarossa (German invasion of USSR)?
Greenland and this country are the two protectorates of Denmark
What are the Faroe Islands?
The first American to win a Nobel Prize of any kind for his efforts to broker a peace between Russia and Japan
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The year in which women could get credit cards on their own in the U.S
What is 1974?