World News (mostly from the Delta!)
This country just received antipersonnel landmines from the Biden Administration for its self-defense.
What is Ukraine?
At this event each fall, we honor the Onero Bridge Award winner.
What is the Annual Onero Gala?
This international institution was founded in the 1944 after the Great Depression and WWII to act as a credit union and watch over the values of the world’s currency.
What is the IMF or International Monetary Fun?
This country just held the most recent Summer Olympics.
What is France?
This U.S. President gave the Gettysburg Address.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Chinese-owned app is under threat of being banned in the United States if not sold to a different non-Chinese parent company.
What is Tiktok?
The Onero Institute was founded in this year.
What is 2020?
Located in Geneva, Switzerland, this international institution was pivotal in helping countries with their COVID-19 response.
What is WHO or the World Health Organization?
Located in Northeastern Africa, this country is known for housing the only one of the Seven Wonders of the World that still exists today.
What is Egypt?
This British Prime Minister led during WWII.
Who is Winston Churchill?
Spain's Ministry of Social Rights and Consumer Affairs fined five of these type of companies for violation of consumer rights, including charging for hand luggage and seat reservations. Sorry, Ryanair!
What are airline companies?
The Onero Institute has this many teams (as of Fall 2024).
What is 12?
This international institution was just joined by Finland (2023) and Sweden (2024), though it has not offered official membership to Ukraine just yet.
What is NATO or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
This South American country is famous for its tango and is the main producer of yerba mate.
What is Argentina?
This Soviet leader introduced Glasnost and Perestroika.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Police in Brazil indicted this former president and others for allegedly plotting and attempting a coup after he lost the 2022 presidential election.
Who is Jair Bolsonaro?
This Onero guest speaker was recognized with the Bridge Award in 2023 after her event on U.S.-Pakistan relations.
Who is Dr. Madiha Afzal?
This political and economic international institution has Ireland as a member but not the United Kingdom, who had quite the British exit.
What is the EU or European Union?
Located in the Caucasus region, this country has the same name as a U.S. state and its capital is Tbilisi.
What is Georgia?
This world leader nationalized the Suez Canal and is known for his resistance against Western powers, particularly in wars against Israel.
Who is Gamal Abdel Nasser?
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the ruling party, the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), called for the overhaul of this legal document on the basis that it has limited the country's national development.
What is the DRC's 2006 Constitution?
This is the first of the Onero Institute's 6 values
What is Youth Empowerment?
Established in 1945, this international institution had its first protected sites in the Galapagos Islands and Quito.
What is UNESCO or the United Nations Education Scientific & Cultural Organization?
This Southeast Asian country is the only country whose flag features a building. Hint: The building is the world's largest religious structure.
What is Cambodia?
This British politician served as a food scientist developing soft-serve ice cream before becoming Prime Minister. Bonus: Her name rhymes with her nickname, the "Milk Snatcher".
Who is Margaret Thatcher?