Amendment to the US Constitution which protects against self-incrimination.
What is the 5th?
100
These are the two cities that held the presidential conventions in 2012.
What are Tampa and Charlotte?
100
Host of television program “Hello, President,” this man is the populist ruler of Venezuela.
Who is Hugo Chavez?
100
The top four most populous US cities in declining order of total population size.
What are New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston?
100
Atomic bombs are, like chemical and biological weapons, WMD. This is what WMD stands for.
What is weapons of mass destruction?
200
This justice is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Who is John Roberts?
200
The number of electoral college votes it takes to win the presidential election.
What is 270?
200
Country that is the target of the FARC guerrilla struggle.
What is Colombia?
200
This Middle Eastern emporium is home to the Burj Khalifa, at 828 meters the tallest in the world when built in 2010.
What is Dubai?
Fun fact: The Burj Dubai was renamed Burj Khalifa when the leader of Abu Dhabi bailed out indebted Dubai during a financial crisis in 2010.
200
This country, victim of a tsunami and nuclear disaster in 2011, has faced a struggle between anti-nuclear voters and pro-nuclear business interests in 2012.
What is Japan?
300
Article 1 of the Constitution deals with this branch of government.
What is the legislature?
300
According to Politico.com, name two swing states up for grabs in the presidential election of 2012.
What are (2 of) Nevada, Colorado, Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina?
300
This organization is the regional organization for the nations of the Western hemisphere.
What is the Organization of American States?
300
This city, at almost 11 million, is the most populous in Latin America.
What is Sao Paolo, Brazil?
300
This leader of North Korea isn’t much older than most of you in this room, and he has nuclear weapons.
Who is Kim Jong Un?
400
The important 2010 Supreme Court decision which, on free speech grounds, prevented limitation of political speech by corporations, unions, and others.
What is Citizens United (or the longer name: Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission)?
400
Who was the last presidential election winner (candidate and year) who won a majority of the electoral votes but did not win the popular vote?
Who is Bush, 2000?
400
Former leftist guerrilla who became president of Brazil in 2011.
Who is Dilma Rousseff?
400
A post-colonial renaming movement in India has seen the common Bombay renamed this.
What is Mumbai?
400
This former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and Nobel Peace Prize winner fancied himself a potential president of Egypt following the Arab Spring protests in that country.
Who is Mohammad El Baradei?
500
Number of the Constitutional Amendment which allowed women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th?
500
This Congressman created a stir in election 2012 when his comments to a reporter suggested that there might be something called “legitimate rape.”
Who is Todd Akin?
500
President and nation that have offered asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
Who is Rafael Correa and what is Ecuador?
500
This city is the commercial capital of Nigeria.
What is Lagos?
500
Besides the Permanent-5 members of the United Nations Security Council, these three other nations are declared nuclear weapons states (and non-signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty).