2018 Midterm Elections
What state saw the 2018 election of governor Gretchen Whitmer and congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who represents Wayne County and parts of Detroit?
Michigan
The rivalry between Anwar Ibrahim and Mahathir Mohamad has dominated the last several decades of politics in what country, where the Petronas Towers loom over Kuala Lampur?
Malaysia
The long-term goal of keeping the increase in global average temperature to below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels was set in which international agreement, which the US began formal withdrawal from in November 2019?
Paris Agreement
Alexander Dugin is considered a major ideological influence on what world leader, who is opposed by Alexei Navalny and currently serves as president of Russia?
Vladimir Putin
Which country currently has the largest installed wind power capacity in megawatts in the world?
China
The 2018 elections saw Paul Ryan succeeded as Speaker of the House by what long-serving congresswoman from California?
Nancy Pelosi
What country's prime minister, received extensive media coverage in March 2019 after a mass shooting at a mosque in Christchurch?
New Zealand
The International Criminal Court has its headquarters in what Dutch city, one of the few in the world whose name begins with "the"?
The Hague
Stephen Walt, John Mearsheimer, and Randy Schweller are all associated with what general school of thought in International Relations theory, often contrasted with Liberalism and Constructivism?
Realism (accept specific forms like Neo-Realism, etc.)
Fifteen officials have been criminally charged so far over a crisis triggered in 2014 by contatmined drinking water in what Michigan city?
Flint
Florida's Amendment 4, passed in 2018, restored voting rights that had been stripped from what group of people?
(Ex-)felons (accept equivalents like criminals, people who had been jailed, etc.)
What monarch abdicated the throne in April 2019 in favor of his son, Naruhito?
Akihito (of Japan)
The acronym "R2P" is often used for what doctrine, which includes a commitment by the international community to intervene in cases of major humanitarian disaster?
Responsibility to Protect
Prominent revolutionary Che Guevara was originally from which country, where Alberto Fernandez is currently set to replace Mauricio Macri in Buenos Aires?
Argentina
A tax on any market activity that generates negative externalities is know as what kind of tax? This tax is commonly used to tax pollution emission and is named after an English economist.
Pigouvian tax
What state's board of elections refused to certify the 2018 race between Mark Harris and Dan McCready over widsepread reports of fraud, months before the state's supreme court rejected its gerrymandered districts as unconstitutional?
North Carolina
Who is currently the head of state of the only absolute monarchy in Europe? Hint: most monarchies are not absolute monarchies.
Pope Francis of the Vatican
How many total seats, both permanent and non-permanent, comprise the United Nations Security Council?
15 (5 permanent, 10 non-permanent)
The statement "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" was popularized by which Greek historian, who wrote about the Melian dialogue in his History of the Pelopnnesian War?
Thucydides
What 1962 book helped launch modern environmental reform by warning about DDT and other chemicals, and was written by conservationist Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
The 2019 Democratic response to the State of the Union was delivered by what gubernatorial candidate, who has challenged the legality of her 2018 loss to Brian Kemp for Governor of Georgia?
Stacey Abrams
Alberto Fujimori was president from 1990 to 2000 of which country, where his challengers included Nobel-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa?
Peru
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was succeeded in 1995 by what international organization, the target of major 1999 riots in Seatle?
The World Trade Organization
What post-colonial Palestinian thinker wrote about Western society's engagement with "the East" in the landmark 1978 text Orientalism?
Edward Said
As a response to rising sea levels, the nation of Kirabati ("KIR-a-bas") has begun systematically purchasing land from what other Pacific country, where a coup brought Frank Bainimarama to power in Suva?
Fiji