In other news... (not IR-related)
In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope team made history by being taking the first photo of this celestial object.
Black Hole
This name for the group of countries that lost the war dates to a 1936 German-Italian pact
Axis Powers
In what year was the United Nations established?
1945
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This treaty ended the “Great War”
What is the name of the 6th branch of the US military, created by Trump?
The United States Space Force
Researchers have recently proposed perovskite-based solar cells as a more efficient alternative to cells made of this traditional material.
Silicon
What two alliance formed after World War II, which helped kickstart the Cold War?
NATO and The Warsaw Pact
Who is the current Secretary-General of the UN?
António Guterres
In what decade was the Warsaw Pact created?
1950s
Where is Trump's legal residency? (state)
Florida
This computing superpower made headlines in 2019 for claiming “quantum supremacy” over its competitors by building a quantum computer that performed a computation in 200 seconds that would have taken a standard supercomputer 10,000 years.
Date of Pearl Harbor bombing
December 7th, 1941
The first female U.S. ambassador to the U.N. She published the book "Political Woman" in 1974
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Name two of the four UN-recognized countries that the U.S. does not have formal diplomatic relations with.
Iran, Bhutan, North Korea, Syria.
What was the name of the national security advisor who resigned amid accusations he lied about his communications with a Russian Ambassador?
Michael Flynn
This gene editor was first unveiled in 2012, but clinical trials to test its effectiveness against cancer, various blood disorders, and one form of hereditary blindness just began in mid-2019.
CRISPR / Cas9
The final land battle of WWII was fought on this island in the Ryukyus in June 1945
Okinawa
In 1992 this troubled European nation was expelled from the United Nations
Yugoslavia
What is the Sykes-Picot Agreement?
In an attempt to delineate their spheres of influence in the then Ottoman empire, the UK and France worked with Italy and the Russian Empire to craft this agreement in 1916.
Which 7 Countries are currently apart of the travel ban enacted by Trump via an executive order?
Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, North Korea
In 2019, researchers completed a reconstruction of this distant human relative that coinhabited the earth with modern humans and Neanderthals 100,000 years ago.
Denisovan
Which country finally finished paying its World War II reparations in 2010?
Germany
The U.N. flag features a map of the world surrounded by a wreath of these
Olive leaves/ branches
This is both the name of the treaty that ended the U.S. Revolutionary War and the location where it was signed
Treaty of Paris
What is Jared Kushner’s official position in the White House?
Senior Advisor to the President