Thinking About Our World
What is a global citizen?
What is a global citizen is someone who understands how local actions ripple into global consequences and actively participates in their community with an awareness of the wider world.
What year was the Genocide Convention ratified?
What is 1948
How many Human rights are there? What is the document called?
What is 30 rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
What year had the highest rate of piracy in Somalia?
What is 2009
Pope Leo XIV is the first
US American born Pope
Describe TWO skills and/or attributes integral to being an engaged global
citizen.
What is:
Cultural awareness
Critical thinking
Empathy
Communication skills
Collaboration
Adaptability
Ethical reasoning
Global perspective
Problem-solving
Social responsibility
What is the key action that is required for the killing of a group to be considered genocide?
What is intent
What human right did the documentary Citizen Four cover?
What is Privacy
What is the name of the movie we watched and who is the main actor?
What is Captain Phillips and Tom Hanks
What is the TikTok channel Halo? Why was it controversial?
What is the channel, dubbed the "lil sis" of Sky Sports UK, was met with a big backlash from men and women, criticising its content and prompting its shutdown.
Sports fans and podcasters have called for more and consistent mainstream coverage of women's sport without attempting to dumb the subject down.
What is a thinking Routine & give an example
What is Thinking Strategies using Thinking Tools are the patterns by which we operate and go about the job of thinking, learning, and working with others. A
routine can be thought of as any procedure, process, or pattern of action that is used repeatedly to manage and facilitate the accomplishment of specific goals or tasks and to improve our thinking and learning abilities. Think-Pair-Share and mind maps are examples of thinking routines. They are strategies that can be used as action plans for determining what
you know and what you need to know about an issue.
What were the two groups involved in the Rwandan Genocide. Who was the victim and who was the perpetrator?
What is the Hutu extremists as the perpetrators and Tutsi people as the primary victims.
What does UNICEF Stand for? What do they do?
UNICEF stands for the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund. It works to protect the rights of children worldwide by providing health care, education, nutrition, and emergency relief in crises.
Give 2 reasons for the start of piracy in Somalia
What is
Collapsed government
Illegal Fishing
Dumping of Toxic Waste
Who was involved in the February 28, 2025, high-stakes meeting in the Oval Office?
What is President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
Anarchism
What is a political theory advocating the abolition of hierarchical government and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to force or compulsion.
What are the 6 levels of blooms taxonomy?
What is
Remembering
Understanding
Applying
Analysing
Evaluating
Creating
What are UN Peacekeepers? Who deploys them. List ONE country they are currently deployed in (must be within top 15).
What is UN Peacekeepers are military, police, and civilian personnel deployed to help maintain peace and security in conflict areas. They are deployed by the United Nations
Western Sahara, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria (Golan), Cyprus, Lebanon Sudan (Abyei- region disputed between Sudan & South Sudan), Kosovo, India–Pakistan border / region, Israel/Palestine
The main body of water surrounding key trade route in Somali waters
What is Gulf of Aden
What did the Dalai Lama announce in 2025? Why was it controversial
What is the Dalai Lama announced that he will have a successor after his death and that only his own trust and Tibetan Buddhist leaders — not the Chinese government — have the authority to identify his reincarnation. This was controversial because it directly challenged Beijing’s claim that it alone can approve the next Dalai Lama, raising the prospect of two rival successors.
What are the four quadrants of the political compass?
What is
Authoritarian Left
Authoritarian Right
Libertarian Left
Libertarian Right
Name the 10 stages of genocide in order
What is
Classification
Symbolisation
Discrimination
Dehumanisation
Organisation
Polarisation
Preparation
Persecution
Extermination
What does article (4,5,9,13,24) cover in the UDHR
Article 4 - No Slavery
Article 5 - No torture
Article 9 - Arbitrary Arrest
Article 13 - Freedom to Move
Article 24 - Leisure
What is the name of the vessel that we watched a documentary on and how many fishermen were held hostage?
What is Naham 3 which had 26 hostages
What was the biggest Film of 2025 according to the box office? *Hint its not American!
Ne Zha 2 - Not only the first non-Hollywood film to gross over $1 billion US, but one that eventually went on to earn over $2.2 billion and counting — with virtually all of that coming from its home country of China. That makes Ne Zha II the highest-grossing animated movie of all time, even when adjusted for inflation.