Geography
The only continent with land in all four hemispheres?
What is Africa?
This organization, formed in 1949, is a military alliance among various North American and European states.
What is NATO?
The city currently hosting COP 28.
What is Dubai?
In 2018, the U.S. Embassy in Israel moved from one city to another. The embassy is now located in this city.
What is Jerusalem?
The name and country of the current UN Secretary General.
What is António Guterres and Portugal? (Must name both)
The tax imposed on imported goods to protect domestic industries and increase government revenue.
What is a tariff?
The newest country recognized by the UN.
What is South Sudan?
The city and country housing the African Union headquarters.
What is Addis Ababa, Ethiopia?
Nigel Farage is most associated with what 2016 event that sent shocks around the world?
Brexit
The 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties guaranteed the transfer of control of the Panama Canal from this country back to Panama after 1999.
What is the U.S.?
The name of the current president of the World Bank?
What is Ajay Banga?
This economic indicator is often used to measure income inequality, representing the dispersion of income distribution within a population.
What is the GINI coefficient?
The number of countries in the United Kingdom?
What is 4?
The number of member states in the UN Security Council.
What is 15?
On August 2, 2022, Nancy Pelosi arrived in this city, leading to an angry response from the government of the PRC.
What is Taipei?
The global organization tasked with promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
What is UNESCO? The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
After serving as United States ambassador to Czechoslovakia, former child star Shirley Temple served as Ambassador to this West African country.
What is Ghana?
Trump placed tariffs on these two metals coming from China because they harmed the US' comparative advantage in aircraft manufacturing.
What are steel and aluminum? Must name both.
The three countries with borders formed by the Amazon River?
What are Colombia, Peru, and Brazil?
The two non-member observer states in the United Nations.
What are Palestine and Vatican City?
In late October these two countries were involved in a dispute in the South China Sea in which one country’s boat rammed another’s.
What are China and the Philippines? Must name both countries.
Since 1952, this international organization has had its headquarters in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan at a complex that stretches more than six blocks.
What is the United Nations?
The first (and current) British Asian Prime Minister.
What is Rishi Sunak?
Since December 2019, which WTO member has single-handedly paralyzed its appellate body via withholding its nominations, preventing quorums?
What is the US?
The capital of Oman.
Muscat
The only country to have ever left the UN.
What is Indonesia? (1965)
Pakistan’s government is currently deporting refugees back to this country.
What is Afghanistan?
These was a viral video featuring the town of Baarle-Nassau which sits in a complicated border area between these two countries.
What are the Netherlands and Belgium?
The current Canadian foreign minister, she’s considered to be a strong candidate to be the next, and the first female, NATO SecGen.
What is Mélanie Joly?
The concept of unfairly low pricing of exports such that producers in the importing country are harmed.
What is dumping?
China, Brunei, Vietnam, and this country are all claimants of features in the South China Sea. Over half of this country’s landmass resides on the island of Borneo, and it shares borders with both Indonesia and Thailand.
What is Malaysia?
Established in 1959, this organization serves as the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean.
What is the Inter-American Development Bank? IOr IADB, or IDB.
Drawing the world’s attention, many memes, and even disrupting $465 million in international trade, in early 2021, the Evergiven container ship famously got lodged in the dirt on the side of this canal.
What is the Suez Canal?
The Rush-Bagot Pact of 1817 negotiated the removal of British ships from these U.S. bodies of water.
What are the Great Lakes?
3/7 of the IPSA board has traveled to, lived in, and/ or studied abroad in this country, and other IPSA board members therefore sometimes refer to them internally as the ‘IPSA ______ caucus’. Hint: the answer is a demonym- e.g.’Japanese’, ‘American’, etc…
What is German?
What is arguably the most well-known round of multilateral trade negotiations, this round was named after, started in, and partially took place in which country in South America?
Uruguay
The deepest place on Earth.
What is Challenger Deep? Or What is the Mariana Trench? (only need one)
What is the name of the agreement, adopted in 2015, that aims to limit global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The Paris Agreement
As part of Ann Arbor’s Sister Cities program, local officials traveled to this European country earlier this year. It’s home to the Black Forest and the Rhine river makes up part of the border between this country and Switzerland. What is this country?
What is Germany?
Petr Pavel, the current Czech president, was relentlessly memed and mocked online in late October for his gaffe at a Czech independence day event, where he knocked off a nearby soldier’s hat with this object.
What is a flagpole? Also accept: flag, pole, Czech flag, heavy flag, heavy flagpole, etc
This country has the longest serving head of state.
What is Equatorial Guinea?
This organization links 11,000 banks in more than 200 countries and is based in Belgium. In the wake of its invasion of Ukraine, Russia was ‘quick’- ly removed from this global financial system.
What is SWIFT?
Czechia is landlocked by four neighboring European countries: Germany, Poland, Austria, and this fourth country whose capital city is Bratislava.
What is Slovakia?
In what village and state did the 1944 UN conference occur that led to the establishment of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund?
Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
In 1984, friendly ‘fire’ between these two generally peaceful NATO founders began. In 2022, this arguably wholesome ‘dispute’ was finally settled in order to demonstrate to Russia that land disputes can be solved peacefully. Prior to this, the countries always left free whisky or Schnapps for the other whenever switching out the other’s flag for their own. These two countries were involved in this long-running, yet minor and often humorous, dispute.
What are Canada and Denmark? (For extra credit: Disputed was Hans Island, between Nunavut & Greenland)
The world’s largest exclave, due to its oil revenues, it has been able to issue a version of universal basic income to its residents. It is sparsely populated and is thus famous for its wildlife and wilderness.
What is Alaska, USA?
During 2021's UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, activists dressed as this pokemon to protest the continued use of coal by Japan.
What is Pikachu?
A landmark piece of legislation passed in the United States, Joe Biden signed into law this bill that unintentionally kicked off an EV subsidy trade war between US and its allies. It shares initials with a well-known army west of Britain.
What is the IRA? Accept also: Inflation Reduction Act