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The "A" List
100
On this date, 2,973 people from 50 different countries were killed by terrorists
What was 9/11/2001?
100
As of May 2008, the USA had 270 people detained without warrant at this Naval Base.
What is Guantanamo Bay?
100
This is the leading cause of food emergencies in developing countries
What is drought
100
The per capita income of the richest country is this many times more than that of the poorest country
What is 80?
100
This A is the capital of Turkey
What is Ankara?
200
This Asian country has the largest non-compulsory conscripted armed force, at 1,288,000 people.
What is India?
200
The USA spends more than 4% of its GDP ($536bn as of 2006) on military spending (50% of the entire world's military spend). This South American country is the only one to come close to that % of GDP.
What is Columbia?
200
This country used 77% more energy in 2006 than it did in 1996
What is China
200
The gross national income Venezuela was almost equalled in 2006 by the sales of this motor car company
What is Toyota?
200
This "A" country is only 4 countries to be defined as having a political system in a "state of disorder"
What is Afganistan?
300
The hungriest country in the Caribbean - more than 40% of its population are undernourished.
What is Haiti?
300
As of 2005, the USA was the only country in the world to weigh in at greater than this % of its population as overweight (BMI >25)
What is 70%
300
This 10-meter thick "soup" of plastic flotsam is circulating in areas of the ocean between Asia and North America. An immediate hazard to wildlife, the chemicals it releases will affect human health for centuries to come.
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
300
As of August 2007, the 37 billion searches performed on Google was 4.35 times more than this second most popular search engine
What is Yahoo?
300
This southern hemisphere country has one of the highest levels of peacefulness according to the Global Peace Index in 2008
What is Australia?
400
If you're an Asian man you're most likely to get this kind of cancer. If you come from an english speaking country, you're most likely to get this other kind.
What are Lung Cancer and Prostate Cancer
400
If you were born in Iceland or Japan in 2005, you'd be likely to live more this many years longer than if you were born in the USA
What is 3
400
This product was so commonly found draped in trees in South Africa, it became known as the "national flower". A tax on this product introduced in Ireland in 2002, cut the use by 90%
What are plastic bags?
400
These two Asian countries are responsible for the 50%predicted increase in global demand for energy by the year 2030
What are China and India?
400
At least 150 people were killed in an al Qaida campaign in this country in 2007
What is Algeria?
500
In 2007, this many people in the world were living with HIV/AIDS
What is 33.2 million?
500
In 2008, there were 496 billionaires living in the USA, yet this many million people were living in poverty
What is 51 million
500
This is shrinking by about 8% a decade, threatening the seals and polar bears who need it to survive.
What is the Arctic Ice Sea?
500
These north american neighbours - one is a net exporter of more than 100,000 tonnes of oil equivalent energy per year, the other is a net importer of more than 100,000 tonnes of oil equivalent energy per year. Can't they just work something out??
What are Canada and the USA?
500
This African country has an ethnic diversity of >50%; no single ethnic, national or racial group forms more than half of the population.
What is Angola?