Current Events
Name an ongoing war.
What is:
Russia/Ukraine
Israel/Gaza
Sudanese Civil War
etc...
This type of extremely destructive weapon, created in the 1940s and used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is regulated by the UN.
What is nuclear weaponry?
The UN headquarters are in this city.
What is New York City?
The world is more connected culturally, economically and politically.
What is globalization?
This basketball team plays in Los Angeles.
What is the Lakers or Clippers?
Donald Trump, the King of Spain, and Netanyahu (today) were all at this event in the last week.
What is the UN General assembly?
After World War 2, these were the big superpowers.
What is the United States and Soviet Union?
Name at least three permanent members of the Security Council.
What is:
USA
Russia
France
UK
China
Define veto.
What is a no vote that blocks a decision?
Football player Travis Kelce is engaged to this pop singer.
Who is Taylor Swift?
Two weeks ago, officials from the US and China met here, in Madrid, to discuss the sale of this social media platform.
What is Tik Tok?
The League of Nations started right after this war.
What is World War 1?
UN Peacekeepers where this color helmet.
What is blue?
Much of Africa, Asia and the Middle East gained independence through this process in the first few decades after the founding of the UN.
What is decolonization?
He wrote Don Quixote.
Miguel de Cervantes.
He is the president of Ukraine.
Who is Volodymyr Zelenskyy?
Name at least two countries that gained independence or was newly created after the formation of the United Nations.
What is:
a lot of countries...
Name at least two of the six organs of the UN.
What is:
Security Council
General Assembly
Economic and Social Council
Trusteeship Council
International Court of Justice
Secretariat
Define a General Assembly resolution.
What is a decision voted on by all 193 member states?
This is the capital city of Thailand.
What is Bangkok?
This late night talk show host returned to the air after being suspended for comments about Charlie Kirk.
Who is Jimmy Kimmel?
The United States was funneling money to the Contras militia in this Central American country despite the UN's calls not to do so.
What is Nicaragua?
This person is the UN Secretary General.
Who is António Guterres?
Define structural adjustment.
What is a set of policies a country must adopt to secure loans from the IMF and/or World Bank?
The amount of opening moves you can make in a game of chess with a knight.
What is four?