Social + Political
This international organization was created with the objective to promote global health and well-being for all people.
What is the World Health Organization?
This new art style favored experimentation over tradition, emerging around the 1900s.
What is modernism?
This international organization oversees 90% of laws regarding international trade
What is the World Trade Organization?
This man had a good call by inventing the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This is the capital of Peru.
What is Lima?
This was the first major international agreement to reduce carbon emissions.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
The NBA's, Hollywood's, and English's popularity worldwide are all examples of this cultural phenomenon.
What is Americanization?
This technological innovation transformed agriculture by manipulating a cell or organism to change its basic characteristics.
What is genetic engineering?
Gregory Pincus developed this groundbreaking medical advance leading to a decrease in motherhood.
What is birth control?
This is the page that first introduces the Taj Mahal in AMSCO.
What is page 161?
This South American leader transitioned their country to a free-market economy.
Who is Pinochet?
These modern diseases are associated with poverty. (Name at least 3)
What are malaria, tuberculosis, cholera, and polio?
This knowledge economy country rebounded from the lost of the Soviet Union as a manufacturing customer by creating the Science and Technology Council and turning towards technology, innovation, and education for economic growth.
What is Finland?
Jonas Salk saved millions of live by discovering the vaccine for this deadly disease caused by contaminated water.
What is polio?
What is 27?
This system was made to open doors to opportunity to social groups or castes that had faced historical discrimination in a South Asian country.
What is the Caste Reservation in India?
This category of religion includes Buddhism, shamanism, and Sufism, which were all revived for Western audiences in the globalization era.
What is New Age religion?
This global financial institution was created to enable stability in nations’ economies by focusing on short-term loans and economic advice
What is the International Monetary Fund?
This icon iconically spoke the following iconic quote:
"You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes."
Who is Greta Thunberg?
This was the year that the Supreme Court ruled same-sax marriage was legal in the US.
When is 2015?
This is what UNICEF stands for (trick question?).
What is the United Nations Children's Fund? (Originally named United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund but shortened in 1953)
This movement founded by Wangari Maathai as a direct response to environmental degradation, helped women see that they were capable of making change themselves.
What is the Green Belt Movement?
This type of energy accounted for 15% of all global electricity generation in 2022.
What is hydroelectricity?
This position in the UN is the administrative arm of the organization. They usually come from a small, neutral nation so that the influence on the UN is minimal.
Who is the Secretariat? (May take Secretary General)
FINAL JEOPARDY
Make wager
This is the country with the highest rate of tourism.
What is France?