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What’s Your Geopolitical IQ? Take the Quiz and Find Out!


    1. Balfour is:
    1. A type of French oven
    2. A kind of pastry made with raisin bread
    3. A British statesman who promised the Jewish people in 1917 a homeland in Palestine


    2. Which country was the first to recognize the independence of the United States of America in 1777:
    1. Spain
    2. Switzerland
    3. Morocco


    3. OPEC’s headquarters are located in:
    1. Vienna, Austria
    2. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    3. Teheran, Iran


    4. Java, Sumatra and Kalimantan are:
    1. Islands in Malaysia
    2. Coffee flavors from Starbucks
    3. Islands in Indonesia


    5. Sykes-Picot is:
    1. An international law firm headquartered in Geneva
    2. A secret agreement between the French and the British to carve up the Middle East signed in 1916
    3. A wine from Bordeaux, France


    6. The largest recipient of US foreign aid is:
    1. Iraq
    2. Israel
    3. Mexico


    7. Which country exports the most crude oil to the United States:
    1. Saudi Arabia
    2. Canada
    3. Iraq


    8. Operation Ajax is:
    1. A new marketing campaign for a laundry detergent
    2. A clandestine CIA operation to eliminate Fidel Castro by poisoning his cigars
    3. A joint American and British covert intelligence operation launched in 1953 to overthrow the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister


    9. Which country is NOT a member of OPEC:
    1. Venezuela
    2. Malaysia
    3. Indonesia


    10. This country has a monarch:
    1. Tunisia
    2. UK
    3. Syria


    11. Ghawar is:
    1. The stage name of a famous Moroccan singer
    2. A type of Lebanese delicatessen
    3. The largest oil field on Earth located in Saudi Arabia


    12. Habibi is:
    1. A fragrance for women
    2. An Arabic word for “darling”
    3. A former Lebanese Prime Minister


    13. Out of the following countries, which exports the most oil daily:
    1. Norway
    2. Kuwait
    3. United Arab Emirates


    14. Out of the following countries, which produces the most oil daily:
    1. United States
    2. Algeria
    3. Qatar


    15. In 1969 the British government issued the following statement about which person, “He’s a presentable young man with an engaging smile. If only we could see more of him, it would be possible to do business”:
    1. Mohammed Pahlevi
    2. Muammar Qaddafi
    3. Saddam Hussein


    16. The word “Baath” in Iraq’s “Baath Party” means:
    1. Renaissance
    2. Water
    3. Terror


    17. What does “al-jazeera” mean?
    1. Algeria
    2. Island
    3. Truth






Answer Key: 1. C, 2. C, 3. A, 4. C, 5. B, 6. B, 7. B, 8. C, 9. B, 10. B, 11. C, 12. B, 13. A, 14. A, 15. C, 16. A, 17. B


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