GLOBALIZATION TRIVIAS Question Ferdinand Marcos was the president of which country?

GLOBALIZATION TRIVIAS

Question

• Ferdinand Marcos was the president of which country?

Answer

• Philippine

Question

• Suharto was the president for 33 years of which country?

Answer

• Indonesia

Question

• Which country is this?

Answer

• Japan

Question

• Who is the president of Zimbabwe?

Answer

• Robert Mugabe

Question

• What is WTO short for?

Answer

• World Trade Organization

Question

• What does NGOs stand for?

Answer

• Non-Governmental Organizations (is a legally constituted organization created by private organizations or people with no participation or representation of any government.)

• NGOs have developed to emphasize humanitarian issues, developmental aid and sustainable development.

Question

• What is the SLORC in Burma?

Answer

• The State Law and Order Restoration Council

Question

• Who is the Nobel Peace laureate of 1991, being placed house arrest in Burma?

Answer

Aung San Suu Kyi

Question

• In Typical of Southeast Asia, who dominates the Burmese commerce at every level of society?

Answer

The Chinese

Question

• Who opened the Chia Tai Seed Shop in Bangkok?

Answer

• Chia Ek Chor & Chia Siew Whooy

Question

• What’s the current name of Burma?

Answer

•Myanmar

Question

• What’s the percentage of the minority Chinese in Burma?

Answer

5%

Question

• Which country is this?

Answer

• Bolivia

The Seventh Oligarch

Question 1

• What are the market-dominant minorities in the post-communist Russia?

Answer 1

• The Jews

Question 2

• What is the term defined as a hatred toward Jews?

Answer 2

• Anti-Semitism

Question 3

• Who predicted that Russia’s “Jewish problem” would be solved by having one third of them killed, one third of them converted to Christianity, and one third driven out of the country forever?

Answer 3

• Russian statesman Konstantin Pobedonostsev

Question 4

• In 1996 the Russia was greatly influenced by the oligarchs. Who was the president at that time?

Answer 4

• Boris Yeltsin

Question 5

•What does Oligarch mean?

Answer 5

• Oligarch means the rule of the few.

Question 6

•Who are the 7 Russian Oligarchs?

Answer 6

• Roman Abramovich, Pyotr Aven, Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Friedman, Vladimir Gusinsky, Milhail Khodorkovsky, and Vladimir Potanin.

Question 7

• Which one of the seven oligarchs was the only full-blooded ethnic Russian?

Answer 7

• Vladimir Potanin

Question 8

• In the post-communist Russia, what market served as a head start when private business began to be allowed?

Answer 8

• Black market

Question 9

•What is glasnost?

Answer 9

•Openness

Question 10

• Which oligarch was rejected by the “MIT of the Soviet Union” because of his Jewish background?

Answer 10

•Mikhail Friedman

Question 11

• Which oligarch was described by one Russian general as “the apotheosis of sleaziness?”

Answer 11

Boris Berezovsky

Question 12

• Which oligarch was involved in producing the Russian “People’s Car” through a joint venture with General Motors (GM)?

Answer 12

• Boris Berezovsky

Question 13

• Who is this man?

Answer 13

• Former Russian President and the current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin

Question 14

• Who is this man?

Answer 14

• President Boris Yeltsin

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