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What are nuclear weapons?
The UN has forbid Iran from developing these weapons that Iran may be developing, despite their denials.
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Who is Al Gore?
This Former Vice President and Presidential candidate spearheaded the fight against global warming with his film an Inconvenient Truth.
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What is the cell phone?
This ubiquitous device has helped poorer nations by giving them access to banking, the internet, and for verification if medication is real,
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What is Saudi Arabia?
In this Middle Eastern kingdom, a US ally, women are not allowed to drive, vote, or go out unaccompanied by a man.
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What is Latin America?
The new pope is from this region of the world.
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What are cloaks that Muslim women wear in public?
The burqa, chador, abaya, and niqb are examples of these
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What are London, Venice, Cairo, Bangkok, and Shanghai?
Two world cities that could be critically endangered by the sea rising due to global warming.
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What is the 3D printer?
This new innovation allows any object designed on the computer to be created in plastic
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What is Afghanistan?
The case of Sahar Gul in which she was forced to marry at 13 and was beaten and tortured oby her in-laws shone a light on the vulnerability of women in this country.
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What are Newtown, CT and Aurora, CO
The two most recent mass shootings took place in these towns.
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What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
The US no longer has an embassy in Iran because of this 1979 event.
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What is Greenland?
The region with vast mineral deposits that are now accessible because of melting Arctic ice.
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What is a drone?
Anwar Al-Awlaki, an American-born radical Muslim cleric was assassinated using this device.
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What are the same physical tests required by men for the same jobs?
The requirement for women who now wish to serve in combat positions in the US military.
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What is for advocating for the education of girls in Pakistan.
Malala Yousafai was shot in the head for this reason.
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What is a theocracy?
The type of government currently in Iran in which religious laws are state laws.
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What is the Greenhouse Effect?
A scientific phenomena in which warm air is trapped in the atmosphere by gases rather than being reflected back to the sun.
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Who are China and Iran?
The two countries thar are of most concern when it comes to cyberattacks.
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What is $.77?
The average wmoen makes this wage for every dollar that a man makes.
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Who is Kim Jong Un?
This North Korean leader has been threatening to use nuclear weapons.
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Who is the shah?
The US and the CIA engineered a coup d'etat to overthrow Iran's first Prime Minister and installed this man instead in 1953.
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What is the Kyoto Protocol?
An agreement between 37 countries to reduce carbon emissions adopted in 1997 and put into practice in 2005.
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What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The first atomic bomb was dropped on these two cities.
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What is less than 3/4 of the states ratified it?
The ERA amendment was not ratified for this reason.
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What is Egypt?
Mohammed Morsi granted himself sweeping powers in this country.
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