World Citizenship Test

United States: Who is the “Father of Our Country”?

What year was the Irish Easter Rising?

Australia: Which of these is a role of the governor-general?

Canada: What is the meaning of the Remembrance Day poppy?

What does “traffic light coalition” (Ampelkoalition) mean in Germany? A collaboration between:

Mexico: The basic food of Mesoamerican peoples was:

Britain: Who appoints peers in the House of Lords?

Switzerland: What is “Rütli,” a place in central Switzerland, known for?

Does slavery still happen today?

If we all have "Rights", what do we also have?

In the 18th century (1700s) what did some people "boycott" or refuse to use?

In which part of the world does slavery still happen today?

Lots of different foods and recipes from all over the world have been brought to Britain over its long history! When was an Indian Curry first seen on a menu?

Martin Luther King said that"Before you've finished eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on....." who?

What is a Global Citizen?

What special words are used on products like tea, sugar, bananas or chocolate, to tell us that they have been produced fairly?

What was the name of the movement or "organisation" that campaigned against slavery at the time of William Wilberforce?

Who said that we need not "wait a single minute before starting to improve the world"?

Beirut is the capital of which country?

Norway is located in which continent or region? (According to the common seven-continent model)

Which country is the second largest in Asia by surface area?

What is by area the smallest independent country on Earth?

What is Earth's largest continent by population?

Which country has the longest coastline in the world?

Which continent has the most independent countries (including island nations)?

What is generally considered to be the largest island on Earth? (Australia is regarded a continent)

What is Earth's second largest continent by population?

What is widely considered to be the largest lake on Earth (measured by surface area)?

Which of these is the largest river by discharge of water in the world?

What is Earth's largest continent by surface size?

When and where was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted?

Which of the following are human rights as declared in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Who was the first chairperson of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights?

Where is the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights located?

When was the Human Rights Council established?

The prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races?

Name of the terrorist group of white Southerners who used violence to keep blacks from voting?

Are all Men Created Equal?

When it comes to meeting new people and choosing friends I am proud to say that:

What is the approximate population of the earth?

Approximately what percentage of the world's population lives on less than $1.25 per day?

Where do the majority of those living on less than $1.25 per day live?

What is the most widely spoken language in the world?

Which country has the largest number of English speakers?

What percent of the U.S. Government budget is devoted to foreign aid?

Which country is the leading seller of military arms and equipment?

Which of the following countries does NOT grant birthright citizenship?

Which country has the most nuclear reactors for the purpose of generating electricity?

Approximately how many years does it take for a plastic water bottle to decompose?

Which country has the most earthquakes per year?

Which country holds the most U.S. government debt?

Which country hosts the most branch campuses of U.S. higher education institutions?

What percent of Americans have a passport?

Approximately how many refugees are there in the world?

What percentage of the world's population has access to Primary Education? Secondary? Higher Education?

How many living languages are there?

According to the U.S. Department of State, which concept or statement best describes U.S. foreign policy today?

Believed to be a heliocentric

Considered the greatest genius of the Scientific Revolution

Created the scientific method

Argued that every person was born eith a tabula rasa, or blank mind

Well known for his criticism of Christianity and his strong belief in religious toleration

Believed members of a society should be forced to follow a social contract

University where human dissection provided accurate anatomical data

First country to grant diplomatic recognition to the new American state

Place where the first daily newspaper was printed in 1702

According to the Ptolemic system,

Galileo's observations seemed to indicate that

Which of the following wrote Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy, which presnted a criticism of the that humans were the masters of nature?

Who has been rightly called the father of modern rationalism?

Montesquieu's most lasting contribution to political thought was his

Adam Smith believed in laissez-faire, by which he meant that

The work of __________ shows the use of enchantment in the rococo style.

Which British head of cabinet acquired Canada and India?

The American nation's first constitution was called the

The Scientific Revolution gave rise to the_______________, an eighteenth-century movement that stressed the role of philosophy and reason in improving society.

The Enlightenment produced social thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and an early advocate of women's rights, ______________.

Concern for and application of international human rights principles is

All of the following conditions contribute to the international shortage of food except

Which historical figure is the following quote attributed to:
"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."

Which was the first country to allow women to vote?

Only two countries have not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Somalia is one, what is the other?

In January 2013, a city in which country banned women from ‘straddling motorbikes’ and forced them to sit side saddle?

Which country gained independence on 9 July 2011?

How many countries does the Nile run through (including tributaries)?

How many countries are there in the European Union?

When is International Human Rights Day?

How many rights are there in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

When did the death penalty become illegal in the UK under domestic law?

Which of the following is absolutely prohibited under international law?

In how many US states did same-sex marriage become immediately legal in June 2013?

In which US state must a woman obtain written permission from her husband to wear false teeth?

Which civilly disobedient activist joked that: ‘I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers’

Where did Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his famous ‘I have a dream’ speech in 1963?

Women were not legally allowed to serve in the US military until what year?

Using the justification that women shouldn't be asked to leave the home, or that their sensibilities were too delicate to hear the gory details during a trial, women couldn't serve on a jury in the US until what year:

In wasn't until this year that the United States Supreme Court declared school segregation illegal:

100 years ago, what percentage of Americans had graduated from high school:

100 years ago, what percentage of doctors had no college education:

Working women in the United States could have their careers cut short by being fired if they became pregnant until the passage of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act which outlawed the practice in what year: