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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.
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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
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 • MikhailFriedman
Question 11 • Which oligarch was described by one Russian general as “the apotheosis of sleaziness?”
Answer 11 Boris Berezovsky