Preliminaries

15 Questions...but not 15 points.

The UN wasn’t created to take mankind to paradise, but to save humanity from hell. To which Secretary General of the United Nations can you attribute this quote?

Ben Bernanke, Mark Zuckerberg, The Protester, Barack Obama, Pope Francis, Ebola Fighters, Angela Merkel. What?

Iss zameen par bhi khula meray lahoo ka parchamLeh-lahata hai wahan arz-e Falasteen ka AlemTeray aada ne kiya aik Falasteen barbaadMeray zakhmon ne kiye kitnay falasteen aabaad What conflict is being referred to? Name the poet for an extra point.

A joint venture of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, this project is being supported by the US to counterbalance the strategic threat of a Russian, Chinese and Mongolian project of a similar nature. Name the pipeline being referred to here.

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The ancient board game of “Go” was being played at a tournament in X, when a bomb was dropped only 3 miles away. Though the building was damaged and people were injured, they finished the match later that same afternoon (white won)

Identify X and tell us what event is being referred to here.

This infamous event has the privilege of being attributed as one of the reasons for the Soviet Union’s bankruptcy as well as its disintegration. It was also one of the primary points for forging Soviet-US relations, primarily on bio-scientific cooperation. It shaped the way Eastern Europe functioned, and to this date constitutes of 6%-7% of total payments of the Ukrainian government, and 6% of total payments of the Belarusian government. What event?

Identify what is being portrayed in this video. (which we will now proceed to show quite uncoolly)

Connect.

Article 10 of Treaty Y requires a 90 day withdrawal notice. Country X, withdrew in 1993 however after 89 days the withdrawal was retracted. After failed negotiations with US, on 10 January 2003,X announced that it was ending the suspension of its previous Y withdrawal notification. X said that only one more day's notice was sufficient for withdrawal from the Y, as it had given 89 days before. Identify X and Y

China- 1964India- 1998North Korea- 2016

No Fission, Unless Provoked.

Connect.

What does this map signify?

Why is that we have never heard voices in connection with the freedom of people under the suppression and tyranny of Pakistani authorities on the other side of the cease-fire line? Why is it that we have not heard here that in ten years these people have not seen a ballot paper? With what voice can either the Security Council or anyone coming before it demand a plebiscite for a people on our side who exercise franchise, who have freedom of speech, who function under a hundred local bodies?’ An excerpt from the longest speech ever delivered in UN history (8 hours), during which the speaker collapsed and had to be hospitalized. Identify the speaker.

This is an excerpt from what is known as Churchill’s ‘This was their finest hour’ speech. After what event did he give this speech, and what was it that he refers to as ‘their finest hour’?

The assassinations were quick. Hours before they died, each man's family received flowers and a condolence card bearing the same words: "A reminder we do not forget or forgive." What event am I referring to which was recently commemorated at the Summer Olympics in Rio for the first time?

Answers1. Dag Hammerskjold2. TIME Magazine’s Persons of the Year3. Israel-Palestine, Faiz Ahmed Faiz4. TAPI Pipeline5. September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, New York6. Hiroshima, the nuclear bomb dropping on Hiroshima7. Chernobyl Disaster8. Deaths from Terrorist attacks over the past 25 years9. League of Nations10. North Korea (DPRK) and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)11. No First Use Policy12. Countries which have never been invaded by the British Empire13. V. Krishna Menon14. The fall of France15. Black September/Munich Olympics Attacks/Operation Wrath of God