One World Week Quiz 2010
Peacing Together One World
Question and Answer Sheet
1.
Theme
Peace
Question
Thiepval (thee – ep – val) is a memorial in France. It
was erected to honour the missing British and South
African soldiers from the battle of the Somme in
WWI. How many names are on the memorial?
a) 73,357
b) 43,357
c) 23,357
d) 3,357
Answer
a) 73, 357
2.
Peace
Sadako Sasaki has a peace monument in her honour
in Hiroshima. She died from leukaemia as a result of
the atom bomb that was dropped in the area in 1945.
What did she decide to make 1000 of in order to have
her wish granted for the restoration of her health?
Origami paper cranes
3.
Peace
When is the last year for the UN Decade for a Culture
of Peace for our Children?
2010
4.
Peace
True or False: Mahatma Gandhi won the Nobel Peace
Prize at least once during his lifetime?
False. Mahatma Gandhi
was nominated for the
award 5 times but never
won it. However, on the
year of his death (1948)
the committee decided
not to award the prize on
the grounds that ‘there
was no suitable living
candidate’
5.
Peace
True or False: Adolph Hitler was nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize?
True. Adolf Hitler was
nominated once in 1939
by E.G.C. Brandt, member
of the Swedish parliament.
Brandt changed his mind,
however, and the
nomination was
withdrawn in a letter
dated 1 February 1939
6.
Peace
In what year was the Anglo-Irish Treaty signed that
created the Irish Free state?
1921 (6th December)
7.
Peace
Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr.
helped mobilise the black boycott of the bus system
(in protest against segregation) in which town and
state in America in 1955? (half a point for each)
Montgomery, Alabama
8.
Peace
When is United Nations day?
United Nations day is on
the 24th October each
year. One World Week
always falls on the week
surrounding this date
9.
Peace
Who said “When the power of love overcomes the
love of power the world will know peace”?
Jimi Hendrix
In what year was the UN Declaration on the Rights of
the Child drawn up?
1959
10. Peace
11. Religion
What is ‘Samsara’ in Hinduism and Buddhism?
The circle of life, death
and rebirth
12. Religion
How many arms is the Hindu god Vishnu depicted as
having?
a) Two
b) Four
c) Six
(An extra point for each correct object you can list
him as holding)
b) four
He holds a conch shell
(sankha), a discus (chakra),
a lotus (Padma), and a
mace (gada)
The Hindu god Vishnu has
many arms to symbolise
the god's multiple powers.
Whereas we humans have
limited abilities, a god's
power is unlimited. Vishnu
has many arms to signify
that he is a powerful god
who can do, and be, many
things at once.
13. Religion
Who was Siddhartha Gautama?
The Buddha
14. Religion
Name 3 of the ‘5 Ks’ or articles of faith that baptised
Sikhs must wear at all times (one point for each
description, an extra point for each correct term)
Kesh - uncut hair; Kanga a wooden comb; Kara - an
iron bracelet; Kachera - a
specific style of cotton
underwear; Kirpan - a
strapped curved sword
15. Religion
Which religion makes a pilgrimage to the Western
Wall (otherwise known as the Wailing Wall)?
Judaism
16. Religion
What is the Hebrew word for the first five books of
the Bible?
Torah
17. Religion
How old was Jesus when he was crucified?
33 years old
18. Religion
What does the 40 days of Lent correspond to in the
Christian faith?
The 40 days that Jesus
spent fasting in the
wilderness
19. Religion
What is the name of the holy scriptures in Islam?
The Qur’an
20. Religion
What are two of the five pillars of Islam? (one point
for each description, an extra point for each correct
term)
Shahada (Declaration of
faith)
Salat (Prayer 5 times a
day)
Zakat (almsgiving of 2.5%)
Sawm (fasting)
Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca)
21. Development
According to the Department For International
Development (DFID), how many primary aged
children in the world do not attend school?
a) Over 100 million
b) Around 72 million
c) Less than 100,000
d) About 1 million
B)
Globally, 693 million
primary aged children are
enrolled in school. But
there are still around 72
million primary aged
children who are not
enrolled in school
22. Development
According to DFID roughly what percentage of
the people in the world today live on less than
one dollar $1.25 a day?
a) 25%
b) 35%
c) 45%
d) 55%
A) 25% of people live
below the poverty line
compared with 42% in
1990
23. Development
According to DFID, dirty water and inadequate
sanitation kill roughly how many children every
day?
a) Less than 1,100
b) Around 2,100
c) Around 4,100
d) Over 6,100
C) Dirty water and
inadequate sanitation
kill over 4,100 children
every day
24. Development
How many Millennium Development Goals are
there?
There are 8 Millennium
Development Goals
25. Development
How is Malaria transferred from person to
person?
Malaria is spread by
mosquitoes. It is
recognised as both a cause
and consequence of
poverty. Simple
precautions such as bed
nets and accessible drugs
can prevent deaths from
the disease. Malaria No
More aims to end all
deaths from Malaria by
2015
26. Development
How many Fairtrade products are now available
to buy in the UK?
The Fairtrade Foundation
has licensed over 3,000
Fairtrade certified
products for sale through
retail and catering outlets
in the UK
27. Development
In 2008/2009 how much money did the
Department For International Development
(DFID) spend on international development?
In 2008/09, the UK
government gave £5.5
billion in international
development assistance.
This money is spent on
government and civil
society, health, economic
growth, education,
humanitarian assistance,
social services, research,
water and sanitation
supplies, and
environmental protection
28. Development
A child born in a developing country is how many
times more likely to die within the first five years
of life than a child born in an industrialized
country?
a) Less than 3 times more likely
b) Around 7 times more likely
c) Around 10 times more likely
d) More than 13 times more likely
A child born in a
developing country is over
13 times more likely to die
within the first five years
of life than a child born in
an industrialized country.
Sub-Saharan Africa
accounts for about half the
deaths of children under
five in the developing
world (DFID 2008)
29. Development
Since 1990 how many more people have gained
access to safe drinking water?
a) Two hundred thousand
b) 3.4 million
c) 1.6 billion
d) 2.5 billion
Some 1.6 billion people
have gained access to safe
drinking water since 1990.
At this rate, the world is
expected to meet the
MDG target on drinking
water. But about 1 billion
people still do not have
access to safe drinking
water, and 2.5 billion lack
access to basic sanitation
services
30. DDevelopment
Who is the United Nations’ Secretary-General?
Ban Ki-Moon
31. Pop
culture
Band Aid released their single ‘Do They Know Its
Christmas’ in which year?
1984
32. Pop
culture
The 2006 film Blood Diamond features a diamond
smuggler (Leonardo DiCaprio) and a Mende fisherman
(Djimon Hounsou) who join together to recover a rare
pink diamond of immense value and rescue the
fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier during a
civil war. In which country was the film set?
Blood Diamond was set
during Sierra Leone’s Civil
War of 1991-2002 - Over
the last ten years hundreds
of thousands of children
have fought and died in
conflicts around the world.
Many NGOs do what they
can to prosecute those
found guilty of recruiting
children, establish legal
protection for children
under the age of 18, and
rehabilitate those
previously conscripted
33. Pop
culture
In the 2008 film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ Jamal Malik,
the eighteen year-old orphan from the slums of India
comes close to winning 20 million rupees on the
Indian version of ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’. In
which Indian city is the slum?
Mumbai - India has
significant social,
economic and
environmental problems. It
has the largest
concentration of the poor
in the world, with
approximately 75% of the
population living in rural
areas, the majority of
whom are illiterate.
Furthermore, an estimated
one third of the Indian
population lives below the
poverty line
http://www.islamicrelief.org.uk/India.aspx
34. Pop
culture
JK Rowling wrote the famous Harry Potter books.
However, when she was a postgraduate JK Rowling
worked in the London office of which international
charity?
As a postgraduate, JK
Rowling worked at the
London office of Amnesty
International, doing
research into human rights
abuses in Francophone
Africa
35. Pop
Culture
Name the artist, title and year of release into the UK
charts for this song (one point for each):
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
John Lennon, Imagine,
1975
And the world will be as one
36. Pop
Culture
In the film ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ (2004) a
climatologist tries to figure out a way to save the
world from abrupt global warming. He must get to his
young son in New York, which is being taken over by a
new ice age. But according to NRDC and satellite
images from NASA, how many percent each decade
are the polar ice caps receding by?
a) 3%
b) 5%
c) 9%
d) 11%
Images from NASA
satellites show that the
area of permanent ice
cover is contracting at a
rate of 9 percent each
decade. If this trend
continues, summers in the
Arctic could become icefree by the end of the
century (NRDC)
37. Pop
culture
Name the artist and title of the song these lyrics are
taken from (one point for each):
What have we done to the world
Look what we've done
What about all the peace
That you pledge your only son...
What about flowering fields
Is there a time
What about all the dreams
That you said was yours and mine...
Michael Jackson, Earth
Song
38. In the
news
Barack Obama was inaugurated as the president of
the USA on January 20th 2009. Within the first week of
his presidency he signed a document to do what, in a
stance against human rights abuses?
Barack Obama moved to
close Guantanamo bay, a
detention camp in Cuba.
Detainees were not
entitled to any of the
protections given to other
citizens and there are
many accusations of
torture associated with
the prison
39. In the
news
2009 saw the Copenhagen Climate treaty negotiations
take place, and for many the result was disappointing.
But what is the all important temperature rise that we
must stay below if we are to limit the climate change
crisis?
2 degrees Celsius
40. In the
news
Which famous brand name chocolate launched its
first Fairtrade chocolate bar in 2009?
Cadburys (Nestle released
their first Fairtrade
chocolate in January 2010)
Picture Round
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Islamic Relief UK
United Nations
Mother Teresa
Sir Bob Geldof
Bono from U2
Mahatma Gandhi
Iceland
Namibia
Papua New Guinea
Mongolia