2012 AWQ
Round 1
Africa and the Americas
Answers
Green Answer Sheet
1. What is the capital of El Salvador?
A. Santa Ana
B. San Vicente
C. San Miguel
D. San Salvador
2. PIPA and SOPA bills passed by the US
Congress caused controversy. What is the
aim of these two bills?
A. Anti-piracy and intellectual property protection
B. Anti-piracy and election fraud control
C. Anti-government corruption and fraud control
D. None of the above
3. Which ocean borders Somalia?
A. Pacific
B. Indian
C. Atlantic
D. Southern
4. Which African country is this?
A. Angola
B. Democratic Republic of
Congo
C. Namibia
D. Botswana
5. Who is the current president of
Cuba?
A. Fidel Castro
B. Otto Perez Molina
C. Raul Castro
D. Leonel Fernandez
6. Which Somali militant group presents
itself as a morally righteous rebel force
and the defender of pure Islam?
A. Lord’s Resistance Army
B. Boko Haram
C. Al Qaeda
D. Al Shabaab
7. Which two African countries border
each other?
A. Morocco and Tunisia
B. Egypt and Sudan
C. Algeria and Sierra Leone
D. South Africa and Nigeria
8. Nigeria has the world’s largest
supply of which resource?
A. Cocoa
B. Uranium
C. Diamonds
D. Crude-oil
9. Boko Haram is a jihadist terrorist
group that operates in which African
country?
A. Nigeria
B. Lesotho
C. South Africa
D. Chad
10. Which Mexican drug cartel is the
largest—operating in over half of the
Mexican states?
A. Sinaloa
B. La Familia
C. Los Zetas
D. South Pacific
11. Which country is implementing
economic reforms in an attempt to
achieve a market-socialism type of
economy?
A. Mexico
B. The Bahamas
C. Cuba
D. Puerto Rico
12. Seychelles is an archipelago
located off of the coast of which
country?
A. Canada
B. United States of America
C. Argentina
D. Tanzania
13. The United States recently pulled
158 Peace Corps volunteers out of
which country because of safety
concerns?
A. Honduras
B. Mexico
C. Belize
D. Costa Rica
14. Which country began an oil
exploration project in Somalia in 2012?
A. United States of America
B. Mexico
C. Canada
D. Greenland
15. In January 2012, an American and
Danish citizen were held hostage in
Somalia. Who rescued them?
A. NATO
B. US Navy Seals
C. UNSC
D. US Army
16. Ex-Guatemalan military leader
Efrain Rios Montt is set to go on trial
for what crime?
A. Genocide
B. Corruption
C. Desertion
D. Fraud
17. What is the capital of Trinidad and
Tobago?
A. Scarborough
B. Port of Spain
C. Siparia
D. San Fernando
18. Which country is set to close their
country’s consulate in Miami after the
US expelled their consul general?
A. Belize
B. Cuba
C. El Salvador
D. Venezuela
19. The US deported George Boley, an exwarlord, back to which country in February
2012?
A. Nigeria
B. Liberia
C. Benin
D. Burkina Faso
20. Manuel Noriega recently returned to
this country after serving 20 years in a US
prison for killing political opponents.
A. Guatemala
B. El Salvador
C. Panama
D. Costa Rica