General Knowledge - Very Difficult XV

On 6th April 1994, Juvenal Habyarimana was assassinated when his private Falcon 50 jet was shot down. This sparked a genocide in what country that saw some 800,000 people killed in a span of a mere 6 weeks?

The SPLA was founded as a guerrilla movement against the government of Sudan in 1983 and was a key participant of the Second Sudanese Civil War, led by John Garang. What does SPLA stand for?

______ Sese Seko, a Congolese politician and military officer who was the first and only president of Zaire from 1971 to 1997 and previously as the second president of the Republic of the Congo from 1965 to 1971.

According to the World Health Organization, someone is considered obese if their BMI is over?

In Mathematics, an angle is obtuse if it is greater than how many degrees?

The three longest rivers in Africa are the Nile, Congo and ____?

At Khartoum, the Nile spits into two tribulteries. The blue Nile which begins at Lake Tana in Ethiopia and the ____ Nile which rises in the Great Lakes region.

The African National Congress is a political party, founded on 8th January 1912 in Bloemfontein. The organisation was formed to advocate for the rights of black Africans of what country?

You'll find the Torres Strait, the Whitsunday Islands, Crocodile Islands and Goulburn Islands in what country?

A man who worked as a journalist in the Boer war as a 25 year old in 1899. He later became a Prime Minister of the UK.

A Levantine appetizer consisting of finely chopped roasted eggplant, olive oil, lemon juice, various seasonings, and tahini. Baba ________

The fifth largest city in the UK, on the West coast. Population almost 500,000. Port city. Was known as a major trading port during the imperial age.

On China’s central coast, is the country's biggest city and a global financial hub. Its heart is the Bund, a famed waterfront promenade lined with colonial-era buildings. Across the Huangpu River rises the Pudong district’s futuristic skyline.

A traditional Levantine dish, a variety of Pilaf that is popular across Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. It consists of meat, rice, and fried vegetables placed in a pot which is flipped upside down when served.

During the Ottoman period, Palestine was divided into three districts, or sanjaks, named Jerusalem, _____ and Nablus.

The ___ Accords are a pair of interim agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). They were signed in 1995 and marked the start of the ___ process, a peace process aimed at achieving a peace treaty based on Resolution 242 and Resolution 338 of the United Nations Security Council.

The above accords were controversial amongst both Palestinians and far-right Israelis. What Palestinian-American philosopher described them as a "Palestinian Versailles"?

The peace process was strained by the ____ __ ___ _______ massacre, a mass shooting which killed 30 people carried out by Baruch Goldstein, an American-Israeli physician and extremist of the far-right ultra-Zionist Kach movement, as well as by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad suicide bombings and attacks.

What far right leader of the extremist Otzma Yehudit party in Israel once had a picture of Baruch Goldstein on his office wall? Ben ___.

The fifth Prime Minister of Israel who was assassinated on 4 November 1995, at the age of 74, by Yigal Amir, a law student and right-wing extremist who opposed the signing of the Accords.

_____ and Pashto are the two official languages of Afghanistan. _____ is the most widely spoken language in the country, and is often used as a lingua franca. Pashto is the native language of the Pashtuns, the dominant ethnic group in Afghanistan.

Libya has a population of some 6 million, an area of almost 1.8 million square kilometres (700,000 sq mi). It is the fourth largest country in Africa, and is the 16th largest country in the world. It is a sovereign state is made of three historical regions: Tripolitania, ______ and Cyrenaica.

Saddam Hussein was a member of the Al-Bu Nasir tribe, specifically the Al-Bejat clan. The Al-Bu Nasir tribe is an Iraqi tribe that originated in ______ and later settled in Syria and Iraq.

Operation _____ ________is a widely known nickname for Operation On Wings of Eagles an operation between June 1949 and September 1950 that brought 49,000 Yemenite Jews to the new state of Israel.

Josef Stalin was born on 18th December 1878 in Gori. His birth name was Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili. His mother was Ekaterine Geladze, a peasant and Besarion Jughashvili, a cobbler. Stalin was their third child and the only one to survive past infancy. Gori is part of what country?

Mao Zedong was born 26th December 1893, near Shaoshan village in Hunan, during the Qing dynasty. His mother was Wen Qimei, a devote Buddhist. His father, Mao Yichang, was a strict farmer and grain merchant. He has three siblings. Two brothers, Zemin and _____, as well as an adopted sister/cousin, Zejian.

Mao Zedong adopted Marxism–Leninism while working as a librarian at ______ University, and in 1921 became a founding member of the Chinese Communist Party.

Mao Zedong became the leader of the CCP during The _____ _______ in 1935. This was a military retreat by the Chinese Red Army and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from advancing Kuomintang forces during the Chinese Civil War, occurring between October 1934 and October 1935. About 100,000 troops retreated from the Jiangxi Soviet and other bases to a new headquarters in Yan'an, Shaanxi, traversing some 10,000 kilometres (6,000 miles).

Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn, a town in _____ _______close to the border with the German Empire. He was the fourth of six children born to Klara Pölzl & Alois Hitler, a civil servant. Three of Hitler's siblings—Gustav, Ida, and Otto—died in infancy.

Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal was an Austrian woman who was the half-_____ of Adolf Hitler. She is said to have had a relationship with Hitler from 1925 until her presumed suicide in 1931.

Josef Stalin died on 5th March 1953 age 74 of Cerebral Hemorrhage in Kuntsevo Dacha, Stalin's personal residence between _____and Davydkovo?

Mao Zedong died on 9 September 1976 age 82 of a heart attack, in what city?

Adolf Hitler died on 30th April 1945 age 56 of a self inflicted gunshot to the head in a bunker in what city?

A unisex garment traditionally worn in the Arab world. It is a long-sleeved, ankle-length robe that has regional variations in name and style.

________ warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel.

The Plantation of _____ was a scheme in the 1640s to establish English and Scottish Protestants in Ireland during the reign of Charles I. The plan was to strengthen King James I's rule in Ireland and make the area more Protestant.