General Knowledge 1

General Knowledge Quiz (Hopefully)

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the series of anti-government protests in the Middle East in the early 2010s?

• Protests of the Arab States

• Arab Spring

• Arab Summer

• Middle East Protests

Arab Spring (2010-2012)

Triggers: Inflation, corruption, absolute monarchy, lack of democratic freedoms, poverty, sectarianism, a whole lot

Outcome:

Insurgency and civil unrest, civil war

Rise of Islamist nationalism

The Arab Summer (2018-2022)

Multiple Choice

Montesquieu advocated for the separation of how many branches of power?

• 3: Legislature, Judiciary, Executive

• 4: Legislature, Judiciary, Executive, Security

• 4: Legislature, Judiciary, Executive, Finance

• 3: Legislature, Judiciary, Religion

Montesquieu's 3 Branches

Judiciary: The criminal justice system overseeing the implementation of law and order.

Legislative: People who make and revise the law, e.g., the US Senate and House of Representatives, or Malaysia's Dewan Rakyat

Executive: People in charge of the country, e.g., the US' President or Malaysia's Prime Minister's Cabinet

The Social Contract

Different interpretations (Hobbes vs. Locke vs. Rosseau), but the main premise is: to live in a functional society, people have to give up certain things to ensure security- for example, I have to give up my total freedom by abiding the law, and I have to pay tax, in exchange for protection and security.

Multiple Choice

What was the policy that enforced racial segregation in the US called?

• The Final Solution

• Apartheid laws

• Jim Crow laws

• Special laws

Jim Crow Laws

Decline following the landmark Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. Jim Crow laws were legally ended following The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Multiple Choice

Bonus: Which civil rights leader is commonly attributed to the passage of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• Rosa Parks

• Hariett Tubman

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

US Civil Rights Leaders

• Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civil rights leader whose assassionation prompted the passage of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

• Rosa Parks: Civil rights leader who began the Montgomery bus boycott and a close colleague of MLK.

• Harriett Tubman: An ex-slave and icon of abolitionism.

• Malcolm X: Civil rights leader advocating for the Nation of Islam and the separation of Black and White Americans (enclaves).

Multiple Choice

What do we call a government that expands its influence and power over other states through military force, colonisation, or other means?

• Imperialist

• Expansionist

• Strategist

• Capitalist