1. Awareness Quiz Question 1 What is the approximate population of the world today?

2. Awareness Quiz Question 1 What is the approximate population of the world today? Answer: About 6.8 billion

3. Awareness Quiz Question 2 What is the approximate population of China today?

4. Awareness Quiz Question 2 What is the approximate population of China today? Answer: About 1.34 billion

5. Awareness Quiz Question 3 What is the approximate population of the United States today?

6. Awareness Quiz Question 3 What is the approximate population of the United States today? Answer: About 307 million

7. Awareness Quiz Question 4 What five nations in the world have the highest population?

8. Awareness Quiz Question 4 What five nations in the world have the highest population? Answer:China1,338,000,000 (20%) India1,166,000,000 (17%) U.S.307,000,000 (4.5%) Indonesia240,000,000 (3.5%) Brazil199,000,000 (2.9%) (EU492,000,000 (7.2%)) https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html

9. Awareness Quiz Question 5 What is the approximate GDP per capita in the United States?

10. Awareness Quiz Question 5 What is the approximate GDP per capita in the United States? Answer – About $46,900

11. Awareness Quiz Question 6 What is the approximate GNP per capita in Zimbabwe?

12. Awareness Quiz Question 6 What is the approximate GNP per capita in Zimbabwe? Answer – About $200

13. Bonus! Question 7 What nine countries have a higher GDP per capita than the US?

14. Bonus! Liechtenstein:$116,000 Qatar:$110,700 Luxembourg:$81,000 Bermuda:$69,900 Norway:$59,300 Kuwait:$57,400 Jersey:$57,000 Brunei:$53,100 Singapore:$51,500 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html

15. Awareness Quiz Question 8 What country covers the largest land area?

16. Awareness Quiz Question 8 What country covers the largest land area? Answer-Russia6.6 m. sq. miles Canada3.9 US3.7 China3.7 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2147rank.html

17. Awareness Quiz Question 9 What percent of its GNP would you guess Denmark spends annually on foreign aid?

18. Awareness Quiz Question 9 What percent of its GNP would you guess Denmark spends annually on foreign aid? Answer – 1.0 percent

19. Awareness Quiz Question 10 Approximately what percent of its GNP do you think the U.S. ought to spend annually on foreign aid?

20. Awareness Quiz Question 10 Approximately what percent of its GNP do you think the U.S. ought to spend annually on foreign aid? Answer - ?

21. Awareness Quiz Question 11 Approximately what percent of its GNP does the U.S. spend annually on foreign aid?

22. Awareness Quiz Question 11 Approximately what percent of its GNP does the U.S. spend annually on foreign aid? Answer – 0.1 percent

23. Awareness Quiz Question 12 How much foreign aid would you guess the U.S. gave to Israel, per day, in fiscal year 2007?

24. Awareness Quiz Question 12 How much foreign aid would you guess the U.S. gave to Israel, per day, in fiscal year 2007? Answer – About $6.8 m per day

25. Awareness Quiz Question 13 How much does the Iraq war cost?

26. Awareness Quiz Question 13 How much does the Iraq war cost? Answer – The Iraq war is costing about $343 million per day. Amy Belasco, “The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11,” Congressional Research Service (updated February 8, 2008)

27. Awareness Quiz Question 14 Guess the population density (people per square mile) of Hong Kong. (Hint: US is 74; Oregon is 30; Idaho is 12; New Jersey is 1,042; Canada is 8.1)

28. Awareness Quiz Question 14 Guess the population density of Macau. (Hint: U.S. is 74; Oregon is 30; Idaho is 12; New Jersey is 1,042; Canada is 8.1) Answer: 48,450 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_density

29. Awareness Quiz Question 15 What percentage of the people of the world have daily access to safe drinking water?

30. Awareness Quiz Question 15 What percentage of the people of the world have daily access to safe drinking water? Answer – Less than 30 percent

31. Awareness Quiz Question 16 How many people around the world die each day from diseases contracted from unsafe water?

32. Awareness Quiz Question 16 How many people around the world die each day from diseases contracted from unsafe water? Answer – About 25,000

33. Awareness Quiz Question 17 How many children around the world die each day from diarrheal diseases?

34. Awareness Quiz Question 17 How many children around the world die each day from diarrheal diseases? Answer – About 13,000 (5 million each year)

35. Awareness Quiz Question 18 How many children around the world die each day from hunger-related diseases?

36. Awareness Quiz Question 18 How many children around the world die each day from hunger-related diseases? Answer – About 40,000

37. Awareness Quiz Question 19 What percent of their annual income do families in developing countries spend on food? (Hint: Your family spends about 20% of it’s income on food.)

38. Awareness Quiz Question 19 What percent of their annual income do families in developing countries spend on food? (Hint: Your family spends about 20% of it’s income on food.) Answer – Between 75% – 80%

39. Awareness Quiz Question 20 Approximately 100% of adults in developed countries are literate. What percent are literate in developing countries.

40. Awareness Quiz Question 20 Approximately 100% of adults in developed countries are literate. What percent are literate in developing countries. Answer – About 30% (But only 13% of females are literate!)

41. Awareness Quiz Question 21 How many of the following “American” companies are owned or controlled by parent companies outside of the U.S.? Dr. Pepper; Firestone; 7-Eleven; Reebok; Chrysler; Washington Times; Yale Locks; Saks Fifth Avenue; Encyclopedia Americana; Alka Seltzer; Dunlop Tires; Mack Trucks; Twentieth Century Fox; Universal Pictures; U.S. Air; Timex; National Bank of North America; Baskin and Robbins; Standard Oil of Ohio; Amoco; Shell; Burger King; Snapple; Brooks Brothers; adidas; Universal Studios; Taster’s Choice Coffee

42. Awareness Quiz Question 21 How many of the following “American” companies are owned or controlled by parent companies outside of the U.S.? Dr. Pepper, Firestone; 7-Eleven; Reebok; Chrysler; Washington Times; Yale Locks; Saks Fifth Avenue; Encyclopedia Americana; Alka Seltzer; Dunlop Tires; Mack Trucks; Twentieth Century Fox; Universal Pictures; U.S. Air; Timex; National Bank of North America; Baskin and Robbins; Standard Oil of Ohio; Amoco; Shell; Burger King; Snapple; Brooks Brothers; adidas; Universal Studios; Taster’s Choice Coffee. Answer - All

43. Awareness Quiz Question 22 How big is Africa? USUS ArgentinaArgentina New ZealandNew Zealand ChinaChina IndiaIndia Europe (not including Russia)Europe (not including Russia)

51. China3,705,387 sq. mil U.S.3,615,102 Europe (not Russia)1,908,500 India1,269,338 Argentina1,068,296 New Zealand 103,736 11,670,359 sq. mi. Africa 11,706,166 sq. mi.