90681 Intermediate Trivia Questions
90681 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which WTO agreement introduced multilateral rules for trade facilitation and customs procedures?
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Trade Facilitation Agreement
Which WTO agreement governs government procurement on a plurilateral basis?
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Government Procurement Agreement
Which principle requires World Trade Organization members to treat trading partners equally?
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Most-favoured-nation treatment
What is the World Trade Organization’s appellate body for trade disputes called?
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Appellate Body
What was the first World Trade Organization ministerial conference, held in 1996, called?
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Singapore Ministerial Conference
Which WTO ministerial conference adopted the Doha Development Agenda in 2001?
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Doha Ministerial Conference
Which animal is represented by the Firefox web browser logo?
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A red panda
Which bird appears in the Lufthansa logo?
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A crane
Which bird was represented by Twitter’s original blue logo, Larry the Bird?
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A mountain bluebird
What is the name of the shell shown in the Shell logo?
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Pecten
What is the nickname of Lacoste’s crocodile logo?
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The Crocodile
What does the Mercedes-Benz three-pointed star symbolize?
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Land, sea and air
What 2008 U.S. law authorized the Troubled Asset Relief Program during the financial crisis?
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Emergency Economic Stabilization Act
On what date did Lehman Brothers file for bankruptcy, intensifying the 2008 financial crisis?
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September 15, 2008
Which organization officially dates U.S. recessions using a monthly business-cycle peak and trough?
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National Bureau of Economic Research
Which British prime minister introduced the Community Charge, widely called the poll tax?
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Margaret Thatcher
Which US state introduced the first general sales tax in 1930?
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Mississippi
Which US government agency began in 1862 as the Bureau of Internal Revenue?
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Internal Revenue Service
What was the name of the local tax introduced in Scotland in 1989 to replace domestic rates?
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Community Charge
Who proposed the financial transaction tax commonly called the Tobin tax?
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James Tobin
What 1945 United States law made state regulation of insurance the general rule?
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McCarran–Ferguson Act
What was the original name of MetLife when it was founded in New York in 1868?
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National Union Life and Limb Insurance Company
Which insurance company created the first commercial life-insurance policy in the United Kingdom in 1706?
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Amicable Society for a Perpetual Assurance Office
What 1968 U.S. program provides federally backed flood insurance to participating communities?
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National Flood Insurance Program
Which organization, founded in 1871, coordinates U.S. state insurance regulators and develops model laws?
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National Association of Insurance Commissioners
What company was created when United Technologies merged with Raytheon Company in 2020?
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Raytheon Technologies
What company was formed when Glencore merged with Xstrata in 2013?
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Glencore Xstrata