Fact Attack

Question 1

Political quality?

Answer 1

Permanent seat on UN security council

Question 2

Economic quality?

Answer 2

High GDP/levels of trade

Question 3

Military quality?

Answer 3

Large amounts of hardware and military personell

Question 4

Cultural quality?

Answer 4

Rich cultural history/way of life

Question 5

Demographic quality?

Answer 5

Significant % of global population

Question 6

What is a country’s access to resources like if they’re a superpower?

Answer 6

Able to export and control the supply of valuable commodities eg. Oil

Question 7

Veto countries in the UN?

Answer 7

China/Russia/France/UK/US

Question 8

+ of being in UN?

Answer 8

Can be decisive; Overriding factor - not a lone country

Question 9

• -of being in UN?

Answer 9

Countries may act out of their own interests

Question 10

USA per capita GDP?

Answer 10

$53,000

Question 11

China per capita GDP?

Answer 11

$6000

Question 12

What % of all financial transactions are in US $?

Answer 12

80%

Question 13

What % of foreign currency market transactions are in $?

Answer 13

87%

Question 14

How much money does the US give out in financial assistance?

Answer 14

$33bn

Question 15

How much money does the UK give out in terms of financial assistance?

Answer 15

$19 bn

Question 16

How much more is the USA military spending compared to China? What % of this is global military spending?

Answer 16

4-5 times
37%

Question 17

How many of the top 20 universities are in the US?

Answer 17

16/20

Question 18

In 2010 how many people visited Buckingham Palace l?

Answer 18

413,000

Question 19

How many people living in the US were born abroad?

Answer 19

45 million

Question 20

How many barrels of oil in USA/China/Russia?

Answer 20

264 billion
20.3 billion
250 billion

Question 21

What is hard power?

Answer 21

The ability of a country to use military force or economic influence to make another country accept an idea or situation

Question 22

What is soft power?

Answer 22

The ability of a country to persuade other countries to agree to an idea or solution

Question 23

Who created geo-strategic theory?

Answer 23

Halford Mackinder

Question 24

What are the 3 parts that the world is divided into?

Answer 24

The world island
Offshore islands
Outlying islands

Question 25

What civilisations have used geostrategic theory?

Answer 25

Romans Napoleon Nazis

Question 26

What are the 4 multifaceted ways of exerting power?

Answer 26

Militarily, politically, economically, culturally

Question 27

What is neo-colonialism?

Answer 27

Use of investment and trade to influence independent countries instead of direct governance

Question 28

What 4 things does the USA represent?

Answer 28

Capatalism Free Market Manifest Destiny Democracy

Question 29

What 4 things does the USSR represent?

Answer 29

Communism Marxism Cold War Control all means of production

Question 30

When was the Korean War?

Answer 30

June 1950-1953

Question 31

When was the space race?

Answer 31

October 4 1957

Question 32

When was the Cuban missile crisis?

Answer 32

October 1962

Question 33

How much did America’s economy grow by between 1992 and 1999?

Answer 33

4%

Question 34

Between 1992/1999 how many jobs added in America each year?

Answer 34

1.7 million

Question 35

How much did the median American household income grow by in the 90s?

Answer 35

10%

Question 36

What countries are in the BRICs?

Answer 36

Brazil Russia India China South Africa

Question 37

What is G20 L

Answer 37

Westernised countries - top 20 economies

Question 38

Give 3 examples of China’s growing dominance?

Answer 38

Exports increase Infrastructure development TNCs moved there through SEZ

Question 39

How many Chinese people in Africa?

Answer 39

1 mil

Question 40

In 2020 what % of Chinese mineral products were from Africa

Answer 40

80%

Question 41

Why has China dominated Africa?

Answer 41

Easy to dominate Cheaper No competition

Question 42

What four factors of environmental degradation is caused by superpowers?

Answer 42

Landscape scarring The built environment Oil spills Removal of forests

Question 43

When did Drake lands put on Devon open? When did the last mine open before this?

Answer 43

2015 1969

Question 44

The price of what doubled as the supply was reduced?

Answer 44

Tungsten

Question 45

2003 - how many Chinese cities affected by acid rain?

Answer 45

250

Question 46

How much did acid rain cause the Chinese economy to lose in 2013?

Answer 46

13.3 bn $

Question 47

What was the % increase in food production in Brazil between 2002 and 2012?

Answer 47

26%

Question 48

How many times did beef exports increase by in Brazil?

Answer 48

10x

Question 49

What did America agree to do in 2014 and by when?

Answer 49

Reduce co2 emissions by 2025

Question 50

When did China agree to reduce emissions and by when?

Answer 50

2014 2030

Question 51

How many tonnes of CO2 did the US emit from 1850 to 2007?

Answer 51

339,000 million

Question 52

Global middle class?

Answer 52

Those with an annual income of over £10,000

Question 53

What are rare earths?

Answer 53

18 elements that occur in geological deposits and are very difficult to separate from eachother

Question 54

Collective worth of rare earths?

Answer 54

£5 trillion

Question 55

Example of rare earth?

Answer 55

Neodymium (used in turbines and hybrid cars)

Question 56

How many tonnes of toxic waste produced for every tonne of rare earth?

Answer 56

2000

Question 57

How much of the worlds gas is undiscovered?

Answer 57

30%

Question 58

What % of worlds oil in Arctic?

Answer 58

13%

Question 59

How many nautical miles allowed according to UN?

Answer 59

200 miles

Question 60

What year did Russia use submarines to put flag at North Pole?

Answer 60

2007

Question 61

Name of Chinese ice breaker which navigated the northern sea route?

Answer 61

Xuelong

Question 62

Why is there tension over oil?

Answer 62

Demand high Ambiguity over possession

Question 63

How many countries signed the anti counter fitting trade agreement in 2011?

Answer 63

32

Question 64

How much does counterfeiting cost G20 countries each year?

Answer 64

85 billion $

Question 65

Which countries are disputing over islands in the East China Sea?

Answer 65

Japan and China

Question 66

When did Gazprom increase oil prices in Ukraine?

Answer 66

2006/2009

Question 67

What % of new projects in Africa due to Chinese investment?

Answer 67

30%

Question 68

How many Chinese schools built in Africa due to brain drain?

Answer 68

20

Question 69

How many skilled jobs filled by Chinese migrant workers?

Answer 69

200,000

Question 70

How many MW of electricity created by major HEP projects in Africa by 2013v

Answer 70

6780

Question 71

How much has annual FDI from China increased to?

Answer 71

$ 3 billion

Question 72

How much does China provide in economic development aid in Africa each year?

Answer 72

$2-3 billion

Question 73

How many km of railways built by China in africa?

Answer 73

2250

Question 74

How many km of roads built in Africa?

Answer 74

3350

Question 75

What % of crude oil originates in Middle East?

Answer 75

65%

Question 76

3 factors that are challenges to superpowers?

Answer 76

Radicalisation Cultural differences Nationalism

Question 77

6 factors that cause instability in middle east

Answer 77

Religion Resources Oil/gas Governance Youth History