In house International Relations Quiz at Ashoka University. Hosted by Jibraan Mansoor and Aditya Khemka, both second year UGs.

2. Preliminary Round
• 15 questions.
• 2 starred questions worth 2 points each.
• 6 teams qualify to the finals.

3. 1
"none of the troops moved. 'It's not our mandate,'
said one, leaning against his jeep as he watched
the condemned woman, the driving rain splashing
at his blue United Nations badge. The 3,000
foreign troops now in X are no more than
spectators to the savagery which aid workers say
has seen the massacre of (…) people"
Which event, deemed one of the biggest failures of
the United Nations, is being described here?

4. 2
Article 1 of the 1907 Hague Convention III – The Opening of
Hostilities prohibited the initiation of hostilities against neutral powers
"without previous and explicit warning, in the form either of a
reasoned declaration of war or of an ultimatum with conditional
declaration of war" and Article 2 further stated that "[t]he existence of a
state of war must be notified to the neutral Powers without delay, and
shall not take effect in regard to them until after the receipt of a
notification, which may, however, be given by telegraph."
A declaration of war lost in translation.
‘A day which will live in infamy’.
‘We have done nothing but awoken a sleeping giant’.
Identify the event which connects all the above.

5. 3
This incident happened on Friday, 24 December
1999. The incident involved an aircraft which
was finally landed in Afghanistan. One person
was killed in the entire process.
Identify the incident.

6. 4
The sleepy town of Lillehammer, Norway, saw one of
the most infamous shootouts in Intelligence history
where a Moroccan waiter was gunned down,
mistaken for Ali Hassan Salameh on July 21, 1973.
Widely quoted as X’s first ever goof-up, the event
took the clandestine operations of X into the
spotlight for the very first time. X has also been
credited with taping Bill Clinton’s NSFW conversations
with Monika Lewinsky and then blackmailing him
with them.
Identify X.

7. 5

8. 5
This is the Strait of Hormuz. Observe the narrow
passage, for which this Strait is famous for notable
strategic reasons as a ‘choke point’. On the north
coast is X, and on the south coast is the United Arab
Emirates. In 2002, Y initiated the Millennium
Challenge 2002, a series of war game simulations
designed to identify Y’s response to X blocking the
Strait.
Identify X and Y.

9. 6*
Connect, and
explain your
connect.

10. 7
“Two thousand years ago, the proudest boast
was civis romanus sum ["I am a Roman citizen"].
Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast
is "Ich bin ein Berliner! (I am a Berliner)"
This is one of the most famous speeches of U.S.
President John F. Kennedy, delivered 22 months after
an event which divided Europe for three decades.
Identify the event.

11. 8
X got featured in TIME magazine’s list of the 100
most important people of the Century in 1998,
along with people like Einstein and Bart
Simpson. X was also featured in Life magazine’s
list of 100 photographs that changed the world.
The British Tabloid Sunday Express named him
Wang Weilin (wrongly, I must add).
Identify X.

13. 9*

14. 9
Connect, and explain your connect. (1+1)

15. 10
The most recent veto in the UN Security Council was
exercised by the Russian Federation on July 29, 2015
on a draft resolution which was seeking to set up an
international criminal tribunal, under which Russian
indictment would have had severe consequences. The
tribunal was related, surprisingly, to an incident which
involved neither a Ukrainian citizen, nor a Russian
citizen, but still saw a Russian veto.
What incident am I talking of?
Hint: Think Schipol.

16. 11
Identify the person and the incident.

18. 12
Connect.

19. 12

20. 13
After which animal are the Canary Islands named?

21. 14

22. 14
The International Federation for Human Rights
has called X a ‘vehicle for human rights
violations’. X is important in the context of India
and Pakistan in 2016.
Identify X.

23. 15

25. 15
These two maps together represent one of the
longest standing conflicts in the history of
international relations.
Which conflict am I referring to, and how does it
link to these two maps?

26. 1
"none of the troops moved. 'It's not our mandate,'
said one, leaning against his jeep as he watched
the condemned woman, the driving rain splashing
at his blue United Nations badge. The 3,000
foreign troops now in X are no more than
spectators to the savagery which aid workers say
has seen the massacre of (…) people"
Which event, deemed one of the biggest failures of
the United Nations, is being described here?

27. The Rwandan Genocide

28. 2
Article 1 of the 1907 Hague Convention III – The Opening of
Hostilities prohibited the initiation of hostilities against neutral powers
"without previous and explicit warning, in the form either of a
reasoned declaration of war or of an ultimatum with conditional
declaration of war" and Article 2 further stated that "[t]he existence of a
state of war must be notified to the neutral Powers without delay, and
shall not take effect in regard to them until after the receipt of a
notification, which may, however, be given by telegraph."
A declaration of war lost in translation.
‘A day which will live in infamy’.
‘We have done nothing but awoken a sleeping giant’.
Identify the event which connects all the above.

29. • The Pearl Harbor Attacks of December 7, 1941

30. 3
This incident happened on Friday, 24 December
1999. The incident involved an aircraft which
was finally landed in Afghanistan. One person
was killed in the entire process.
Identify the incident.

31. • The Hijack of IC 814

32. 4
The sleepy town of Lillehammer, Norway, saw one of
the most infamous shootouts in Intelligence history
where a Moroccan waiter was gunned down,
mistaken for Ali Hassan Salameh on July 21, 1973.
Widely quoted as X’s first ever goof-up, the event
took the clandestine operations of X into the
spotlight for the very first time. X has also been
credited with taping Bill Clinton’s NSFW conversations
with Monika Lewinsky and then blackmailing him
with them.
Identify X.

33. • Mossad

34. 5

35. 5
This is the Strait of Hormuz. Observe the narrow
passage, for which this Strait is famous for notable
strategic reasons as a ‘choke point’. On the north
coast is X, and on the south coast is the United Arab
Emirates. In 2002, Y initiated the Millennium
Challenge 2002, a series of war game simulations
designed to identify Y’s response to X blocking the
Strait.
Identify X and Y.

36. • X- The Islamic Republic of Iran
• Y- The United States of America

37. 6*
Connect, and
explain your
connect.

38. • Sierra Leone
• -Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond)
• -Diamond mining
• -Revolutionary United Front
• -Executive Outcomes

39. 7
“Two thousand years ago, the proudest boast
was civis romanus sum ["I am a Roman citizen"].
Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast
is "Ich bin ein Berliner! (I am a Berliner)"
This is one of the most famous speeches of U.S.
President John F. Kennedy, delivered 22 months after
an event which divided Europe for three decades.
Identify the event.

40. • The erection of the Berlin Wall

41. 8
X got featured in TIME magazine’s list of the 100
most important people of the Century in 1998,
along with people like Einstein and Bart
Simpson. X was also featured in Life magazine’s
list of 100 photographs that changed the world.
The British Tabloid Sunday Express named him
Wang Weilin (wrongly, I must add).
Identify X.

43. • The Tank Man

44. 9*

45. 9
There are two connects possible. Identify both.
(1+1)

46. • Idi Amin or Operation Entebbe
• -Caricature of Idi Amin
• -Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
• -Air France Flight 139
• -Israel ran Operation Entebbe

47. 10
The most recent veto in the UN Security Council was
exercised by the Russian Federation on July 29, 2015
on a draft resolution which was seeking to set up an
international criminal tribunal, under which Russian
indictment would have had severe consequences. The
tribunal was related, surprisingly, to an incident which
involved neither a Ukrainian citizen, nor a Russian
citizen, but still saw a Russian veto.
What incident am I talking of?
Hint: Think Schipol.

48. • The shooting down of MH17

49. 11
Identify the person and the incident.

51. • Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in the UNSC, at the onset of
the Bangladesh war of 1971

52. 12
Connect.

53. 12

54. • The Non Aligned Movement

55. 13
After which animal are the Canary Islands named?

56. • Dogs

57. 14

58. 14
The International Federation for Human Rights
has called X a ‘vehicle for human rights
violations’. X is important in the context of India
and Pakistan in 2016.
Identify X.

59. • Shanghai Cooperation Organization

60. 15

62. 15
These two maps together represent one of the
longest standing conflicts in the history of
international relations.
Which conflict am I referring to, and how does it
link to these two maps?

63. • The Israel Palestine Conflict
• -International recognition of Israel
• -International recognition of the State of
Palestine