1. Due to particulate matter in the air, North Africa’s most populous city has some of the world’s highest levels of air pollution. This city, home to Al-Azhar Park, is located in which country?
2. Which landlocked country, whose population is concentrated in the Altiplano, has both a low per capita gross domestic product and the highest infant mortality rate in South America?
3. The world’s lowest life expectancy, approximately 32 years, is attributed to a high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in what small, landlocked African kingdom that borders only two other countries?
4. With approximately 59 physicians for every 10,000 residents, what Caribbean country located west of the Windward Passage has one of the world’s highest rates of doctors per capita?
5. Cultivation of the açaí palm has increased due to demand for the tree’s fruit, which is high in antioxidants. The largest harvest comes from a South American country that includes the state of Goiás. Name this country.
6. A 2001 World Trade Organization declaration that allows countries to break patents on essential medicines takes its name from the city in which it was adopted. This capital city is found in a Persian Gulf country located on a peninsula. Name this country.
7. The first successful human-to-human heart transplant was performed in 1967 at Groote Schuur Hospital in the country situated where the Indian Ocean meets the Atlantic Ocean. Name this country.
8. Hippocrates, often referred to as “the Father of Medicine,” was born on the island of Kos, which is located in the Aegean Sea and is part of what present-day country?
9. An African country that borders Lake Albert and Lake Victoria approved the controversial pesticide DDT for indoor spraying to control a malaria-causing parasite in 2005. Name this country, where English is the official language.
10. The Black Death is thought to have been first brought to Western Europe in 1347 by a ship that arrived at the port city of Messina on an island that is part of what present-day country?
ANSWERS: 1. Egypt 2. Bolivia 3. Swaziland 4. Cuba 5. Brazil 6. Qatar 7. South Africa 8. Greece 9. Uganda 10. Italy
