14 Dec

Community Conscious Challenge

Posted by latifaz.

Community Conscious

May

Topic Areas:

  • Conflicts around the World
  • Islam and China
  • US Economy and AIDE
  • Presidential Race in the US

contestants: Aidah and Sequoia, Roxbury Community, College Bio Major. Congrads Aidah for winning three rounds of Community Conscious.

Conflicts around the Word

1. Gunfire broke out in downtown Beirut, Lebanon Thursday after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said recent government actions amount to:

A. Bad politics

B. “a declaration of open war.”

C. Christian Extremism

 

2. True or False

Shiite militants have agreed on a cease-fire in Baghdad’s embattled neighborhood of Sadr City, said a high level cleric Saturday, holding out hope that weeks of clashes in the capital may soon end.

 

3. UNICEF, the U.N. children’s agency, said it had reports of continuing recruitment by local Mai Mai militia, Tutsi insurgents, and Rwandan Hutu rebels in North Kivu.

“We believe recruiting is still taking place, without question,” Jaya Murthy, UNICEF’s spokesman for the eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo, told Reuters.

“We’ve seen children used as porters, for espionage, and in some instances on the front line as child soldiers. Armed groups have targeted them in schools and markets,” he said.

Recruitment and use of children under the age of 15 by armed groups is considered:

<!–[if !supportLists]–>A. <!–[endif]–>A war crime under international law.

<!–[if !supportLists]–>B. <!–[endif]–>An act of genocide

<!–[if !supportLists]–>C. <!–[endif]–>A standard practice of military training found in most naval and army institutions.

True or False

    1. In 2006 caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad first published in a Danish newspaper provoked violence in many parts of the world. In Nigeria, fighting began with attacks on Christians in the northern part of the country last week by Muslims infuriated over the cartoons, but in the end Mostly Muslims were killed by Christian Mobs accounting for more than 200 of the 600 deaths related to the caricatures internationally.

Islam and China

1. As one of the largest nations in the world, China’s population represents 56 nationalities, ten of which have an ___________ background.

 

  1. Christian
  2. Buddhist
  3. Islamic
  4. Atheist

2. By sea and by land, Muslims went to China over the first ________ years of Islam. The first official delegation was sent to China by the Khalifa Uthman in approximately 651 A.D. Both the Islamic and Chinese cultures have a rich tradition of respect, mercy, and compassion.

  1. 200 years
  2. 400 years
  3. 300 years

 

3. True or False

Today, there are approximately twenty million Muslims and thirty-five thousand mosques in China (more muslims than in Saudi Arabia).

 

4. In the early 1990s, the Chinese government projected that it could have a shortfall of about 50 million tons of crude oil (30 percent of its oil needs) in 2000, while domestic crude output remained static at 160 million tons. China therefore had to rely on its ability to stake out oil reserves abroad. Oil analysts projected that China would become an oil importer—at the mercy of non-Chinese oil producing states and companies—within five years.1391 China set about becoming a global player in the oil industry. Chinese officials wanted “to have a 10-million-ton-oil supply from overseas a year by 2000 and 50 million tons of oil and 50 billion cubic meters of gas by 2010.

 

In its quest for oil, which country has had Weapons deliveries from China since 1995, which have included ammunition, tanks, helicopters, and fighter aircraft?

 

  1. Chad
  2. Sudan
  3. Somalia
  4. Dubia

 

US Economy and AID

 

1. Relief supplies from the United Nations began arriving in this country and province Thursday, but U.S. military planes loaded with aid were still denied access by the country five days after a devastating cyclone.

 

What is:

  1. Tibet
  2. Tokyo, Japan
  3. Myanmar, Burma

2. The Gallup-Health ways Well-Being Index, based on interviews of more than 100,000 people so far, shows that 47 percent of Americans are struggling and 4 percent are suffering. ______________ of respondents are reported to be thriving based on a personal assessment of how they feel about their lives at the time of the survey, and where they think they’ll be in five years.

  1. 55%
  2. 49%
  3. 30%

3. President Bush’s proposed $3.1 trillion budget may be dead on arrival in Congress, but the impact of that political deadlock will make life difficult for the man or woman who succeeds him.

The next president will inherit a deficit of about ___________ and maybe more. Unless the economy rebounds and revenue pours in deficits will push the cumulative federal debt past $12 trillion in the next five years.

<!–[if !supportLists]–>A. <!–[endif]–>100 Billion

<!–[if !supportLists]–>B. <!–[endif]–>400 Billion

<!–[if !supportLists]–>C. <!–[endif]–>1.5 Trillion

4. Nationally, the Commerce Department said that sales of new, single-family homes in March dropped by 8.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted rate of 526,000 units — the biggest monthly drop in _________.

A. 10 years

B. 20 years

C. 16 years

 

Presidential Race in the US

1. Which Fundraising pattern best illustrates funds raised from the educational industry for this Presidential Race?

  1. Obama: 6.3 M, Clinton: 3.87 M, McCain: .6 M
  2. Obama: 3.87 M, Clinton: .6 M, McCain: 6.3 M
  3. Obama: .6 M, Clinton: 6.3 M, McCain: 3.87 M

2. True or False

Women Voters are split between Clinton and Obama

3. Which candidate has the most Superdelagates to date leading up to the National Presidential Primary to date?

A. Obama

B. Clinton

C. Edwards

 

 

3. Which presidential Hopeful finished 894 out of a possible 899 class rank in high school?

 

  1. Clinton
  2. Obama
  3. McCain

 

____________________________________________________________________________________________

Congrads to Aidah Aliyah Rashid, Morgan State University, MD this months Champion for March, beating out reigning champion Vaughn Goodwin, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard.

Special thanks to a Nubian Notion, Roxbury, MA for sponsoring Gift Certificates this month.

Questions and Answers

March 9, 2008

Politics and Economics

  1. After the surprise loss in New Hampshire, where polls had Obama leading Hillary Clinton by wide margins. It was this Harvard law school grad who delivered the pep talk to the candidate’s dispirited aides waiting anxiously. She cautioned them against listening to the pundits and polls: “We need to send a message to all our supporters to not take a single thing for granted.” Who is________________. (Michelle Obama)
  1. As of today, Obama has now won _____ state contests.
    1. 30
    2. 26
    3. 40
    4. 19
  2. Senator Clinton attacks Senator Barak Obama for his readiness to be Commander and Chief and Senator Barak Obama questions Senator Clintons’ _________.
    1. Involvement as a Goldwater girl
    2. judgment
    3. 15 year track record
    4. Spirituality
  3. When Fortune recently listed the top ten most admired companies in America this company was not listed among them. What is________;
    1. Apple
    2. Google
    3. Starbucks
    4. Target

Health and well being

1. In May 2002, an executive search firm Christian & Timbers revealed that 45 percent of corporate executives now rely more on instinct than on facts and figures True or False

2. Hypertension risk starts to drop with just one to two servings of whole grains daily, but getting _____ makes the greatest impact.

a. 4 servings

b. 3 servings

c. 5 servings

d. 6 servings

3. Smoking (and secondhand smoke) kills brain cells.

True or False

4. The reason for fruit’s brain-boosting effect? It’s all about the_______, those amazing antioxidants that fight disease and might be one of your best defenses against cognitive decline. In a study, people who had the highest _______intake performed best throughout a 10-year period on tests of verbal fluency, logical reasoning, and visual memory.

What are:

a. hemoglobins

b. activsites

c. flavonoids

Women history

1. Appointed under former president Clinton, succeeded by Colin Powellshe was the first woman to become United States Secretary of State. Who was __________________. (Madeline Albright)

2. What I have learned from all of the difficulties in my own life is that human beings have very thick skin. I call that skin, spirit, our Highest Most Powerful self. Spirit is the key to everything we desire. It is our weather-proofing, our Teflon, our line of credit that assures if we just keep putting one foot in front of the other, one day; there will be a miraculous payoff.” This is a quote from:

a. Oprah Winfrey

b. Ivanla Vanzant

c. Hillary Clinton

d. Susan Taylor

3. Dr. Nahed Taher was appointed CEO for the Gulf One Investment Bank, making her the first Saudi woman to head a bank in the Gulf region.

True or false

  1. Born with the first name Agnes this Yugoslavian, felt a calling early to serve the poor. She joined an Irish order of nuns serving in Calcutta, India, and received medical training in Ireland and India. She founded the Missionaries of Charity and focused on serving the dying, with many other projects as well. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She died in 1997 after long illnesses, and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on October 19, 2003.Who was:
    1. Condolesea Rice
    2. Jane Fonda
    3. Mother Teresa
    4. Jane Swift

Middle East

1. The Qatar–Bahrain Friendship Bridge being planned will link Bahrain to Qatar as the second longest fixed link in the world[1]. True or False it will be the longest.

2. Gaza, generates about a quarter of its own electricity at a plant run on fuel imported from Israel. The rest comes over 10 electricity lines directly from Israel and one from neighboring:

a.Syria

b. Sudan

c. Egypt

d. Qatar

  1. Eight students were shot dead late Thursday at the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva, a seminary in predominantly Jewish west Jerusalem. This came after more than a week of escalated violence in and around the Gaza Strip, where more than 130 Palestinians have been killed in eight days. True or False

4. In the year ____, petroleum was first exported from Dubai. Today producing 240, 000 barrels a day, oil reserves are likely to dry up in the coming 20 years.

a. 1972

b. 1952

c. 1982

d. 1962

_________________________________________________________

Congrads to Febraury reigning champion :Vaughn Goodwin; and competitor Johan Smith.

February’s Community Conscious Game Show study guide:

Conflicts in Africa

  • Congo
  • Kenya
  • Oxfam Report –cost of war to Africa
  • Sudan

Middle East Peace

  • Gaza
  • Jerusalem
  • Egypt
  • Turks and Curds

President Progress

  • Obama
  • Hillary
  • Romney-pulling out this week
  • McCain

US Economy

  • Fed cut interest rate
  • AA Buying Power
  • Foreclosures
  • Recession

Environmental Racism

  • Sheila Holt
  • Love Canal
  • Dr. Robert Bullard
  • BU Bio lab

Little Known Black History

  • Science
  • Timbuktu
  • Before Columbus
  • Prince Ibrahima

______________________________________________________

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Test your own wit and knowledge about the world around you and tune in next month for more….. on Family Tree.
Sample Questions for Community Conscious

Color Blind

1) In November 2007, a new Pew Research Center survey found that African Americans see a widening gulf between the values of middle class and poor blacks, the report which highlighted the diversity within the AA community pointed out that nearly four-in-ten say that blacks can no longer be thought of as a single __________.

A. Species B. Class C. Race D. Sex

2) On May 17 at an NAACP dinner in Washington, D.C. this famous entertainer wrinkled a few feathers when he argued that African Americans were betraying the legacy of civil rights victories. “The lower economic people,” he said, “are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for their kids. $500 sneakers for what? And won’t spend $200 for “Hooked on Phonics!”

Who is: _________________.

3) ______________is an internationally respected social justice advocate and author. He established TransAfrica in 1977 and was its president until 2001. The mandate of TransAfrica was to promote enlightened, progressive U.S. policies towards Africa and the Caribbean. While president of that organization, he spearheaded the U. S. campaign to end apartheid in South Africa. His leadership in support of the pro-democracy movement in Haiti, which included a 27-day hunger strike, also caused the United States Government to lead the 1994 multinational effort to return to power Haiti’s first democratically elected, but violently overthrown, government.____________________is an author whose works include national bestsellers (i) Defending the Spirit, (ii) The Debt – What America Owes to Blacks, (iii) The Reckoning – What Blacks Owe to Each Other, (iv) Quitting America – The Departure of a Black Man From His Native Land, and (v) An Unbroken Agony – Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Twenty-one universities have bestowed upon him honorary PhD’s in recognition of the impact he has had on U.S. foreign policy.

a. Who is:

A. Dr. Russell Skiba

B. Dr. Randall Robinson

C. Dr. Leonard Jefferies

D. D. Dr. Henry Louis Gates

4. Last December, American Bar Association leader and President-elect H. Thomas Wells Jr. cited substantial gaps in earning potential, health care, unemployment and incarceration rates between AA and whites to Congress, saying they are reminders that America still has work to do to eradicate racism and racial bias. “In the early part of the 20th century, there came to be two Americas, one that could rely on the rule of law and one that could not. Concerns remain regarding slavery and post-slavery discrimination and its effect on present-day social and political and economic conditions for African Americans,” Wells said.Wells, a Birmingham, Ala., lawyer who will become ABA president in August 2008, testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee. He spoke in support of:

A. H.R. 40, which would authorize a federally funded commission to study the impact of slavery on the social, political and economic life of the United States.

B. H.R 56, which would authorize new laws regarding the use of monitoring kkk activities in America.

C. H.R. 33, which would authorize a federally funded commission to open up the most high profile Mississippi Sovereignty files.

D. H.R. 44, which would authorize a federally funded study on the race of Katrina victims.

RELIGION

1. A father in the Toronto strangled to death his sixteen-year-old daughter, because she did not want to wear a headscarf of Hijjab. This act of murder is being dubbed as another example of the Muslim “___________ killings,” but Islam does not condone these acts anywhere in Qu’ran or Sunnah.

A. Mandatory B. Disgraceful C. Honor D. Dishonor

2. According to the Arab News newspaper, a 19-year-old woman was gang-raped 14 times in an attack in Qatif in the eastern province a year-and-a-half ago. Seven men were found guilty of the rape and sentenced to prison terms ranging from just under a year to five years. The rape victim was punished for violating Saudi Arabia’s laws on segregation that forbid unrelated men and women from associating with each other. She was initially sentenced to 90 lashes for being in the car of a strange man. On appeal, the Arab News reported that the punishment was not reduced but increased to ________lashes and a six-month prison sentence. The sentence was eventually pardoned.

A. 100 B. 200 c. 180 d. 300

International Affairs

1. This Pakistani 54-year-old charismatic former prime minister and opposition leader was assassinated recently by being shot in the neck and chest at a campaign rally before a homicide bomber blew himself up, killing at least 20 others.Who is:_______________.

2. The combination of decades of drought, desertification and overpopulation are among the causes of the Darfur conflict, because the Baggara nomads searching for water have to take their livestock further south, to land mainly occupied by non-Arab farming communities.But the main reason which is typically ignored by media includes this natural resources?What is ________________.

Presidential Progress

1. Romney launched ad in Iowa recently, attacking Huckabee’s record on __________ laws and the clemencies he granted as governor of Arkansas. The ad says Romney “got tough on drugs like _________” while governor of Massachusetts, but the legislation he supported never passed, and his state’s laws are much weaker than Arkansas’. Convicted_______dealers face both minimum and maximum prison terms in Arkansas that is actually 4 times longer than those in Massachusetts.

What is the drug talked about in the ad? Is it?

A. Crack B. Oxycontin C. Heroin D. Meth 2.

A new ad sponsored by a labor union PAC in support of Democratic presidential candidate Edwards implies that the closing of an Iowa Maytag factory and the loss of 1,800 jobs are due to “tax breaks to companies that move jobs offshore.” And it says Edwards would end such breaks.

True or False: The jobs didn’t move offshore. They were actually sent to Ohio and eliminating the “tax breaks” in question probably wouldn’t do much to keep jobs in the U.S.

3. To the surprise of many whites and dismay of his supporters, Barack Obama trailed Hillary Clinton among black Americans by a 40-point margin in a Washington Post-ABC poll released last February. It is possible to read this as a positive development: black Americans have transcended racial politics and may now vote for the person they consider the better candidate, regardless of race. Or is the sad truth:
A. Obama was rejected because many black Americans don’t consider him one of their own and may even feel threatened by what he embodies.
B. Those polls didn’t include people from poor neighborhoods that would overwhelmingly vote for Barack
C. Media is quick to point out that Blacks still think White Ice is colder.
D. All of the above.

LOCAL NEWS

1. The state’s highest court delivered a victory to opponents of a controversial research laboratory being built by Boston University, upholding a lower-court decision that cast doubt on whether the project will open on time next year.In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Judicial Court agreed that the state’s environmental approval of the South End lab, granted by the Romney administration, was “arbitrary and capricious.”The SJC also concurred that BU must complete another environmental review of the project and submit it to the state for approval.After a history marked by engineering triumphs, tunnels leaks, epic traffic jams, last year’s death of a motorist crushed by falling concrete panels and a price tag that soared from $2.6 billion to a staggering __________ , this project finished December 31, 2007.
a. 6 Billion b. 1 Trillion c. 14.8 Billion d. 112 Million
2. The decision does not halt construction of the facility, already 70 percent complete, but does call into question when or whether BU will receive the permits necessary to open the centerpiece of the building: a Biosafety Level-4 lab where scientists will be able to work with the world’s deadliest germs, including:
A. Ebola, plague, and anthrax.
B. Aids, Malaria and Siphlis.
C. Lice, knats and Crabs.

AnswersColor Blind

  1. Race
  2. Who is Bill Cosby
  3. Randall Robinson
  4. Hr. 40

Religion

  1. Honor
  2. 200

International Affairs

  1. Benazir Bhutto
  2. oil

Presidential Progress

  1. Methamphetamine or” Meth”
  2. True
  3. A. Obama was rejected because many black Americans don’t consider him one of their own and may even feel threatened by what he embodies.

Local News

  1. 14.8 Billion
  2. A. Ebola, plague, and anthrax.

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