World Organizations

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1.Which organization has a giant panda as its famous logo?
- A. the WWF
- B. ASEAN
- C. NATO
- D. UNHCR
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the WWF
Did you know? The WWF was founded in 1961 to protect wildlife.
2.Which organization uses a white world map flag since its founding era of the 1940s?
- A. the WTO
- B. the ICRC
- C. Interpol
- D. the United Nations
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the United Nations
Did you know? The UN flag was approved by the General Assembly in 1947.
3.Which organization campaigns for human rights worldwide?
- A. Amnesty International
- B. the Red Cross
- C. NATO
- D. UNHCR
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Amnesty International
Did you know? Amnesty International won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977.
4.Which organization replaced the League of Nations in 1945?
- A. the United Nations
- B. the Arab League
- C. the European Union
- D. NATO
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the United Nations
Did you know? The UN Charter took force on October 24, 1945.
5.Which organization has a flag with a white compass rose emblem?
- A. the League of Nations
- B. the WTO
- C. the Universal Postal Union
- D. NATO
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NATO
Did you know? NATO was founded in 1949 with twelve founding members.
6.Which organization's five rings were first flown at the 1920 Antwerp Games?
- A. the United Nations
- B. FIFA
- C. the Commonwealth
- D. the International Olympic Committee
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the International Olympic Committee
Did you know? The Olympic flag was designed in 1913 by Pierre de Coubertin.
7.Which organization is an environmental organization famous for protest ships?
- A. the Red Crescent
- B. OPEC
- C. Greenpeace
- D. the League of Nations
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Greenpeace
Did you know? Greenpeace began in Vancouver in 1971.
8.Which organization coordinates international public health?
- A. the WHO
- B. Amnesty International
- C. the IAEA
- D. the Arab League
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the WHO
Did you know? The WHO was founded in 1948 and is based in Geneva.
9.Which organization has a flag showing a world map framed by olive branches?
- A. the African Union
- B. the United Nations
- C. the Red Cross
- D. the International Olympic Committee
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the United Nations
Did you know? The United Nations flag flew over its first New York headquarters in 1952.
10.Which organization coordinates the petroleum policies of its member countries?
- A. ASEAN
- B. OPEC
- C. the OECD
- D. the Arab League
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OPEC
Did you know? OPEC was founded in Baghdad in 1960.
11.Which organization is the body behind the five interlaced rings?
- A. the International Olympic Committee
- B. the Commonwealth of Nations
- C. NATO
- D. the IMF
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the International Olympic Committee
Did you know? The Olympic rings represent the five inhabited continents.
12.Which organization has an emblem that inverts the colors of the Swiss flag?
- A. the International Criminal Court
- B. the WMO
- C. the CIS
- D. the Red Cross
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the Red Cross
Did you know? The emblem honors Switzerland, the movement's birthplace.
13.Which organization protects refugees around the world?
- A. the ILO
- B. the FAO
- C. UNHCR
- D. the Arab League
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UNHCR
Did you know? UNHCR has won the Nobel Peace Prize twice.
14.Which organization has a flag of twelve golden stars in a circle on blue?
- A. the Organization of American States
- B. OPEC
- C. the European Union
- D. the International Hydrographic Organization
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the European Union
Did you know? The twelve stars on the EU flag stand for unity, not member count.
15.Which organization runs the World Heritage program?
- A. UNESCO
- B. OPEC
- C. the International Olympic Committee
- D. the African Union
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UNESCO
Did you know? UNESCO's World Heritage list began in 1978.
16.Which organization was the interwar predecessor of the United Nations?
- A. the League of Nations
- B. Interpol
- C. the Red Crescent
- D. the Organization of American States
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the League of Nations
Did you know? The League of Nations was founded after World War I in 1920.
17.Which organization first adopted the circle of twelve golden stars in 1955?
- A. NATO
- B. the Council of Europe
- C. the United Nations
- D. the African Union
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the Council of Europe
Did you know? The EU later inherited the Council of Europe's flag design.
18.Which organization is the emblem the movement uses in many Muslim-majority countries?
- A. the ICRC
- B. the WWF
- C. the OECD
- D. the Red Crescent
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the Red Crescent
Did you know? The Ottoman Empire first used the red crescent in the 1870s.
19.Whose emblem did the 1949 Geneva Conventions extend legal protection to?
- A. the Olympic Committee
- B. the United Nations
- C. the Red Crescent
- D. the Red Cross
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the Red Cross
Did you know? The red cross emblem must never be used for decoration or advertising.
20.Which organization won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999?
- A. the ITU
- B. the United Nations
- C. Doctors Without Borders
- D. the WTO
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Doctors Without Borders
Did you know? The group was founded in Paris in 1971.
21.Which organization operates the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva?
- A. UNHCR
- B. the Arab League
- C. CERN
- D. the Council of Europe
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CERN
Did you know? CERN is the European laboratory for particle physics.
22.Which organization links mostly former territories of the British Empire?
- A. the ICRC
- B. CERN
- C. the Commonwealth of Nations
- D. the Universal Postal Union
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the Commonwealth of Nations
Did you know? The Commonwealth traces its modern form to the London Declaration of 1949.
23.Which organization is the regional group of the Americas, headquartered in Washington, D.C.?
- A. the European Union
- B. Amnesty International
- C. Greenpeace
- D. the Organization of American States
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the Organization of American States
Did you know? The OAS was founded in 1948 by twenty-one American states.
24.Which organization provides loans to countries in balance-of-payments trouble?
- A. the United Nations
- B. UNESCO
- C. the IMF
- D. the Organization of American States
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the IMF
Did you know? The IMF was created at the Bretton Woods conference of 1944.

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