The Aliante Competition
1st round correct answers
1. Which of these countries has been invited to start accession talks with NATO at the Bucharest summit 2008?
a) Macedoniab) Cyprus
c) Albania
d) Montenegro
2. Which arms control treaty did the USA withdraw from after the year 2000?
a) CTBT - Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treatyb) START I - Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
c) INF - Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
d) ABM - Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
3. Which political figure served as the National Security Advisor and Secretary of State of the USA simultaneously?
a) Warren Minor Christopherb) Colin Luther Powell
c) Henry Alfred Kissinger
d) Madeleine Korbel Albright
4. Which state entered NATO by itself (at a time when no other state was admitted)?
a) Hungaryb) Spain
c) Greece
d) Finland
5. Which countries were the first to sign the Partnership for Peace initiative?
a) Latvia and Estoniab) Poland and Slovakia
c) Romania and Lithuania
d) Czech Republic and Bulgaria
6. Which program was launched at the 2002 Prague Summit?
a) The construction of the NATO Response Forceb) The formulation of the Comprehensive Political Guidance
c) The Individual Cooperation Programme
d) The construction of the NATO missile defense system
7. Who publically introduced the concept of “old” and “new” Europe which denoted a division within NATO?
a) Tony Blairb) Donald Rumsfeld
c) Collin Powell
d) Jacques Chirac
8. Which of the following missions was/is NOT headed by NATO?
a) ALTHEAb) SFOR
c) ISAF
d) KFOR
9. How many states were NATO members as of January 1st, 2002?
a) 16b) 19
c) 22
d) 26
10. When was the NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Council (PJC) established?
a) 1991b) 1997
c) 1999
d) 2002
11. What was NATO’s “dual-track policy” concerned with?
a) The numbers of conventional armed forcesb) NATO enlargement to the East
c) Cooperation with the European Union
d) Medium-range nuclear weapons
12. What is written in the International Security Assistance Force logo (green coin)?
a) ISAF – To serve and protect.b) ISAF – Assistance and development.
c) ISAF – Help and cooperation.
d) ISAF – Freedom for all.
13. Complete the sentence correctly: In 2008 Bulgaria neighbored with…
a) 5 states of which 2 are members of NATO.b) 6 states of which 3 are members of NATO.
c) 5 states of which 3 are members of NATO.
d) 6 states of which 4 are members of NATO.
14. Which one of these Foreign Ministers did NOT sign the Washington Treaty?
a) Léon Blumb) Robert Schuman
c) Paul-Henri Spaak
d) Dean Acheson
15. Which NATO country has the second largest army (after the USA)?
a) Germanyb) France
c) Turkey
d) Italy
16. What is the highest active military rank in the United Kingdom Army?
a) Generalb) Captain
c) Colonel
d) Brigadier
17. Who is the author of the famous quote: “Ich bin Ein Berliner”?
a) Dwight David Eisenhowerb) Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
c) John Fitzgerald Kennedy
d) Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
18. How many times has the NATO Response Force been deployed since it achieved readiness in October 2006 (as of January 1st, 2009)?
a) 12b) 7
c) 1
d) 5
19. Which Mediterranean country is not a part of the NATO Mediterranean Dialogue format?
a) Egyptb) Morocco
c) Israel
d) Western Sahara
20. Which EU mission replaced a previous NATO operation?
a) EUPMb) ALTHEA
c) AMIS II
d) ISAF
