Ten questions on how states and international bodies are actually organised, each with the structure explained.
This quiz is about structure rather than opinion: which chamber does what, where sovereignty sits, and which international institutions hold real authority. It covers several systems side by side, because the assumptions built into one country's arrangements rarely transfer to another. The explanations describe the mechanism and note where practice differs between states. No party or position is being advanced here, and questions that are genuinely contested are avoided rather than settled.
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Play it insteadAnswer: C. 50
Why: There have been fifty since Hawaii joined in 1959. The District of Columbia and several territories are not states and have limited representation.
Answer: A. New York
Why: The main UN headquarters sits on international territory in New York. Geneva, Vienna and Nairobi host major secondary offices.
Answer: A. The Commons and the Lords
Why: The elected House of Commons holds the decisive power, while the unelected House of Lords revises and delays. Money bills cannot be blocked by the Lords.
Answer: A. The United States Constitution
Why: The phrase opens the Constitution's preamble, ratified in 1788. The Declaration of Independence is a separate and earlier document.
Answer: C. 27
Why: It stood at 28 until the United Kingdom left in 2020, bringing it to 27. Several other countries are formal candidates for membership.
Answer: C. Legislative, executive and judicial
Why: The legislature makes law, the executive carries it out and the judiciary interprets it. The design is intended to stop any one branch dominating.
Answer: D. The Security Council
Why: China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States hold permanent seats and vetoes. The General Assembly includes every member state but its resolutions are not binding.
Answer: D. The Lok Sabha
Why: The Lok Sabha is directly elected and holds the primary legislative power. The Rajya Sabha is the upper house, representing the states.
Answer: B. A president
Why: A republic has no hereditary head of state, so a president generally fills the role. A prime minister is a head of government, which is a separate office.
Answer: A. Representative democracy
Why: Voters choose representatives who then legislate. Direct democracy, in which citizens vote on the measures themselves, survives mainly in referendums and a few Swiss cantons.
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