Easter Conflict Quiz

This is intended as a bit of not exactly light relief, with relatively little theological content. It is intended to challenge pre-conceptions just a bit, in a gentle way. Answers will be posted in a few days. No prizes for the correct answers.

  1. If you travel in a ship from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through the Panama Canal, which general direction will you be headed: west to east or east to west.
  2. Who said: ‘I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.’ Martin Luther King, Mohammed, Jesus Christ, or Karl Marx.
  3. What percentage of the growth in the US GNP 1993-2008 went to the top 1% of the population? 10%, 24%, or 52%?
  4. Approximately, how many people died globally in the wars of the 20th Century? 57 million, 94 million, or 152 million? Roughly, how many times more is this than the number of US dead in the Vietnam War?
  5. Who was the only US President since 1980 to run a net Federal Government Budget surplus during his term in office?
  6. Who killed more people: Hitler, Stalin or Mao?
  7. Which US President created the Environmental Protection Agency?
  8. How many amendments does the US Constitution now have?
  9. Which political voting group gives more blood in blood drives? Republicans or Democrats?
  10. Who are currently the only two Independents in the US Senate?
Hmm: those are tough questions:



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I spent 32 years in a Fortune Five company working on conflict: organizational, labor relations and senior management. I have consulted in a dozen different business sectors and the US Military. I work with a local environmental non profit. I have written a book on the neuroscience of conflict, and its implications for conflict handling called Creative Conflict Wisdom (forthcoming).
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