So you really think you know UNESCO? Here are 10 questions to test yourself.
1. Which artist did not sign his work at UNESCO’s Fontenoy Headquarters?
a. Picasso
b. Miró
c. Calder
d. Vasarely
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2. What was the name of the forerunner of UNESCO founded in Paris in 1925?
a. Conference of Allied Ministers of Education
b. International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation
c. International Council of Scientific Unions
d. League of Nations
3. The Director-General is elected by the General Conference for a term of office of what length?
a. 4 years
b. 5 years
c. 6 years
d. 7 years
4. Which statesman said, “Wars begin in the minds of men….”, a phrase that made its way to the preamble of UNESCO’s Constitution?
a. Winston Churchill
b. Jacques Maritain
c. Clement Attlee
d. Franklin D. Roosevelt
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5. The above sentence from the preamble continues, “…it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.” These words were written by which poet?
a. Pablo Neruda
b. William B. Yeats
c. Archibald MacLeish
d. Paul Valéry
6. We could have ended up with the acronym UNECO, UNSCO or UNESO? One of the three fields of competence was the subject of a campaign and was added the last. Which one is it?
a. E for Education
b. S for Science
c. C for Culture
7. Who is the most widelytranslated individual author in the Index Translationum database?
a. Jules Verne
b. Barbara Cartland
c. Lenin
d. Agatha Christie
8. According to UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages, how many languages are spoken in the world today?
a. 6,000
b. 4,000
c. 3,000
d. 7,000
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9. UNESCO played a key role in the conception and construction of an ancient library, which its country unveiled in 2002. Which library is it?
a. Academy of Sciences Library in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
b. Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
c. Czech National Library, Prague
d. Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
10. The working languages of the General Conference are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. But it has three other official languages. Which ones are these?
a. German, Italian and Portuguese
b. Italian, Japanese and Portuguese
c. Hindi, Italian and Portuguese
d. German, Japanese and Portuguese
ANSWERS
1 : a. Picasso, whose mural, “The Fall of Icarus” hangs outside the main conference hall.
2 : b. The International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations.
3 : a. 4 years (amended in 2001).
4 : c. Clement Attlee, UK Prime Minister at UNESCO Constituent Conference, London, November 1945.
5 : c. Archibald MacLeish, American poet, later completed the phrase.
6 : b. S for Science. During the Preparatory Conmission in 1945, the campaign was led by British biologists Joseph Needham and Julian Huxley, British Minister of Education Ellen Wilkinson was also a staunch supporter.
7 : d. Agatha Christie (5,700 references in the database). Jules Verne has 3,700, Lenin 3,500 and Cartland 3,200.
8 : a. About 6,000.
9 : b. Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina, inspired by the library founded by Ptolemy in 290 BC.
10 : c. Hindi, Italian and Portuguese (Rules of Procedure, General Conference, Rule 54).
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