Q 01/05

Article 24 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights lists rest, leisure and which workplace benefit as a right?

A) A pension

B) Paid holidays

C) Free healthcare

D) Profit sharing

Answer · why

B) Paid holidays

Paid holidays. Article 24 asks for 'periodic holidays with pay', and a binding UN covenant of 1966 went further by adding pay for public holidays.

Q 02/05

Guinness World Records has certified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the world's most what?

A) Ratified treaty

B) Translated document

C) Reprinted pamphlet

D) Quoted speech

Answer · why

B) Translated document

Translated document. The declaration binds no state the way a treaty does, yet it has been put into more than 500 languages, from Abkhaz to Zulu.

Q 03/05

Which country is the only UN member that has never ratified the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child?

A) Ethiopia

B) North Korea

C) United States

D) Solomon Islands

Answer · why

C) United States

United States. It helped draft the convention and signed it in 1995, yet it became the last UN member outside the treaty once Somalia ratified in 2015...

Q 04/05

Which country was the last on Earth to abolish slavery, in 1981, and allowed slaveholders to be prosecuted only in 2007?

A) Mauritania

B) Sierra Leone

C) Burkina Faso

D) Madagascar

Answer · why

A) Mauritania

Mauritania banned slavery by decree in 1981 but passed no criminal law to enforce it, and tens of thousands of people were still living in bondage dec...

Q 05/05

When Britain abolished slavery across most of its empire in 1833, who received the £20 million compensation?

A) The enslaved people

B) The owners

C) Colonial governors

D) The Royal Navy

Answer · why

B) The owners

The owners of enslaved people got the money, not the freed: the £20 million equalled 40 per cent of the Treasury's annual income, and the debt raised ...