Q 01/05

How many member states does NATO have following its 2024 enlargement?

A) 30

B) 34

C) 36

D) 32

Answer · why

D) 32

Thirty are in Europe and two, the United States and Canada, in North America.

Q 02/05

In which year was the North Atlantic Treaty signed?

A) 1949

B) 1951

C) 1953

D) 1955

Answer · why

A) 1949

The signing came in Washington on 4 April, two years after the Truman Doctrine and a year after the communist coup in Czechoslovakia.

Q 03/05

In which city was the North Atlantic Treaty signed?

A) Brussels

B) London

C) Washington

D) Ottawa

Answer · why

C) Washington

The founding twelve were the five Brussels Treaty states plus the US, Canada, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark and Iceland.

Q 04/05

Which numbered article of the North Atlantic Treaty makes an attack on one an attack on all?

A) 2

B) 4

C) 5

D) 10

Answer · why

C) 5

Each ally then takes 'such action as it deems necessary', which need not mean sending troops.

Q 05/05

Article 5 has been invoked only once in NATO's history, in response to what?

A) The Falklands War

B) Russia's annexation of Crimea

C) The September 11 attacks

D) The 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia

Answer · why

C) The September 11 attacks

The invocation led to NATO taking command of the ISAF mission in Afghanistan, its first deployment outside Europe and North America.