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The AlertNet Challenge
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QUESTION 1 - CORRECT!
The city of Pisco, which was hit hard by the recent earthquake in Peru, is well-known for a product also called pisco. What is it?
Answer: A famous grape liquor distilled there since 1540
Pisco, today a place of despair, is best known as a jumping-off point for tourists going to view wildlife at the Paracas Nature Reserve, as well as for the famous grape liquor that takes its name from this town of around 120,000 people. Local winemakers say they've been making the brandy since 1540. They say the place name comes from an Inca word meaning bird, and it became one of the main regions where Spanish colonialists grew grapes and made wine.
QUESTION 2 - CORRECT!
Why did U.S. aid agency CARE decide to wean itself off large donations of U.S.-produced food, which it used to sell in developing countries to fund projects like bolstering local farming practices or improving nutrition?
Answer: It decided it's not the best way to help people, since the system ties aid to the purchase of high-priced U.S. crops and requires shipping commodities halfway around the world
Aid groups are divided over a leading charity's steps to wean itself from U.S. government funding for food aid programs that critics charge can harm the nations they aim to help. The U.S. system has come under wide attack as wasteful, largely because it ties aid to purchase of high-priced U.S. crops and requires shipping commodities halfway around the world on U.S. vessels, which eats up a huge share of funding. "We came to the realisation that if we wanted to do what was in the best interest of poor people and efficiency in aid, that this wasn't it," said Helene Gayle, president of CARE, a leading U.S. aid group.
QUESTION 3 - CORRECT!
What is the United Revolutionary Force Front (URFF)?
Answer: A little-known Arab-led Darfur rebel group which is opposed to the Khartoum government
The United Revolutionary Force Front (URFF), a little-known Arab-led group opposed to Sudan's government, says government troops have increased attacks on its positions in Darfur in recent weeks. The URFF accuses Khartoum of fomenting ethnic tensions in the war-torn region as a "divide and rule" tactic and insists the portrayal of Arabs all being linked to the feared Janjaweed militia is wrong.
QUESTION 4 - CORRECT!
Why is there controversy around cans of tuna distributed to Peru earthquake survivors?
Answer: They were labelled with photos of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the Peruvian opposition candidate
Thousands of cans of tuna reportedly distributed in the quake zone south of Lima had labels sporting photos of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Peruvian opposition politician Ollanta Humala, who lost to Alan Garcia in last year's presidential election. A message on the label reads: "The Peruvian government acts in an inefficient, slow and heartless manner, notwithstanding the pain of the victims, leaving them to the mercy of hunger, thirst and delinquency." Not surprisingly, the offending cans have stirred up a political storm.
QUESTION 5 - CORRECT!
While overall the rate of HIV infection is increasing in the Asia Pacific region, what countries there are experiencing a decline in the rate of infection?
Answer: Thailand and Cambodia
HIV infections are increasing at a worrying 10 percent a year in the Asia Pacific region, a top U.N. AIDS official says, putting the rise down to intravenous drug use, sex workers and conflicts. "If you take out southern India and Thailand and Cambodia, where you have a declining rate, in the remaining Asia Pacific region it is still an increasing epidemic," the official states.
QUESTION 6 - CORRECT!
How does 86-year-old Dorian Paskowitz hope to promote peace between Israel and Palestine?
Answer: By sending surf boards to Gaza and holding a joint surf event with Israel
Dorian Paskowitz, an 86-year-old physician, hopes to get Israelis and Palestinians on the same wave by sending surf boards to the Gaza Strip. The Californian, who has been surfing for over half a century, donated a dozen boards to Palestinians and says he hopes to be able to bring Israeli and Gazan surfers to a joint event in Israel in October.
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