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Author Archives: Dmitri O'Bannon
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Campus Trivia Night
Question: Which five countries are the top Tangerine Producers in East Asia?
Answer via USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)
- China
- Japan
- South Korea
- Taiwan
- North Korea
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UC Merced
Campus Trivia Night
Which 5 countries were the largest economies in the world by nominal GDP in the year 2000
Via the IMF by way of Wikipedia
- United States
- Japan
- Germany
- United Kingdom
- France
In the half decade between 1995 and 2000, the list of the world’s four largest economies as measured by nominal GDP in $US remained unchanged in either composition or sequence. The identity of the world’s forth and fifth largest economies, switched such that the United Kingdom became ranked as number four and France ranked as number five as estimated by the International Monetary Fund.
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Campus Trivia Night
Question: What has been the change in Chile’s per capita GDP in both nominal and PPP terms – expressed in US Dollars – since 1995?
Via IMF datasets for Nominal GDP and PPP GDP respectively.
| Year | Nominal GDP per Capita (USD) | GDP per Capita (PPP) (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | $5,115 | $7,719 |
| 2000 | $5,123 | $9,754 |
| 2005 | $7,532 | $13,204 |
| 2010 | $12,746 | $17,321 |
| 2015 | $13,513 | $22,341 |
| 2020 | $13,222 | $25,004 |
| 2025 (Est.) | $18,487 | $32,713 |
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University of Kansas
General Colin Powell was born
on this day in 1937
Colin Powell – the American four-star general who served as the 65th U.S. Secretary of State and the 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – was born on this day – April 5, 1937 – in Harlem, New York.
He was a graduate of the City College of New York, George Washington University, and the National War College.
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