Radical Quiz

Objective: answer 7 questions correctly. JavaScript required!


1. WARM-UP: In which date was the Manifesto- Appeal of Nobel Prize winners against extermination by hunger launched?

January 1, 1989
August 15, 1966
June 24, 1981
April 1, 1973

2. In 1970, a resolution of the United Nations asked the world governments to invest a certain percentage of their Gross National Product in aid for development of poor countries. Which was this percentage?

0.70% GNP
0.10% GNP
1.5% GNP
5% GNP

3. In 1976, the Radical Party took place in italian elections for the first time, winning four posts in the Chamber of Deputies. Who were the members of this "Band of Four"?

Aglietta,Bonino, Pannella, Vigevano
Bonino, Faccio, Mellini, Pannella
Bonino, Macciocchi, Pannella, Stanzani
Bonino, Cicciomessere, Pannella, Stanzani

4. In 1992? Emma Bonino, presently European Commissioner, was took in to custody by Police while protesting in New York. What she were doing?

A strip-tease action.
Distributing clean needles to policemen.
Burning the U.S.A. flag.
Blocking the World Bank.

5. On 28 December, 1996 the Radical Party leader, Marco Pannella, made a scandle during a State-owned TV live broadcast: What he did?

He showed a condom .
He remained silent for five minutes.
He accused the Italian President of felonry.
He gifted the anchor-woman with 200 grams of hashish.

6. In 1970, the Radical Party's leaders had decided to close the party, but they didn't succeeded. Why?

Under the italian partycracy rule, it was prohibited to close a party.
This story is not true.
More than one thousand people enrolled just to prevent them to do so.
None of the above

7. In different italian ballots, which of the following became Members of Parliament for the Radical Party:

A nun.
A pornstar.
A detainee on charges of being the chief of the terrorist group "Red Brigades"
All of the above

8. What Marco Pannella did during New Year's Eve of 1992?

A public broadcast at Radio Radicale.
Enjoyed a celebration at RP Headquarters.
Passed the night in a croatian trench on the front of Vukovar.
At midnight, he drank one of the three cappuccinos permitted during hunger strike and went to bed.

9. Which of the following has been a member of the Radical Party:

Italian Mafia Mobster Piromalli.
Rumenian dramatist Eugene Ionesco.
Spanish philosopher Fernando Savater
All of the above

10. The next Radical Party Congress is scheduled for:

Only Mr. Pannella knows.
March 1999.
December, 2001
January, 2000.