Question: What is the lowest score on the Democracy Score scale?
Answer: 7

Question: What Democracy Score does Armenia have?
Answer: 5.21

Question: What does the Freedom House classify Armenia as?
Answer: Semi-consolidated Authoritarian Regime

Question: What makes Armenia's presidential elections faulty?
Answer: polling deficiencies, lack of cooperation by the Electoral Commission, and poor maintenance of electoral lists and polling places

Question: With who does Armenia have bad relations?
Answer: Turkey and Azerbaijan

Question: Is the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan open or closed?
Answer: closed

Question: When was the Nagorno-Karabakh War?
Answer: 1990s

Question: When did Turkey close off its border with Armenia?
Answer: 1993

Question: Which country claims the Armenian Genocide didn't occur?
Answer: Turkey

Question: When did Armenia gain independence from the USSR?
Answer: 1991

Question: Who wants the border between Turkey and Armenia opened?
Answer: Turkish business lobby

Question: When did Armenia and Turkey initiate an attempt to reopen their border?
Answer: 10 October 2009

Question: Who made it difficult to ratify the protocols to reopen the Armenian/Turkey border?
Answer: Turkey

Question: Who ratifies protocols in Armenia?
Answer: national parliaments

Question: How did Turkey thwart the ratification of these protocols?
Answer: continuously added more preconditions to its ratification

Question: Russia has a military base in which city in Armenia?
Answer: Gyumri

Question: How many Armenians reside in the United States?
Answer: 427,822

Question: Why does Russia have a miltary base In Gyumri?
Answer: as a deterrent against Turkey

Question: Who gave Russia permission to have a military base in Gyumri?
Answer: Armenian government

Question: How many of Armenias inhabitants approve of becoming part of the EU?
Answer: 64%

Question: What is KFOR?
Answer: a NATO-led international force in Kosovo

Question: What are some states join Armenia in the Council of Europe?
Answer: France and Greece

Question: When can the EU expect Armenia to attempt to join it?
Answer: in a few years

Question: When was the Armenian military created?
Answer: 1991

Question: When was the Ministry of Defence founded?
Answer: 1992

Question: What are the four branches of the Armenian Armed Forces?
Answer: The Armenian Army, Air Force, Air Defence, and Border Guard

Question: Who is in charge of the the Armenian military?
Answer: Colonel General Yuri Khatchaturov

Question: Who is in charge of the Ministry of Defence?
Answer: Colonel General Seyran Ohanyan

Question: What does CSTO stand for?
Answer: Collective Security Treaty Organisation

Question: What does EAPC stand for?
Answer: Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council

Question: Who else joins Armenia in the CSTO?
Answer: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

Question: When did Armenia remove its peacekeepers from Iraq?
Answer: October 2008

Question: How many hamaynkner does Armenia have?
Answer: 915

Question: How many districts does Yerevan have?
Answer: twelve

Question: Does Armenia have more rural or uban hamaynker?
Answer: rural

Question: What is the Armenian term for settlment?
Answer: bnakavayr

Question: What group is opening a research center in Armenia?
Answer: Intel Corporation

Question: As opposed to an industry-based economy, what industry is Armenia moving to?
Answer: technology industry

Question: The Arnmenian economy depends primarily on what?
Answer: investment and support from Armenians abroad

Question: What did Armenias industry-based economy consist of?
Answer: chemicals, electronics, machinery, processed food, synthetic rubber, and textile

Question: Was agriculture more important before or after Armenia left the Soviet Union?
Answer: After

Question: Why did agriculture become so significant for Armenia's economy?
Answer: food security needs

Question: How much of total employment did agriculture account for at the end of the 1990s?
Answer: 40%

Question: How much of the GDP has agriculture accounted for most recently?
Answer: 20%

Question: How many people died because of the Spitak earthquake?
Answer: more than 25,000

Question: When was the Spitak earthquake?
Answer: 1988

Question: How much did the Armenian GDP decrease from 1989-1993
Answer: 60%

Question: What is the national currency of Armenia?
Answer: the dram

Question: What did Armenia declare a cease-fire to in 1994?
Answer: Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Question: Since when has Armenia experienced a positive growth in their economy?
Answer: 1995

Question: What helped Armenia decrease inflation and create study growth in the economy?
Answer: economic reforms

Question: What is one of the newer sectors Armenia has in addition to agriculture?
Answer: precious-stone processing

Question: What does IMF stand for?
Answer: International Monetary Fund

Question: What dos EBRD stand for?
Answer: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Question: What does IFI stand for?
Answer: international financial institutions

Question: How much in loans has Armenia received since 1993?
Answer: $1.1 billion

Question: When did Armenia become a part of the World Trade Organization?
Answer: 5 February 2003

Question: What is the unemployment rate in Armenia?
Answer: 15%

Question: To what does Armenia attribute it's high unemployment rate?
Answer: refugees from the Karabakh conflict

Question: When did Armenia establish a foreign investment law?
Answer: June 1994

Question: When did Armenia establish a law on privatisation?
Answer: 1997

Question: What percent of Armenian children go to preschool?
Answer: 35%

Question: What is Armenia's biggest University?
Answer: Yerevan State University

Question: When did the National Polytechnic University of Armenia open?
Answer: 1933

Question: How many students did Yerevan State University have in 1992?
Answer: 10,000

Question: How many teachers did Yerevan State University have in 1992?
Answer: 1,300

Question: When was Yerevan State Medical University awarded the Order of Labor red Banner?
Answer: 1980

Question: When was the Medical Institute formed?
Answer: 1930

Question: When was Yerevan State Medical Institute renamed to Yerevan State Medical University?
Answer: 1995

Question: Who founded the Armenian Medical school in Cilician Armenia?
Answer: Mkhitar Heratsi

Question: Which doctor did the YSMU rename itself after?
Answer: Mkhitar Heratsi

Question: Who is in charge of releasing the World Directory of Medical Schools?
Answer: WHO

Question: When was the foreign student department for Armenian diaspora created?
Answer: 1957

Question: Armenian students attend YMSU with foreign students from where?
Answer: India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the USA and Russian Federation

Question: What does OLPC stand for?
Answer: One Laptopschool Per child

Question: What are the names of some of the other higher education organizations in Armenia?
Answer: American University of Armenia and the QSI International School of Yerevan

Question: What are some of the graduate programs available at AUA?
Answer: Business and Law

Question: What are some examples of Armenian folk music instruments?
Answer: the duduk, the dhol, the zurna, and the kanun

Question: Who created the Armenian alphabet?
Answer: Saint Mesrop Mashtots

Question: Who composed the Sabre Dance?
Answer: Aram Khatchaturian

Question: What is known as one of the most prolific type of religious music in Armenia?
Answer: the Armenian chant

Question: What is kef?
Answer: Armenian dance music, using Armenian and Middle Eastern folk instruments

Question: What did kef help do?
Answer: preserved the folk songs and dances of Western Armenia

Question: Where did the Armenians emigrate from?
Answer: Turkey and other Middle Eastern countries

Question: Who is the most well know kef artist?
Answer: Richard Hagopian