The first four states in the US presidential primary process are Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. None of these states are in the top 20 most populous of the United States.

A first-past-the-post electoral system is one in which voters indicate on a ballot the candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins. The voter is required to select only one candidate.

The International Netball Federation (INF) wants to make Netball an Olympic sport but cannot do so without agreeing to the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) gender equality requirements of an equal number of athletes for men and women in each sport. The INF’s stance has always been to exclusively support the women’s game at an international and professional level.

For the purposes of this debate, 'code switching' is when a professional sportsperson chooses to play professionally for another sport. For example, Israel Folau and Karmichael Hunt moving from NRL to AFL and then to Union, Ellyse Perry switching between football and cricket.

The Indian National Congress (INC) is one of the two major political parties in India. Their current leader is Rahul Gandhi, whose father (Rajiv Gandhi), grandmother (Indira Gandhi) and great-grandfather (Jawaharlal Nehru) were all Prime Minister of India. His mother (Sonia Gandhi) was the President of the INC until 2017 stepping down because of a corruption scandal, but is still a powerful individual within the party.

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) is an international treaty whose purported objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and further the goal of nuclear disarmament.

A zero-hour work contract is a type of contract where the employer is not obliged to provide any minimum working hours, while the worker is not obliged to accept any work offered. As no hours are guaranteed, workers' rights such as sick pay or parental leave may be affected. These contracts are often used in retail and service industries.

200 million years ago Earth was split up into two supercontinents, Laurasia and Gondwana.