“What in the World? Weekly Quiz" | May 16-22, 2022

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Editor’s Note: Last week the initial distribution of the quiz contained an error on question #10. The intended question for the week was not copied properly and the question from the previous week was displayed. So the answer choices didn’t correlate to the question. Thanks to sharp-eyed quiz-taker Dick Bowers we fixed the error. So if you took the quiz in the first two hours it was in the field you can add another point to your score. The correct #10 question and answers are below.

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MAY 2022 QUIZ PRIZE

You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War

By Elizabeth Becker

The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering war. Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign reporters, Frankie, Catherine, and Kate challenged the rules imposed on them by the military, ignored the belittlement of their male peers, and ultimately altered the craft of war reportage for generations.

In You Don’t Belong Here, Elizabeth Becker uses these women’s work and lives to illuminate the Vietnam War from the 1965 American buildup, the expansion into Cambodia, and the American defeat and its aftermath. Arriving herself in the last years of the war, Becker writes as a historian and a witness of the times.

What emerges is an unforgettable story of three journalists forging their place in a land of men, often at great personal sacrifice. Deeply reported and filled with personal letters, interviews, and profound insight, You Don’t Belong Here fills a void in the history of women and of war.

LAST WEEK’S QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

What in the World? Quiz – Week of May 9-15, 2022

1. Russia celebrates Victory Day on May 9th with a massive military parade in Moscow’s Red Square to mark THIS.

A. Victory in the Russo-Japanese War
B. Defeat of the Taliban in Afghanistan
C. Defeat of Germany in 1945
D. Annexation of Crimea

Correct Response: C. Defeat of Germany in 1945
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/08/1097184192/russia-victory-day-2022

2. In a virtual meeting with Ukraine President Zelenskyy THIS association of leading global economies agreed to ban Russian oil imports.

A. The G-20
B. The P5+1
C. The U2
D. The G-7

Correct Response: D. The G-7
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/05/08/ukraine-russia-invasion-live-updates/9688179002/

3. Ukraine received information on the location of THIS ship in the Black Sea before attacking and sinking it with anti-ship cruise missiles.

A. Leningrad
B. Moskva
C. Kaliningrad
D. Vladivostok

Correct Response: B. Moskva
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61343044

4. The vote for Northern Ireland Assembly seats was a victory for THIS political party, once the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, a first for a nationalist organization.

A. DUP
B. Sinn Fein
C. Alliance Party
D. PUK

Correct Response: B. Sinn Fein
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/06/uk-elections-results-sinn-fein/

5. The namesake son of THIS long-time Filipino dictator, deposed in the 1986 “people power” revolution, holds a 30-point lead as voting start May 8th in the Philippines. The candidate, known as “Bongbong,” is expected to continue in the style of strongman Rodrigo Duterte.

A. Ferdinand Marcos
B. Fidel Ramos
C. Benigno Aquino
D. Joseph Estrada

Correct Response: A. Ferdinand Marcos
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/prospect-marcos-revival-looms-philippines-votes-new-president-2022-05-08/

6. North Korea continued its long-range missile testing program, 15 launches this year, with the launch of THIS type of rocket. If deployed it would present a unique challenge to American defenses.

A. Submarine launched ballistic missile
B. Long range ICBM capable of carrying a nuclear warhead
C. Hypersonic missile
D. Nuclear capable land attack cruise missile

Correct Response: A. Submarine launched ballistic missile
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/world/asia/north-korea-missile-submarine.html

7. The ruling Taliban in Afghanistan announced a decree compelling women to wear a face covering. Women in Afghanistan under the Taliban, before 2001, were forced to wear THIS full body covering which left a mesh opening for the eyes.

A. Abaya
B. Burka
C. Hijab
D. Chador

Correct Response: B. Burka
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-61361826

8. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang warned of a “complicated and grave” employment situation as a result of THIS.

A. Tariff hikes on goods bound for the United States
B. Sanctions over cooperation with Russia
C. Recession due to a drop in GDP
D. Covid lockdowns in major cities

Correct Response: D. Covid lockdowns in major cities
https://fortune.com/2022/05/08/china-premier-warns-of-grave-jobs-situation-as-lockdowns-weigh/

9. Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper recounts in a forthcoming book that in 2020 President Trump asked about launching missiles into THIS country to destroy drug labs, quoting the President as saying, “no one would know it was us.”

A. Colombia
B. Venezuela
C. Bolivia
D. Mexico

Correct Response: D. Mexico
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/us/politics/mark-esper-book-trump.html

10. Russian military forces preparing to celebrate “Victory Day” in Moscow included fighter jets flying in the formation of THIS letter, which has become symbolic of the invasion of Ukraine.

A. M
B. T
C. F
D. Z

Correct Response: D. Z
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/08/world/europe/russia-may-9-victory-day-ukraine.html

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