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QUIZ WINNERS FROM LAST WEEK

Pat Miletich, Nashville, TN

Chase Cole, Nashville, TN

Yezzie Dospil, Nashville, TN

David Hillinck, Huntsville, AL

Julia Lydon, Nashville, TN

Charles Bowers, Nashville, TN

APRIL 2019 MONTHLY QUIZ PRIZE

COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME

FAMILY MEMBERSHIP FOR ONE YEAR

Includes all of the benefits listed below for TWO named adults and children ages 12 and under in your household plus TWO single-visit admission tickets for guests.

• • SKIP THE LINE. Expedited gallery ticketing at the Information and Membership desks

• • FREE admission to the Museum galleries and the Taylor Swift Education Center

• • FREE admission to hundreds of Museum programs, including weekly songwriter sessions, instrument demonstrations, film screenings, and family activities

• • FREE admission to the Poets and Prophets series, honoring legendary songwriters, and the Nashville Cats series, honoring legendary session musicians

• • Member exclusive exhibit event and member appreciation concert The Big Gig

• • DISCOUNTED tours of Historic RCA Studio B, home of 1,000 hits, and Hatch Show Print, Nashville’s legendary letterpress shop

• • 10% DISCOUNT at The Museum Store, Circa, Hatch Show Print retail, and Two Twenty Two

• SUBSCRIPTION to Inside the Circle email newsletter and bi-monthly postcards

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We’ll post the answers and the names of the winner(s) in next week’s quiz.

Here’s last week’s questions and answers:

WHAT IN THE WORLD? QUIZ

WEEK OF April 8-14, 2019

1. As Ukraine approaches the second round of its presidential elections later this month, the government has announced a ban on gas price hikes, hoped to strengthen the chances of re-election for THIS embattled Ukrainian president.

A. Yulia Tymoshenko
B. Viktor Yanukovych
C. Mikhail Bozek
D. Petro Poroshenko

Correct Response: D. Petro Poroshenko
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-election-gas/ukrainian-government-bans-gas-price-hikes-before-vote-idUSKCN1RF16M

2. A five-day hunger strike forced THIS US-ally to host a non-binding referendum on the expansion of an existent US Marines base. Despite more than 70% of voters voicing opposition, the government has announced its intention to move forward with the expansion.

A. Italy
B. Djibouti
C. Japan
D. The Philippines

Correct Response: C. Japan
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-okinawa-henoko-idUSKCN1RF0KC

3. Romania has come under scrutiny by the European Union since pressing charges against its former anti-corruption chief, Laura Codruta Kovesi. Kovesi is the preferred candidate of THIS legislative arm of the European Union for the role of EU Chief Prosecutor.

A. House of Europe
B. European Parliament
C. European Commission
D. Council of Europe

Correct Response: B. European Parliament
https://euobserver.com/political/144272

4. The controversial leader of the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte, issued a warning to China that he would have his soldiers “prepare for suicide missions” over THIS long-standing issue.

A. Expansion of a Chinese military base in Indonesia
B. Chinese currency inflation
C. Human rights conditions in Xinjiang
D. China’s claims to the island of Pag-asa/Thitu

Correct Response: D. China’s claims to the island of Pag-asa/Thitu
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6891075/Philippine-President-Duterte-threatens-send-troops-suicide-mission-South-China-Sea.html

5. The Saudi government has come under criticism at the UN Human Rights Council for last week’s arrest of writers and bloggers associated with THIS.

A. A British hack-tivist group
B. Women’s rights activists
C. Alleged Iranian spies
D. Disability rights activists

Correct Response: B. Women’s rights activists
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-47482779

6. Hollywood actor George Clooney has called for a boycott of hotels owned by the leader of THIS small Pacific nation in response to a recently announced criminal law punishing homosexuality and adultery with death by stoning.

A. Timor Leste
B. Singapore
C. Tuvalu
D. Brunei

Correct Response: D. Brunei
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47744566

7. The United States has revoked the visa of the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor following her controversial decision to do THIS.

A. Allow Russia to join the ICC
B. Investigate potential war crimes allegations against US forces in Afghanistan
C. Decline to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
D. Declare the use of child soldiers to be a war crime

Correct Response: B. Investigate potential war crimes allegations against US forces in Afghanistan
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/bars-entry-icc-members-probing-war-crimes-afghanistan-190315191933901.html

8. In a rare address to the US Congress marking the 70th anniversary of THIS international organization, THIS organization’s head warned, “We do not want a new arms race. We do not want a new Cold War. But we must not be naïve.”

A. United Nations Secretariat
B. International Atomic Energy Agency
C. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
D. World Trade Organization

Correct Response: C. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/04/03/NATO-chief-to-US-Congress-We-must-overcome-our-differences-now/8761554240958/

9. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he plans to extend Israeli sovereignty through annexation to THIS territory if he is elected to a fifth term on April 9th.

A. Golan Heights
B. Sinai
C. West Bank
D. Gaza

Correct Response: C. West Bank
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/04/06/Netanyahu-plans-to-annex-West-Bank-settlements-if-re-elected/6771554590136/

10. Paul Kagame, president of THIS African country said, “There is no way to fully comprehend the loneliness and anger of survivors and yet over and over again we have asked them to make the sacrifices necessary to give our nation new life. Emotions had to be put in a box,” in marking the 25th anniversary of a three-month genocidal rampage that saw the murders of 800,000 people, including over 70 percent of the minority Tutsi population.

A. Rwanda
B. Democratic Republic of Congo
C. Zimbabwe
D. Botswana

Correct Response: A. Rwanda
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rwanda-genocide/rwanda-honors-those-killed-in-genocide-25-years-ago-idUSKCN1RJ04Y?il=0

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