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QUIZ WINNERS FROM LAST WEEK

Pratik Yedla, Huntsville, AL

Roanna Wiser, New York

Benjamin Radford, Winston-Salem, NC

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 15-21, 2019

1. The largest election the world has ever seen began in India last week, where 900 million eligible voters will have the opportunity over 39 days to elect a new lower house of parliament in seven phases of polling through mid-May. As the election carries on, THIS current Prime Minister of India has been subjected to allegations of corruption by opposition leaders.

A. Narendra Modi
B. Rahul Gandhi
C. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
D. Manmohan Singh

Correct Response: Narendra Modi
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/world/asia/india-election-modi-gandhi.html

2. Following a bombing in a fruit and vegetable market in Quetta that killed 24 people, members of THIS marginalized ethnic minority in Pakistan began a sit-in to demand better security conditions. THIS ethnic group practices Shia Islam in the predominantly Sunni countries of Pakistan and Afghanistan and has been subject to threats from sectarian armed groups for many years.

A. Uyghur
B. Kazakh
C. Hazara
D. Pashtun

Correct Response: C. Hazara
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47921535

3. Since last week’s announcement that former President Omar Al-Bashir would be removed from his position after thirty years of rule, the international community has renewed calls for Mr. Bashir to be extradited and face his indictment by THIS international court for his role in the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.

A. East African Court of Justice
B. International Court of Justice
C. International Criminal Court
D. African Court of Justice

Correct Response: C. International Criminal Court
https://www.vox.com/world/2019/4/12/18307649/sudan-omar-al-bashir-war-crimes-icc-military

4. Infamous co-founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange was evicted from THIS country’s embassy in London, where he’d been in residence with diplomatic asylum for seven years, and arrested last week after allegations that he was intervening in the internal affairs of other states and displaying “improper hygienic conduct” inside the embassy.

A. El Salvador
B. Eritrea
C. Ecuador
D. Equatorial Guinea

Correct Response: C. Ecuador
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-11/julian-assange-arrested-after-ecuador-drops-asylum-protection

5. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held onto his lead in last week’s elections, becoming the longest-serving PM as he enters his fifth term. Despite his win, THIS new Israeli political alliance received over a million votes, breaking the record for a new party and positioning it to become the new alternative to Israel’s right wing.

A. Democratic Socialists
B. Blue and White
C. Labor
D. Likud

Correct Response: B. Blue and White
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/israel-elections-blue-and-white-party-concede-defeat-a4114731.html

6. EU and UK leaders have agreed to a six-month “flexible extension” to Brexit, delaying the process until October 31. Despite the extension, the UK could be forced to exit as early as May 1 if the country does not do THIS in May.

A. Agree to a soft border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
B. Allow Scotland to hold a new referendum for independence
C. Reopen withdrawal agreement negotiations
D. Hold elections for the European Parliament

Correct Response: D. Hold elections for the European Parliament
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/10/eu-leaders-offer-to-delay-brexit-until-the-end-of-october.html

7. THIS San Francisco-based company was forced to reverse a new policy to settle a class action suit filed against them by Israeli lawyers who alleged discrimination against Jewish settlers in the West Bank.

A. Twitter
B. Craigslist
C. Uber
D. Airbnb

Correct Response: D. Airbnb
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/world/middleeast/airbnb-israel-west-bank.html

8. China, already under international backlash for holding as many as a million of THIS Muslim minority group in detection camps, is under fire for using facial recognition technology to track members of THIS group. It is the first known instance of a government using AI for racial profiling.

A. Mongols
B. Uighurs
C. Alawites
D. Madhabs

Correct Response: B. Uighurs
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveillance-artificial-intelligence-racial-profiling.html

9. The Trump Administration named THIS group a terrorist organization last week, the first time a military arm of a state has been so labeled, intensifying the already tense relationship with that country.

A. Party of God (Hezbollah)
B. National Liberation Army (ELN)
C. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
D. Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC)

Correct Response: D. Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/09/us-naming-iran-irgc-terrorists-creates-tangle-of-legislation-analyst.html

10. President Danny Faure, leader of THIS Indian Ocean island nation that faces an existential threat from climate change and rising sea levels, issued a plea for the world to protect the oceans which he called the “beating blue heart of our planet” from inside a submersible at a depth of over 400 feet.

A. Madagascar
B. Seychelles
C. Mauritius
D. Sri Lanka

Correct Response: B. Seychelles
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/world/africa/seychelles-president-underwater-speech.html

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