“What In The World?” Quiz – Dec 10-16, 2018

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Here’s last week’s questions and answers:

WHAT IN THE WORLD? QUIZ

WEEK OF DEC 3-9, 2018

1. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto stirred up ire among his compatriots when he announced that he would award THIS U.S. government official the Order of the Aztec Eagle, Mexico’s highest honor for foreigners:

A. President Donald Trump
B. White House Innovations Director Jared Kushner
C. Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions
D. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen

Correct Response: B. Jared Kushner
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/28/a-humiliation-outcry-after-mexico-president-gives-highest-honour-to-jared-kushner

2. A report from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control shows that rates of HIV infection are growing at an “alarming rate,” in Eastern Europe, with the highest rates of contraction in THIS country:

A. Belarus
B. Ukraine
C. Russia
D. Slovenia

Correct Response: C. Russia
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/27/health/hiv-eastern-europe-study-intl/index.html

3. The U.S. Senate approved a resolution calling for the end of U.S. involvement in the war in Yemen, a move designed to punish Saudi Arabia for THIS action:

A. The murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
B. Its role in the conflict in Yemen, which has led to the world’s worst humanitarian disaster
C. Its role in yet another chemical attack in Aleppo, Syria
D. The persecution of women’s rights activists

Correct Response: A. The murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
https://www.apnews.com/4fd2614baa394c6cb86b5bc9a75c8544

4. The annual G20 summit happened last week, and for the first time the group of global economic leaders met in Latin America. Which of the following Latin American nations is NOT a member of the G20?

A. Brazil
B. Mexico
C. Chile
D. Argentina

Correct Response: C. Chile
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/g20-summit-argentina-countries-involved-agenda-a4002461.html

5. Tensions are so high around the Azov and Black Seas that Ukraine declared martial law in areas along its border with Russia for the first time since the annexation of Crimea in 2014. What event triggered this declaration?

A. Russia sent troops to the former Chernobyl—located in Ukraine—nuclear site to salvage enriched uranium
B. Russia seized three Ukrainian ships and detained their crews in the Kerch Strait, waters that are considered territory of both Ukraine and Russia
C. Russian fighter jets buzzed the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, violating Ukrainian airspace
D. Russian-backed Crimean separatists set off bombs in Kiev

Correct Response: B. Russia seized three Ukrainian ships and detained their crews in the Kerch Strait, waters that are considered territory of both Ukraine and Russia
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/26/europe/ukraine-russia-kerch-strait-intl/index.html

6. THIS author announced an upcoming sequel to her 1985 global bestseller, The Handmaid’s Tale:

A. Isabel Allende
B. Arundhati Roy
C. Margaret Atwood
D. Doris Lessing

Correct Response: C. Margaret Atwood
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/28/margaret-atwood-announces-the-handmaids-tale-sequel-the-testaments

7. Police in Paris used water cannons and tear gas to disperse crowds of protestors as up to 75,000 people turned out to demonstrate across France against new fuel taxes. For the last three weeks crowds of protestors bearing THIS nickname have been expressing their opposition to Emmanuel Macron’s new fuel tax:

A. “Yellow vests,” for the safety vests all motorists are required to wear while stopped on the side of the road
B. “Gassers,” for their opposition to the gas tax
C. “Anti-Marconistes,” for their opposition to the French president’s policies
D. “Stoppers,” a play on the French term for hitchhiking that also denotes the protestors’ practice of blocking roads

Correct Response: A. “Yellow vests,” for the safety vests all motorists are required to wear while stopped on the side of the road
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46411699

8. This new week brought more grim environmental news when the United Nations issued its annual environment report; the report says that countries will have to reduce carbon emissions by a quarter before 2030 in order to keep global warming under THIS critical target level:

A. 2 degrees Celsius
B. 5 degrees Celsius
C. 8 degrees Celsius
D. 10 degrees Celsius

Correct Response: A. 2 degrees Celsius
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/27/world-triple-efforts-climate-change-un-global-warming

9. Mexico celebrated THIS new president’s inauguration this week. The gentleman in question swept the presidential election with 56% of the vote, an unprecedented amount since the end of the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) 71-year hold on Mexican politics in 2000:

A. Vincente Fox
B. Enrique Peña Nieto
C. Felipe Calderón
D. Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Correct Response: D. Andrés Manuel López Obrador
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44646478

10. UNESCO added THIS form of music to its “Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity”:

A. Vietnamese xoan signing
B. North African mezwed
C. Kentucky bluegrass
D. Reggae

Correct Response: D. Reggae

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/reggae-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-list-761286/

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