“What in the World?” Quiz – Week of April 30-May 6, 2017

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Check your global affairs awareness with these ten questions taken from the week’s news reports provided via @TNWAC #TNWACquiz.

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Here’s last week’s questions and answers:

WHAT IN THE WORLD? QUIZ

Week of April 23-29, 2017

1. Three people were killed as hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Venezuela this week to express their anger against THIS leader:
A. Hugo Chavez
B. Donald Trump
C. Juan Manuel Santos
D. Nicolas Maduro
Correct answer: D. Nicolas Maduro
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKBN17L178

2. After a gunman opened fire on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, killing a police officer, THIS French presidential candidate called for all French terror suspects who hold “two nationalities” [i.e., born to immigrant parents] to be expelled from the country:
A. Marine Le Pen
B. François Fillon
C. Benoît Hamon
D. Emmanuel Macron
Correct answer: A. Marine Le Pen
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/21/525025327/presidential-candidates-emphasize-security-after-paris-attack

3. This week British Prime Minister Theresa May won Parliament’s backing for THIS:
A. Brexit
B. Early elections
C. Dissolution of the House of Commons
D. New immigration restrictions
Correct answer: B. Early elections
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-election-idUSKBN17L0LU

4. People flocked to the tiny town of Ferryland in Newfoundland, Canada, to take pictures of THIS unusual offshore site:
A. Ten pods of blue whales
B. A flock of migrating penguins
C. An iceberg that had gotten stuck
D. Manoeuvers by the Canadian navy
Correct answer: C. An iceberg that had gotten stuck
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/ferryland-iceberg-traffic-1.4073428

5. Analysts charged with monitoring activity at North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear facility reported seeing three groups of people engaged in THIS:
A. Military manoeuvers
B. Volleyball matches
C. Radiation leakage
D. Evacuation drills
Correct answer: B. Volleyball matches
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/21/525010775/nuclear-researchers-spot-north-korean-volleyball-games

6. Afghan president Ashraf Ghani declared a national day of mourning after more than 100 soldiers were killed or injured in an attack on a military base in Mazar-i-Sharif. The 10 attackers were Taliban fighters disguised as THIS:
A. Women
B. Afghan soldiers
C. Medics
D. Journalists
Correct answer: B. Afghan soldiers
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-attack-idUSKBN17O04C

7. An Italian prosecutor told La Stampa newspaper this week that he has evidence that members of THIS group have been colluding with human traffickers in Libya to smuggle migrants across the Mediterranean to Europe.
A. Police officers
B. UN officials
C. Charities
D. Medical personnel
Correct answer: C. Charities
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39686239

8. Great Britain celebrated its first entire working day since the Industrial Revolution without THIS:
A. Electricity
B. Coal
C. Tea
D. Steam-powered machinery
Correct answer: B. Coal
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/21/525109411/uk-may-have-24-hours-without-coal-power

9. Citing a significantly reduced possibility of threat by Joseph Kony, THIS country joined the United States and called off the manhunt for the infamous warlord, commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army:
A. Uganda
B. Kenya
C. Somalia
D. Rwanda
Correct answer: A. Uganda
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/21/525073251/u-s-uganda-call-off-search-for-infamous-warlord-joseph-kony

10. According to the Foreign Minister of THIS country, his nation’s Defense Intelligence Service’s unit for cyber security found that Russia had spied against government entities, gaining access to non-classified documents:
A. France
B. Saudi Arabia
C. Denmark
D. China
Correct answer: C. Denmark
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-denmark-security-russia-idUSKBN17P0NR

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