“What in the World?” Quiz – Week of July 8-14, 2018

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Cynthia Melcher, Springfield, Massachusetts

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JULY 2018 MONTHLY PRIZE

“Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism”

by Ian Bremmer

Review

“Required reading to help repair a world in pieces and build a world at peace.”
— António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General

“The best book yet on the waves Donald Trump rode to power. Ian Bremmer is right that rage and scorn are not plans. He provides good practical ideas for what can be done.”
—Lawrence Summers, professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and former director or the National Economic Council

“Few can beat Ian Bremmer in taking the pulse on the health of nations and the world. Here he dives into the divisions and disputes of the wave of protests and populism that gave the US Donald Trump and Europe Brexit.”
—Carl Bildt, co-chair of European Council on Foreign Relations

“My favorite thinker on geopolitics offers a masterful analysis of why globalism crashed and populism has soared. This book won’t just help you predict the future of nations; it will play a role in shaping that future.”
—Adam Grant, author of Give and Take, Originals, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg

“A crisp and compelling anatomy of present political ills across many countries. Bremmer’s discussion of global approaches to revising the social contract between government and citizen offers a welcome ray of light.”
—Anne-Marie Slaughter, president & CEO of New America

“Global politics is a jungle today. Thank goodness Ian Bremmer can be your guide.”
—David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee

“Once again, Ian Bremmer provides a striking preview of tomorrow’s top stories. A timely warning, but also a source of hope, Us vs. Them is required reading for those worried about our world’s future.”
—Nouriel Roubini, author of Crisis Economics; professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business; chairman of Roubini Macro Associates

“Ian Bremmer is provocative, controversial, and always intelligent about the state of our world, which he knows so well!”
—Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Source: Amazon.com

About the Author

Ian Bremmer is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm. He has published ten books, including Superpower and the national bestsellers The End of the Free Market and Every Nation for Itself. He lectures widely and writes a weekly foreign affairs column for TIME magazine, where he’s editor at large. He lives in New York City.

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Here’s last week’s questions and answers:

WHAT IN THE WORLD? QUIZ

Week of Jul 1-7, 2018

1. Rescuers have deployed sniffer dogs, drones, expert divers, and an international volunteer force to find 12 boys and their soccer coach, believed to be trapped inside a flooded cave network in THIS country:

A. China
B. Vietnam
C. Thailand
D. Cambodia

Correct Response: C. Thailand
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44652397

2. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won re-election last week. This was Turkey’s first presidential election after its citizens voted to reform their government’s structure by doing THIS:

A. Imposing term limits on all elected officials
B. Imposing a check on the presidency by granting the legislature more power
C. Bestowing sweeping powers to the executive branch, including the possibility of running for multiple terms
D. Abolishing the legislature

Correct Response: C. Bestowing sweeping powers to the executive branch, including the possibility of running for multiple terms
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/world/europe/turkey-election-erdogan.html

3. For the first time since 1969, an American will not head THIS UN agency. After three rounds of voting, Ken Isaacs, whose negative remarks about Islam drew widespread condemnation during his candidacy, lost his bid to head the agency in question to Antonio Vitorino, a former EU commissioner from Portugal:

A. Human Rights Council
B. International Organization for Migration
C. World Health Organization
D. International Monetary Fund

Correct Response: B. Internal Organization for Migration
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44661089

4. Citing the tariffs imposed on steel and aluminum by the U.S. on imports from Europe, and the EU’s retaliatory imports on U.S. products, THIS iconic American company announced this week that it will be shifting some of its production overseas:

A. Levi Strauss
B. Jack Daniel’s
C. Harley-Davidson
D. General Motors

Correct Response: C. Harley-Davidson
http://fortune.com/2018/06/26/harley-davidson-moving-production-overseas/

5. Officials in Cape Town, South Africa announced this week that “day zero,” or the day the city runs out of THIS, would not occur in 2018, or in 2019, if citizens continue to follow strict conservation guidelines:

A. Water
B. Gas
C. Electricity
D. Wheat

Correct Response: A. Water
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/624397903/cape-town-averts-day-zero-by-limiting-water-use

6. After a weekend summit with other EU leaders focused on finding solutions to THIS issue, it seems likely that German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be able to maintain her party’s coalition with Bavarian conservatives, the alliance currently keeping her in power:

A. Tariffs on U.S. products
B. How to handle migrants and refugees
C. The Syrian conflict
D. Brexit

Correct Response: B. How to handle migrants and refugees
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-germany/bavarian-csu-welcomes-merkels-migration-deals-ahead-of-sunday-crisis-meeting-idUSKBN1JQ0DQ

7. French President Emmanuel Macron’s government announced this week that it was modifying a government requirement abolished in the 1990s and replacing it with THIS new requirement for all 16-year olds:

A. Mandatory national service
B. Mandatory military service
C. Mandatory language training
D. Mandatory driver training

Correct Response: A. Mandatory national service
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/28/europe/france-national-service-trnd/index.html

8. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that upheld the Trump administration’s 2017 travel ban, which prohibits some travelers from certain countries from entering the U.S. Which of the following countries is NOT on the travel ban list?

A. Iraq
B. Venezuela
C. North Korea
D. Libya

Correct Response: A. Iraq
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-upholds-trump-travel-ban/2018/06/26/b79cb09a-7943-11e8-80be-6d32e182a3bc_story.html

9. Mexicans will head to the polls to elect a new president: Who currently holds that office?

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

Correct Response: D. Enrique Peña Nieto
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/ahead-elections-mexicans-say-they-want-change-stop-violence-n887421

10. THIS nation’s team won the 2014 FIFA World Cup, but failed to qualify for the second round in the 2018 tournament. This is the first time since 1938 that the national team in question will not participate past the first round:

A. Italy
B. Germany
C. Brazil
D. Argentina

Correct Response: B. Germany
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2018/06/27/defending-champion-germany-eliminated-from-world-cup/36423795/

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