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“What in the World” Quiz WINNER – Week of Nov 16

“What in the World” Quiz

Congratulations to this week’s “What in the World” quiz winners who will be entered in a drawing for a prize at the end of the month.

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Week of November 16th Winners

Pat Miletich, David Hillinck and Dick Bowers

Well done!

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Monthly Prize Drawing/Announcement on November 30th.

The prize this month: a signed copy of “Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama” by Dennis Ross — speaker at the November 12 session on the future of the Middle East at the 2015 World Affairs Councils of America National Conference.

Check for the answers below. How did you do?

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“What in the World” Quiz

1. This group, also known as ISIS, has claimed responsibility for the November 13th terrorist attacks in Paris.

A. Al Quds Brigade
B. Al Qaeda
C. Hizbollah
D. Daesh

http://theweek.com/speedreads/446139/france-says-name-isis-offensive-call-daesh-instead

2. American officials recently noted Gulf allies who were part of an anti-ISIS military coalition have “largely vanished from the campaign” according to the New York Times. The Gulf allies included these countries:

A. UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain
B. UAE, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait
C. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain
D. Saudi Arabia, Yemen, UAE, Qatar

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/world/middleeast/as-us-escalates-air-war-on-isis-allies-slip-away.html?_r=0

3. Investigators believe a Russian jetliner that recently crashed in the Sinai Peninsula was brought down by a bomb. Where is the Sinai Peninsula?

A. Egypt
B. Sudan
C. Israel
D. Lebanon

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russia-confirms-sinai-crash-was-the-work-of-terrorists/2015/11/17/496286f4-8d05-11e5-ae1f-af46b7df8483_story.html

4. The Group of Twenty (G20) the premier global economic development body [Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union] recently met in this place.

A. Athens, Greece
B. Bali, Indonesia
C. Sao Paulo, Brazil
D. Antalya, Turkey

https://g20.org/about-g20/g20-members/

5. This is the flag of what country that is facing a “cycle of violence between government security forces, armed opposition groups and criminal gangs” according to the State Department, which warned of inflammatory rhetoric and President Nkurunziza’s planned security crackdown.

A. Uganda
B. Burundi
C. Rwanda
D. Zimbabwe

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2015/11/249293.htm

6. Secretary of State John Kerry represented the United States in Vienna as 17 countries worked to develop a political solution to the Syria crisis. Who represented the Russian Federation?

A. Laurent Fabius
B. Sergei Lavarov
C. Dmitry Medvedev
D. Alexander Ovechkin

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-14/syrian-transition-plan-achieved-by-u-s-allies-kerry-says

7. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently approved the marketing of land for the construction of 454 homes in two settlements in this conflicted zone.

A. Gaza
B. East Jerusalem
C. Sinai
D. Golan Heights

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/17/us-israel-palestinians-settlements-idUSKCN0T61DG20151117#dAfiG6cyd501hgld.97

8. South Sudan’s rebels recently claimed that government soldiers had launched attacks against their positions in oil-rich Unity State in what they said was a violation of a peace deal signed in August. South Sudan gained its independence in 2011 and declared this city its capital.

A. Tumbura
B. Malualkon
C. Yambio
D. Juba

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/17/us-southsudan-unrest-idUSKCN0T61AO20151117#B4zSq8k4AKChvQ4f.97

9. This President who was driven from his Yemen earlier this year by civil conflict recently returned to Aden to rally his forces.

A. President Ashraf Ghani
B. President Serzh Sargsyan
C. President Denis Sassou Nguesso
D. President Abd-Rabbu Hadi

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/17/us-yemen-security-idUSKCN0T60CI20151117

10. Which country, the world’s third largest economy, that had counted on “Abenomics” to restore its economic progress, reported it experienced the fourth technical recession in five years.

A. India
B. Brazil
C. Japan
D. China

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/16/us-japan-economy-gdp-idUSKCN0T41CC20151116

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“What in the World” Quiz

ANSWERS

1 – D

2 – C

3 – A

4 – D

5 – B

6 – B

7 – B

8 – D

9 – D

10 – C

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