“What in the World? Weekly Quiz” | Apr 18-24, 2022

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Thanks to quiz master Patrick Ryan and @TNWAC News Editor Campbell Lahman for this week’s quiz.

LAST WEEK’S QUIZ WINNERS

Nick McCall, Knoxville, TN
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Tim Douglas, Nashville, TN
Keno Smith, Dallas, TX
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Catherine Kelly, Nashville, TN
Tim Stewart, Nashville, TN
Steve Freidberg, Boston, MA
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Anita Wipf, Esopus, NY
Maura OBrien, Richmond, VA
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Matt M., Tenafly, NJ

 

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APRIL 2022 QUIZ PRIZE

The Fight for Climate After Covid-19

By Alice C. Hill

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit our world on a scale beyond living memory, taking millions of lives and leading to a lockdown of communities worldwide. A pandemic, much like climate change, acts as a threat multiplier, increasing vulnerability to harm, economic impoverishment, and the breakdown of social systems. Even more concerning, communities severely impacted by the coronavirus still remain vulnerable to other types of hazards, such as those brought by accelerating climate change. The catastrophic risks of pandemics and climate change carry deep uncertainty as to when they will occur, how they will unfold, and how much damage they will do. The most important question is how we can face these risks to minimize them most.

The Fight for Climate After COVID-19 draws on the troubled and uneven COVID-19 experience to illustrate the critical need to ramp up resilience rapidly and effectively on a global scale. After years of working alongside public health and resilience experts crafting policy to build both pandemic and climate change preparedness, Alice C. Hill exposes parallels between the underutilized measures that governments should have taken to contain the spread of COVID-19—such as early action, cross-border planning, and bolstering emergency preparation—and the steps leaders can take now to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Through practical analyses of current policy and thoughtful guidance for successful climate adaptation, The Fight for Climate After COVID-19 reveals that, just as our society has transformed itself to meet the challenge of coronavirus, so too will we need to adapt our thinking and our policies to combat the ever-increasing threat of climate change.

Unapologetic and clear-eyed, The Fight for Climate After COVID-19 helps us understand why the time has come to prepare for the world as it will be, rather than as it once was.

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1. Russia’s strike to capture capital city Kyiv has failed and Moscow is maneuvering forces for a major offensive in the Donbas region in THIS part of Ukraine.

A. North
B. South
C. East
D. West

Correct Response: C. East
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/09/donbas-ukraine-russia-battle-very-different-from-kyiv-

2. Ukraine President Zelensky hosted THIS NATO head of state on the streets of Kyiv as a demonstration of Western solidarity in the face of the unprovoked Russian invasion.

A. Emmanuel Macron
B. Boris Johnson
C. Joe Biden
D. Olaf Scholz

Correct Response: B. Boris Johnson
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/10/johnsons-trip-to-kyiv-was-planned-in-secret-blindsiding-the-worlds-media

3. Emmanuel Macron advanced to the second round of presidential voting in France and will face THIS far-right candidate who has surged to close the vote gap following French dissatisfaction with the economy and immigration issues.

A. Marine Le Pen
B. Jean-Luc Mélenchon
C. Eric Zemmour
D. Gérard Depardieu

Correct Response: A. Marine Le Pen
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/10/johnsons-trip-to-kyiv-was-planned-in-secret-blindsiding-the-worlds-media

4. Pakistan will have a new prime minister, likely to be Shehbaz Sharif, after the parliament voted “no-confidence” in THIS former cricket star.

A. Pervez Musharraf
B. Nawaz Sharif
C. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
D. Imran Khan

Correct Response: D. Imran Khan
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/world/asia/pakistan-imran-khan-elections.html

5. Chinese President Xi Jinping is standing by the “zero-Covid” policy in containing the pandemic. However, THIS major city which accounts for 3.6% of GDP seemed to relax restrictions after becoming a ghost town and reporting a record number of Covid cases.

A. Beijing
B. Chengdu
C. Shanghai
D. Wuhan

Correct Response: C. Shanghai
https://www.newsweek.com/lockdown-anger-shanghai-intensifies-china-sticks-zero-covid-policy-1696648

6. United States’ and Indian defense and foreign ministers will meet in a regular “2+2” ministerial session following a call between President Bush and THIS prime minister as friction mounts in the relationship over New Delhi’s lukewarm reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

A. Gotabaya Rajapaksa
B. Rahul Gandi
C. Amit Shah
D. Narendra Modi

Correct Response: D. Narendra Modi
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/600125-us-india-relations-back-to-a-not-so-bright-future/

7. United States’ officials expect THESE Nordic countries to seek NATO membership within months as Russia, which seems to have inspired the move by its invasion of Ukraine, has warned against further alliance enlargement.

A. Iceland and Finland
B. Sweden and Norway
C. Norway and Finland
D. Finland and Sweden

Correct Response: D. Finland and Sweden
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61066503

8. A Palestinian gunman killed three and wounded 16 in a busy entertainment district of Tel Aviv Friday leading THIS prime minister to declare security forces had “full freedom” to combat a surge of attacks in Israel.

A. Naftali Bennett
B. Benjamin Netanyahu
C. Benny Gantz
D. Isaac Herzog

Correct Response: A. Naftali Bennett
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/8/israel-pm-grants-forces-full-freedom-after-tel-aviv-attack

9. Voters in THIS country gave President Andrés Manuel López Obrador a victory in a recall referendum he asked for, with a 90% margin. The leader, known as AMLO, has been criticized for distracting voters from his failures with the referendum.

A. Colombia
B. Bolivia
C. Mexico
D. Venezuela

Correct Response: C. Mexico
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-61065967

10. The trial of 26 Saudis for the murder of dissident and Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was halted in THIS country where the killing occurred in 2018. The presiding judge said the case would be moved to Saudi Arabia, a move criticized by Amnesty International as “appalling and clearly political decision.”

A. Pakistan
B. Romania
C. Turkey
D. Greece

Correct Response: C. Turkey
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61021185

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