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LAST WEEK’S QUIZ WINNERS

Tim Stewart, Nashville, TN
Christine Laemmar, Brookfield, WI
Catherine Kelly, Nashville, TN
Roana Wisner, NY
Charles Bowers, Nashville, TN
Tucker Handley, North Oldstead, OH
Rich Buck, Peoria, IL
David Hillinck, Huntsville, AL
Angela Weck, Peoria, IL
Laurie Bergner, Normal, IL
Jim Shepherd, Nashville, TN
Daniel Getz, Peoria, IL

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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.


LAST WEEK’S QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What in the World? Quiz – Week of April 18-24, 2022

1. Ukraine claimed, and U.S. officials confirmed, an attack sunk THIS type of Russian warship.

A. Amphibious troop ship advancing on Odessa
B. A guided missile cruiser that was the Black Sea flagship
C. A minesweeper clearing naval mines in the Sea of Azov
D. A nuclear powered submarine patrolling the Black Sea

Correct Response: B. A guided missile cruiser that was the Black Sea flagship
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/us/politics/russia-moskva-ship-sunk-ukraine.html

2. China’s lockdown of THIS key city of 26 million since April 1st is emblematic of Beijing’s “zero-Covid” policy, with Wednesday being set as the deadline to isolate those infected to quarantine centers.

A. Wuhan
B. Chongqing
C. Shenzhen
D. Shanghai

Correct Response: D. Shanghai
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/shanghai-targets-lockdown-turning-point-by-wednesday-sources-2022-04-17

3. Confrontations between Israeli police and Muslims at THIS mosque, the third holiest Islamic site, erupted in Jerusalem and added to tensions over recent attacks against Israelis. The site is known as Temple Mount to Jews and Hara mesh-Sharif to Muslims.

A. Masjid-al-Haram
B. Al Aqsa
C. Mosque of the Prophet
D. Umayyad

Correct Response: B. Al Aqsa
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/17/world/middleeast/jerusalem-al-aqsa-mosque.html

4. Russia, in a diplomatic note, threatened the United States with “unpredictable consequences” as a result of THIS activity.

A. U.S. and NATO arms shipments to Ukraine
B. Deployment of U.S. Sixth Fleet warships to the Black Sea
C. Aerial reconnaissance inside Russian airspace over the Baltic Sea
D. U.S. special forces conducting training inside Ukraine

Correct Response: A. U.S. and NATO arms shipments to Ukraine
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/14/russia-warns-us-stop-arming-ukraine

5. Pope Francis talked about the “Easter of war” in his “Urbi et Orbi” remarks, meaning THIS, to about 100,000 in St. Peter’s Square. He implicitly charged Russia over the “cruel and senseless” war on Ukraine.

A. To the city and the world
B. In the orbit of our planet
C. One community, one people
D. Words for the flock

Correct Response: A. To the city and the world
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/easter-war-pope-implicitly-criticises-russia-over-ukraine-2022-04-17/

6. The Archbishop of Canterbury criticized THIS government’s plan to relocate asylum seekers who arrived there since January 1 to Rwanda as raising serious “ethical questions” and not standing in the “judgement of God.”

A. France
B. Germany
C. United Kingdom
D. Ireland

Correct Response: C. United Kingdom
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/archbishop-canterbury-condemns-britains-rwanda-asylum-plan-2022-04-17/

7. More than $4 billion in aid for international Covid-19 vaccinations is stalled in Congress as THIS international consortium, leading the global effort, reported low-income countries had only about 14 percent of populations with one dose and 11 percent fully vaccinated. Its CEO said, “This virus is continuing to change and adapt. We’re not out of the woods yet.”

A. OSCE
B. COVAX
C. USAID
D. UNICEF

Correct Response: B. COVAX
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/28/global-covid-vaccines-usaid-funding-00020627

8. Global messaging platform WhatsApp has been criticized by THIS President of Brazil over a decision to release a new feature, which would enable his supporters to organize, until after his October reelection bid.

A. Evo Morales
B. Jair Bolsonaro
C. Néstor Kirchner
D. Rafael Correa

Correct Response: B. Jair Bolsonaro
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolsonaro-irked-by-whatsapp-not-launching-new-tool-brazil-until-after-election-2022-04-15/

9. Iran has relocated THIS type of machinery used to enrich uranium to its underground nuclear facility at Natanz as talks to revive the JCPOA “nuclear deal” appeared stalled.

A. Centrifuges
B. High precision milling machines
C. Flux capacitors
D. Isotope combiners

Correct Response: A. Centrifuges
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/iran-confirms-centrifuge-workshop-moved-underground-site-84131093

10. A member of a cell nicknamed “The Beatles” from THIS terrorist group was convicted in Virginia of kidnapping and murdering four Americans. The group terrorized Iraq and Syria, setting up a caliphate until broken up by a U.S.-led military coalition.

A. Al Qaeda
B. ISIS
C. Hamas
D. Houthis

Correct Response: B. ISIS
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/politics/isis-beatle-convicted-on-all-counts/index.html

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