“What in the World? Weekly Quiz" | Aug 29-Sep 4, 2022

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Last Week’s Quiz Winners

Patricia Miletich, Ventura, CA
David Hillinck, Alexandria, VA
Adam Leff, Bethel, ME
Martha Trammell, Nashville, TN
Tim Stewart, Nashville, TN
Steve Freidberg, Boston, MA
Buddy Teaster, Nashville, TN
Peter Sharadin, Reading, PA
Catherine Kelly, Nashville, TN
Rich Buck, Peoria, IL
Basil G. Smith, Jacksonville, FL
Murphy Wilkinson, Streator, IL
Tucker Handley, North Olmsted, OH
Paul Love, Plainfield, VT
Roana Wiser, NY
Roger French, Washington, IL

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AUGUST QUIZ PRIZE

Read Peter Baker’s NYTimes review HERE

The first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years

Vladimir Putin is the world’s most dangerous man. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his neighbors, most recently Ukraine, meddles in western elections, and orders assassinations inside and outside Russia. His regime is autocratic and deeply corrupt. But that is only half the story.

Unflinching, hard-hitting, and objective, Philip Short’s biography gives us the whole tale, up to the present day. To the fullest extent anyone has yet been able, Short cracks open the strongman’s thick carapace to reveal the man underneath those bare-chested horseback rides. In this deeply researched account, readers meet the Putin who slept in the same room as his parents until he was twenty-five years old, who backed out of his wedding right beforehand, and who learned English in order to be able to talk to George W. Bush.

Vladimir Putin is wreaking havoc in Europe, threatening global peace and stability and exposing his fellow citizens to devastating economic countermeasures. Yet puzzlingly many Russians continue to support him. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the many facets of the man behind the mask that Putin wears on the world stage.

Drawing on almost two hundred interviews conducted over eight years in Russia, the United States, and Europe and on source material in more than a dozen languages, Putin will be the last word for years to come.

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LAST WEEK’S QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

What in the World? Quiz – Week of August 22-28, 2022

1. Iran dropped demands for the U.S. to delist the Revolutionary Guards from its terrorism organizations list as an impediment to restoring THIS 2015 agreement known as the Iran nuclear deal.

A. The 2015 Geneva Accord
B. Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and Milestones
C. Camp David Agreement
D. Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty

Correct Response: B. Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and Milestones
https://www.politico.eu/article/iran-drops-red-line-demand-for-a-nuclear-deal-report/

2. Pakistan has charged THIS former Prime Minister under the terrorism act. He has worked to get back in office since being ousted by a no-confidence vote in April.

A. Narendra Modi
B. Imran Khan
C. Arif Alvi
D. Shehbaz Sharif

Correct Response: B. Imran Khan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/21/pakistan-imran-khan-charged-terrorism-arrest/

3. A bomb planted in a car intended for Putin ally Alexander Dugin killed his daughter Darya. Ultra-nationalist Alexander Dugin, nicknamed THIS for his support of Putin, made a last-minute change of cars and escaped the murder attempt blamed on Kyiv. Ukrainian officials claimed they were not responsible.

A. “Putin’s Banker”
B. “Putin’s Brain”
C. “Putin’s Crown Prince”
D. “Putin’s Deputy”

Correct Response: B. “Putin’s Brain”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62621509

4. U.S. military planners worry THIS upcoming activity in South Korea will spur North Korean missile and nuclear weapons tests.

A. Major air, ground and sea military exercises
B. Increased sanctions on grain supplies to Pyongyang
C. Japan declared as a nuclear power
D. South Korea deployment of short range ballistic missiles

Correct Response: A. Major air, ground and sea military exercises
https://apnews.com/article/covid-technology-health-united-states-seoul-1a7317ddb378f9751c9e86c883903981

5. Cuba is opening its wholesale and retail sectors to foreign investments in an effort to tackle a severe shortage of basic goods. The country nationalized the sector in 1960 under THIS revolutionary leader.

A. Raul Castro
B. Daniel Ortega
C. Fidel Castro
D. Hugo Chavaz

Correct Response: C. Fidel Castro
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-62572149

6. Taiwan’s “Porcupine Strategy” of island defense against prospects of a Chinese invasion have been updated to include tactics observed in THIS conflict which featured asymmetric anti-air and anti-tank warfare tactics against a larger invader.

A. China-India border skirmish
B. Ethiopia-Tigray conflict
C. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
D. Anti-government rebels in Syria

Correct Response: C. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
https://www.businessinsider.com/taiwan-learns-ukraine-porcupine-strategy-defend-against-china-2022-8

7. Five of China’s largest corporations have announced THIS action as a way to forestall American regulators claims for access to audits. China prohibits foreign inspection of company records and requires them to keep their paperwork inside China.

A. Relocate headquarters’ operations to Hong Kong
B. Delisting from the New York Stock Exchange
C. Open Board of Directors membership to Americans
D. Offshore headquarters operations to Fiji

Correct Response: B. Delisting from the New York Stock Exchange
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/China-s-state-run-giants-delisting-from-U.S.-5-things-to-know

8. Shelling at and around THIS facility in southeast Ukraine, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, has continued and authorities are worried about catastrophic damage resulting from the attacks.

A. Zaporizhzhia
B. Mariupol
C. Kharkiv
D. Odesa

Correct Response: A. Zaporizhzhia
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/22/world/zaporizhzhia-iaea-visit-ukraine-intl-hnk/index.html

9. Following weeks of unrest that included protesters storming his official residence, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled Sri Lanka for THIS island country in the Indian Ocean, an archipelago located southwest of the southern tip of India.

A. Comoros
B. Seychelles
C. Maldives
D. Diego Garcia

Correct Response:
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sri-lanka-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-flees-country-ap-2022-07-12/

10. Opposition leader Raila Odinga is challenging last week’s election results to THIS country’s supreme court. Odinga said the victory of Deputy President William Ruto was “not complete, accurate, verifiable or accountable and cannot be the basis for a valid and legitimate declaration.”

A. Ethiopia
B. South Africa
C. Ghana
D. Kenya

Correct Response: D. Kenya
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/kenyas-odinga-challenge-presidential-poll-result-court-today-lawyer-2022-08-22/

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