“What in the World? Weekly Quiz” | August 15-21, 2022

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Last Week’s Quiz Winners

Guy Musana, Antioch, TN
Patricia Miletich, Nashville, TN
H. Osborne, Chapel Hill, TN
Charles Bowers, Nashville, TN
Murphy Wilkinson, Ottawa, IL
Tim Stewart, Nashville, TN
Greg Thompson, FL
Adam Leff, Bethel, ME

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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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1. The White House said the visit of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan was not a change in policy, governed by the THIS long-standing Washington approach to the U.S.-China relationship.

A. Global realism
B. One nation, two systems
C. Strategic ambiguity
D. Don’t ask, don’t tell

Correct Response: C. Strategic ambiguity
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/us/politics/china-exercises-taiwan-fears.html

2. “Forty-three years ago, America made a promise to always stand with Taiwan… today our delegation came to Taiwan to make it unequivocally clear we will not abandon our commitment to Taiwan,” House Speaker Pelosi said in remarks made during her visit to THIS capital.

A. Kuala Lumpur
B. Taipei
C. Taoyuan
D. Chengdu

Correct Response: B. Taipei
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62398029

3. The United States Senate approved 95-1 the accession of THESE countries to NATO. The application of the countries was considered unlikely prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

A. Finland and Ukraine
B. Moldova and Montenegro
C. Sweden and Finland
D. Switzerland and Sweden

Correct Response: C. Sweden and Finland
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/us/politics/sweden-finland-nato-senate-vote.html

4. The killing of two Palestinian militant group commanders touched off days of counterstrikes between Israelis and Palestinians resulting in over 40 dead and hundreds wounded in THIS territory.

A. West Bank
B. Gaza
C. Golan
D. Sinai

Correct Response: B. Gaza
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/07/world/israel-gaza-fighting-airstrikes

5. The head of a UN agency is raising alarms over fighting in Ukraine at THIS facility at Zaporizhzhia.

A. Grain shipment depot
B. Uranium mine
C. Hydroelectric station and dam
D. Nuclear power plant

Correct Response: D. Nuclear power plant
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/uns-nuclear-watchdog-chief-condemns-shelling-zaporizhzhia-plant-2022-08-06/

6. The Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, welcomed THIS far-right head of government to its conference in Texas as a keynote speaker. He is a champion of white nationalism at home and has a long-standing relationship with American right-wing figures.

A. Viktor Orban
B. Andrzej Duda
C. Milo Dukanovic
D. Klaus Iohannis

Correct Response: A. Viktor Orban
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/americas-far-right-embraces-hungarys-autocratic-president

7. The People’s Liberation Army extended military drills for at least one more week, beyond the expected Sunday end date. China’s belligerent exercises, said to respond to Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit, now extend into THIS body of water, separating China from the Korean Peninsula.

A. Yellow Sea
B. South China Sea
C. West Korean Sea
D. Sea of Japan

Correct Response: A. Yellow Sea
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/07/china-taiwan-military-drills/

8. Colombia’s first left-wing president was sworn in last week. THIS former Marxist guerilla announced plans for reform of the economy, health care, education, drug enforcement and the oil and gas industry.

A. Gustavo Petro
B. Petro Poroshenko
C. Nicolas Maduro
D. Jair Bolsonaro

Correct Response: A. Gustavo Petro
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220807-gustavo-petro-sworn-in-as-colombia-s-first-leftist-president

9. The United States aims to counter Russian influence in Africa during the visit of THIS American official to South Africa, Rwanda and Congo.

A. Kamala Harris
B. Lloyd Austin
C. Antony Blinken
D. Pete Buttigieg

Correct Response: C. Antony Blinken
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20220806-blinken-heads-to-africa-to-counter-russian-influence-on-the-continent

10. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres attacked the largest companies in THIS industry that showed first quarter profits of almost $100 billion. He said their “grotesque greed” punished “the poorest and most vulnerable people, while destroying our only home.”

A. Nuclear power
B. Agricultural commodities
C. Fossil fuels
D. Arms manufacturers

Correct Response: C. Fossil fuels
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/03/greed-of-fossil-fuel-companies-is-grotesque-says-un-secretary-general

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