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Last Week’s Quiz Winners
Tucker Handley, North Oldsted, OH
Marcus Murphy, Sewanee, TN
R Hillary Willett, Irvine, CA
Murphy Wilkinson, Streator, IL
Nick McCall, Knoxville, TN
Steve Freidberg, Boston, MA
Basil G. Smith, Jacksonville, FL
Barbara Cleland, Weston, CT
Patricia Miletich, Ventura, CA
Yazzie Dospil, Nashville, TN
Bernie Drake, Peoria, IL
Peter Sharadin, Reading, PA
Peter Brent, St Thomas, USVI
Reagan Harris, Colorado
Cameron Brookes, St Thomas, USVI
Najahde Liburd, St Thomas, USVI
Elmedina Brkic, Jyvaskyla, Finland
Te’Anna Williams, USVI
Jahnequa Lanzen, USVI
Brian Thomas, USVI
Leah Gottlieb, USVI
Guillermo Pulido Luna, USVI
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 15-22, 2022
1. Votes continue to be counted in Nairobi, capital of THIS Africa economic leader, as President Uhuru Kenyatta, prepares to complete his two terms in office. The delays in announcing the results since last Tuesday has produced anxiety in a country that has seen electoral related violence.
A. Uganda
B. Mozambique
C. South Africa
D. Kenya
Correct Response: D. Kenya
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ruto-leads-kenya-vote-media-tally-shows-announcement-seen-imminent-2022-08-15/
2. The military mission to Mali to fight jihadist rebels has been ended by THIS country which held many West African nations as colonies.
A. Britain
B. Germany
C. Portugal
D. France
Correct Response: D. France
https://www.dw.com/en/france-says-barkhane-mission-troops-fully-withdraw-from-mali/a-62811269
3. Representatives of the Bogota government met with National Liberation Army, or ELN, rebels in Havana in the prelude for peace talks between THIS country and the guerillas.
A. Venezuela
B. Colombia
C. Brazil
D. Guatemala
Correct Response: B. Colombia
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/12/colombia-eln-rebels-restart-peace-talks-havana
4. A deterioration in the Chinese economy is attributed to a new six-month low in THIS fungible commodity price.
A. iPhones
B. Grain
C. Crude oil
D. Copper
Correct Response: C. Crude oil
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2022/08/15/oil-prices-plunge-to-six-month-low-as-new-data-shows-china-economy-unexpectedly-deteriorated-last-month/?sh=1aaf346d46ef
5. Saudi Arabia’s oil company, known by THIS shortened version, reported record profits in the second quarter, $48B, that was a 90% year on year increase. The company which evolved from American companies that explored for oil in the Kingdom benefited from global crude oil shortages brought on by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A. Saudi-Oil
B. Aramco
C. SAoilCo
D. Royal Saudi Shell
Correct Response: B. Aramco
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62539480
6. Ukrainian artillery struck the headquarters of THIS Russian mercenary group that has fought as agents of Moscow across the Middle East and Africa, as well as in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. The group has been charged with war crimes for past activities.
A. Wagner
B. Porter
C. Rus-Grup
D. Sterling
Correct Response: A. Wagner
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62547403
7. This week marks one year since President Ashraf Ghani fled THIS capital and handed power over to the Taliban.
A. Kandahar
B. Kabul
C. Mazar-i-Sharif
D. Jalalabad
Correct Response: B. Kabul
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/15/afghanistan-us-legacy-failures-one-year-later/
8. Many of the 20,000 migrants who illegally entered THIS country again face deportation to Rwanda as the government takes up the issue in London’s high court.
A. Italy
B. Greece
C. UK
D. Portugal
Correct Response: C. UK
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-pushes-ahead-with-rwanda-migrant-scheme-small-boats-keep-coming-2022-08-15/
9. Vladimir Putin is looking for more friends. In a letter to THIS counterpart in Pyongyang he called for the countries to ““expand the comprehensive and constructive bilateral relations with common efforts.” The leaders met in 2019.
A. Kim Jong Un
B. Kim Il Sung
C. Kim Jong Il
D. Kim Sung Il
Correct Response: A. Kim Jong Un
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/15/putin-says-russia-and-n-korea-will-expand-bilateral-relations
10. Author Salman Rusdie was stabbed during an attack at a lecture in New York State but appears to be recovering. The author was subject of a religious edict issues in 1989 calling for his killing by THIS country over publication of a book claimed to be blasphemous. The “fatwa” was later rescinded.
A. Libya
B. Syria
C. Iran
D. Saudi Arabia
Correct Response: C. Iran
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2022/08/14/rushdie-reportedly-off-ventilator/10322506002/
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