“What in the World? Weekly Quiz" | August 8-14, 2022

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Last Week’s Quiz Winners

H. Osborne, Chapel Hill, TN
Patricia Paiva, Nashville, TN
Tim Stewart, Nashville, TN
Paul Love, Marlboro, VT
John Bull, Nashville, TN
Roanna Wiser, NY
Christine Laemmar, Brookfield, WI
Martha Trammell, Nashville, TN
David Hillinck, Alexandria, VA
Yazzie Dospil, Nashville, TN
Nancy Williams, Rochester, NY
Mark Hammelein, Alliance, OH
Richard Buck, Peoria, IL
Basil G. Smith, Jacksonville, FL
Michelle Eaton, Peoria, IL
Heike Heinzelmann Kranz, Germany
Maureen Mulville, Crest Hill, IL
Don Moore, Mt Juliet, TN
Seth Emerson, Knoxville, TN
Kate Martella, Knoxville, TN
Kanzi T., Cordova, TN
Roger French, Washington,IL
James Kirby, Brattleboro, VT
Pete Griffin, Nashville, TN
Peter Sharadin, Brandon, PA
M. Wilkinson, Streator, IL
Donna Heffner, Ponte Vedrà Beach, FL
Eric Lynch, Negaunee, MI
Jim Shepherd, Nashville, TN
Lewis Bollard, Nashville, TN
Donald McKenzie, Nashville, TN
Adam Leff, Bethel, ME
Parwan Patel, Savannah, GA

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JULY QUIZ PRIZE WINNER

Hannah Osborne, Chapel Hill, Tennessee

Catch Me If You Can: One Woman’s Journey to Every Country in the World

By Jessica Nabongo

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 1-7, 2022

1. President Biden was warned by China that “Those who play with fire will perish by it,” concerning Taiwan by THIS leader in a phone call.

A. Tsai Ing-wen
B. Li Keqiang
C. Xi Jinping
D. Li Zhanshu

Correct Response: C. Xi Jinping
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/chinas-xi-warns-biden-taiwan-calls-cooperation-87608675

2. Ukraine President Zelensky accused Russia of “gas blackmail” after THIS company announced deeper cuts in flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Western Europe.

A. Gazprom
B. RusGas
C. NordGas
D. Total

Correct Response: A. Gazprom
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/nord-stream-gas-row-deepens-gazprom-airs-new-complaints-turbine-2022-07-29/

3. Washington proposed a prisoner swap with Russia to free THIS WNBA player and Paul Whelan, illegally detained in Moscow according to the State Department.

A. Breanna Stewart
B. Jonquel Jones
C. Courtney Vandersloot
D. Brittney Griner

Correct Response: D. Brittney Griner
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/01/brittney-griner-paul-whelan-viktor-bout-swap-biden-administration

4. Viktor Orban, the far-right prime minister of THIS NATO member country drew strong criticism for his remarks on “mixing” of races in Europe. An opposition leader said, “His statements recall a time I think we would all like to forget.”

A. Poland
B. Romania
C. Hungary
D. North Macedonia

Correct Response: C. Hungary
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/24/viktor-orban-against-race-mixing-europe-hungary

5. The North African nation where the Arab Spring was launched in 2011 saw its democracy strangled by a new constitution giving President Kais Saied one-man rule. THIS country was considered the last place where those revolts against autocracies had survived.

A. Morocco
B. Libya
C. Tunisia
D. Egypt

Correct Response: C. Tunisia
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/world/middleeast/tunisia-constitution-democracy.html

6. President Jair Bolsonaro launched his reelection campaign against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in THIS Portuguese-speaking South American country.

A. Argentina
B. Mozambique
C. Venezuela
D. Brazil

Correct Response: D. Brazil
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-62286884

7. The head of THIS Persian Gulf country’s atomic energy program said the country “has the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb but there has been no decision” to do so, boosting attention to talks to renew U.S. participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a 2015 agreement scuttled by President Trump.

A. Iraq
B. Libya
C. Algeria
D. Iran

Correct Response: D. Iran
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62372366

8. The first shipment of grain from Ukraine, a key supplier of grain to the global market, departed from THIS port under a deal signed by Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the UN.

A. Odesa
B. Mariupol
C. Sevastopol
D. Lviv

Correct Response: A. Odesa
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62375580

9. Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, defacto leader of THIS country began, a visit to Europe signaling an ease in its isolation. The trip was the Crown Prince’s first trip to Europe since the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi the U.S. says he directed at the hands of an assassination team in Istanbul.

A. Qatar
B. Libya
C. UAE
D. Saudi Arabia

Correct Response: D. Saudi Arabia
https://www.euronews.com/2022/07/27/saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman-on-first-eu-trip-since-khashoggi-murder

10. The Lionesses soccer team representing THIS country defeated Germany 2-1 in extra time to win the European Women’s Championship. Their head of state congratulated the team saying, “You have all set an example that will be an inspiration for girls and women today, and for future generations.”

A. France
B. England
C. Italy
D. Spain

Correct Response: B. England
https://news.sky.com/story/euro-2022-its-come-home-lionesses-deliver-englands-first-major-trophy-since-1966-12663328

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