“What in the World? Weekly Quiz” | February 14-20, 2022

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LAST WEEK’S QUIZ WINNERS

Jack McCall, Knoxville, TN
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FEBRUARY 2022 QUIZ PRIZE

Tomorrow the World

By Stephen Wertheim

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year

A new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world.

For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as the world’s armed superpower―and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Wertheim traces America’s transformation to the crucible of World War II, especially in the months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. As the Nazis conquered France, the architects of the nation’s new foreign policy came to believe that the United States ought to achieve primacy in international affairs forevermore.

Scholars have struggled to explain the decision to pursue global supremacy. Some deny that American elites made a willing choice, casting the United States as a reluctant power that sloughed off “isolationism” only after all potential competitors lay in ruins. Others contend that the United States had always coveted global dominance and realized its ambition at the first opportunity. Both views are wrong. As late as 1940, the small coterie of officials and experts who composed the U.S. foreign policy class either wanted British preeminence in global affairs to continue or hoped that no power would dominate. The war, however, swept away their assumptions, leading them to conclude that the United States should extend its form of law and order across the globe and back it at gunpoint. Wertheim argues that no one favored “isolationism”―a term introduced by advocates of armed supremacy in order to turn their own cause into the definition of a new “internationalism.”

We now live, Wertheim warns, in the world that these men created. A sophisticated and impassioned narrative that questions the wisdom of U.S. supremacy, Tomorrow, the Worldreveals the intellectual path that brought us to today’s global entanglements and endless wars.

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1. The opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing was criticized when China chose an athlete from THIS oppressed Muslim minority in Xinjiang. The U.S. government has labeled their treatment by the Beijing government as genocide. (#WACquiz)

A. Tibetans
B. Uighur
C. Han
D. Mulao

Correct Response: B. Uighur
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/5/beijing-winter-olympics-china-uighur-torchbearer

2. An American official told the NY Times Russia could invade Ukraine any day and there would likely be 50,000 civilian casualties while Russian forces massed at the northern Ukraine border inside THIS ally. (#WACquiz)

A. Moldova
B. Crimea
C. Belarus
D. Georgia

Correct Response: C. Belarus
https://www.reuters.com/world/satellite-images-show-troop-deployment-belarus-border-with-ukraine-ahead-russian-2022-02-06/

3. Vladimir Putin and THIS leader issued a statement that “friendship between the states has no limit” as the Russian leader sought partners in his fights against NATO enlargement and the battle between Western democracies and authoritarian nations like his. (#WACquiz)

A. Xi Jinping
B. Alexander Lukashenko
C. Nicolas Maduro
D. Daniel Ortega

Correct Response: A. Xi Jinping
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/03/world/russia-ukraine-xi-putin

4. President Biden hosted Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, leader of THIS country, the first Persian Gulf leader invited to the White House, as Washington worked to bolster natural gas supplies for a Europe facing the loss of Russian energy supplies. Biden named THIS, the number two LNG exporter behind the United States, as a “major non-NATO ally.” (WACA WWNU)

A. Kuwait
B. Bahrain
C. Qatar
D. Oman

Correct Response: C. Qatar
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/us/politics/biden-qatar-nato.html

5. An American official warned American Olympians this week. WHO said, “I would say to our athletes: You’re there to compete. Do not risk incurring the anger of the Chinese government, because they are ruthless.” (#WACquiz)

A. Pete Buttigieg
B. Nancy Pelosi
C. Antony Blinken
D. Jake Sullivan

Correct Response: B. Nancy Pelosi
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/sports/olympics/pelosi-protests.html

6. Uber-rich Amazon chief Jeff Bezos has had a 417’ sailboat with 131’ masts built in Europe that will necessitate THIS city removing a section of a historic bridge to allow it to pass from the shipyard to the sea. (#WACquiz)

A. Antwerp
B. Rotterdam
C. Copenhagen
D. Cherbourg

Correct Response: B. Rotterdam
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/historic-dutch-bridge-make-way-superyacht-reportedly-built-jeff-bezos-2022-02-03/

7. President Biden will meet with THIS new Chancellor of Germany this week to discuss relations, the threat of war in Europe and German support of Ukraine. (#WACquiz)

A. Olaf Scholz
B. Olaf Schroder
C. Olaf Palme
D. Olaf Weber

Correct Response: A. Olaf Scholz
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/world/europe/olaf-scholz-biden-ukraine-russia.html

8. A global virtual audience agonized over the five-day effort to rescue Rayan Awram, aged five, as hundreds of rescuers worked to free him from a well in THIS country. (#WACquiz)

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

Correct Response: C. Morocco
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/moroccan-rescuers-get-closer-child-trapped-well-2022-02-05/

9. The Central Council of the Palestinian Liberation Organization is meeting to decide the successor to THIS 86-year old President who has headed the group since 2005. (#WACquiz)

A. Hussein Al-Sheikh
B. Rawhi Fattouh
C. Saeb Erekat
D. Mahmoud Abbas

Correct Response: D. Mahmoud Abbas
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/rare-session-key-palestinian-body-could-provide-abbas-succession-clues-2022-02-06/

10. Queen Elizabeth marked 70 years on the British throne with remarks that included her wishes that when her son Prince Charles becomes the monarch his wife be known as THIS royal title. (#WACquiz)

A. Queen Camilla
B. Queen Monica
C. Queen Juliette
D. Queen Catherine

Correct Response: A. Queen Camilla
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/prince-charles-leads-tribute-queen-after-70-years-throne-2022-02-06/

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