“What in the World? Weekly Quiz” | February 21-27, 2022

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Thanks to quiz master Patrick Ryan and @TNWAC News Editor Campbell Lahman for this week’s quiz.

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LAST WEEK’S QUIZ WINNERS

Seth Emerson, Knoxville TN
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Peter Sharadin, Blandon, PA
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Mike Nelson, Saco, ME

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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. President Biden has promised that if Russia invades Ukraine “there will no longer be” THIS natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany. (#WACquiz)

A. Baltic Sea Gas Line
B. Nord Stream 2
C. Russo-Deutsche Gas Path
D. Northern Gas Route

Correct Response: B. Nord Stream 2
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/07/ukraine-russia-scholz-biden-macron

2. Ukraine has charged that the Russian Navy is blocking its southern flank in the Sea of Azov and THIS body of water that leads to the Bosporus and on toward the Mediterranean Sea. (#WACquiz)

A. Caspian Sea
B. Red Sea
C. Black Sea
D. Sea of Marmara

Correct Response: C. Black Sea
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60340232

3. When THIS European leader made headlines meeting Vladimir Putin in Moscow last week he sat at the opposite end of a 13 feet long table making for an awkward image. The extreme distancing resulted from his team refusing a Russian Covid test, not wanting to yield his DNA. (#WACquiz)

A. Olaf Scholz
B. Boris Johnson
C. Emmanuel Macron
D. Victor Orban

Correct Response: C. Emmanuel Macron
https://news.yahoo.com/report-french-authorities-feared-russia-195649502.html

4. A new gold-medal Olympian, born in California but representing China, has become endeared to the Chinese population. THIS 18-year old freestyle skier is called “Miss Perfect” by Chinese media but has attracted attention in the US about motivations for Americans to compete for China. (#WACquiz)

A. Eileen Gu
B. Zhu Yi
C. Zou Kai
D. Ma Long

Correct Response: A. Eileen Gu
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/11/china/eileen-gu-zhu-yi-nathan-chen-comparison-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

5. Tensions remained high along three sides of Ukraine’s border as Russian forces are poised to invade. These are the latest developments EXCEPT this one. (#WACquiz)

A. President Biden warned President Putin of “swift and severe” consequences in a phone call on Saturday.
B. The State Department ordered most of its Kyiv embassy staff to leave the country.
C. The UN Security Council will take up a “cease and desist” resolution on Monday.
D. Washington said a Russian invasion, led by an air assault, was possible any time.

Correct Response: C. The UN Security Council will take up a cease and desist resolution on Monday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-putin-speak-ukraine-warnings-mount-2022-02-12/

6. The U.S. Government said it would use half of THIS country’s frozen bank assets, about $7 billion, for humanitarian aid and to satisfy outstanding 9/11 lawsuits. (#WACquiz)

A. Iran
B. Iraq
C. Afghanistan
D. Syria

Correct Response: C. Afghanistan
https://www.reuters.com/markets/funds/afghan-central-bank-says-us-plan-frozen-funds-an-injustice-2022-02-12/

7. The Canada “Freedom Convoy” trucker protests are damaging businesses, especially the automotive industry, on both sides of the US-Canada border, now that the blockade includes the Ambassador Bridge connecting THESE two neighbors. (#WACquiz)

A. St-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec and Champlain, New York
B. Cornwall, Ontario and Massena, New York
C. Douglas, British Columbia and Blaine-Peace Arch, Washington
D. Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario

Correct Response: D. Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60361533

8. The loss of habitat in Australia for THIS tree-climbing, herbivorous marsupial – a mammal with a pouch – has resulted in this creature, often wrongly called a bear, being placed on the endangered species list. (#WACquiz)

A. Kangaroo
B. Koala
C. Wombat
D. Wallaby

Correct Response: B. Koala
https://apnews.com/article/health-australian-capital-territory-new-south-wales-queensland-environment-f38e062d7ae4806f9d4f7f67dd538968

9. In an effort to dislodge protestors who have adopted tactics of the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” movement New Zealand police have started playing loud music amid the crowd outside Parliament in THIS capital city. The music to move the movement includes Barry Manilow’s greatest hits and the Macarena. (#WACquiz)

A. Auckland
B. Christchurch
C. Hamilton
D. Wellington

Correct Response: D. Wellington
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60362529

10. Russian figure skating phenom 15-year old Kamila Valieva won Olympic gold but her victory was challenged when it was announced February 8th, after her victory, that she failed a doping test taken during competition in December. A review is underway. Russian athletes are not playing under the flag or anthem of the Russian Federation but are known as THIS. (#WACquiz)

A. RUS
B. RSF
C. ROC
D. RFC

Correct Response: C. ROC
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/figure-skating-russias-valieva-shows-up-practice-again-beijing-2022-02-11/

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