“What in the World? Weekly Quiz" | February 27-March 5, 2023

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Last Week’s Quiz Winners

Charles Bowers, Nashville, TN
David Hillinck, Alexandria, VA
Barbara Gubbin, Jacksonville, FL
Roanna Wiser, NY
Rich Buck, Peoria, IL
Tim Stewart, Nashville, TN
Mike Peek, Nashville, TN
John Bull, Nashville, TN
Basil G. Smith, Jacksonville, FL
Roger French, Washington, IL
Michelle Eaton, Peoria, IL
Patricia Miletich, Ventura, CA
Michael Weiss, Rockville, MD
Cathy Dopp, Grand Rapids, MI
Silas McClung, Sewanee, TN
Hannah Osborne, Chapel Hill, TN
Seth Osborne, Chapel Hill, TN
Paul Love, Marlboro, VT
Dillon Nguyen, Westminster, CA
Brian Hall, Jacksonville, FL
Adam Leff, Bethel, ME
Brady Detwiler, Reading, PA
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Development as Freedom by Smartya Sen

In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms and remain imprisoned in one way or another by economic poverty, social deprivation, political tyranny or cultural authoritarianism. The main purpose of development is to spread freedom and its ‘thousand charms’ to the
unfree citizens.

Freedom, Sen persuasively argues, is at once the ultimate goal of social and economic arrangements and the most efficient means of realizing general welfare. Social institutions like markets, political parties, legislatures, the judiciary, and the media contribute to development by enhancing individual freedom and are in turn sustained by social values. Values, institutions, development, and freedom are all closely interrelated, and Sen links them together in an elegant analytical framework.

By asking ‘What is the relation between our collective economic wealth and our individual ability to live as we would like?’ and by incorporating individual freedom as a social commitment into his analysis Sen allows economics once again, as it did in the time of Adam Smith, to address the social
basis of individual well-being and freedom.

LAST WEEK’S QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

What in the World? Quiz – Week of February 20-26, 2023

1. President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kyiv to mark this week’s one-year anniversary of the unprovoked Russian invasion. Biden met with THIS Ukrainian leader.

A. Petro Poroshenko
B. Volodymyr Zelenskyy
C. Leonid Kravchuk
D. Leonid Kuchma

Correct Response: B. Volodymyr Zelenskyy
https://www.msnbc.com/way-too-early/watch/biden-makes-surprise-visit-to-ukraine-to-mark-one-year-after-russia-s-invasion-163668037872

2. China’s Ministry of Commerce announced sanctions on key defense manufacturers Lockheed and Raytheon over arms sales to Taiwan as part of Bejing’s pledge to take “countermeasures” in response to THIS event.

A. American Patriot missile sales to Taiwan
B. U.S. Navy ships operating in the South China Sea
C. Shoot down of a PRC spy balloon
D. Secretary of State Blinken cancelled visit to China

Correct Response: C. Shoot down of a PRC spy balloon
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/16/business/china-sanctions-lockheed-raytheon-hnk-intl/index.html

3. The leaders of countries including France, Germany and the United States are in THIS city for a security summit where they discuss boosting support for Ukraine and possible stronger sanctions on Russia.

A. Munich
B. Geneva
C. New York
D. Paris

Correct Response: A. Munich
Source: https://www.dw.com/en/msc-2023-top-diplomats-discuss-future-of-ukraine/a-64749223

4. The United States accused Russia of violating the last remaining significant nuclear weapons limitations treaty, known as THIS, when it refused access to inspectors at its facilities.

A. New START
B. SALT
C. SHORT
D. INF

Correct Response: A. New START
https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-not-complying-with-inspection-obligation-under-nuclear-arms-treaty-us-2023-01-31/

5. Scottish politics were shaken with the surprise resignation of THIS official who had been a leading voice for independence from the United Kingdom.

A. Rishi Sunak
B. Alexander Abercromby
C. Mairi Gougeon
D. Nicola Sturgeon

Correct Response: D. Nicola Sturgeon
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-16/scotland-s-snp-delays-referendum-planning-after-sturgeon-resignation

6. The top foreign policy advisor and former foreign minister from THIS Asian country will visit Russia during an eight-day international tour that included the Munich Security Conference. The U.S. warned them against providing lethal aid to Russia in its war against Ukraine.

A. India
B. Pakistan
C. North Korea
D. China

Correct Response: D. China
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/14/china/wang-yi-russia-diplomatic-tour-munich-blinken-intl-hnk

7. Israel has passed a law to revoke the citizenship of members of THIS group residing in Israel if convicted of terrorism or who also get financial aid from the Palestinian Authority (PA).

A. Kurds
B. Arabs
C. Turks
D. Iranians

Correct Response: B. Arabs
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64654634

8. A court in THIS country in Central America stripped 94 political opponents of their citizenship, including award-winning writer Sergio Ramírez, poet Gioconda Belli and Catholic bishop Silvio Báez, bringing the total to 316. It drew sharp criticism from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

A. Nicaragua
B. Honduras
C. Columbia
D. Panama

Correct Response: A. Correct Answer
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-64663711

9. The U.S Agency for International Development held a Summit in Washington D.C. in December chaired by Administrator Samantha Power and President Biden. The goal of the Summit was to revitalize the U.S’s relations with community leaders from THIS continent where Russia and China are gaining influence.

A. Africa
B. Southeast Asia
C. Latin America
D. Central Asia

Correct Response: A. Africa
Source: https://www.usaid.gov/usaid-at-the-us-africa-leaders-summit

10. North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the “time is now” for Turkey and Hungary to ratify applications by THESE two states to join the defense alliance.

A. Ireland and Kosovo
B. Belarus and Bosnia-Herzegovina
C. Georgia and Azerbaijan
D. Finland and Sweden

Correct Response: D. Finland and Sweden
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-could-mull-finland-sweden-nato-bids-separately-minister-2023-02-16/

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