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LAST WEEK’S QUIZ WINNERS

Hannah Osborne, Chapel Hill, TN
Proscovia Mattias, Brentwood, TN
Peter Sharadin, Blandon, PA
Charles Bowers, Nashville, TN
Angela Weck, Peoria, IL
Bob Fort, Virginia Beach, VA
Elizabeth Perkins, Charleston, SC
Elizabeth Pairhead, Louisville, KY
Frederick Rudolph, Forest Hills, TN
Don Moore, Mount Juliet, TN
Leslie Fort, Georgia
Maura Obrien, Richmond, VA
David Hillinck, Huntsville, AL
Bernie Drake, Peoria, IL
Steve Freidberg, Boston, MA
Basil G. Smith, Jacksonville, FL
Rosie Maum, Louisville, KY
Christine Maemmar, Brookfield, WI
Daniel Getz, Peoria, IL
Yezzie Gospil, Nashville, TN
Lewis Bellardo, Nashville, TN
Patricia Miletich, Nashville, TN
Jim Shepherd, Nashville, TN
Kevin Obrien, Washington, IL

JANUARY 2022 QUIZ PRIZE WINNER

Steve Freidberg, Boston, MA

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The Rise of Illiberalism

Thomas Main

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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. American and British diplomats and embassy staff dependents are being withdrawn from THIS capital amid heightened tensions of a Russian invasion.

A. Lviv
B. Kyiv
C. Odesa
D. Kharkiv

Correct Response: B. Kyiv
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nato-sends-ships-jets-eastern-europe-ukraine-crisis-2022-01-24/

2. A second volley of ballistic missiles were reportedly intercepted by United Arab Emirates air defense forces. It followed last week’s deadly missile and drone strikes by THIS Yemeni group battling a Saudi-led coalition that includes the UAE.

A. ISIS
B. IRGC
C. Hezbollah
D. Houthi

Correct Response: D. Houthi
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/uaes-defense-ministry-destroyed-2-houthi-ballistic-missiles-wam-2022-01-24/

3. Two U.S. Navy aircraft carrier groups are in THIS strategic waterway where China and a handful of nations dispute claims to islands and territorial seas. China has militarized many of the islands and routinely warns America about sailing in its claimed waters.

A. Gulf of Tonkin
B. East China Sea
C. South China Sea
D. West China Sea

Correct Response: C. South China Sea
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/two-us-carriers-enter-schina-sea-counter-malign-influence-2022-01-24/

4. The British Prime Minister is under fire for the “Partygate” scandal that led him to apologize in the House of Commons. The staff party, during Covid-lockdown times, that he attended may unseat him as Prime Minister and leader of THIS British political party.

A. Labour Party Cooperative Party
B. Liberal Democrats Party
C. Conservative and Unionist Party
D. National Reform Party

Correct Response: C. Conservative and Unionist Party
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-johnson-orders-inquiry-into-discrimination-claim-against-muslim-lawmaker-2022-01-24/

5. Burkina Faso’s President, Roch Kabore, was arrested by mutinous troops in the latest military coup in West and Central Africa. All of these countries EXCEPT THIS ONE experienced overthrow of government in what is being called the “coup belt.”

A. Mali
B. Guyana
C. Guinea
D. Chad

Correct Response: B. Guyana
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/recent-coups-west-central-africa-2022-01-24/

6. The political party led by Sunni Muslim Saad al-Hariri may skip an election set for May and the absence of his movement from the vote will cause more chaos in Lebanon amid its economic collapse. THIS Iranian-backed Shiite opposition party won a majority in the 2018 vote and it adversaries hoped the May vote would reverse that win.

A. Houthis
B. Hezbollah
C. Progressive Socialist Party
D. Marada Movement

Correct Response: B. Hezbollah
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/lebanons-hariri-expected-announce-election-boycott-party-members-say-2022-01-24/

7. THIS leader of Venezuela’s opposition, recognized by Washington as the rightful President, called for street demonstrations against President Nicolas Maduro next month ahead of presidential elections.

A. Juan Guaido
B. Erika Farias
C. Andres Izarra
D. Gustavo Tare

Correct Response: A. Juan Guaido
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelan-oppositions-guaido-calls-february-protest-2022-01-23/

8. There’s one more concern for Olympic organizers after authorities warned efforts to keep the air clean were “unfavourable.” The current level of hazardous airborne particles in THIS Olympic city was 205 micrograms per cubic meter, with the WHO recommending a level of no more than 5.

A. Shanghai
B. Taipei
C. Beijing
D. Chengdu

Correct Response: C. Beijing
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/beijing-2022-eases-covid-19-measures-games-related-personnel-ioc-2022-01-24/

9. China sent dozens of aircraft into the air defense identification zone, near THIS nation’s controlled Pratas islands. At least 39 Chinese warplanes were active in the zone in what Beijing regularly calls exercises to protect its sovereignty claims over THIS nation.

A. Hong Kong
B. Macau
C. Taiwan
D. Borneo

Correct Response: C. Taiwan
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/two-us-carriers-enter-schina-sea-counter-malign-influence-2022-01-24/

10. A worldwide outpouring of condolences followed the passing of THIS global activist and Vietnamese Zen master. He traveled widely, after being exiled from Vietnam, and was a major influence on Western practices of Buddhism.

A. Thich Nhat Hanh
B. Dalai Lama
C. Thanissaro Bhikhu
D. Thanh Tu

Correct Response: A. Thich Nhat Hanh
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/world/asia/thich-nhat-hanh-dead.html

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