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FEBRUARY 2022 QUIZ PRIZE WINNER
DON MOORE, Mount Juliet, TN
Tomorrow the World
By Stephen Wertheim
MARCH 2022 QUIZ PRIZE
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
By M. E. Sarotte
Based on over a hundred interviews and on secret records of White House–Kremlin contacts, Not One Inch shows how the United States successfully overcame Russian resistance in the 1990s to expand NATO to more than 900 million people. But it also reveals how Washington’s hardball tactics transformed the era between the Cold War and the present day, undermining what could have become a lasting partnership.
Vladimir Putin swears that Washington betrayed a promise that NATO would move “not one inch” eastward and justifies renewed confrontation as a necessary response to the alliance’s illegitimate “deployment of military infrastructure to our borders.” But the United States insists that neither President George H.W. Bush nor any other leader made such a promise.
Pulling back the curtain on U.S.–Russian relations in the critical years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and Putin’s rise to power, prize-winning Cold War historian M. E. Sarotte reveals the bitter clashes over NATO behind the facade of friendship and comes to a sobering conclusion: the damage did not have to happen. In this deeply researched and compellingly written book, Sarotte shows what went wrong.
LAST WEEK’S QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What in the World? Quiz – Week of March 14-20, 2022
1. White House officials said Russia might use a “false flag” operation employing THIS type of weapon against Ukrainians and President Biden said Russia would pay a “severe price” if they used those weapons.
A. Chemical weapons
B. Cluster bombs
C. Napalm
D. Tactical nuclear artillery
Correct Response: A. Chemical weapons
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/11/politics/joe-biden-warning-chemical-weapons/index.html
2. Conservative politician Yoon Suk Yeoi was elected president of THIS country and will replace Moon Jae-in on May 10.
A. Japan
B. Taiwan
C. South Korea
D. Mongolia
Correct Response: C. South Korea
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/10/asia/yoon-suk-yeol-new-south-korean-president-stance-intl-hnk/index.html
3. The BJP party of President Narendra Modi of THIS country reversed the trend of anti-incumbency with key wins in local elections that “emboldens the BJP to push ahead with its successful strategy of combining strident Hindu nationalism with strategic welfarism to woo voters,” according to the BBC.
A. Pakistan
B. Myanmar
C. Bangladesh
D. India
Correct Response: D. India
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-60688428
4. Satellite data showed a record level of deforestation in THIS country, home to the Amazon river basin and rain forests. President Jair Bolsonaro has been a champion of deforestation and development in the Amazon.
A. Paraguay
B. Brazil
C. Uruguay
D. Colombia
Correct Response: B. Brazil
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/brazil-detects-record-amazon-deforestation-jan-feb-83390957
5. Russia continued to ship natural gas to Western Europe via pipelines in Ukraine despite having invaded the country, according to THIS Russian energy company.
A. Gazprom
B. Russgas
C. TransEuroGas
D. SiberGas
Correct Response: A. Gazprom
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-gazprom-says-continues-gas-shipments-via-ukraine-same-volume-2022-03-12/
6. Cristiana Chamorro and her brother were convicted of financial crimes in THIS country where she was a leading presidential candidate until jailed during her campaign against Daniel Ortega on charges said to be politically motivated. The pair are children of Violeta Chamorro who defeated former Sandinista commander Ortega for the presidency in 1990.
A. Costa Rica
B. Honduras
C. Nicaragua
D. Panama
Correct Response: C. Nicaragua
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/jailed-nicaraguan-opposition-leader-chamorro-brother-found-guilty-2022-03-12/
7. The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned two Russians accused of supplying THIS country’s missile program. The nuclear-armed country has tested two large ICBMs recently in defiance of UN restrictions and worrying neighbors and the U.S. about its intentions.
A. DPRK
B. ROK
C. ROC
D. PRC
Correct Response: A. DPRK
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-imposes-new-north-korea-related-sanctions-after-missile-launches-2022-03-11/
8. Indian defense officials acknowledged the accidental launch of a missile that flew 77 miles into the territory of THIS neighbor. Both are nuclear weapons states who have fought three wars and regularly clashed along the border.
A. Sri Lanka
B. Pakistan
C. Bangladesh
D. Myanmar
Correct Response: B. Pakistan
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-seeks-answers-india-after-crash-mystery-flying-object-2022-03-10/
9. The United Stats and its G-7 partners are moving to revise their trade relationship with Russia as the next economic sanction in response to the invasion of Ukraine. Revoking the provision, known as THIS, in the United States requires Congress to act.
A. WTO Premier status
B. Free trade zone access
C. Most favored nation
D. GATT Provisions
Correct Response: C. Most favored nation
https://www.reuters.com/business/biden-call-an-end-normal-trade-relations-with-russia-increased-tariffs-russian-2022-03-11/
10. A new leader of THIS terror organization was named weeks after a U.S. special operations raid killed Abu Ibrahim al-Quraishi in northern Syria. The new leader is the brother of former caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
A. Al Qaeda
B. Islamic State
C. Al Nusra
D. Hezbollah
Correct Response: B. Islamic State
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/exclusive-new-islamic-state-leader-is-brother-slain-caliph-baghdadi-sources-2022-03-11/
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