“What in the World? Weekly Quiz" | Mar 28-Apr 3, 2022

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Tim Stewart, Nashville, TN
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Peter Sharadin, Blandon, PA
Jim Shepherd, Nashville, TN
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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 21-27, 2022

1. Russia has demanded surrender of Ukrainian forces in THIS besieged southeastern city where hundreds of thousands of desperate people are trapped amid an extraordinary level of attacks on civilian targets.

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

Correct Response: C. Mariupol
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-refuses-surrender-mariupol-russia-warns-humanitarian-catastrophe-2022-03-21/

2. Russian President Vladimir Putin, labeled a “war criminal” by President Biden, is assessed as driven to overcome the humiliation of the Soviet defeat in the Cold War. During that period Putin held THIS position.

A. Mayor of Moscow
B. Lieutenant Colonel in the KGB
C. Second Secretary to the Ukraine Oblasts
D. USSR Attache to West Germany

Correct Response: B. Lieutenant Colonel in the KGB
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60807134

3. Japan and Australia, partners with India and the United States in THIS alliance, have pressed New Delhi on its position over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. At a meeting with Indian PM Modi, Australian PM Morrison said, “The cooperation of like-minded liberal democracies is key to an open, inclusive, resilient and prosperous Indo-Pacific.”

A. AUKUS
B. Quad
C. SEATO
D. Indo-Pac Pact

Correct Response: B. Quad
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-21/australian-pm-morrison-presses-india-s-modi-on-war-in-ukraine

4. Spain has changed its position regarding THIS former colony under dispute between Morocco and Algeria to favor Rabat’s claim. Algiers has recalled its ambassador from Madrid and said Morocco is using migrant flows into Spanish territory as blackmail.

A. Tripolitania
B. Maghreb
C. Ceuta
D. Western Sahara

Correct Response: D. Western Sahara
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/19/algeria-recalls-spain-envoy-over-western-sahara-policy-change

5. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) welcomed a visit by THIS Syrian President, his first trip abroad since the 2011 Arab Spring inspired civil war crippled the country. The meeting with UAE ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ) suggests the Gulf Arab states are bringing Syria back into the Arab fold, a move criticized by Washington.

A. Bashar Assad
B. Recep Erdogan
C. Najib Mikati
D. Hafez Assad

Correct Response: A. Bashar Assad
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/world/middleeast/bashar-al-assad-syria-uae.html

6. President Biden on Friday spoke for two hours with THIS Chinese counterpart, warning of “consequences” should Beijing provide material support to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

A. Kim Jong-un
B. Lee Hsien Loong
C. Xi Jinping
D. Tsai Ing-wen

Correct Response: C. Xi Jinping
https://www.axios.com/biden-xi-jinping-call-russia-ukraine-china-589b2602-5b83-46ac-8c8f-7b8771490374.html

7. Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, visited THIS Central American nation on a tour of the Caribbean region. The former UK colony was known as British Honduras until 1973 independence.

A. Costa Rica
B. Nicaragua
C. Belize
D. Suriname

Correct Response: C. Belize
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/british-royals-visit-chocolate-business-belize-after-protest-nearby-2022-03-20/

8. President Biden will travel to Belgium for talks with NATO leaders this week and will visit THIS front-line NATO nation.

A. Latvia
B. Poland
C. Hungary
D. Romania

Correct Response: B. Poland
https://thehill.com/policy/international/598983-biden-to-visit-poland-during-europe-trip

9. Germany and THIS Persian Gulf nation, a top global exporter of gas (LNG), reached an agreement on energy supplies as Berlin seeks alternatives to Russian imports.

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

Correct Response: D. Qatar
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/20/germany-seals-gas-deal-with-qatar-to-reduce-dependence-on-russia

10. A judge in Tegucigalpa approved extradition of former President Juan Orlando Hernandez of THIS country to the United States to face drug-trafficking charges.

A. Belize
B. Panama
C. Honduras
D. Guatemala

Correct Response: C. Honduras
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/17/judge-approves-extradition-of-former-honduras-president-to-us

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