“What in the World? Weekly Quiz” | May 23-29, 2022

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

Last Week’s Quiz Winners

Colleen Ryan, Nashville, TN
Barbara Gubbin, Jacksonville, FL
Don Moore, Mount Juliet, TN
Nick McCall, Knoxville, TN
Brian Smallwood, Brentwood, TN
David Hillinck, Huntsville, AL
Joe Collins, FL
Peter Barclay, Peoria, IL
Charles Bowers, Nashville, TN
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Tim Stewart, Nashville, TN
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Lewis Bellardo, Nashville, TN
Tucker Handley, North Olmstead, OH
Tim Douglas, Nashville, TN
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Rich Buck, Peoria, IL
Martha Trammell, Nashville, TN
Kevin O’Brien, Washington, IL
Yezzie Dospil, Nashville, TN
Claudia Bonnyman, Nashville, TN
Peter Sharadin, Blandon, PA
Jim Shepherd, Nashville, TN

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MAY 2022 QUIZ PRIZE

You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War

By Elizabeth Becker

The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering war.   Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign reporters, Frankie, Catherine, and Kate   challenged the rules imposed on them by the military, ignored the belittlement of their male peers, and ultimately altered the craft of war reportage for generations.
 
In You Don’t Belong Here, Elizabeth Becker uses these women’s work and lives to illuminate the Vietnam War from the 1965 American buildup, the expansion into Cambodia, and the American defeat and its aftermath. Arriving herself in the last years of the war, Becker writes as a historian and a witness of the times.
 
What emerges is an unforgettable story of three journalists forging their place in a land of men, often at great personal sacrifice. Deeply reported and filled with personal letters, interviews, and profound insight, You Don’t Belong Here fills a void in the history of women and of war.

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1. The President and Prime Minister of THIS nation that shares a 800+ mile border with Russia said it must join NATO without delay even as Vladimir Putin threatened consequences if they apply for membership.

A. Sweden
B. Finland
C. Iceland
D. Denmark

Correct Response: B. Finland
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vladimir-putin-warns-finland-nato-membership-would-harm-relations/

2. Russia aims to seize Ukraine have probably not changed and the focus on the east and south of the country are probably temporary shifts according to Congressional testimony of THIS U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

A. Jen Psaki
B. William Burns
C. Avril Haines
D. Wendy Sherman

Correct Response: C. Avril Haines
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/10/dni-haines-putin-ukraine-invasion-unpredictable-00031375

3. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa of THIS Indian Ocean island nation fled his home and most of his family is living in hiding following months-long unrest over the country’s economic crisis. His borther, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, remains in tenuous power.

A. Mauritius
B. Seychelles
C. Sri Lanka
D. Reunion

Correct Response: C. Sri Lanka
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/14/world/asia/sri-lanka-rajapaksa.html

4. The Group of Seven (G-7) will meet to discuss the urgent need to break Russia’s blockade of THIS Ukrainian export commodity. The critical export supports about 400 million people mostly in lesser-developed countries.

A. Oil
B. Grain
C. Fish
D. Pork

Correct Response: B. Grain
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/12/russian-blockade-grain-exports-ukraine-ports-g7

5. China blasted a joint EU-Japan summit communiqué that discussed THIS disputed island chain, subject to Tokyo’s administration but claimed by Beijing.

A. Senkakus
B. Spratley
C. Okinawa
D. Hokkaido

Correct Response: A. Senkaku
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-voices-discontent-with-eu-japan-position-senkaku-islands-2022-05-13/

6. The Senate vote on a $40 billion aid package for Ukraine was held up by THIS U.S. Senator who frequently defies both parties’ agreement on legislation. He said, “We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the U.S. economy.”

A. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)
B. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
C. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME)
D. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR)

Correct Response: A. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rand-paul-ukraine-aid-senate-unanimous-consent/

7. American-Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, reporting for THIS Qatari government owned news network, was shot and killed while covering an Israeli military raid in the West Bank. Her funeral was disrupted when mourners who tried to carry her coffin on their shoulders rather than in a vehicle were attacked by Israeli police.

A. Al Doha
B. Al Jazeera
C. Al Quds
D. Al Arabiya

Correct Response: B. Al Jazeera
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/13/shireen-abu-akleh-al-jazeera-israel-jenin/

8. Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., son of the late dictator, swept to victory in the Philippines presidential election. The newly elected leader is known by THIS nickname.

A. Bongbong
B. Snake Eyes
C. Fez
D. Tiger King

Correct Response: A. Bongbong
https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2022/05/15/despite-huge-victory-bongbong-underwhelms/

9. CIA Director and professional diplomat Bill Burns met with the de facto leader of THIS erstwhile Middle East ally, the King’s son who the CIA said was responsible for the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in an effort to patch up soured relations.

A. Iraq
B. Yemen
C. Jordan
D. Saudi Arabia

Correct Response: D. Saudi Arabia
https://www.businessinsider.com/cia-director-visited-saudi-mend-tattered-relations-mbs-report-2022-5

10. This week marked passing the one million figure of Covid-19 deaths in THIS G-7 country, the highest number of any nation in the world.

A. United Kingdom
B. India
C. United States
D. China

Correct Response: C. United States
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/15/world/australia/covid-deaths.html

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