“What in the World? Weekly Quiz" | May 9-15, 2022

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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.

LAST WEEK’S QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

What in the World? Quiz – Week of May 2-8, 2022

1. The Russian Foreign Minister sought to justify Moscow’s “denazification” of Ukraine by saying, “So what if Zelensky is Jewish? The fact does not negate the Nazi elements in Ukraine. I believe that Hitler also had Jewish blood.” THIS official was strongly rebuked by Israel and others.

A. Sergei Lavrov
B. Dmitry Medvedev
C. Alexander Lukashenko
D. Sergei Shoigu

Correct Response: A. Sergei Lavrov
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/zelensky-jewish-hitler-lavrov-russia-b2069625.html

2. Russia stopped deliveries of gas to THIS country over Warsaw’s decision to join the countries sanctioning Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine.

A. Czech Republic
B. Germany
C. Poland
D. Lithuania

Correct Response: C. Poland
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-europe-poland-warsaw-a2ab0053ccb99b8fc3a493a1a67efcad

3. The world’s two billion Muslims are celebrating THIS holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

A. Eid al-Adha
B. Mawlid an-Nabi
C. Hajj
D. Eid al-Fitr

Correct Response: D. Eid al-Fitr
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-covid-business-health-africa-2f3d6e2791d108645f069b6202129a61

4. Five major Russian businessmen died since January in cases said to be suicide. Four of them were associated with THIS Russian state owned energy firm.

A. Nordstream
B. Gazprom
C. Rusgas
D. BP

Correct Response: B. Gazprom
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/29/europe/russian-oligarchs-suicides-intl/index.html

5. Saudi Arabia and THIS Gulf neighbor are continuing talks to restore relations that were broken when the Saudi embassy in Tehran was overrun in 2016.

A. Sudan
B. Iran
C. Afghanistan
D. Iraq

Correct Response: B. Iran
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/middleeast/saudi-iran-talks-resume-mime-intl/index.html

6. European Union ministers held talks on an embargo of Russian oil but THIS member, led by President Victor Orban, promised to block an agreement.

A. Hungary
B. Slovakia
C. Poland
D. Bulgaria

Correct Response: A. Hungary
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-61295448

7. President Joe Biden talked Friday with THIS Mexican leader about the situation at the border and investment in Central America to reduce migrant flows.

A. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
B. President Iván Duque Márquez
C. President Pedro Castillo
D. President Gabriel Boric

Correct Response: A. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-foreign-minister-visit-washington-after-biden-lopez-obrador-call-2022-04-29/

8. Former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is taking on incumbent right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro in elections set for October in THIS South American nation.

A. Venezuela
B. Colombia
C. Argentina
D. Brazil

Correct Response: D. Brazil
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-bolsonaro-lula-competing-rallies-preview-presidential-campaign-2022-05-01/

9. Officials from the United States have recently visited Ukraine President Zelensky in Kyiv. They included calls from these except WHICH one.

A. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
B. Secretary of State Antony Blinken
C. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen
D. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin

Correct Response: C. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/05/01/ukraine-pelosi-mariupol-evacuation/

10. Guillermo Lasso, President of Ecuador, declared a state of emergency from his office in THIS capital city, to deal with gang wars in three western regions.

A. Lima
B. Quito
C. Buenos Aires
D. Asunción

Correct Response: B. Quito
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-61281422

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