Tennessee World Affairs Council What in the World? Weekly Quiz – May 9-15, 2022

Russia celebrates Victory Day on May 9^th with a massive military parade in Moscow’s Red Square to mark THIS.

Defeat of Germany in 1945

Defeat of the Taliban in Afghanistan

Alexander Lukashenko

Annexation of Crimea

In a virtual meeting with Ukraine President Zelenskyy THIS association of leading global economies agreed to ban Russian oil imports.

The G-20

The P5+1

The U2

The G-7

Ukraine received information on the location of THIS ship in the Black Sea before attacking and sinking it with anti-ship cruise missiles.

Leningrad

Moskva

Kaliningrad

Vladivostok

The vote for Northern Ireland Assembly seats was a victory for THIS political party, once the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, a first for a nationalist organization.

DUP

Sinn Fein

Alliance Party

PUK

The namesake son of THIS long-time Filipino dictator, deposed in the 1986 “people power” revolution, holds a 30-point lead as voting start May 8^th in the Philippines. The candidate, known as “Bongbong,” is expected to continue in the style of strongman Rodrigo Duterte.

Ferdinand Marcos

Fidel Ramos

Benigno Aquino

Joseph Estrada

North Korea continued its long-range missile testing program, 15 launches this year, with the launch of THIS type of rocket. If deployed it would present a unique challenge to American defenses.

Submarine launched ballistic missile

Long range ICBM capable of carrying a nuclear warhead

Hypersonic missile

Nuclear capable land attack cruise missile

The ruling Taliban in Afghanistan announced a decree compelling women to wear a face covering. Women in Afghanistan under the Taliban, before 2001, were forced to wear THIS full body covering which left a mesh opening for the eyes.

Abaya

Burqa

Hijab

Chador

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang warned of a “complicated and grave” employment situation as a result of THIS.

Tariff hikes on goods bound for the United States

Sanctions over cooperation with Russia

Recession due to a drop in GDP

Covid lockdowns in major cities

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper recounts in a forthcoming book that in 2020 President Trump asked about launching missiles into THIS country to destroy drug labs, quoting the President as saying, “no one would know it was us.”

Colombia

Venezuela

Bolivia

Mexico

Russian military forces preparing to celebrate “Victory Day” in Moscow included fighter jets flying in the formation of THIS letter, which has become symbolic of the invasion of Ukraine.

Tennessee World Affairs Council What in the World? Weekly Quiz – May 9-15, 2022

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