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What in the World? Weekly Quiz - Dec 30, 2019-Jan 5, 2020

In June of 2019, Iranian air defense forces shot down a U.S. Global Hawk unmanned reconnaissance aircraft sparking a serious level of confrontation between Tehran and Washington in the recent round of tensions. The shootdown occurred in THIS location.

Southern Persian Gulf

Strait of Hormuz

Over eastern Hormozgan Province of Iran

Bab el Mandeb Strait

THIS three-time ambassador — who described the State Department as “attacked and hollowed out from within,” in prepared remarks at a closed-door Congressional hearing — has come into the spotlight in 2019 in the midst of the ongoing whistleblower investigation involving Ukraine.

Woody Johnson

John Huntsman Jr.

Marie Yovanovitch

Patricia Mahoney

In what he described a “dangerous and daring” nighttime operation, President Trump announced the death of THIS elusive Islamic State leader in a suicide attack during a U.S. Military operation in Syria in October of 2019.

Abu Omar al-Shishani

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Abu Mohammad al-Adnani

Abu Mohammad al-Julani

In a rare address to the US Congress marking the 70th anniversary of THIS international organization, THIS organization’s head warned, “We do not want a new arms race. We do not want a new Cold War. But we must not be naïve.”

United Nations Secretariat

International Atomic Energy Agency

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

World Trade Organization

In 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump made history by becoming the first sitting U.S. President to visit THIS country, despite the sometimes deep tensions between the two nations.

Iran

North Korea

Cuba

Libya

July saw the World Health Organization declare the recent outbreak of THIS disease in Democratic Republic of Congo to be a “public health emergency of international concern,” the highest level of alarm that the WHO can sound.

Marburg virus

Ebola

Zika Virus

Rift Valley Fever

As the European Union had a tumultuous year of Brexit negotiations, the political and economic union also held its 2019 parliamentary elections which had the highest voter turnout in two decades. In the elections, THESE groups did surprisingly well, breaking with trends from past elections.

Centrist parties

Parties with pro-LGBTQ platforms

Reformist parties

Far-right nationalist and Green parties

Over the summer, the Trump administration signed an agreement with the Guatemalan government to do THIS, in an effort to curb the wave of asylum seekers coming into the U.S. While both governments have confirmed the agreement, Guatemala’s highest court had previously ruled that such an agreement could not be signed by the country’s president.

Criminalize undocumented migration from Guatemala to the United States

Authorize the return of Guatemalan asylum seekers from the US back to Guatemala

Require asylum seekers traveling through Guatemala to make their asylum claim there

Locate US offices of the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency within Guatemala to expedite migration from there to the United States

In one of several violations of the terms of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, from which President Trump withdrew the United States, Iran announced that it did THIS in the fall, raising the stakes for the European countries trying to prevent the deal’s collapse.

Activated advanced centrifuges for uranium enrichment

Opened a new research and development center in Tabriz

Rebuilt the Arak heavy water research reactor to maximize production of plutonium

Arrested officials from the IAEA in Iran to inspect new reactors

Demonstrators in Hong Kong continued regular protests in the streets throughout much of the year, including escalations as pro-democracy supporters marked the fifth anniversary of the birth of the “Umbrella Movement” and just days before THIS important event on the calendar for the People’s Republic of China, the target of Hong Konger protests.

The 70th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party.

The 30th anniversary of the Tianamen Square protests.

The 50th anniversary of Peoples Republic of China admission to the UN.

The 60th anniversary of China becoming a nuclear power.

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