"What in the World?" Weekly Quiz - August 29th
The United States and Russia failed to reach agreement on a cessation of hostilities in Syria after a nine-hour session in Geneva on Friday. Secretary of State John Kerry led the U.S. Side of the talks, which were hoped to conclude with an effective and lasting solution to the violence, providing an opening for political negotiations. Kerry’s Russian counterpart is:
Dmitry Medvedev
Sergei Kislyak
Vladimir Kolokoltsev
Sergei Lavrov
Confrontations between Iranian and American naval forces in the Persian Gulf were in the news last week. On Thursday the Pentagon reported a U.S. Navy patrol vessel in the Northern Gulf fired warning shots when three Iranian craft were acting “unsafe, unprofessional and not routine.” It followed U.S. Charges on Tuesday that Iran harassed U.S. Navy warships entering the Gulf. What is the waterway that connects the Gulf of Oman to the Persian Gulf?
Bab el-Mandeb Strait
Strait of Hormuz
Strait of Malacca
Strait of Musandam
Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, after winning a confidence vote, warned his Parliament an austerity program that was inevitable to overcome economic troubles would result in public sector job cuts and new taxes. It was in this country that the Arab Spring was sprung in December 2010 when a street vendor set himself on fire after being harassed by an official.
Algeria
Morocco
Tunisia
Mauritania
The complicated situation along the border with Syria got more difficult as Turkish forces launched an offensive to secure the area as Islamists withdraw. Turkey claims the action is as much intended to strike Islamic State as it is against other forces in the area. However an element of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were also targeted. That group is the:
Kurdish YPG militia
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
Jabhat Al-Nusra
Jaysh Al-Muwahhideen
Vice President Joe Biden met last week with this leader who in the aftermath of a coup last month has led a crackdown in the country and has shown contempt for America and the EU. His recent meeting with Vladimir Putin appeared to be a play of a “Russian card” and was worrying to the country’s NATO partners.
Fethullah Gulen
Binali Yildirim
Ahmet Davutoglu
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
This Scandinavian country is building a border fence along a portion of its remote northern border with Russia to quell migrant crossings. What NATO country shares a border with the Russian Federation above the Arctic Circle?
Sweden
Norway
Finland
Greenland
A court in France ruled against bans on this article of clothing said to be inconsistent with the country’s secularist principles. The debate heightened last week when video of police at a Nice beach enforcing the ban against a young woman went viral.
Burkini
Baguette
Bikini
Biarritz
This 92 year-old leader, who has ruled since 1987, responded to increasingly violent anti-government protests with charges against American mischief making and warning that there will be no “Arab Spring” in his country. He is:
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea
Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola
Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe
Gen. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of Mauritania
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