"What in the World?" Weekly Quiz - October 3, 2016

Former Israeli President Shimon Peres died this week, at age 93. Mr. Peres shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin for which 1993 interim peace deal, designed to end Israel's conflict with Palestine?

Communist Party officials in China have announced that countering the influence of the Dalai Lama will be their top priority in Tibetan cultural affairs. When did Tibet come under Chinese control?

In a shocking development voters rejected a peace deal signed with the “FARC” that would have ended a 52-year conflict where?

The United States unveiled plans to build a $100 million temporary base for surveillance drones, designed to help combat Boko Haram and various Al Qaeda offshoots. The base will be located in Agadez, the largest city in which country?

A unity vote in the regional assembly of Catalonia is being viewed as a green light to push for the region's independence from which country?

Thousands of people demonstrated in Amman against a $10 billion deal to bring in gas from Israel. Amman is the capital of which nation?

Investigators found that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over Eastern Europe in 2014 by a missile made where?

The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced that presidential elections, normally due to be held in December 2016, will be put off until December 2018. Fear that the current president, Joseph Kabila, would refuse to step down at the end of his second term led to violent demonstrations last month in the capital. What is the capital of the DRC?

Fire was recently exchanged across the Line of Control, a military control line that serves as a de facto section of the official border between which nations?

Turkey announced that a 911 km wall—expected to be completed by the spring—will completely seal its border with which neighboring nation?