"What in the World?" - Week of January 29-February 4, 2017

Concerns over climate change and the threat of nuclear weapons led the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to reset its "Doomsday Clock" to two and a half minutes to midnight. When was the last time the clock was set this close to midnight?

Germany's Social Democrats have chosen whom to run against current chancellor Angela Merkel?

The UK's Supreme Court ruled that Parliament must vote to approve the UK’s exit from the European Union. This was a blow to Prime Minister Theresa May's plans to begin the Brexit process by March. Which article of the Treaty of Lisbon will Mrs. May use to trigger the process of her country's withdrawal from the EU?

Citing, in part, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the U.S. President issued an executive order banning all entry to the U.S. By refugees and immigrants from seven nations including all of these EXCEPT?

An American serviceman was killed in a US commando attack on al-Qaeda militants in which nation?

French voters chose whom as their candidate in the Socialist Party's primary on Sunday?

A water plume spotted at the Yongbyon nuclear reactor – where fissile material for nuclear weapons has been produced -- indicates that the facility is once again operational, after having been shut down in 2015. Yongbyon is in which nation?

Sumo wrestling crowned its grand champion, or yokozuna, this week. Breaking with a 19-year precedent, where is the most recent yokozuna from?

Across Asia and in other parts of the world revelers marked the Lunar New Year. The year that began on January 28, 2017 is associated with which sign of the Chinese zodiac?

Since 2012 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sought to turn around an economy in which consumer prices keep falling; a report released this week shows that, as of December, there have been ten straight months of that same trend. What term do economists use to describe a fall in the price of goods and services?