"What in the World?" - Week of January 15-21, 2017

In a push to digital broadcasting, which country became the first to begin switching off its FM radio transmitters this week?

As the World Economic Forum opens in Davos this week, the president of which nation will attend for the first time ever?

FIFA, world soccer's governing body, announced this week that the 2026 World Cup would expand to include 48 teams. How many teams currently compete for soccer's greatest title?

The king of which Asian nation—currently considered the region's only military dictatorship—refused to endorse a new constitution?

In an effort to save the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, and to foster security in the region, Japan's president Shinzo Abe is on a whirlwind tour of Pacific Rim nations this week. His most challenging visit could well be with Rodrigo Duterte, whose pro-China stance and unusual approach to global affairs have rendered his nation's relationship with its neighbors tenuous. Mr. Duterte is the president of which nation?

French voters will go to the polls later this week to vote in the Socialist Party's (PS) primary. Which of the following will NOT appear on the PS ballot?

Foreign diplomats and officials from 70 countries met in which city this week to urge a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and to push for renewed peace talks between the two states?

This week saw the end to the "wet foot, dry foot" immigration policy, which granted undocumented immigrants from which country the right to stay in the United States if they reached its soil, and gave them a fast-track to U.S. citizenship?

Which nation has seen severe damage done to some of its most important vineyards this week by wildfires?

Amazon sparked outrage this week by selling flip-flops that feature the face of which global icon for human rights?