"What in the World?" Weekly Quiz -- July 1-7, 2018

Rescuers have deployed sniffer dogs, drones, expert divers, and an international volunteer force to find 12 boys and their soccer coach, believed to be trapped inside a flooded cave network in THIS country:

China

Thailand

Vietnam

Cambodia

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won re-election last week. This was Turkey's first presidential election after its citizens voted to reform their government's structure by doing THIS:

Imposing term limits on all elected officials

Imposing a check on the presidency by granting the legislature more power

Bestowing sweeping powers to the executive branch, including the possibility of running for multiple terms

Abolishing the legislature

For the first time since 1969, an American will not head THIS UN agency. After three rounds of voting, Ken Isaacs, whose negative remarks about Islam drew widespread condemnation during his candidacy, lost his bid to head the agency in question to Antonio Vitorino, a former EU commissioner from Portugal:

Human Rights Council

World Health Organization

International Organization for Migration

International Monetary Fund

Citing the tariffs imposed on steel and aluminum by the U.S. On imports from Europe, and the EU's retaliatory imports on U.S. products, THIS iconic American company announced that it will be shifting some of its production overseas:

Levi Strauss

Harley-Davidson

Jack Daniel's

General Motors

Officials in Cape Town, South Africa announced this week that "day zero," or the day the city runs out of THIS, would not occur in 2018, or in 2019, if citizens continue to follow strict conservation guidelines:

Water

Electricity

Gas

Wheat

After a weekend summit with other EU leaders focused on finding solutions to THIS issue, it seems likely that German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be able to maintain her party's coalition with Bavarian conservatives, the alliance currently keeping her in power:

Tariffs on U.S. products

The Syrian conflict

How to handle migrants and refugees

Brexit

French President Emmanuel Macron's government announced this week that it was modifying a government requirement abolished in the 1990s and replacing it with THIS new requirement for all 16-year olds:

Mandatory national service

Mandatory language training

Mandatory military service

Mandatory driver training

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that upheld the Trump administration's 2017 travel ban, which prohibits some travelers from certain countries from entering the U.S. Which of the following countries is NOT on the travel ban list?

Iraq

North Korea

Venezuela

Libya

Mexicans will head to the polls to elect a new president: Who currently holds that office?

Vicente Fox

Felipe Calderón

Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Enrique Peña Nieto

THIS nation's team won the 2014 FIFA World Cup, but failed to qualify for the second round in the 2018 tournament. This is the first time since 1938 that the national team in question will not participate past the first round:

Italy

Brazil

Germany

Argentina

"What in the World?" Weekly Quiz -- July 1-7, 2018

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