World Boston What in the World? Weekly Quiz – Oct 3-9, 2022

The incumbent Brazilian president did better than expected in Sunday’s elections but fell short of challenger, THIS former president who led with 48 percent, two points shy of victory. The two will meet in a runoff vote later this month as worries mount the incumbent might not recognize the election as legal.

Jair Bolsonaro

Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva

Nicolas Maduro

Juan Guaido

Moscow annexed four provinces in Ukraine including THIS area where Russian forces were pushed back from the strategic hub of Lyman.

Lviv

Donetsk

Odesa

Chernihiv

British Prime Minister Liz Truss is under fire for a botched “mini-budget” and tax cut plan as her party conference – THIS party called the Tories -- opens this week.

Labour

Christian Democrats

Conservatives

Liberal Democrats

A stampede to the exits at a soccer stadium in THIS archipelagic nation was caused by police firing tear gas at fans who rushed the pitch after a home-team loss, resulted in 125 deaths and hundreds injured.

Indonesia

Philippines

Malaysia

Papua New Guinea

U.S. Military forces began two weeks of exercises with THIS Pacific nation as tensions continue over China’s claims to control areas of the South China Sea.THIS country, once an American territory, hosted a major naval and air base during the Cold War.

Japan

Korea

Philippines

Singapore

The Nord Stream pipelines ruptured in likely sabotage have stopped leaking. Nord Stream provides gas from Russia to Western Europe through THIS body of water.

Black Sea

Sea of Okhotsk

Baltic Sea

Sea of Azov

October 3^rd is Germany Unity Day which celebrates THIS.

Reunification of West and East Germany in 1990

End of World War II in Europe in 1945

End of the Berlin blockade in 1949

Founding of West Germany in 1949

Somalia’s government announced the death of a co-founder of THIS militant off-shoot of Al Qaeda that has terrorized the country and other parts of East Africa in a joint international operation.

Al Shabaab

AQAP

Hezbollah

ISIS

Violent protests continued in Iran as security forces crack down on demonstrations sparked by THIS incident last month.

The spiraling national inflation rate resulting from energy and food shortages.

The death of a young woman in police custody for a head covering violation.

The government’s rejection of the “nuclear deal” that would loosen sanctions.

The new restrictions on travel abroad for dual Iranian nationals.

Tensions remain high on the Korean peninsula with a twin test fire of ballistic missiles in the North and the end of military exercises among the U.S., Japan and South Korea and visit of VP Kamala Harris to the DMZ. THIS South Korean president warned the North of a “resolute and overwhelming response” to any use of nuclear weapons.

Moon Jae-in

Park Geun-hye

Kim Dae-jung

Yoon Suk-yeol

World Boston What in the World? Weekly Quiz – Oct 3-9, 2022

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