World Boston What in the World? Weekly Quiz – July 11-17, 2022

Japan and the world were shocked by the assassination of THIS former prime minister by a homemade gun wielding man in Nara on Friday. The killing was especially shocking in a country where gun-violence is extremely rare – one gun killing in all of 2021.

Fumio Kishida

Junichiro Yoshida

Yoshihide Suga

Shinzo Abe

“Them’s the breaks,” was THIS prime minister’s exclamation point to historic remarks made in announcing his resignation.

Emmanuel Macron

Olaf Scholz

Boris Johnson

Justin Trudeau

Russia shutdown THIS pipeline that provides gas to Germany on Monday supposedly for maintenance but Western observers fear it will become a long-term cut to an important source of energy.

Nord Stream 1

Nord Stream 2

Gazprom Stream

WestEur 2

Increasing public pressure and the occupation of the president’s residence in the face of months of economic crisis has led President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to step down as leader of THIS island nation.

Madagascar

Sri Lanka

Papua New Guinea

Mauritius

The threat of nuclear war was rolled out again by Russia as THIS former president warned, “the idea of punishing a country that has one of the largest nuclear potentials is absurd and potentially poses a threat to the existence of humanity.”

Mikhail Mishustin

Dmitry Medvedev

Alexander Navalny

Viktoria Abramchenko

As President Biden prepares for a visit to the Middle East he faces charges of backpedaling on his position to make Saudi Arabia a “pariah” nation for its human rights record and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Observers will be watching Biden’s meeting with THIS defacto leader of the Kingdom.

Hassa bint Salman

Mohamed bin Salman

Salman bin Abdulaziz

Abdullah bin Abdulaziz

The party of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, assassinated on Friday, saw a sweeping victory in upper house elections Sunday. THIS party, which has ruled Japan for most of the modern era, urged people to vote in response to the so-called “attack on democracy.”

Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP)

Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)

Komeito Party (NKP)

Democratic Party for the People (DPFP)

Tens of thousands of leaked files showed Uber mounted a campaign violating laws, secretly lobbying politicians and backing violence against drivers to advance their marketing. Among the politicians and billionaires courted by Uber was THIS then Economy Minister, now Prime Minister.

Boris Johnson

Karl Nehammer

Emmanuel Macron

Pedro Sanchez

The resignation of Prime Minister Boris Johnson opens competition in THIS British political party to put forward the next leader.

Conservative and Liberal Party

Labour Party

Liberal Democrats

Democratic Unionist Party

The United States and Gulf allies are working to create a multilateral air defense network to counter Iran’s missile and drone capabilities and are seeking to include THIS new partner in the arrangement.

Egypt

Israel

Iraq

Jordan

World Boston What in the World? Weekly Quiz – July 11-17, 2022

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