"What in the World?" - Week of Feb 4-10, 2018

India announced that its 2018 budget would contain a program designed to offer THIS to over 100 million families, making it the largest program of its type in the world:

Housing

Healthcare coverage

Higher education

Food assistance

After suffering a long-term bout of severe depression, the son of THIS former Latin American leader committed suicide:

Alberto Fujimori

Michelle Bachelet

Vicente Fox

Fidel Castro

The large, sprawling images created in a coastal plain between 500 BCE and 500 CE and known as the Nazca Lines, were damaged this week when a truck driver deliberately drove over them. This UNESCO World Heritage Site is located in which country?

Norway

North Korea

Australia

Peru

The United States will impose a unilateral arms embargo against THIS nation, in an effort to end years of civil war and humanitarian crisis:

Yemen

South Sudan

Syria

Sri Lanka

In a bizarre twist to a hotly contested presidential election in Kenya, losing candidate Raila Odinga held his own swearing-in ceremony. In response to Mr. Odinga’s defiance, the government did THIS, despite a court order forbidding it:

Declared a general curfew

Shut down all media

Arrested Mr. Odinga and his entourage

Nullified all judicial decisions relating to the election

The Polish senate has passed a bill that would make it illegal for someone to state that the nation’s government was complicit in THIS:

The Syrian refugee crisis

The Holocaust

The Katyn massacre

World War I

Canada has changed the words of its national anthem in order to make it gender neutral. Which of the following is the title of the Canadian national anthem?

�The Maple Leaf Forever”

�A Place to Stand, a Place to Grow”

“O Canada”

�God Save the Queen”

For over two years, and with the full knowledge and approval of Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, Israel has been helping the fight Islamic militants—some allied with ISIS—in the Sinai. In which of the following ways has Israel been assisting Egypt?

Sending Israeli special forces and Mossad agents to target the militants’ key leaders

Sending millions of dollars in military aid to Egypt

Providing arms and technical support to the Egyptian army

Sending unmarked Israeli planes and drones to carry out airstrikes

Using Light and Digital Ranging, or LiDAR, technology to “digitally deforest” a jungle in northern Guatemala, researchers learned that settlements there were larger, more densely populated, and more highly engineered than once thought. Which of the following pre-Columbian cultures inhabited this part of Central America?

Aztec

Inca

Maya

Zapotec

After ties were severed between the Vatican and Beijing because of the communist takeover of China, Catholics there and in Hong Kong are uneasy about a potential agreement being hammered out concerning THIS:

The appointment of bishops: For decades, official bishops were appointed by the Chinese government, while “underground” bishops were appointed by the Vatican

Religious persecution: China is notorious for suppressing religious groups

Continued Communist Party control of all policies, including those that cover religion

All of the above

"What in the World?" - Week of Feb 4-10, 2018

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