***What in the World? Weekly Quiz - Feb 24-Mar 2, 2020***

Last week we learned Russia continues to interfere with U.S. Elections and that they favored Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. In response President Trump fired the Acting Director of National Intelligence, whose organization briefed the Congress on the threat. WHO was the Acting Director of National Intelligence that was fired?

Peter O’Hara

Joseph Maguire

John Brennan

Mark Esper

Global stock markets stumbled on the news of spikes in Coronavirus infection cases in THESE TWO countries as of February 24^th.

Japan and Finland

Italy and South Korea

China and Egypt

South Korea and Portugal

President Trump is in India where he is being hosted by President Narendra Modi who was greeted last year by an event in Texas called, “Howdy, Modi.” WHAT is the name of the rally being held for Trump in India?

�Welcome Mr. President”

�India-America Partners”

�Susvaagatam Donald”

�Namaste Trump”

What TWO COUNTRIES are negotiating on how to stop the violence that has broken out in the Idlib region of northern Syria that is threatening an enormous humanitarian catastrophe?

Syria and Iraq

Turkey and Russia

United States and Syria

Iran and Syria

The internationally recognized government of THIS COUNTRY took a hard line position regarding Khalifa Haftar, a renegade commander during peace talks in Switzerland.

South Sudan

Burkina Faso

Tunisia

Libya

Prosecutors in Bulgaria charged three Russians in an attempted murder case in which three Bulgarians were poisoned in a manner similar to the 2018 nerve-agent attack on former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skirpal in THIS COUNTRY. The attack was a startling transgression by Russian agents operating in a NATO nation.

Germany

France

United Kingdom

Poland

A diplomatic spat has erupted from Russia over rules for settlement in Svalbaard, an island in the increasingly contentious Arctic region. Svalbaard is part of THIS COUNTRY.

Sweden

Canada

Norway

Denmark

A statement by European and British officials at a meeting of finance ministers and central bankers said, ““We need to give the highest priority to finding global solutions to address the taxation of the digital economy…” They were meeting in THIS COUNTRY which will host the 2020 summit of the Group of Twenty (G-20).

Japan

Saudi Arabia

Brazil

India

Robert O’Brien, National Security Advisor to President Trump pushed back against U.S. Intelligence Community findings that THIS was occurring despite reports that it had been briefed to Congress. Last week Trump fired the Director of National Intelligence in response to the finding.

Russia is interfering in the 2020 presidential campaigns on behalf of President Trump.

North Korea had successfully coupled a thermo-nuclear warhead with a missile capable of reaching the U.S. homeland.

Iran’s 2019 economic situation showed a 2.4% rate of GDP growth despite the U.S. “Maximum Pressure” campaign.

China’s President Xi Jinping’s communication to North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un was intercepted which said Beijing did not intend to keep its Phase I trade promises.

***What in the World? Weekly Quiz - Feb 24-Mar 2, 2020***

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