What in the World? Weekly Quiz - February 10-16, 2020

China’s annual national holiday stand down ended on Monday after a ten day extension and hundreds of millions of workers would normally be returning to factories and offices. Instead anxiety over the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic resulted in a trickle of people heading to jobs. The national holiday was an observance of THIS.

Chinese Communist Party Anniversary

International Workers Day

People’s Republic of China Independence Anniversary

Lunar New Year

The death toll from the Coronavirus pandemic hit 908 as of Sunday (Feb 10) with over 40,000 infections reported. All of these statements concerning the pandemic are true EXCEPT:

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said, “The detection of a small number of cases may indicate more widespread transmission in other countries; in short, we may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg.”

Stocks fell across Europe as the impact to disruptions in the China-centric global supply chain began to be felt in automobile and electronics manufacturers and scores of other industries.

The International Maritime Workers Union announced a moratorium on crewing merchant ships bound for China, posing a threat to the country’s massive importation of everything from oil and raw materials to food and building products.

Scientists in the United Kingdom issued a warning that the death rate from Coronavirus was about 1% but could be as high as 4% -- rates consistent with the major influenza outbreaks of the 20th Century.

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, head of Germany’s Christian Democrat party, withdrew from consideration of THIS position she was in line to assume.

Secretary General of NATO

President of the European Commission

Chancellor of Germany

Chair of the EU-UK Reconciliation Council

The political landscape in Ireland was shaken in voting when THIS party, the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), out paced the two major center-right parties on the strength of positions on housing and healthcare. However, the party said it would form a ruling coalition on the condition of calling a referendum for unity with Northern Ireland.

Fianna Fáil

Sinn Fein

Solidarity

Workers Party

The First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, of THIS part of the United Kingdom said preparations were underway for an independence referendum. She said, “We are taking in Scotland the steps required to ensure that a referendum can be held that is legal and legitimate…”

Wales

Scotland

Northern Ireland

Gibraltar

U.S. envoy David Friedman warned Israel not to begin THIS action in advance of further American coordination even though a Middle East peace plan announced by President Trump last month calls for it.

Annexation of land in the West Bank.

Stripping Arab Israelis of their citizenship.

Building new settlements in the Jordan River Valley.

Clearing neighborhoods in East Jerusalem.

The 2017 hacking of consumer credit bureau Equifax affected almost 150 million Americans, one of the largest data breaches in history according to the U.S. Attorney General. Now, the U.S has charged four military officers from THIS country with the crime.

North Korea

Russia

Iran

China

For the first time in the 92-year history of the Academy Awards, the Oscars, in Hollywood a non-English language film won best picture. “Parasite” tells the story of two families in THIS city.

Tokyo

Seoul

Beijing

Manilla

What in the World? Weekly Quiz - February 10-16, 2020

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