World Boston What in the World? Weekly Quiz – July 4-10, 2022

American independence was declared in 1776. THIS nation, in 1778, was the first to recognize the United States of America.

The Kingdom of Spain

The Kingdom of Great Britain

The Principality of Brunswick-Lüneburg

The Kingdom of France

Russia claimed victory in Luhansk, one of the breakaway republics in the eastern Donbas region. The major battles in Ukraine will now shift to THIS other republic that Moscow recognized as independent at the onset of its invasion.

Donetsk Oblast

Kharkiv Oblast

Kherson Oblast

Lviv Oblast

The Czech Prime Minister announced the country would provide fighter patrols over the airspace of THIS country, which separated in 1992 following the end of Communist rule. THIS country shares a border with Ukraine. [Map]

Slovakia

Romania

Armenia

Albania

Russia has started the trial of THIS WNBA star Moscow. The U.S. State Department said she is wrongfully detained.

Breanna Stewart

Jonquel Jones

Brittney Griner

Candace Parker

The foreign ministers of THESE TWO countries opened formal accession talks with NATO following last week’s application acceptance. The two previously non-aligned nations were spurred to join the alliance after Russia invaded Ukraine in February.

Norway & Estonia

Finland & Sweden

Denmark & Finland

Sweden & Switzerland

Chinese leader Xi Jinping marked Hong Kong’s end of colonial rule anniversary which saw the installation of John Lee as the territory’s new chief executive, the first leader to come from the security services and symbolic of the ongoing crackdown. Hong Kong was a territory controlled by THIS nation from 1941 to 1997, other than the WWII occupation by Japan.

Canada

Portugal

Germany

Britain

Ukraine is preparing defenses along its northern border as THIS neighbor, the launching point for Russia’s unsuccessful February strike towards Kyiv, ratcheted up threats and border deployments. [Map]

Belarus

Kaliningrad

Romania

Lithuania

Authorities in THIS nation have ordered the shutdown of Rappler, an investigative news site found by Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa. Rappler has been critical of the rule of President Rodrigo Duterte who is about to be succeeded by his ally, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr., son of the dictator deposed in 1988. [Map]

Sri Lanka

Indonesia

Philippines

Timor-Leste

In May THIS virus saw an outbreak that the World Health Organization now says has “sustained transmission” worldwide and could start to spread to high-risk groups – pregnant women, immunocompromised people and children.

Malaria

Monkeypox

Smallpox

Poliomyelitis

Pope Francis dismissed rumors that he is planning to resign as Pontiff this summer and that he has been diagnosed with cancer. The resignation of a Pope in modern times was unheard of prior to his predecessor, THIS Pope, stepping aside in 2013.

Benedict XVI

John XXIII

John Paul I

Philippe XVII

World Boston What in the World? Weekly Quiz – July 4-10, 2022

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