Tennessee World Affairs Council What in the World? Weekly Quiz – December 13-19, 2021

President Joe Biden announced a “diplomatic boycott” of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing due to China’s human rights abuses including U.S. Charges of a genocide against the Uyghur Muslim minority in THIS region. (#WACquiz)

A new wave of Covid-19 infections is sweeping Europe in what British Prime Minister Johnson called a tidal wave, as THIS new variant continues to spread. (#WACquiz)

The Prime Minister of Israel arrived in Abu Dhabi for a historic first visit of a leader of the Jewish state to this Gulf Arab nation, 15 months after the “Abraham Accord” normalized relations. WHO is the Prime Minister of Israel? (#WACquiz)

The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize went to WHO?  (#WACquiz)

New legislation is being considered by the British Parliament to require Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) for many EU citizens to cross the land border with THIS part of the United Kingdom. (#WACquiz)

Authorities in France arrested a man wanted in the 2018 murder of THIS Saudi journalist at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. (#WACquiz)

Karl Nehammer was sworn in as leader of Austria, the third in three months, after the ruling party was struck with scandals. Austria, like neighboring Germany, uses THIS title for its head of government. (WACA WWNU)

The M/V Evergreen, a vessel capable of carrying 20,000 containers is about to make a transit of THIS waterway where the ship was wedged sideways for six days last March, causing a major disruption in global maritime trade. (#WACquiz)