Tennessee World Affairs Council What in the World? Weekly Quiz – May 29-Jun 4, 2023

Amid massive waves of cruise missile and drone attacks, most downed by air defense systems, Ukraine is proposing major sanctions against THIS nation which has been supplying drones to Moscow. It also acts as an arms supplier to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Iran
China
North Korea
Turkey
Strongman President Recep Tayip Erdogan won reelection to a third term in a contest called “free but unfair” by critics in Turkey, a country that is a member of all of these organizations except THIS one.
NATO
EU
OECD
OSCE
The summit of THIS, the world’s largest mountain, was first reached 70 years ago this week by Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay.
Denali
Kilimanjaro
Everest
K2
Belarus has received tactical nuclear weapons from Russia according to THIS president who said that any nation willing to “join the Union State of Russia and Belarus” would likewise receive nuclear weapons.
Alexander Lukashenko
Katalin Novák
Klaus Iohannis
Sergei Sidorsky
Fugitive Fulgence Kayishema was arrested in South Africa after 20 years on the run. Kayishema faces charges stemming from the 1994 genocide of members of the Tutsi tribe in THIS country.
Rwanda
Mozambique
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tanzania
Tens of thousands of people from across Serbia and neighboring Kosovo, Montenegro, and Bosnia rallied in THIS capital in a show of support for President Aleksander Vuvic following major anti-government protests over two mass shootings that killed 18 people earlier this month. 
Belgrade
Sarajevo
Cetinje
Prizren
European regulators fined THIS social media parent company a record $1.3 billion for sending users' info to the United States. The ruling pressures Washington to complete a deal allowing multinational companies to continue forwarding data stateside. 
Alphabet
Amazon
ByteDance
Meta
German police raided 15 properties belonging to THIS climate advocacy group's members over allegations its activists are part of a criminal organization. The raids come days after Chancellor Olaf Scholz called the members’ tactics, gluing themselves onto busy intersections and famous paintings, "nutty." 
The Green Revolution
The Last Generation
Extinction Rebellion
Sunrise Movement
Phones of members of Mexican President Obrador’s inner circle, including human rights official Alejandro Encinas, were bugged with THIS software. The software, which can be covertly installed on a phone, was first developed by an Israeli cyber group and has notoriously been used for surveillance of anti-regime activists, journalists, and political leaders.
Pegasus spyware
Norton spyware
Huntbar spyware
Onavo spyware
 
Short-haul commercial flights, less than 2.5 hours, to locations served by passenger trains have been banned in THIS country. The ban is an attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a country known for its high-speed rail service like the “Train à grande vitesse” (TGV).
Italy
Canada
Spain
France
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