World Boston What in the World? Weekly Quiz – March 14-20, 2022 | Take the Quiz

White House officials said Russia might use a “false flag” operation employing THIS type of weapon against Ukrainians and President Biden said Russia would pay a “severe price” if they used those weapons.

Chemical weapons

Cluster bombs

Napalm

Tactical nuclear weapons

Conservative politician Yoon Suk Yeoi was elected president of THIS country and will replace Moon Jae-in on May 10.

Japan

Taiwan

South Korea

Mongolia

The BJP party of President Narendra Modi of THIS country reversed the trend of anti-incumbency with key wins in local elections that “emboldens the BJP to push ahead with its successful strategy of combining strident Hindu nationalism with strategic welfarism to woo voters,” according to the BBC.

Pakistan

Myanmar

Bangladesh

India

Satellite data showed a record level of deforestation in THIS country, home to the Amazon river basin and rain forests. President Jair Bolsonaro has been a champion of deforestation and development in the Amazon.

Paraguay

Brazil

Uruguay

Colombia

Russia continued to ship natural gas to Western Europe via pipelines in Ukraine despite having invaded the country, according to THIS Russian energy company.

Gazprom

Russgas

TransEuroGas

SiberGas

Cristiana Chamorro and her brother were convicted of financial crimes in THIS country where she was a leading presidential candidate until jailed during her campaign against Daniel Ortega on charges said to be politically motivated. The pair are children of Violeta Chamorro who defeated former Sandinista commander Ortega for the presidency in 1990.

Costa Rica

Honduras

Nicaragua

Panama

The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned two Russians accused of supplying THIS country’s missile program. The nuclear-armed country has tested two large ICBMs recently in defiance of UN restrictions and worrying neighbors and the U.S. About its intentions.

DPRK

ROK

ROC

PRC

Indian defense officials acknowledged the accidental launch of a missile that flew 77 miles into the territory of THIS neighbor. Both are nuclear weapons states who have fought three wars and regularly clashed along the border.

Sri Lanka

Pakistan

Bangladesh

Myanmar

The United Stats and its G-7 partners are moving to revise their trade relationship with Russia as the next economic sanction in response to the invasion of Ukraine. Revoking the provision, known as THIS, in the United States requires Congress to act.

WTO Premier status

Free trade zone access

Most favored nation

GATT Provisions

A new leader of THIS terror organization was named weeks after a U.S. Special operations raid killed Abu Ibrahim al-Quraishi in northern Syria. The new leader is the brother of former caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Al Qaeda

Islamic State

Al Nusra

Hezbollah

World Boston What in the World? Weekly Quiz – March 14-20, 2022

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