Tennessee World Affairs Council What in the World? Weekly Quiz – July 3-9, 2023

As diplomats assembled in Germany for preparatory talks before this year’s climate conference, a group of EU-funded experts say THIS benchmark global warning target is moving out of reach. "We've run out of time because change takes time,” said one climatologist.
The 20% cut in glacier acreage melting
The 8 inch cut in lowland sea rising
The limit of 10 degree Celsius rise in North America’s mean summer temperature
The 1.5 degree Celsius threshold
France deployed 40,000 police officers to crack down on riots after THIS
incident during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb went viral and sparked massive protests. The days of violence led President Macron to cancel a trip abroad.
The harsh response to rowdy fans outside a football stadium
The beatdown of peaceful protesting environmentalists
The fatal overdose of an ambassador
The deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old boy
The Israeli Defense Force attacked targets in the Jenin refugee camp in THIS
occupied territory saying they were after “terrorist infrastructure” while the Palestinian PM called it an effort to “destroy the camp and displace its people.”
Sinai
Gaza
West Bank
Golan
High summer temperatures in Saudi Arabia at THIS Islamic religious observance killed over 230 and caused heat stress in thousands. It is an annual event that attracted about 1.8 million Muslims who were meeting their at least once-in-a-lifetime obligation.
Ramadan
Hajj
Eid
Zakat
A court in Brazil banned THIS former President from holding office for eight years citing his abuse of power while in office.
Nicolás Maduro
Jair Bolsonaro
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
The U.S. issued an advisory suggesting travelers reconsider going to THIS country as it said the “government arbitrarily enforces local laws, including issuing exit bans on U.S. citizens and citizens of other countries, without fair and transparent process under the law.”
Myanmar
Belarus
China
North Korea
The President of THIS Russian ally confirmed Yevgeny Prigozhin had arrived in his country following the Wagner militia group’s failed mutiny.
Moldova
China
Belarus
Kazakhstan
It’s the tenth anniversary of a coup that removed the first democratically elected civilian in Egypt resulting in repressive rule by THIS former General.
Mohammed Morsi
Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi
Hosni Nassar
Hafez al-Assad
The Barbie movie will be banned by Vietnam in a dispute over a depiction of China’s territorial sea claims on a map depicted in the film showing THIS body of water.
Gulf of Tonkin
South China Sea
East China Sea
Mekong River
A South Korea law passed under President Yoon Suk Yeol last year just came into effect to scrap THIS traditional method and fully adopt an international standard.
 
"Korean age," a baby is considered one year old as soon as it is born
Korean units of measurement, the base unit area is the pyeong
Age of consent, teenagers 13 or older
“Koryo medicine,” acupuncture, herbal medicine, and moxibustion
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