Tennessee World Affairs Council What in the World? Weekly Quiz – Oct 2-8, 2023

Congress passed a short-term funding plan that omitted THIS military aid package, undercutting $6 billion in promised support.
Support to Philippines for anti-insurgent training
Air defense equipment to South Korea
Anti-drug special forces helicopters to Colombia
Military material support to Ukraine
Turkey attacked militant targets in northern Iraq in retaliation for a bombing outside the Interior Ministry in Ankara. The bombing was claimed by THIS group, considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the EU.
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
Islamic State (ISIS)
Al Qaeda
Kurdistan Liberation Organization
Indonesia launched a high-speed rail service, dubbed “Whoosh,” with support from THIS Chinese infrastructure development project.
Ports, Rails and Roadways (PRR) Project
The Peoples Path
Belt and Road Initiative
Global Reach
Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley retired in a ceremony in which he swore in his successor, THIS U.S. Air Force officer whose mantra has been “Accelerate Change.”
Admiral Chris Taylor
General Peter Matthews
General Charles Brown
General Anthony Cordele
U.S. Army soldier Travis King, a soldier who escaped military control and fled to THIS country was expelled and returned to the United States.
Iran
Venezuela
North Korea
Belarus

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Andrei Troshev, a commander in THIS mercenary group and asked him to oversee the militia’s operations in Ukraine.

Prigozhin Brigade
The Victory Group
Bakhmut Battalion
Wagner Group
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to two Hungarian scientists for their work in THIS critical area.
Genome discoveries in human evolution
Development of Covid-19 vaccines
Discovery of Hepatitis-C cure
Research into viable Malaria treatments
France is to withdraw its ambassador and 1,500 troops from THIS country, ending a months-long stand-off since a coup that overthrew Mohamed Bazoum, the elected president, in July.
 
Burkina Faso
Gabon
Niger
Sudan
Canada's Parliament speaker, Anthony Rota, resigned after THIS incident in a parliamentary session that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy attended.
 
Rota introduced a man who fought for a Nazi military unit during WWII as a Ukrainian hero
Rota failed to mediate a divisive debate about funding for Ukraine
Rota accidentally disclosed sensitive classified information
Rota revealed allegations of mismanagement of parliamentary resources
Funding for the widely successful AIDS relief program, called THIS, is under attack in Congress. Although it has no connection to reproductive healthcare opponents call for legislative language to prohibit AIDS care by organizations that also provide abortion services.
AIDS Relief
PEPFAR
Africa Aid
AIDS-WHO
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