"What in the World?" Weekly Quiz -- April 8-14, 2019

A five-day hunger strike forced THIS US-ally to host a non-binding referendum on the expansion of an existent US Marines base. Despite more than 70% of voters voicing opposition, the government has announced its intention to move forward with the expansion.

The Saudi government has come under criticism at the UN Human Rights Council for last week’s arrest of writers and bloggers associated with THIS.

Hollywood actor George Clooney has called for a boycott of hotels owned by the leader of THIS small Pacific nation in response to a recently announced criminal law punishing homosexuality and adultery with death by stoning.

The United States has revoked the visa of the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor following her controversial decision to do THIS.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he plans to extend Israeli sovereignty through annexation to THIS territory if he is elected to a fifth term on April 9^th.

Paul Kagame, president of THIS African country said, “There is no way to fully comprehend the loneliness and anger of survivors and yet over and over again we have asked them to make the sacrifices necessary to give our nation new life. Emotions had to be put in a box,”in marking the 25^thanniversary of a three-month genocidal rampage that saw the murders of 800,000 people, including over 70 percent of the minority Tutsi population.