World Boston What in the World? Weekly Quiz – April 11-17, 2022

Russia’s strike to capture capital city Kyiv has failed and Moscow is maneuvering forces for a major offensive in the Donbas region in THIS part of Ukraine.

 

North
South
East
West
Ukraine President Zelensky hosted THIS NATO head of state on the streets of Kyiv as a demonstration of Western solidarity in the face of the unprovoked Russian invasion.
Emmanuel Macron
Boris Johnson
Joe Biden
Olaf Scholz

Emmanuel Macron advanced to the second round of presidential voting in France Sunday and will face THIS far-right candidate who has surged to close the vote gap following French dissatisfaction with the economy and immigration issues.

Marine Le Pen
Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Eric Zemmour
Gérard Depardieu

Pakistan will have a new prime minister, likely to be Shehbaz Sharif, after the parliament voted “no-confidence” in THIS former cricket star turned political leader.

Pervez Musharraf
Nawaz Sharif
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Imran Khan

United States’ and Indian defense and foreign ministers will meet in a regular “2+2” ministerial session following a call between President Bush and THIS prime minister as friction mounts in the relationship over New Delhi’s lukewarm reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Rahul Gandi
Amit Shah
Narendra Modi

United States’ officials expect THESE Nordic countries to seek NATO membership within months as Russia, which seems to have inspired the move by its invasion of Ukraine, has warned against further alliance enlargement.

Iceland and Finland
Sweden and Norway
Norway and Finland
Finland and Sweden

A Palestinian gunman killed three and wounded 16 in a busy entertainment district of Tel Aviv Friday leading THIS prime minister to declare security forces had “full freedom” to combat a surge of attacks in Israel.

Naftali Bennett
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benny Gantz
Isaac Herzog

Voters in THIS country gave President Andrés Manuel López Obrador a victory in a recall referendum he asked for, with a 90% margin. The leader, known as AMLO, has been criticized for distracting voters from his failures with the referendum.

Colombia
Bolivia
Mexico
Venezuela
Chinese President Xi Jinping is standing by the “zero-Covid” policy in containing the pandemic. However, THIS major city which accounts for 3.6% of GDP seemed to relax restrictions after becoming a ghost town and reporting a record number of Covid cases according to the “Economist.”
Beijing
Chengdu
Shanghai
Wuhan
The trial of 26 Saudis for the murder of dissident and "Washington Post" journalist Jamal Khashoggi was halted in THIS country where the killing occurred in 2018. The presiding judge said the case would be moved to Saudi Arabia, an act criticized by Amnesty International as an “appalling and clearly political decision.”
Pakistan
Romania
Turkey
Greece
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