"What in the World?" - Week of Feb 11-17, 2018 | Take the Quiz

The inaugural demonstration launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket, a project of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, featured THIS payload accompanied by a looped recording of “Space Oddity” by David Bowie:

A life-sized wax replica of sci-fi writer Isaac Asmimov

A collection of artifacts suggesting extra-terrestrial visits in ancient times

A space-suited mannequin named Starman in a Tesla Roadster

A collection of items representing Musk’s native South Africa

North Korea’s “charm offensive” with South Korea over participation in the Winter Olympics has resulted in all of these benefits EXCEPT:

Delayed planned bilateral military exercises between the United States and South Korea.

Reopened a rail link between north and south that facilitated joint economic development.

North Korean leader Kim Jung-Un’s sister was “feted” at the Pyeongchang Olympics.

Conditional agreement for a bilateral summit in Pyongyang with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

An Israeli F-16 was shot down during strikes against Iranian military targets in THIS country after a drone incursion into Israeli airspace sparked a serious cross border battle.

Iran

Syria

Lebanon

Iran

British Prime Minister Theresa May and key ministers will deliver a series of speeches in coming weeks designed to layout the “Road to Brexit.” Which of these statements regarding Brexit is FALSE?

London hopes to reach agreement next month on a Brexit transition deal.

Despite outside pressure, May’s cabinet is united on its backing for the split with the EU.

EU officials are on record that a transition deal is not a certainty.

A poll taken last week found 74% of Britons were unclear about May’s Brexit strategy.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in her weekly video podcast, “Without directly interfering … I would like to say the following very clearly as German chancellor: We as Germans are responsible for what happened during the Holocaust, the Shoah, under National Socialism (Nazism).” She was responding to a student’s question concerning THIS:

Discussion of the role of collaborators in WWII occupied countries in support of the “Final Solution.”

Claims by German right wing politicians questioning the facts surrounding the Holocaust.

A law in Poland making it a criminal violation to suggest the country was complicit in the Holocaust.

None of the above.

THIS man “has transformed [Hungary] into a political greenhouse for an odd kind of soft autocracy, combining crony capitalism and far-right rhetoric with a single-party political culture. He has done this even as Hungary remains a member of the European Union and receives billions of dollars in funding from the bloc,” according to the New York Times.

President Andrzej Duda

President Aliaksandr Lukashenka

Prime Minister Viktor Orban

Prime Minister Klaus Iohannis

Gerry Adams recently stepped down after 34 years leading the republican movement Sinn Fein party, the political wing of the banned Provisional Irish Republic Army. PIRA was behind sectarian “Troubles” in Northern Ireland. Adams was replaced by THIS person, who said, “I won’t fill Gerry’s shoes. But the news is, that I brought my own.”

Mary Lou McDonald

Siobhan Flanagan

Philo Taylor Grundy

Paul David Hewson

The Vatican and THIS country are close to ending negotiations to resolve who controls the Catholic Church there. However, some Catholics there see the agreement as “could betray clerics and parishioners who have illicitly practiced their faith for decades and risked arrest and persecution by worshiping in the so-called underground church.” They also worry that “a deal could end the independence for which the underground church has long stood,” according to The New York Times.

Myanmar

Saudi Arabia

China

Cuba

A snap presidential election was set for April 22nd in Venezuela where THIS controversial president is seeking a new six-year term and most challengers have been barred from running. The ruling Constituent Assembly composed of THIS man’s political allies have put in place measures to make it difficult to challenge him.

Raul Castro

Rafael Correo

Hugo Chavez

Nicolás Maduro

President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed claimed Somalia was close to defeating THIS group that has terrorized the country and its neighbors although many challenges remains. He also defended the decision to allow American drone attacks against the group.

Boko Haram

Al-Shabab

Lord’s Resistance Army

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

"What in the World?" - Week of Feb 11-17, 2018

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