Tennessee World Affairs Council What in the World? Weekly Quiz – April 10-16, 2023

The largest barrage of rockets launched by Palestinian groups against Israel since 2006 brought counterattacks in Gaza and THIS country on Israel’s northern border. A broader conflict remains a possibility.

China responded to Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with House Speaker McCarthy by military rehearsals of a blockade against the island nation and symbolic sanctions against THIS presidential library where the meeting took place.

 

President Macron of France met with THIS leader on bilateral and Sino-European relations. Macron urged him to help stop Russia’s war in Ukraine saying he could count on this leader to bring Russia to its senses.

A Pentagon documents leak poses grave damage to the United States revealing details on the Ukraine and Russia conflict and exposing American spying on allies including THESE countries.

Turks will go to the polls for presidential elections with THIS strongman leader challenged by economic turmoil and the aftermath of devastating earthquakes.

 

 

The National Council of Educational Research and Training in THIS country has altered or removed critical details from textbooks it says were redundant. Critics accuse the ruling party Bharatiya Janata Party of leveraging education to further their Hindu nationalist vision. 

Three years of drought are threatening famine and livestock losses in THIS Horn of Africa nation which is recovering from a civil war with the breakaway Tigray region.

Saudi Arabia and Iran agreed to resume direct flights between countries continuing a thaw beginning in one of the Middle East's thorniest rivalries in a deal brokered by THIS country,

Ethnic Serbs living in THIS Balkan nation, viewed by Serbs as a separatist region, will not vote in an upcoming local election as they reject the authority of Pristina and recognize Belgrade as their capital.

Hussain Besou has been crowned Germany's youngest national chess player at age 11. Besou is a refugee of THIS country whose family fled to Germany in 2016 after their homeland became engulfed in a brutal civil war in 2011.