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.

Syria
Jordan
Iraq
Lebanon
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.
Carter
Nixon
Reagan
Bush
 
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.
Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un of North Korea
President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea
President Kassym-Jomart Kemeluly Tokayev of Kazakhstan
President Xi Jinping of China
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.
Germany and Turkey
South Korea and Israel
UK and France
Israel and Japan

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

 
 
Armen Sarkissian
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Serdar Berdimuhamedow
Kemal Kilicdaroglu
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. 
Pakistan
India
Tibet
Sri Lanka
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.
Somalia
Ethiopia
Kenya
Tanzania
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,
China
India
Iraq
Russia
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.
Bosnia
Albania
Kosovo
Bulgaria
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.
 
Afghanistan
South Sudan
Syria
Ukraine
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