World Boston What in the World? Weekly Quiz – September 11-17, 2023

 

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck a mountainous area in THIS country. The temblor, striking an area not known as prone to quakes, killed over 2,100 people with the death toll expected to rise.

Indonesia
Turkey
Morocco
Japan

 

The European Union, India, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the U.S. and some other G20 partners signed an MoU on the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, or IMEC. It will connect Mideast countries by rail and with India by sea and is meant to counter THIS international infrastructure project.

Shanghai Cooperative Organization (SCO) Rails, Ports and Airways Project
BRICS Global Trade Ribbons Initiative
ASEAN Trade Office Infrastructure Project
China’s Belt and Road Initiative
 
A dinner invitation on the sidelines of the G20 summit sent by President Droupadi Murmi, calling herself President of “Bharat,” is stirring speculation that THIS country may change its name. “Bharat” is an ancient Sanskrit name.
India
Malaysia
Indonesia
Vietnam
 
 
Russian President Vladimir Putin is said to plan a meeting with THIS Asian leader in Vladivostok to discuss exchanges of military hardware for technology transfers.
 
Kim Jong Un
Xi Jinping
Kim Il Sung
Yook Suk Yeol
 
The African Union has been invited to join THIS global grouping by Indian Prime Minister Modi, boosting his position as a champion for Global South countries’ voices in world affairs.
ASEAN
The Quad
Group of 20
BRICS

 

In a move called a “propaganda exercise” by Secretary Blinken, Russian authorities held sham elections in occupied regions of Ukraine it illegally annexed a year ago. Among the regions where legislators are being installed are all of these EXCEPT which one?

Donetsk
Lviv
Luhansk
Zaporizhzhya
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a celebration marking the debut of THIS newest nuclear weapons delivery system. South Korean officials say it probably doesn’t work.
 
Supersonic bomber
Attack submarine
Long range artillery battery
ICBM
At a press conference in Vietnam President Joe Biden referred to climate change deniers as “lying, dog-faced pony soldiers,” a recycled reference to John Wayne Westerns, as the U.N. warned the world was not meeting THIS agreement’s targets to limit warming.
Paris Climate Accords
Conference of the Parties (COP)
Group of 7 Climate Agreement
UN Geneva Protocol on Climate Change
The Group of Twenty meeting, the premier forum for international economic cooperation, in New Delhi was marked by the absence of several heads of state including all of these EXCEPT who?
Vladimir Putin
Kim Jong Un
Narendra Modi
Xi Jinping
After the governing party chose Claudia Sheinbaum to square off against the leading opposition party's candidate, Xóchitl Gálvez, THIS country is poised to elect its first female president, who will replace Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
 
 
Brazil
Guatemala
El Salvador
Mexico
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