“What in the World? Weekly Quiz" | Apr 11-17, 2022

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MARCH 2022 QUIZ PRIZE

The Fight for Climate After Covid-19

By Alice C. Hill

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit our world on a scale beyond living memory, taking millions of lives and leading to a lockdown of communities worldwide. A pandemic, much like climate change, acts as a threat multiplier, increasing vulnerability to harm, economic impoverishment, and the breakdown of social systems. Even more concerning, communities severely impacted by the coronavirus still remain vulnerable to other types of hazards, such as those brought by accelerating climate change. The catastrophic risks of pandemics and climate change carry deep uncertainty as to when they will occur, how they will unfold, and how much damage they will do. The most important question is how we can face these risks to minimize them most.

The Fight for Climate After COVID-19 draws on the troubled and uneven COVID-19 experience to illustrate the critical need to ramp up resilience rapidly and effectively on a global scale. After years of working alongside public health and resilience experts crafting policy to build both pandemic and climate change preparedness, Alice C. Hill exposes parallels between the underutilized measures that governments should have taken to contain the spread of COVID-19—such as early action, cross-border planning, and bolstering emergency preparation—and the steps leaders can take now to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Through practical analyses of current policy and thoughtful guidance for successful climate adaptation, The Fight for Climate After COVID-19 reveals that, just as our society has transformed itself to meet the challenge of coronavirus, so too will we need to adapt our thinking and our policies to combat the ever-increasing threat of climate change.

Unapologetic and clear-eyed, The Fight for Climate After COVID-19 helps us understand why the time has come to prepare for the world as it will be, rather than as it once was.

LAST WEEK’S QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

What in the World? Quiz – Week of April 4-10, 2022

1. The world is just starting to react to reports of Russian military atrocities in THIS Ukraine town including summary executions and the deaths of hundreds of civilians. Russia blamed Ukrainians.

A. Bucha
B. Lviv
C. Kyiv
D. Odessa

Correct Response: A. Bucha
Economist “World in Brief” newsletter

2. Negotiators for Russia and Ukraine met in THIS NATO nation city as Moscow reacted to its stalled invasion.

A. Tashkent
B. Baku
C. Istanbul
D. Nur-Sultan

Correct Response: C. Istanbul
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/turkeysource/experts-react-after-russia-ukraine-talks-in-istanbul-is-an-end-to-war-imminent/

3. EU and NATO member Hungary voted another term for THIS prime minister who has clashed with Brussels over rule of law and freedom of the press issues. He is the only EU leader to criticize Ukraine President Zelensky.

A. Victor Orban
B. Andrzej Duda
C. Klaus Iohannis
D. Milos Zeman

Correct Response: A. Victor Orban
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60978909

4. Prince Hamzah, former crown prince of THIS country and son of the late King Hussein and Queen Noor renounced the title of Prince. He has clashed in the past with King Abdullah and was placed under house arrest last year.

A. Lebanon
B. Bahrain
C. Egypt
D. Jordan

Correct Response: D. Jordan
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-60976314

5. More than two billion Muslims, the second-largest world religion, began THIS month of dawn to dusk fasting, marking a time of self-reflection and strengthening their relationship with God.

A. Hajj
B. Shahada
C. Ramadan
D. Zakat

Correct Response: C. Ramadan
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/04/01/ramadan-muslim-holy-month/7131243001/

6. Despite promises to reopen schools for girls THIS ruling group in Afghanistan indefinitely closed the schools on March 23rd. (WACA WWNU)

A. Taliban
B. Pashtuns
C. Balochis
D. Kochis

Correct Response: A. Taliban
https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/2022/3/28/the-uncertain-future-of-girls-schools-in-afghanistan

7. The economy of THIS island nation lying across the Palk Strait from India’s southeast coast, has hit “rock bottom” reversing a post-civil war boom. The central bank is hoarding dollars, inflation topped 17 percent in February and electricity in the capital city of Colombo, is rationed. (WACA WWNU)

A. Myanmar
B. Sri Lanka
C. Kashmir
D. Maldives

Correct Response: B. Sri Lanka
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/world/asia/sri-lanka-economic-crisis.html

8. Carrie Lam will not seek a second term as Chief Executive of THIS territory that has seen years of pro-democracy rallies, a Beijing crackdown on freedoms and a badly managed reaction to Covid-19 spread.

A. Taiwan
B. Hong Kong
C. Singapore
D. Macau

Correct Response: B. Hong Kong
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-60978792

9. Prime Minister Imran Khan, former cricket star, asked THIS country’s president to dissolve parliament to avoid a “no-confidence vote,” a constitutional crisis in a nuclear-armed nation. The opposition vows a court fight.

A. Kuwait
B. Uzbekistan
C. Pakistan
D. Azerbaijan

Correct Response: C. Pakistan
“Daily Chatter” newsletter

10. Pope Francis apologized on behalf of the Catholic Church to indigenous leaders from THIS country over abuse of children at church run residential schools. The pontiff will travel there to issue a formal apology. The country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission labeled the schools as “cultural genocide.”

A. Mexico
B. Argentina
C. Canada
D. Australia

Correct Response: C. Canada
“Daily Chatter” newsletter

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