"What in the World?" Weekly Quiz - Apr 13-19, 2020

Pope Francis said Easter Sunday mass in a virtually empty St. Peter’s Basilica addressing the faithful by live-streamed broadcasts in “a world already faced with epochal challenges and now oppressed by a pandemic severely testing our whole human family,” saying, “this is an Easter of solitude lived amid the sorrow and hardship that the pandemic is causing, from physical suffering to economic difficulties.” What is the home country of Pope Francis?

Italy
Poland
Argentina
France

The Covid-19 pandemic afflicting India’s 1.35 billion people has led to increased demonization of THIS GROUP, which numbers 200 million. Some government officials have referred to them as “human bombs” and some young men from this group have been attacked and called “virus spreaders.”

Rohingya
Muslims
Chinese
Pakistanis

The national intelligence agency of Israel, known as THIS NAME, reportedly had an important role in the country’s battle against Covid-19 by acquiring medical materials – PPE, testing kits and ventilators – that the Health Ministry was have difficulty obtaining.

MI-6
Shin Bet
Mossad
MoD
In recent days cities in China that were locked down in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic have begun to open up. However, authorities are seeing a resurgence of the virus traced to incoming foreigners with over half reported to come from this THIS NEARBY NATION.
Thailand
Russia
Vietnam
Kazakhstan

Dams along THIS RIVER in China reportedly held back water from downstream Southeast Asian nations during a damaging drought season even though there were higher-than-average water levels in Chinese upriver areas.

Yellow River
Mekong River
Yangtze River
Pearl River

Officials in THIS COUNTRY are scrambling for explanations as to why 116 patients who were ruled to have been recovered from Covid-19 infections were subsequently found to have been reinfected.

Egypt
Brazil
South Korea
Spain
Indonesian health officials are warning that the anticipated exodus of millions of people to their home towns to celebrate a festival at the conclusion of THIS HOLY MONTH may accelerate Covid-19 pandemic spread.
Hajj
Eid
Umrah
Ramadan

The Japanese Environment Minister warned that provisions being carried out under THIS AGREEMENT could suffer if post-Covid-19 economic recovery measures that undermined climate change consideration.

The Helsinki Accord | UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
The Paris Agreement | UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
The Tokyo Agreement | UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
The Chicago Accord | UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Iran has emerged as a Middle East epicenter of Covid-19 pandemic spread with a death toll of over 4,500 and over 73,000 infections, the most in the region. Which of these statements is NOT TRUE regarding the Covid-19 pandemic situation in Iran?

Iran has rejected humanitarian aid offered by the United States Government.
The government in Tehran relaxed travel within provinces this weekend.
Iran has rejected monitoring by World Health Organization doctors.
Iranian officials blame Washington for sanctions that have made the virus worse.
Global producers, the so-called “OPEC-Plus,” reached an agreement to stem the bottoming of oil prices. Which of the following is NOT TRUE regarding the agreement and the international oil markets?
The oil-price “crisis” was accelerated when Russia used its swing-capacity to dump extra millions of barrels of oil per day onto the market.
The agreement provides for a cut of about 19.5 million barrels per day from the global oil market.
The oil-price “crisis” was a result of inventory over-supply just as global demand crashed as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The talks were spurred by President Trump over concerns of damage to U.S. shale oil producers.
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