***"What in the World?" Weekly Quiz -- September 23-29, 2018***

Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, drew international ire over Twitter and Instagram posts that showed him and his wife dining on expensive steaks prepared by the celebrity chef Nusret Gökçe, aka "Salt Bae." Mr. Maduro was returning home from a trip to China to seek financing for Venezuela's crippled economy, and stopped over in THIS city, where Salt Bae got his start.  Venezuelans have lived with severe food shortages for several years now, and have lost an average of 20 pounds from regularly skipping meals—a practice known as the "Maduro Diet":

 
Paris
Istanbul
Athens
Sofia
In a win for women's rights and gender equality, India's government has instituted a policy of jail time for Muslim men who continue to engage in THIS practice, originally outlawed by the country's Supreme Court in 2017:
Forcing their daughters into arranged marriages
Practicing "instant divorce," by simply telling their wives three times, "I divorce you"
Honor killings of female relatives
Forcing their female relatives to wear a burqa

Intensified fighting around the port city of Hodeida in THIS country has made an already fragile humanitarian situation go from bleak to dire, with parts of the country so desperate from famine that people are eating leaves, according to the humanitarian chief for the United Nations. Over 75 % of the nation in question's population relies on humanitarian aid, but because of the ongoing war, supply routes from Hodeida to the rest of the country are impassible:

 

Syria
Mozambique
South Sudan
Yemen

The European Union announced this week that it would be investigating THIS online retailer for possible anti-trust violations, over allegations that it uses information on sales by third-party merchants to promote its own products:

 
Amazon
Rakuten
E-Bay
Alibaba

European Union Council President Donald Tusk dealt a harsh blow to the United Kingdom's Prime Minister Theresa May at this week's Salzburg Summit when he deemed THIS plan, designed to guide both parties through Brexit, unworkable. The plan is named after the prime minister's country home, where she and her advisors developed it in July:

 

Derby Plan
Rugby Plan
Chequers Plan
Barking Plan

Three years after it was suspended following a massive doping scandal in which lab workers were found to have altered samples to protect athletes, THIS country's anti-doping agency's drug-testing system was reinstated by the World Anti-Doping Agency:

Italy
United States
Russia
China
After ties were severed between the Vatican and Beijing in 1951 because of the communist takeover of China, both have finally come to an agreement on THIS:
The appointment of bishops: For decades, official bishops were appointed by the Chinese government, while “underground” bishops were appointed by the Vatican
Ending religious persecution
Continued Communist Party control of all policies, including those that cover religion
How to classify religious schools

An overloaded ferry sailing between two islands on THIS lake—Africa's largest by area—and off the coast of Tanzania capsized Thursday; the death toll is over 200, with recovery efforts still on-going:

 

Victoria
Kivu
Tanganyika
Chad

 A high-speed rail link has launched between Hong Kong and the Chinese city of Guangzhou, connecting the two by a train ride of around 40 minutes.  The new rail service is controversial, however, because it's launch means that THIS will now be in Hong Kong, for the first time ever:

 

Large numbers of visitors from mainland China
Chinese authorities, enforcing Chinese law
Minors traveling alone
All of the above

India is in the middle of a ten-day celebration honoring THIS elephant-headed Hindu god of luck and wisdom.  Worshippers are submerging statues of the god in bodies of water all over Mumbai, India's largest city, but especially along the city's Arabian Sea coast:

Shiva
Vishnu
Ganesh
Krishna
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