"What in the World?" Weekly Quiz -- August 19-25, 2018

This Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as United Nations Secretary General for two terms (1997-2006) died on Saturday. He rose through the ranks of the UN to become the first Secretary General from Africa. THIS native of Ghana received the Nobel prize for his efforts to reform the UN and increase attention on human rights.

 
U Thant
Kofi Annan
Boutros Ghali
Kwame Nkrumah

Two women were referred to trial in Malaysia last week on charges of murdering Kim Jong Nam, estranged half brother of North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un, in February 2017. They are charged with committing THIS act:

Deliberately struck Kim with a vehicle in downtown Kuala Lumpur.
Smeared Kim with VX nerve agent at the airport.
Stabbed Kim in a Kuala Lumpur nightclub.
Shot Kim in a crowd at a Kuala Lumpur mall.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a new effort to “ensure a coordinated, unified approach to address the (Iranian) regime's hostile activity and support the Iranian people.”  What is this effort called?

Special Project for Iran Transformation
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
Iran Action Group
Gulf Regional Assessment Committee

Over two million Muslims began the annual five-day holy pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, one of the pillars of the Islamic faith, last week. The event which challenges crowd control, public health, and physical endurance, is called THIS:

 
Ramadan
Eid al Fitr
Hajj
Zakat

American troops will stay in Iraq “as long as needed,” according to a US spokesman who said, “The main reason, after ISIS is defeated militarily, is the stabilization efforts and we still need to be there for that, so that’s one of the reasons we’ll maintain a presence.”  When did US troops enter Iraq?

 

September 30, 2001, Operation Enduring Freedom
March 19, 2003, Operation Iraqi Freedom
December 11, 2007, Operation Inherent Resolve
September 1, 2010, Operation New Dawn

In the last fifteen months over a million Venezuelans have fled the country’s economic meltdown into next-door Colombia. Other countries receiving large number of fleeing Venezuelans include all of these EXCEPT:

Ecuador
Argentina
Brazil
Peru

Turkey’s battered economy took another downturn Friday after a court rejected the release of THIS American pastor who has become a cause célèbre at the White House with President Trump saying the NATO ally was holding the cleric “hostage.”  Who is the pastor?

Andrew Brunson
Franklin Graham
Robert Jeffress
A. R. Bernard

On Monday Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov called for a four-way summit on Syria that would include all of these nations EXCEPT:

 

United States
France
Turkey
Germany

Pakistan members of this group that was routed in Iraq and Syria have returned home and gone underground and is “one of the most dangerous threats facing Pakistan” according to a counterterrorism official. What is the group?

 

Al Qaeda
Islamic State
Jamaat-ud-Dawa
Lashkar-e-Taiba

Taliban fighters have taken control of the center of THIS strategic city of 280,000 Afghans about 100 miles from Kabul and along the main highway to points south.  The setback for the Kabul government will complicate peace-talks with the Taliban.

Farah
Kunduz
Kandahar
Ghazni
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