"What in the World?" Weekly Quiz -- Jun 3-9, 2018

Secretary of Defense Mattis laid out US conditions ahead of the June 12 summit with North Korea on the sidelines of a meeting with Japan and South Korea officials. Mattis said “We can anticipate, at best, a bumpy road to the (negotiations)” in addition to laying out THIS position being operative for North Korea to receive relief.

 
Removal of its nuclear warhead stockpile to a third country.
Permitted entry of IAEA nuclear inspectors to weapons related facilities.
Clear and irreversible steps to end its nuclear program.
Verifiable destruction of existing ICBMs and start of a missile control regime.
Russian Anton Shkaplerov, American Scott Tingle and Japan's Norishige Kanai ended a 168-day mission at the International Space Station on Sunday when they landed in the same country where three replacements will be launched from the Baikonur space complex on Wednesday. Where is the main space port for the Russian space program?
Kazakhstan
Turkmenistan
Belarus
Tajikistan

The Trump Administration acted on Thursday to enact trade protections previously announced that would do THIS. In response Senator Lamar Alexander said he had “yet to persuade the President an inch.  Alexander said, "These are a big mistake, and Tennessee is likely to be the state most hurt by them…”

Loosen restrictions on Chinese tech companies like ZTE.
Twenty-five percent tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese high-tech goods.
Tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum from Canada, the EU and Mexico.
Tariffs on automobiles produced in the European Union.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May is wrangling post-Brexit arrangement proposals in advance of the June 28-29 EU Summit. London is seeking a comprehensive agreement to structure the future relationship between the UK and the EU bloc but is prepared to leave without one. When is the UK set to separate from the European Union?
December 2018
January 2019
March 2019
July 2019

President Trump reversed course on plans he scuttled eight days earlier for a summit with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore on June 12th following a meeting in the Oval Office with THIS official from the DPRK, former intelligence chief and nuclear negotiator.

Kim Yong-chol
Kim Il-Sung
Kim Jong-nam
Kim Jong-il

The United States fractious relationship with THIS country took a downturn last week when the Senate passed a defense policy bill that would prohibit IT from buying Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets in response to ITS plan to buy Russian advanced surface-to-air missiles and the detention of a U.S. Christian pastor on terrorism charges.

Taiwan
Egypt
Turkey
Jordan

Saudi Arabia installed several new ministers in a series of royal decrees on Saturday, putting allies of the powerful crown prince in key positions to help push forward his efforts to diversify the economy away from oil and to make life more enjoyable for citizens, according to the New York Times.  Who is the crown prince of Saudi Arabia?

Abdullah bin Abdulaziz (ABA)
Mohammed bin Salman (MBS)
Salman bin Abdulaziz (SBA)
Sultan bin Salman (SBS)

“Both sides appear to have hardened their negotiating stances and are waiting for the other side to blink,”was how an observer described trade talks between the US and China on Sunday. Beijing threatened to scrap concessions to buy more American goods if the Trump Administration proceeded with tariffs on imports from China. Who is leading the current round of trade talks with China in Beijing?

 

Peter Navarro
Robert Lighthizer
Steve Mnuchin
Wilbur Ross

WHO said this: “The idea that the [country] steel that’s in military, military vehicles in the United States, the [country] aluminum that makes your, your fighter jets is somehow now a threat?” … “Our soldiers who had fought and died together on the beaches of World War II... and the mountains of Afghanistan, and have stood shoulder to shoulder in some of the most difficult places in the world, that are always there for each other, somehow — this is insulting to them.”  WHO was it?

Justin Trudeau of Canada
Angela Merkel of Germany
Emmanuel Macron of France
Theresa May of Britain

THESE two European leaders are collaborating on a EU reform plan to present to a June 28-29 summit as the bloc struggles to respond to damage in the relationship with the United States, political turmoil in Italy and other challenges to the Union’s stability.

May and Merkel
Macron and Merkel
Tusk and Macron
May and Tusk
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