What in the World?
What in the World?
Test yourself on the week of March 8: Myanmar announces elections, Canada’s Liberal Party picks a new leader, and Rodrigo Duterte is arrested.
People hang up campaign posters in front of a polling station in Ilulissat, Greenland, on March 11. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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Spring is right around the corner in the Northern Hemisphere—have you done your annual cleaning yet? No? Procrastinate a little longer with this week’s international news quiz.
1. Myanmar’s military leader announced on Saturday that a general election in the country would occur no later than when?
July 2025
October 2025
January 2026
April 2026
Myanmar’s neighbors have suggested that the country should reach a cease-fire in its ongoing civil war before holding elections, Robert A. Manning wrote last month.
2. On Saturday, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights warned about an “alarming regression” in the peace process of which African country?
South Sudan
Sudan
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Clashes in the country’s northeastern Upper Nile state threaten a tenuous power-sharing agreement between the nation’s president and vice president, FP’s Nosmot Gbadamosi writes in Africa Brief.
3. Mark Carney won an election on Sunday to lead Canada’s Liberal Party and succeed Justin Trudeau as prime minister. What percent of votes did Carney get?
53 percent
61 percent
77 percent
86 percent
Carney is leaning into Canadian nationalism and preparing for a fight with the United States at a time when Washington is threatening to annex the country, Justin Ling writes.
4. On Monday, which militant group in Syria agreed to fully integrate into the new Syrian state?
Syrian Democratic Forces
Syrian National Army
National Front for Liberation
Al-Nusra Front
Despite the promise such an agreement presents for Syria’s future, long-standing ethnic and sectarian divisions will be difficult to overcome, FP’s Steven Cook writes.
5. Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested in Manila on Tuesday to face charges of crimes against humanity at The Hague. The charges relate to what actions Duterte took during his time in office?
Police brutality during student protests
Mass killings during drug crackdowns
Persecution of opposition politicians
Disappearances of members of the Moro ethnic minority
Duterte’s arrest is an exceedingly rare case of the international justice system holding a strongman accountable, Nick Aspinwall writes.
6. Which political party won the most seats in Greenland’s snap parliamentary elections on Tuesday?
The centrist Naleraq party
The democratic socialist Inuit Ataqatigiit
The center-right Demokraatit Party
The social democratic Siumut
Two pro-independence parties achieving surprise victories signaled a surge in Greenlandic nationalism at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to seize the territory, FP’s Alexandra Sharp reports in World Brief.
7. Portugal’s government collapsed on Wednesday for the third time in how many years?
One
Two
Three
Four
The collapse comes after Portugal—long considered an exception to the rise of far-right populism in the West—saw its own right-wing Chega party take third place in 2024 legislative elections. Emily Schultheis previewed the vote last year.
8. Why was former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo taken from his prison cell to a hospital on Thursday?
Worsening pneumonia symptoms
Injuries sustained during a prison riot
Effects from advanced emphysema
Health issues due to a hunger strike
Castillo’s brief time in office did lasting damage to Peru’s institutions and economy, and it resulted in his impeachment and imprisonment in December 2022, Simeon Tegel wrote at the time.
9. On Tuesday, astronomers ratified a number of new moons for Saturn, bringing its total lunar body count to what number?
128
274
310
396
Many of the new moons are small—only a few miles across—but their trackable orbits place them firmly in the “moon” category, the New York Times reports.
10. Around how many orders did Chinese restaurant chain Haidilao promise to refund on Wednesday after a video emerged of an individual urinating into a hotpot at one of its locations?
4,100
5,250
6,800
10,200
The chain said it was “extremely sorry,” CBS News reports.
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