"What in the World?" Weekly Quiz - June 27, 2016

A historic cease-fire agreement, ending over 20 years of armed conflict, was signed this week between leaders of the FARC and the government of which South-American nation?
Chile
Ecuador
Colombia
Peru
Which of the following nations is not a part of the United Kingdom, and will therefore remain a member of the European Union?
Scotland
Republic of Ireland
Northern Ireland
Wales
On the heels of the UK's referendum to leave the EU, political leaders from which other EU member state called for a similar vote for their country?
Estonia
Finland
Netherlands
Portugal
U.S. diplomats met with President Nicolas Maduro, in an effort to re-start relations between the United States and his country. Mr. Maduro is the president of ________________.
Colombia
Nicaragua
Venezuela
Guatemala
Which nation has failed in its efforts to reconcile its ruling Sunni minority with its majority Shi'ite citizenry, according to a report from the U.S. Department of State that was published this week?
Iran
Yemen
Kuwait
Bahrain
Which world figure risked angering Turkey this week by using the term "genocide" to describe the mass killings of Armenians in 1915?
Pope Francis
Barack Obama
Angelina Jolie
Ban Ki-moon
After detonating a car bomb, gunmen stormed a hotel frequented by lawmakers and government officials in which African capital Saturday?
Mogadishu
Ouagadougou
Bujumbura
Kinshasa
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with 10 of 51 diplomats who issued a memo last week expressing dissent with current U.S. policy and calling for more direct action vis-à-vis which world crisis?
Burundi
Syria
Venezuela
Israel-Palestine
A mosque was destroyed as religious tensions boiled over in which Asian nation?
Laos
Myanmar
Vietnam
China
The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), an international body that aims to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons by limiting the sale of items that are used to make them, met in Seoul this week, and discussed allowing India to join its ranks. Because India is not a signatory of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, its candidacy for NSG membership was blocked by which nation?
Italy
China
Argentina
Japan
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