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Four contenders assembled in New York this week to vie for the leadership of the United Nations. Let’s hope your responsibilities were a little less stressful! Unwind with our weekly news quiz.
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Four contenders assembled in New York this week to vie for the leadership of the United Nations. Let’s hope your responsibilities were a little less stressful! Unwind with our weekly news quiz.
1. Which event did North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attend on Sunday?
A China-North Korea basketball game
The opening ceremony of annual Workers’ Party meetings
A short-range ballistic missile test
His daughter’s choral recital
China has largely downplayed Pyongyang’s recent missile tests, Jinwan Park wrote in Foreign Policy in January.
2. The country of Chad announced on Monday that it will soon send 1,500 of what to Haiti?
Insect-repelling bed nets
Water filtration systems
The U.N. recently launched another multinational policing force to deal with Haiti’s crisis. But Maurice Oniang’o wrote in November that the new mission shows little evidence of the U.N. learning from its past mistakes in the country.
3. After several........