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Global News Quiz: Korea Crisis, Kenya Vote, Clean Energy

By BRYANT ROUSSEAU

Did you stay on top of the most important stories last week? Test your knowledge of international events with our quick quiz, recapping major news headlines and featured articles from across the globe. To take the quiz, click on an answer, and the correct response will be revealed after you choose.

Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, inspecting a Hwasong-12 missile in May. Korean Central News Agency, via Reuters
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North Korea threatened on Thursday to send an “enveloping fire” of four test missiles near what American island in the Pacific?

American Samoa.
Guam.
Hawaii.
The Channel Islands in California.
President Trump spoke alongside Nikki Haley, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, in Bedminster, N.J., on Friday. Al Drago for The New York Times
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The North Korea showdown deserves a second question: President Trump last week made FOUR of the comments below. Which ONE is from a North Korean general?

“Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded.”
“This man will not get away with what he’s doing.”
“Sound dialogue” is not possible with someone “bereft of reason, and only absolute force can work on him.”
“They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”
“If he utters one threat … he will truly regret it and he will regret it fast.”
Kim Jong-un walking next to the convoy carrying the body of his father in Pyongyang in 2011. Korean Central News Agency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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And a third Korea question: In our profile last week of Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, he is described as all of the following, EXCEPT:

“A total nut job.”
“Surprisingly polite in person.”
“Smart, pragmatic, decisive.”
“Capricious, moody and ready to kill.”
“This crazy fat kid.”
“A genius among geniuses.”
He is described as all of the above in the article.
Lines of people waiting to vote on Tuesday in Nairobi in the election pitting President Uhuru Kenyatta against Raila Odinga, a former prime minister. Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images
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A bitterly contested presidential election was held in Kenya last week. What was the result?

President Uhuru Kenyatta was re-elected with just over 54 percent of the vote.
The opposition candidate, Raila Odinga, won easily, in a surprising upset.
Voting was suspended because of widespread violence in which at least 350 were killed.
President Kenyatta won a plurality of votes but must face a united opposition in a September runoff.
Wandergesellen making their way on the outskirts of Faurndau, Germany. Tomas Munita for The New York Times
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“Wandergesellen,” a vestige of the Middle Ages, hitchhike across Europe, instantly recognizable in their wide-bottomed trousers and distinctive jackets. They are:

Itinerant musicians who play borrowed instruments at small religious festivals.
Traveling salesmen who go door-to-door, trying to find buyers for their trinkets.
Bricklayers, bakers, carpenters, stonemasons and roofers looking for work experience.
Members of a religious sect who have sworn to live by the generosity of strangers for three years and a day.
The geography of Chile is favorable for the creation of renewable energy. Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
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A clean energy transformation in Chile is being powered by wind, sun and what?

Volcanoes.
Rivers.
Ocean Waves.
Methane gas from llamas.
The answer to this question lives in the residence behind that black curtain. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
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What world leader, embroiled in graft investigations, said in a pugnacious speech on Wednesday that the “fake news media” had joined with “the left” in what he called “an obsessive and unprecedented witch hunt against me and my family, in order to carry out a coup.”

President Michel Temer of Brazil.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.
President Andrzej Duda of Poland.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan.
A statue of Guan Yu, a third-century general worshiped as a god in several Chinese religions, before and after it was covered.
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A 100-foot statue depicting a Chinese deity was covered with an enormous sheet after people threatened to tear the colossus down amid mounting ethnic and religious tensions in what Asian country?

Buddhist-majority Thailand.
Roman Catholic-majority Philippines.
Muslim-majority Indonesia.
Buddhist-majority Burma.
Masoud Shojaei of Iran, center, during a game against Qatar. Peter Parks/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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Two soccer stars in Iran were banned for life from playing for their country on Thursday for what offense?

They played for their European club team on a Friday, the Muslim holy day.
They played for their European club team in a match against an Israeli team.
They hugged and kissed each other after one scored a goal for their European club team.
They were photographed drinking champagne after their European club team won a league championship.
Hotter, drier summers are setting off more forest fires in this country, accelerating a decades-old migration from rural areas, which in turn can can lead to more fires. Mario Cruz/European Pressphoto Agency
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Forest fires are an increasingly urgent problem for this country, caused by hotter, drier summers, a rural exodus, political inaction, a history of poor land management and a culture that prioritizes firefighting over fire prevention.

Portugal.
Russia.
Argentina.
Canada.
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