New year, new leaders, same old news quiz! Find out how well you followed along with the week’s events.
1. Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer gave what reason on Saturday when he announced his intention to resign?
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party is now leading a new round of coalition talks. The party has helped normalize fringe conservative movements in Europe, Paul Hockenos wrote in October last year.
2. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday that he also plans to resign. Which U.S. president called Trudeau the “future prime minister of Canada” when Trudeau was just 4 months old?
Trudeau’s father, who also served as Canada’s prime minister, sparked a wave of “Trudeaumania” with a slew of liberalizations. But many Canadians are disappointed by a lackluster decade of leadership under his son, Justin Ling writes.
3. On Monday, schoolchildren began receiving free meals as part of a new program in which Southeast Asian country?
The meal program was a cornerstone of President Prabowo Subianto’s campaign promises. But some critics have warned that the plan will put undue strain on the country’s budget, Salil Tripathi wrote last year.
4. Which relative of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump drew headlines when they visited Greenland on Tuesday?
The president-elect’s recent bombastic overtures to buy Greenland have drawn shock and condemnation, but Trump first floated the idea back in 2019, FP’s Christina Lu reports.
5. A major earthquake struck near the city of Shigatse in the Chinese province of Tibet on Tuesday. According to the U.S. Geological Society, what was the quake’s magnitude?
The region’s isolation, difficult landscape, and freezing temperatures make rescue efforts particularly difficult, FP’s Alexandra Sharp reports in World Brief.
6. The U.S. State Department announced on Tuesday that it has determined that genocide is being committed in which location?
The designation comes after almost two years of civil war in Sudan and the displacement of more than 11.5 million people. But the United Nations still has options to combat the violence, Roméo Dallaire and Shelly Whitman wrote last October.
7. In which African nation did roughly two dozen armed assailants attempt to take over the presidential palace late on Wednesday?
The attack comes after Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby expelled troops from both the United States and France last year, which FP’s Nosmot Gbadamosi wrote about in Africa Brief last May.
8. On Thursday, Lebanon’s Parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun to be the country’s next president. How many vote attempts did it take to agree on a candidate?
The move ends two years of political gridlock—and demonstrates the weakening influence that Hezbollah has over the Lebanese government, FP’s Amy Mackinnon and John Haltiwanger write in Situation Report.
9. In advance of Venezuela’s presidential inauguration on Friday, exiled opposition leader Edmundo González embarked on a regional tour this week. Which country did he not visit?
Independent election experts say that González was likely the real winner of the country’s 2024 election, which incumbent President Nicolás Maduro claimed he won. Protesters turned out throughout Venezuela this week to demonstrate their support for González, FP’s Catherine Osborn reports in Latin America Brief.
10. A Canadian man was arrested at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Monday for attempting to leave the country with a skull from which type of animal?
The skull was handed over to wildlife authorities, who identified it as a species covered under India’s Wildlife Protection Act and opened an investigation into the incident, according to the Independent.
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