Welcome to the last show of our spring season! Today's subjects include a new executive order by U.S. President Joe Biden and some different perspectives on it. We're looking at rescued artwork in Denmark and recycled fabric art in Ghana. We're also exploring "the race to the bottom" in U.S. fast food prices and the catch of a lifetime by a magnet fisherman.
Thank you so much for your viewership, feedback and support throughout our first academic year on air! You mean the world to us, and we're looking forward to seeing you again in August.
This news quiz covers topics featured throughout the week on The World from A to Z:
1. From Monday’s show: Certain stations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are testing robotic “arms” and artificial intelligence for their ability to complete what task?
2. What nation recently elected Claudia Sheinbaum as its president, making her the first woman and first Jewish person to lead the country?
3. It’s been 224 years since the U.S. capital was moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C. Name the first president to live there while he was in office.
4. Trash-filled balloons and planned loudspeaker broadcasts across the border have heightened tensions between what two countries, historic enemies despite an armistice in 1953?
5. Phrygian bonnets, whose history is tied into a historic revolution, have been chosen as the mascot of what event?
6. As featured Wednesday: Dozens of children in a rural part of Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) have enjoyed participating in what activity, which has been funded by an Ivorian government official?
7. In what country, which appears to have re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi, did extreme heat claim dozens of lives as the world’s largest democratic exercise was carried out?
8. Name the region of France where the world’s largest amphibious invasion took place 80 years ago, claiming thousands of lives but resulting in an Allied victory.
9. Name one of the two “doubly landlocked” countries in the world, whose border countries are also landlocked.
10. In what West African nation is a textile artist named Michael Gha transforming discarded fabric scraps into artwork?