Play The Diplomat’s Quiz: January 6, 2019 Edition

Welcome to The Diplomat‘s weekly quiz.

Each week, we will curate a list of 10 questions on recent events in the Asia-Pacific region (with occasional historical questions thrown in for variety).

These questions will cover all the topics we cover here at The Diplomat, including the politics, economics, security, culture, and history of the vast Asia-Pacific region.

Rest assured, the answers to each question come straight from our pages. Usually, the answer to any given quiz question will be found in a recent article we’ve run. So, as long as you keep up with The Diplomat, you should be on your way to an easy 100 percent score on each of these quizzes.

You’ll get to see your score and the average score across all our readers at the end of the quiz.

Well? What are you waiting for? Have a go at our quiz and find out just how well you know the Asia-Pacific this week.

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   Where did North Korean leader Kim Jong Un travel for his first overseas trip in 2019?

   • China
   • South Korea
   • Mongolia
   • Singapore
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   Which two countries recently concluded a military exercise known as a Warrior-VI?

   • India and the United States
   • China and Pakistan
   • Russia and India
   • The United States and the Philippines
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   What percentage of available parliamentary seats did the winning coalition in Bangladesh take in the December 2018 general elections?

   • 54 percent
   • 68 percent
   • 77 percent
   • 97 percent
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   Which of the following Asian countries has a national-level election scheduled for 2019?

   • Bhutan
   • Indonesia
   • Mongolia
   • South Korea
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   Who is Sapar Isakov?

   • A former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan
   • An Uzbek cabinet official
   • A Kyrgyz musician
   • An Uzbek soccer player
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   What is Uzbekistan’s propiska?

   • A national food ration system
   • A type of housing permit program
   • A national exam for post-secondary education
   • The name for Shavkat Mirziyoyev's reforms
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   What does the ‘1992 Consensus’ refer to?

   • An understanding between North Korea and China on their 1961 treaty and its applicability to mutual defense
   • An ASEAN decision on making Southeast Asia a nuclear weapon-free zone
   • An understanding between China and Taiwan on the meaning of China
   • A trilateral U.S.-Japan-South Korea declaration in 1992 on military cooperation
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   Who is Meng Wanzhou?

   • A member of the Chinese Communist Party's senior leadership
   • The chief financial officer of Huawei
   • The chief executive officer of Tencent
   • A senior Hong Kong municipal government official
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   According to a recent report, when is India slated to receive the first of its S-400 Russian-made surface-to-air missile systems?

   • February 2019
   • June 2019
   • May 2020
   • October 2020
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    Why was Malaysia’s king, Sultan Muhammad V, in the news recently?

    • He abdicated the throne
    • He criticized Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad
    • He called for Malaysia to change its foreign policy toward China
    • He died
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