Play The Diplomat’s Quiz: January 19, 2020, 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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   What are the Natuna Islands?

   • Islands administered by Indonesia near waters claimed by China
   • Indonesian islands that are also claimed by China
   • Islands disputed by the Philippines and Indonesia
   • Indonesian islands that are claimed by Malaysia
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   What kind of weapon is India’s K-4?

   • A hypersonic boost-glide vehicle
   • An air-to-surface missile
   • A submarine-launched ballistic missile
   • A liquid-propellant ballistic missile
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   Approximately many cases of a new coronavirus were reported in China by January 20?

   • 10
   • 50
   • 200
   • 1,000
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   Who is Tilek Tabarikuly?

   • A Kazakh politician
   • An ethnic Kazakh man who fled China to Kazakhstan
   • A Chinese Communist Party official in Xinjiang
   • A Kazakh lawyer assisting escapees from Xinjiang
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   Approximately many votes did Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen get in the January 2020 elections?

   • 5 million+
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   • 8 million+
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   What decision did North Korea announce after a recent plenum of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea?

   • The perfection of a new anti-satellite weapon
   • The end of a moratorium on long-range missile and nuclear testing
   • An upcoming test of a new ballistic missile
   • Intention to carry out an atmospheric nuclear test
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   Which year of the Chinese zodiac will begin after the 2020 Lunar New Year?

   • Dragon
   • Horse
   • Rat
   • Pig
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   Who is Bipin Rawat?

   • India’s new chief of the army staff
   • India’s first chief of defense staff
   • India’s new chief of the naval staff
   • India’s first chief of the army staff
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   What percent of Japan’s population is over 65 years old?

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   • 15 percent
   • 20 percent
   • 25 percent
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    In the January 2020 U.S.-China “phase one” trade deal, how much did China agree to increase its purchases of goods and services from the United States by?

    • $50 billion
    • $100 billion
    • $150 billion
    • $200 billion
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