Play The Diplomat’s Quiz: January 5, 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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   Who is Qasem Soleimani?

   • An Iraqi shiite militia leader
   • An Iranian general
   • An Iranian political leader
   • An Iraqi cleric
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   How many animals are thought to have perished in Australia’s ongoing bushfires?

   • Hundreds of thousands
   • At least one million
   • As many as half a billion
   • More than one billion
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   What is the name of the second Ford-class U.S. aircraft carrier?

   • Barack Obama
   • John F. Kennedy
   • John Kerry
   • Dwight Eisenhower
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   4. Question

   What percentage of voters in a recent nonbinding referendum for the independence of the Papua New Guinea territory of Bougainville voted in favor?

   • 39 percent
   • 54 percent
   • 71 percent
   • 98 percent
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   Which country chairs ASEAN in 2020?

   • Malaysia
   • Vietnam
   • The Philippines
   • Brunei
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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 country brought a case against Myanmar’s treatment of its Rohingya minority to the International Court of Justice?

   • Pakistan
   • Malaysia
   • The Gambia
   • Turkey
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   What is the capital of Kyrgyzstan?

   • Bishkek
   • Nur-sultan
   • Tashkent
   • Osh
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   What percent of Japan’s population is over 65 years old?

   • 10 percent
   • 15 percent
   • 20 percent
   • 25 percent
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    Which two countries dispute the following territories: Kalapani, Limpiyahura, Susta, Mechi, and Tanakpur?

    • India and Nepal
    • Pakistan and India
    • Bangladesh and Myanmar
    • India and Bangladesh
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