Foreign Policy’s Weekly International News Quiz
1. What measures were taken on Monday as part of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas?
Hostages and prisoners were exchanged.
Hamas disarmed and began to leave the Gaza Strip.
Israel allowed humanitarian aid to enter Gaza without restrictions.
A technocratic government council was appointed.
US President Donald Trump was in Israel that day to address the Knesset and make clear to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that this ceasefire would continue, Foreign Policy’s Keith Johnson reported.
2. What group ousted Madagascar’s president on Tuesday after weeks of youth-led protests over poverty, power outages, and lack of opportunity in the country?
Federal Police
Generation Z protesters
Presidential Security Regiment
Military
The military is already signaling that it may follow now-improved African coup rules to delay elections and legitimize its power, Foreign Policy’s Nosmut Gbadamosi writes in Africa Brief.
3. French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced on Tuesday that he will suspend the country’s much-discussed pension reform plan until when?
After President Emmanuel Macron announced his resignation
After the 2027 presidential elections
After the retirement age change has been removed
After calling for early elections in early 2026
The reform plan was the main pillar of Macron’s economic agenda for his second term. It could cost him his career, Michele Barbero wrote shortly after the plan was approved in 2023.
7. What was the reason that prompted MSF to decide on Wednesday to permanently close its emergency care center in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince?
The arrival of an expanded international security force
Inability to obtain the necessary medical supplies
Gang violence escalated
Withdrawal of US funding
The center now joins more than 60 percent of health care facilities in Port-au-Prince that have closed or ceased operations in recent years, Foreign Policy’s Alexandra Sharp reported in World Brief.
8. What sentence did Bangladeshi prosecutors say Thursday they were seeking for ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina?
Revocation of nationality
death penalty
Thirty years of imprisonment
– Lifetime ban from running in elections
Hasina is being tried by a special local court on charges of crimes against humanity. Salil Tripathi wrote in August that since Hasina’s ouster in 2024, Bangladesh’s democratic aspirations have not been fulfilled.
9. In a lawsuit filed Monday, US food manufacturer JM Smucker said the new Trader Joe’s product was too similar in design and packaging to the unbreakable product. What is unbreakable?
Hostess Ding Dong’s Chocolate Cake
Meat-filled snack for dogs
A loaf of crustless bread
A sandwich that resembles a pie without a crust
Smoker said the sandwich curl design and blue box of the Trader Joe’s product were very similar to the Uncrustables product, the Associated Press reported.
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2025-10-17 17:52:00
