Do You Know Your International Cities?
Protests in this city sparked after a bill was read that would reinterpret and legally define the principles of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi leading to one lawmaker ripping the bill in half.
Wellington, NZ
On Monday, this major American Airline company filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Spirit Airlines
Daily Triple: Two undersea internet cables in this body of water have been suddenly disrupted between these two countries, according to local telecommunications companies, amid fresh warnings of possible interference by Russia with global undersea infrastructure.
Baltic Sea, Lithuania and Sweden
The current governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine, was elected to his term as governor in this year
2018
The containership Dali known for causing the Baltimore Bridge collapse has finally arrived at a port in this nation for repairs nearly 8 months after the disaster took place.
China
Daily Double (must get both answers): Five military officers were arrested in this city for plotting an assassination attempt on the life of the current president, VP, and a Supreme Court Justice. One of the five officers was the former interim general secretary of this former president's cabinet
Brasilia & Jair Bolsonaro
A woman from this nation was crowned Miss Universe on Saturday amid much criticism from Martians about not being invited to participate in the contest
Denmark
A Florida Man was charged with the murder and kidnapping of his estranged wife 8 months after her disappearance in this nation, the body still has not been found but a security camera caught a man on a motorcycle approaching her apartment and spraying the security camera with spray paint.
Spain (Madrid)
Ohio has been the birthplace of this number of US presidents
7: Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, McKinley, Taft, Harding
For the second two years, stowaways from this nation hid on the rudder of a ship leaving the Ivory Coast for the Canary Islands. Despite being exposed to the sea and weather, they survived the ordeal in good health.
Nigeria
Did you read the Bulletin? - This city has reached air quality levels 50x past the safe limit significantly limiting peoples ability to breath and creating Covid-19 like restrictions for many of its residents.
Delhi, India
APEC 2024 occurred in Peru this Saturday and marked the last time that President Joe Biden meet with this influential international leader as President of the United States
Xi Jinping
In what it has dubbed “Operation Bear Claw,” the Insurance Department of this US state said four residents were arrested Wednesday, accused of defrauding three insurance companies out of nearly $142,000 by claiming a bear had caused damage to their vehicles.
The group is accused of providing video footage from January of a bear moving inside a Rolls-Royce and two Mercedes to the insurance companies as part of their damage claims, the department said. Photos provided by the insurance department show what appeared to be scratches on the seats and doors.
California
This prominent Ohio political family has produced 1 president, 1 governor, and 3 different senators
The Taft Family
The master of a small cargo ship that ran aground was arrested in this country for drunkenness that caused the ship's predicament.
Greece
A man was caught at an airport with hundreds of endangered tarantulas and centipedes strapped to his chest in glass vials after officials noticed his chest looked a bit swollen compared to his body size.
Lima, Peru
The world’s tallest roller coaster, Kingda Ka, located in this state, was announced on Thursday to be closing after the 2024 operating season
New Jersey
The mystery ship that vanished with 32 crew members along the coast of this nation was finally found after 120 years when undersea explorers stumbled upon it by luck. The SS Nemesis was transporting coal in July 1904 when it got caught in a powerful storm and disappeared without a trace, along with its 32 crew members.
Australia
Daily Double (you must get both answers):These two cities were the first capitals of Ohio, and the political feud between them led to the creation of Columbus
Chillicothe and Zanesville
The Swiss Trading Company Trafigura has been charged in a bribery scandal where it sent $4.9 million USD in bribes to an oil official from this African nation for 8 shipment contracts that netted the company $144 million USD in profits.
Angola
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced the former head of the Islamic police in this city popularly referenced in American culture, al-Hassan ag Abdoul Aziz ag Mohamed ag Mahmoud, to 10 years in prison for war crimes.
Timbuktu, Mali
This nation voted on Saturday to accept a new constitution that will return the nation to a presidential system after the country's 2023 Coup d’Etat
Gabon
Elizabeth Bathory a noble from this country known as the Blood Countess for allegedly murdering 650 women has recently been theorized as a victim of a "stitch-up" job due to her positioning as an inheritor of a vast amount of wealth, but refused to remarry after her husband's death and a woman who encouraged the educational development and literacy of young women.
Hungary
This Ohio governor served the most terms of any Ohio governor, four terms non-consecutively in the 1960s through the 1980s
Jim Rhodes
As exam season approaches in this country, the government of this nation has made a statement advising students not to listen to particularly catchy songs that might get stuck in their heads and distract them during exams.
The government of the nation upheld the national ban on all martial arts enacted in late October this past week, which will continue until April 2025, as a part of the nation's attempt to promote social order among the country’s youth.
South KorEast Timor