Politics & News - 2025

1. Protests broke out in March of what country after Ekrem Imamoglu, a man due to be selected as the leader of the Republican People's Party's (CHP) - the country's main opposition, was jailed for alleged corruption?

2. In March, the Trump administration flew 238 Venezuelans to a prison in what country, that human rights groups say is designed to disappear people?

3. Sparking international disgust, information about Native Americans of what tribal group, who helped US send messages in World War Two were removed from government websites in ‘DEI’ purges?

4. The UK declared further cuts to disability benefits - aiming to save $5 billion by 2030 and cut unemployment. Charities said it will further push people into poverty. Who is the Prime Minister of the UK since July 2024?

5. From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 8 destructive wildfires affected primarily what US state, killed 28 people and led to 200,000 evacuations?

6. In February 2025, what Kurdish political leader, imprisoned since 1999, called for the PKK to disarm and dissolve, signalling a possible end to decades of conflict with Turkiye?

7. On February 28, 2025, Donald Trump, the president of the United States, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, held a highly contentious, bilateral meeting televised live in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C. The talks escalated to primary Trump and what other member of Trump's administrator chastising Zelensky for not wearing a suit, and not being "thankful" enough?

8. Tesla shares have fallen more than 40% since January — erasing all of the “Trump bump” that briefly saw the stock gain more than 90% after Election Day. Musk, whose wealth is overwhelmingly linked to his Tesla holdings, has personally lost $___ billion from his net worth over the past three months?

9. Ebrahim Rasool, the ambassador of what country was expelled from the United States after a row and declared persona non grata by the Trump administration? He was called a a "race-baiting politician who hates America" by Marco Rubio.

10. What is the name of the Columbia University graduate student who was arrested and detained because of his pro-Palestinian activism and is now facing deportation?

11. Elections were held in Germany in February 2025. Friedrich Merz's conservatives won, but Germany's 2025 election has thrown up some important and fascinating stories that reveal a country in flux. What far-right party has doubled its support in just four years to 20.8%?

12. What Central European country banned gay pride parades in March 2025?

13. On the night of 18 March 2025, Israel launched a surprise attack on the Gaza Strip, effectively ending the 2025 Gaza war ceasefire. Israel's missile and artillery attack killed more than 400 Palestinians, including 263 women and children, making it one of the deadliest in the Gaza war. Codenamed __________ by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), it was carried out in coordination with the United States.

14. In December 2024, Bashar Assad, who ruled for 24 years after taking control from his father in 2000, was ousted by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. People of the same ethnic group of Assad (Alawites) fear killings and genocide. In what part of NorthWest Syria are Alawites mainly located?

15. In March, peace talks between Russians and Ukrainians are to be held in what country?

16. Elon Musk was in hot water after making what gesture on Inauguration Day on 20th January?

17. In what South American country are retirees clashing with police infront of Congress in the capital, Buenos Aires, pushing back against the economic policies implemented by the government of President Javier Milei?

18. In March 2025, The Sudanese army recaptured the presidential palace in what city, in a highly symbolic battlefield victory over the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in the country’s catastrophic civil war?

19. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo - what Rwanda backed group made headway, taking huge sways of the East of the country, with the major cities of Goma and Bukavu falling under their control?