NewsTracker Answers for week of Aug. 29, 2022

Q: Floods have has claimed more than 1,000 lives since June, according to Pakistani authorities. Where is the South Asian nation of Pakistan?

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Q: Pakistan’s prime minister said devastating flooding has hit 33 million people, about 15% of the nation’s population. The floods have been caused by this year’s extremely heavy seasonal rains known as …

A. Derecho

B. Monsoon

C. Sirocco

D. Typhoon


B. South Asian monsoons bring much anticipated rainfall to the region every year from June through September. The monsoon is the primary delivery mechanism for fresh water to the area, affecting the environment, agriculture, society, hydropower production and geography.


Q: The prime minister has appealed for help from the international community to cope with hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis who fled their homes and left stranded, hungry and often sick. Pakistan is poor, but which of its neighbors is much poorer?

A. Afghanistan

B. China

C. India

D. Iran


A. Afghanistan has a gross domestic product per person of $2,000 a year, compared with $4,600 in Pakistan. The people of China, Iran and India are all better off than Pakistan, according to the CIA World Factbook. Pakistan is bordered to the north and west by Afghanistan, to the northeast by China, to the east by India, to the south by the Indian Ocean and to the southwest by Iran.


Q: The United States several other nations have contributed to a disaster appeal, but Pakistan officials say much more is needed to deal with the epic floods they blame on climate change. U.S. relations with Pakistan have suffered in the past over its ties to what militant group?

A. Al-Qaeda

B. Islamic State

C. Taliban

D. All of the above


D. During the 1980s Soviet-Afghan War, Pakistan hosted the men who later founded these rival militant groups. And in 2011, U.S. forces raided a compound inside Pakistan where they killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in what Pakistani officials called "an unauthorized unilateral action" that would not be tolerated in the future.


Q: Pakistan and what other nation just marked their 75th anniversaries as independent countries?

A. Bangladesh

B. China

C. India

D. Iran


C. In August 1947, the departing British partitioned their former colony into India with a Hindu majority and Pakistan with a Muslim majority. The partition displaced between 10 and 20 million people along religious lines, creating overwhelming calamity. It is estimated that up to 2 million people died during the migration between the two new countries.