Maldives vice president accused of plotting against president
Oct. 26, 2015
Q: The Maldives' vice president was arrested last week on suspicion of treason for allegedly plotting to assassinate the Indian Ocean nation's president with an explosion on his boat. Where is the Indian Ocean?
Circle the area on this map
Q: Travel companies portray the Maldives as a tropical paradise of 1,192 coral islands grouped into 26 island rings called . . .
A. Atolls
B. Aits
C. Sandbanks
D. Skerries
Q: The Maldives president was unhurt when his boat exploded as he was returning from the Hajj, a religious pilgrimage to which country?
A. India
B. Israel
C. Nepal
D. Saudi Arabia
Q: The vice president's arrest marks the latest in a series of political shakedowns and power struggles in the Maldives. The president has imprisoned his predecessor who once held a cabinet meeting under water in scuba gear to highlight . . .
A. Tourism industry
B. Overfishing
C. Climate change
D. Water pollution
Q: About 40 percent of the Maldives 393,253 people live in the nation's capital Male. The Maldives has a total land area of about 115 square miles, about the same area as which U.S. city?
A. Houston, Texas
B. Omaha, Nebraska
C. Kansas City, Missouri
D. Wichita Falls, Texas
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