KFPL (Kotiga's Friday Pot Luck) #1 by KotigaD

Champion(s):

WangA
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Runner(s)-Up:

UllspergerA


Quiz Description

A little bit of everything.

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 95 78 73 67 17 28 67 78 67 56 67 78
1 WangA 416 97 00
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2 UllspergerA 405 91 00
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3 GrahamJ 358 86 15
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78
4 GoodmanDL 353 80 00
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5 CannonAJ 310 75 00
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6 PruettC 239 69 00
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7 VenguswamyK 234 63 00
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56
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8 cruzich 229 58 00
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78
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9 Bix32 228 52 00
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10 jefe 222 47 00
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67
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11 MoyseyC 215 41 00
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12 EdwardsT 211 36 00
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13 Consigliari 183 30 00
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56
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14 PolinskyL 168 25 00
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78
15 Vintsanity 146 19 00
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56
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16 RichmondJ 129 13 00
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17 HoH 86 8 00
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18 RaiaB 75 2 00
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Questions:

It is divided into 100 tiyin and it has international code KZT – what is the national currency of Kazakhstan?

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Tenge

Which anthology television crime drama that aired on NBC from 1973 through 1978 was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and was described as "one of the more realistic police series to be seen on television"? It was produced by David Gerber and seen as a precursor to later shows such as "Law & Order" and "NYPD Blue", and it won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 1976.

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Police Story

What was the last country to won FIBA Basketball World Cup before USA, winning in 2006 in Japan, with 70-47 over Greece?

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Spain

Which English singer and songwriter recently recorded hit "Pillowtalk", for his debut solo studio album "Mind of Mine"?

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Zayn (Malik)

The copper statue "Liberty Enlightening the World", more known as The Statue of Liberty, was designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, and built by his much more famous colleague known for equally famous work – who?

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Gustave Eiffel

Equivalent to one coulomb per second, ampere is named after French mathematician and physicist who is today considered the father of electrodynamics, and is as such the SI unit of – what?

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Electric current

Who was the most famous son of Peleus, the king of the Myrmidons, and a sea nymph Thetis, one of the 50 Nereids?

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Achilles

Actually an acronym for "PeRusahaan OTOmobil Nasional Sendirian Berhad" (National Automobile Company Private Limited), Proton Holdings Berhad is almost always stylised as PROTON, and is an automobile manufacturer coming from – which Asian country?

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Malaysia

Born in Danzig (today Gdańsk) in 1788 and died in Frankfurt in 1860, which philosopher was best known for his work "The World as Will and Representation"?

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Which highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation, was first observed in late 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, while studying and advised by her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish? He later shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for that while she was unfairly excluded.

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Pulsar

He was also referred to as "Baba wa Taifa" (Father of the Nation) and he died of leukemia in London in 1999 – whose country's first president (1964-1985) was Julius Kambarage Nyerere?

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Tanzania

Which Hungarian author and Holocaust concentration camp survivor died on 31 March 2016, aged 86? He was the first Hungarian to win the Nobel in Literature (2002), and some of his notable works were "Fatlessness", "Liquidation" and "Kaddish for an Unborn Child".

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Imre Kertész