The Week of July 30, 2017 by CoenM

Champion(s):

gregariouschinchilla
Rufio! Rufio! Rufioooooooo!


Runner(s)-Up:

Shosin
No matter where you go...there you are.


Quiz Description

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 06 24 77 42 20 14 65 09 56 21 62 71
1 gregariouschinchilla 446 99 15
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2 Shosin 413 97 15
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71
3 LearyField 404 96 15
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4 lshultz82 395 94 15
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5 grimesr 390 93 15
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6 GoodmanDL 363 91 15
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71
6 AmmermanA 363 91 15
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8 ChengB 356 88 15
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9 Jon 353 86 15
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9 akambour 353 86 15
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11 Kloefkorn 347 84 15
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12 musicguy595 337 82 15
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13 rouquinne 333 81 15
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14 srs 327 79 15
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14 KPope 327 79 15
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16 THEJMAN 324 76 15
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17 RKania 321 75 15
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18 RichmondJ 320 73 15
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19 TimL 318 72 15
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20 LiptonM 311 70 15
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20 ChrisRosenberg 311 70 15
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22 PolinskyL 301 67 15
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23 Vendy12 291 64 15
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23 TaylorMA 291 64 15
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23 jveditz 291 64 15
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26 morbeedo 276 61 15
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26 MoyseyC 276 61 15
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28 PlotkinD 266 58 15
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29 Crow-T-Robot 261 57 15
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30 PrestonC 256 54 15
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30 lorijane 256 54 15
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30 RebstockJ 256 54 15
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33 DreyfusB 255 50 15
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33 JCEurovision 255 50 00
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33 rwv37 255 50 15
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36 TerrieV 252 46 15
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36 StahlhutJ 252 46 15
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38 AdelmanM 246 44 15
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39 orwant 235 42 15
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40 Tarn 234 41 15
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41 GarciaD 226 38 15
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41 JudyD 226 38 15
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43 JonH 225 36 15
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44 Timm 221 35 15
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45 DoyleE 216 33 00
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46 Nicole 211 32 15
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47 KayaliM 204 30 15
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48 HallR 202 28 15
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48 GrahamJ 202 28 15
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50 BronteB 200 26 15
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51 RobinJRichards 199 24 15
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52 ADSanchez 191 23 15
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53 ElendilPickle 188 21 15
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54 Michalle 187 20 15
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55 MatherV 182 18 15
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56 BednarczukJ 175 17 15
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57 kanyewesteros 160 15 15
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58 cruzich 157 14 15
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59 Troydozzy 155 12 15
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60 BClemens 149 11 15
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61 mellyjo 128 9 15
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62 BringMoreLegos 120 8 15
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63 HoH 113 6 15
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64 MatchenD 104 5 15
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65 VenguswamyK 88 3 00
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66 Mudrak 21 2 15
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67 DouglasLovesVixey 0 1 00
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Questions:

What COUNTRY officially announced that the US would have to cut the staff of its embassy there by 755 people, in retaliation for the US Congress passing new sanctions against it?

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Russia

What COUNTRY held an election for a new Constituent Assembly, a "super congress" made up entirely of government backers, which ousted the country's attorney general as one of its first acts?

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Venezuela

The first casualty of the White House Chief of Staff John Kelly era was what COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, who lasted less than two weeks on the job before vacating the position so Kelly could have "a clean slate and the ability to build his own team?"

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Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci

For the first time in its history, the NAACP issued a travel advisory for what US STATE, due to the pending approval of a law that would remove many anti-discrimination protections?

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Missouri

According to a recently-released transcript of a phone call between DOnald Trump and Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto, Trump described what US STATE as a "drug infested den?"

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New Hampshire

It wasn't all bad news for Trump this week, as Jim Justice, the governor of what US STATE, announced he was switching from the Democratic to the Republican party?

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West Virginia

The United Auto Workers fell short in their latest attempt to unionize an auto plant in the US South, when the vote to unionize what JAPANESE AUTOMAKER's plant in Canton, Mississippi saw nearly 60 percent vote against the union?

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Nissan

A jury in a federal court in Brooklyn found what HEDGE FUND AND PHARMA EXECUTIVE guilty of three counts of securities fraud and conspiracy?

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Martin Shkreli

Paul Kagame won election for a third term as president of what AFRICAN NATION, garnering 99 percent of the vote?

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Rwanda

Investigators working with special prosecutor Robert Mueller made their first known records request of the White House in asking for documents related to what FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER?

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Michael Flynn

A paper in Nature reported that what GENE EDITING TECHNOLOGY was successful in rewriting the gene that causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy without creating new errors?

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CRISPR-Cas9

A framework for creating a code governing the disputed South China Sea islands and renewed diplomatic approaches to addressing North Korea's increased missile tests highlighted a meeting of the foreign ministers of the member nations of what REGIONAL ORGANIZATION, meeting in Manila?

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ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)