The Week of December 3, 2017 by CoenM

Champion(s):

srs
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Runner(s)-Up:

LorinBurte
Get off my lawn!


Quiz Description

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 26 18 08 38 39 59 40 03 09 15 83 47
1 srs 426 99 15
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2 LorinBurte 395 98 15
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3 rwv37 376 96 00
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3 ChengB 376 96 15
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5 BarthR 366 94 15
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6 BrezinaD 358 93 15
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7 grimesr 351 91 15
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8 MartaMJackson 350 90 15
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9 IyerM 347 89 15
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10 gregariouschinchilla 339 88 15
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11 FlaxmanR 338 87 15
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12 rouquinne 337 85 15
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13 ClouseBrian 325 84 15
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14 jveditz 320 83 15
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15 ChrisRosenberg 317 81 00
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15 RKania 317 81 15
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17 RichmondJ 315 79 15
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18 NullDiggity 311 78 15
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19 EllisA2 308 77 00
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20 WinchellV 307 75 15
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21 GingerNinja 299 74 00
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22 KingJA 298 73 15
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23 Michalle 296 72 15
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24 DreyfusB 294 70 15
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25 YuC 292 69 00
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26 SwartoutSky 290 68 15
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27 MatchenD 287 67 15
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28 TaylorMA 280 66 15
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29 KPope 279 64 15
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30 leftic 273 63 15
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31 GrahamJ 269 61 15
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31 AinslieM 269 61 15
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33 Commodore 268 59 00
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33 ElendilPickle 268 59 15
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35 HallR 266 57 15
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36 GoodmanDL 264 56 15
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37 Nicole 261 54 00
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38 NathanL 255 53 15
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38 GarciaD 255 53 15
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40 BringMoreLegos 248 50 15
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40 BClemens 248 50 15
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42 LiptonM 244 48 15
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43 apeekrtr 243 47 15
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44 AmmermanA 241 45 15
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44 ecpekkle 241 45 15
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46 RobinJRichards 240 42 00
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46 MoyseyC 240 42 15
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46 KelsoT 240 42 00
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49 morbeedo 233 40 15
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50 Tarn 231 38 00
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51 akambour 230 37 15
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52 BednarczukJ 228 35 00
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52 HightB 228 35 15
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54 RabinK 226 33 15
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55 EdwardsT 216 32 00
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56 Bup 215 31 00
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57 griffism 211 30 15
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58 Ren 209 29 00
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59 EggCzar 207 27 15
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60 TimL 206 26 15
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61 MatherV 197 25 15
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62 Crow-T-Robot 188 24 15
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63 ReinholdH 184 22 15
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64 PipkeR 179 20 00
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64 felsenheldd 179 20 00
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66 TerrieV 178 19 00
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67 Vendy12 173 16 15
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67 Sims 173 16 15
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67 LasiterK 173 16 15
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70 JCEurovision 167 14 15
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71 KlionskyG 158 12 15
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71 Timm 158 12 15
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73 VenguswamyK 155 10 00
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74 gaufqwi 148 9 00
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75 DoyleE 144 8 15
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76 ArunH 136 6 15
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76 MirandaM 136 6 15
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78 HumbabaORiley 113 4 00
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Questions:

A judge in what SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY is calling for the arrest of former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner for her alleged involvement in a 1994 plot where Iranian agents blew up a Jewish community center?

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Argentina

At a speech in Utah, Donald Trump announced that he was reducing the size of what RECENTLY CREATED NATIONAL MONUMENT by 90 percent, a move that several Native American tribes plan to challenge in court?

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Bears Ears National Monument

Pope Francis suggested a change to what PRAYER to correct what he considers a poor translation related to how an individual falls into temptation?

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The Lord’s Prayer (Our Father)

It was revealed that Robert Mueller supboenaed what FINANCIAL INSTITUTION, a major lender for Trump Organization real estate projects, for records related to Trump's borrowing as part of the special counsel investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election?

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Deutche Bank

Donald Trump did make time to deliver remarks at the opening of a civil rights museum in what US STATE, though many civil rights figures, including John Lewis, boycotted the opening?

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Mississippi

The Thomas wildfire in southern California, the first in the ongoing series of fires plaguing the region, is centered in what COUNTY, starting in a rugged area between the county seat, Santa Paula, and Ojai?

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Ventura County

While a recount looms, Keisha Lance Bottoms appears to have won the mayoral race in what US CITY, besting Mary Norwood by 759 votes, with over 95,000 cast?

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Atlanta

Ignoring advice from an array of international leaders, Donald Trump announced that the US would recognize what CITY as the capital of Israel, with the US embassy to move there over the next few years?

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Jerusalem

What TWO SIMILARLY NAMED COUNTRIES made news regarding same-sex marriage this week, one legalizing it after it won a non-binding postal vote, the other having its supreme court approve it starting in 2019?

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Australia and Austria

The UK and the EU reached agreement on the first phase of Brexit negotiations, including guarantees that there will be no return of a hard border between the UK and what EU MEMBER NATION, which has been open since the last military checkpoints closed in 2005?

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Ireland

What AFRICAN COUNTRY saw 14 UN peacekeepers killed and nearly 60 wounded, part of an ongoing wave of sectarian violence that (as reported earlier in the week) has seen 1.7 million citizens flee the country in 2017 alone?

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Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

A paper in the journal Nature reported that astronomers in Chile found what OBJECT, named ULAS J1342+0928 , which is the oldest, most distant, and largest (800 million times more massive than the sun) of its kind ever discovered?

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black hole