Lighter Side of the News (Sep. 07, 2018) by HallR

Champion(s):

Vicun-YAH


Runner(s)-Up:

MattK
Ready. Fire. Aim.


Quiz Description

Quiz - #02-47

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 60 10 88 47 21 62 28 65 23 17 43 38
1 Vicun-YAH 403 99 15
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2 MattK 401 97 15
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3 GarciaD 391 95 00
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4 DGibson 388 93 15
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5 HoH 381 91 15
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6 ShaunKlein 346 89 00
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7 KashyapN 344 87 15
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8 DFisher 338 86 00
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9 RobinJRichards 334 84 15
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10 ElendilPickle 330 81 00
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10 SizemoreM 330 81 15
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12 CoenM 318 78 15
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13 casketromance 305 76 00
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14 jlboldrick 304 74 15
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14 helene 304 74 00
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16 gregariouschinchilla 303 71 15
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17 DreierR 297 68 15
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17 HowellT3 297 68 00
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19 BringMoreLegos 289 65 00
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20 quarterrican 288 63 00
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21 GoodmanDL 281 62 00
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22 akambour 278 60 00
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23 RauscherM 272 58 00
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24 AdamKing 265 56 00
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25 NatashaBB 262 54 15
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26 MirandaM 261 52 15
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27 gaufqwi 260 50 00
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27 MitchellWA 260 50 15
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29 ArunH 259 46 00
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29 McClintockJ 259 46 00
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31 MoyseyC 254 42 00
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31 SokolM 254 42 15
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33 FauxD 246 39 15
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34 YoshidaFY 243 37 15
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35 HumbabaORiley 232 35 00
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35 Vendy12 232 35 00
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37 MilesTeg 231 32 15
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38 TimL 230 30 00
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39 Michalle 226 28 15
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40 Svoyager-11 222 26 00
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41 ADSanchez 204 24 00
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41 KPope 204 24 15
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43 Tarn 201 21 00
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44 DebB 196 19 00
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45 BednarczukJ 189 17 15
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46 jamietoon 186 15 00
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47 JCEurovision 184 13 00
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48 LasiterK 181 12 00
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49 GarstJ 169 10 00
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50 Nicole 168 7 00
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50 orwant 168 7 15
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52 AlexanderDarby 155 4 00
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53 Vintsanity 132 2 00
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54 DouglasLovesVixey 98 1 00
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Questions:

Bird, Lime and Skip are all companies that offer what product/service that has been featured in many news stories lately?

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Electric Scooters

Last Friday, Amazon Prime premiered a new television series, starring John Krasinski as what titular character, previously portrayed on film by such actors as Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck and Chris Pine?

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Jack Ryan

The 2018 U.S. Open in tennis wraps-up this weekend. What musician, with no connection to the sport of tennis during his lifetime, was referenced several times by television commentators during the tournament, sometimes next to the words "brand new"?

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Louis Armstrong

50/50 tossup. Last weekend, British thespians Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz announced the birth of their new baby. What sex is their child: Male or Female?

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Female

Last Friday, rapper Eminem released a surprise album. A foreign language term meaning "divine wind", first used to refer to destructive typhoons, what is the title of this album?

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Kamikaze

Subject of an announcement made by David Beckham on Wednesday, what word has been redacted in the image seen here?

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Miami

Dolores Hart appeared as the love interest of Elvis Presley in the 1950s films "Loving You" and "King Creole". Of the films that release nationwide today (Fri. Sep 7), the title of which one, a spin-off of "The Conjuring 2", best describes the current status of Dolores Hart?

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The Nun

On Wednesday, writer Chuck Klosterman released his ranking of all 131 Van Halen songs (worst to best) on Vulture.com. What instrumental guitar solo from Van Halen's 1978 debut album ranked number-one Klosterman's list?

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Eruption

This Monday, the 2018 season of Monday Night Football on ESPN debuts with two back-to-back NFL games. Name ONE of the two California-based teams are playing against each other in the second Monday night game.

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Los Angeles Rams, Oakland Raiders

The mini-theme for #10 & #11 this week is titled: "Duets". Here we go. US Weekly recently reported that the stars of the upcoming E! channel docuseries "Ashlee+Evan", also plan to release a duets album. Give the surname of either one of these performers from a musical family.

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Simpson, Ross

If one word was changed to the title of the song performed in this attached image, it would become the title of what recently released Netflix teen romance film?

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To All the Boys I've Loved Before

The television series "Kidding", starring Jim Carrey, premieres this Sunday night on what premium cable channel?

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Showtime