The Week of May 1, 2022 by CoenM

Champion(s):

groug


Runner(s)-Up:

ecpekkle


Quiz Description

Good luck, comrades.

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 14 27 80 00 54 00 20 47 00 27 14 00
1 groug 320 96 15
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2 ecpekkle 273 90 15
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3 DouglasLovesVixey 266 83 00
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4 DFisher 262 76 15
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5 KonkelT 252 70 15
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6 LynchT 251 63 15
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7 GoodmanDL 244 56 15
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8 HortonR 224 50 15
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9 SokolM 215 43 15
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10 Tarn 203 36 15
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11 KPope 197 30 15
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12 Timm 196 23 15
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13 helene 179 16 00
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14 alamble 169 10 15
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15 JCEurovision 167 3 15
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Questions:

The first draft of a Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade authored by what JUSTICE was leaked to Politico?

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Samuel Alito

Ukrainian official announced that all civilians had been evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant in what CITY? Fighters defending the plant from Russian forces remain in the plant.

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Mariupol

Concerns over not having enough water to produce hydroelectric power at Glen Canyon Dam led officials to hold back water in what ARTIFICIAL LAKE on the Colorado River, the second largest reservoir in the US?

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Lake Powell

Karine Jean-Pierre became the first Black person and first openly LGBTQ+ person named to what WHITE HOUSE POSITION?

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Press Secretary

In what WORLD CAPITAL did an apparent gas leak cause an explosion at the Hotel Saratoga, killing at least 30? The hotel was closed for renovation at the time of the explosion.

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Havana

What POLITICAL PARTY, known for its affiliation with the Irish Republican Army, won the most seats in the election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, making it the first nationalist party elected into leadership in Northern Ireland's history?

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Sinn Fein

The US Food and Drug Administration put significant restrictions on the use of what COMPANY's Covid-19 vaccine due to the risk of a rare blood clotting condition? The restrictions limit its use to people 18 years or older who can't take the other vaccines.

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Johnson & Johnson (Janssen)

EU plans to ban the importation of Russian oil hit a stumbling block when what COUNTRY refused to back it, asking for an exemption from the ban? Neighboring countries, including Slovakia and Bulgaria, have asked for additional time to implement a ban.

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Hungary

A US district judge in San Francisco rejected Donald Trump's lawsuit against what SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM, saying the suit did not show that the platform had violated Trump's First Amendment rights.

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Twitter

What CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATOR AND AUTHOR, endorsed by Donald Trump, won the Republican primary for the US Senate seat being vacated by Rob Portman?

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JD Vance

A judge ruled that what US REPRESENTATIVE FROM GEORGIA could run for re-election, rejecting a lawsuit arguing she was ineligible due to a clause in the 14th amendment regarding insurrection?

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Marjorie Taylor Greene

What RULING POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT in Afghanistan announced that women appearing in public would now need to be covered from head to toe, with only eyes allowed to show?

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Taliban