The Week of September 11, 2022 by CoenM

Champion(s):

ChrisRosenberg
The odds of me winning a quiz are sufficiently low to not compel me to have something witty here.


Runner(s)-Up:

ecpekkle


Quiz Description

Full Results:

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1 ChrisRosenberg 341 97 00
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2 ecpekkle 332 91 15
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3 bwouns 329 85 00
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4 GoodmanDL 287 79 00
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5 DouglasLovesVixey 283 73 15
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6 KonkelT 281 67 00
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7 SokolM 261 58 00
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7 LynchT 261 58 00
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9 Timm 237 50 00
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10 JCEurovision 228 44 15
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11 KPope 225 35 15
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11 alamble 225 35 00
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13 Jonathan 212 26 15
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14 KCrest 201 20 00
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15 gaufqwi 144 14 00
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16 helene 135 8 00
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17 DFisher 129 2 00
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Questions:

Thousands of Britons paid their respects during Queen Elizabeth II’s lying in state at the hall of what PALACE, originally built in the 11th century but largely rebuilt in the 19th century after a fire? The hall was also the site of King Charles III’s accession.

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Wesminster

US stock markets had their worst day in over a year when economic figures for August showed a slight rise in what MEASURE, abbreviated CPI? New gains in the cost of housing, food, and medical care offset continued declines in the price of gasoline.

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Consumer Price Index

After railroads and unions tentatively agreed to a new contract, what PASSENGER CARRIER scrambled to reinstate long-haul trips that had previously been cancelled over fears of a strike?

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Amtrak

What INDEPENDENT COUNSEL in the Whitewater investigation, who would later lead Baylor University during a sex scandal involving its football team and defend Donald Trump during his first impeachment trial, passed away at 76?

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Kenneth Starr

Magdalena Andersson resigned as prime minister of what EUROPEAN COUNTRY after her center-left bloc was narrowly defeated by a right wing bloc in parliamentary elections? Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson is expected to become prime minister.

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Sweden

The EU approved a report finding that what MEMBER COUNTRY was no longer fully democratic, but is now an “electoral autocracy?” The block may vote to substantially reduce the country’s €24 billion in cohesion funds.

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Hungary

Yvon Chouinard, the founder of what OUTDOOR APPAREL COMPANY, announced that he and his family were putting ownership of the company into a trust, which will invest profits into environmental and climate change programs?

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Patagonia

Florida governor Ron DeSantis sent roughly 50 migrants to what MASSACHUSETTS ISLAND in protest of the number of migrants in border states? The group was later resettled at a Cape Cod military base equipped to handle migrants.

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Martha’s Vineyard

Prosecutors in Baltimore requested a new trial for Adnan Syed, whose 2000 murder conviction was thrown into doubt by the first season of what PODCAST?

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Serial

Your HallR mini-theme of the week (TM): Back in the SSRs. Ukraine retook several thousand square kilometers in a counter-offensive, mostly in what OBLAST that shares its name with the country’s second largest city?

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Kharkiv

A Russian-brokered cease fire lasted less than a day as what TWO EURASIAN NATIONS continued their decades-long dispute over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh?

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Armenia and Azerbaijan

Both Pope Francis and Chinese president Xi Jinping visited what CENTRAL ASIAN NATION, though they did not meet? Francis was there to attend a triennial interfaith conference, while Ji was making his first foreign trip since the early days of the Covid pandemic.

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Kazakhstan