The Week of August 14, 2022 by CoenM

Champion(s):

GoodmanDL
A genius is someone like Norman Einstein...


Runner(s)-Up:

KonkelT
Kai gwa!


Quiz Description

Full Results:

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1 GoodmanDL 376 96 15
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2 KonkelT 323 88 15
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3 KCrest 261 80 15
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4 alamble 245 73 15
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5 Tarn 222 65 15
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6 KPope 215 53 15
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6 LynchT 215 53 15
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8 SokolM 192 42 00
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9 DouglasLovesVixey 184 34 00
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10 ecpekkle 183 26 15
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11 helene 177 19 00
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12 JCEurovision 153 11 15
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13 DFisher 108 3 00
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Questions:

What US SENATOR was given a second chance to challenge a subpoena from the Fulton County grand jury hearing evidence about Donald Trump's possible attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia? Earlier in the week a federal court found that the senator was required to testify.

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Lindsey Graham

What CONSTITUENT COUNTRY OF THE UK became the first national government to require the free provision of period products? The law has local councils provide the products, which may also be distributed through schools and hospitals.

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Scotland

As expected, what US REPRESENTATIVE FROM WYOMING lost her party's primary to attorney Harriet Hageman?

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Liz Cheney

Israel and what EURASIAN NATION announced they would restore diplomatic ties four years after the killing of 60 Palestinians led the countries to recall each other's ambassadors? The Palestinians were protesting the opening of a US embassy to Israel in Jerusalem.

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Turkey

The US Food and Drug Administration finalized rules that would allow the sale of what MEDICAL DEVICES over the counter? The class of devices will not require a medical exam, fittings, or a prescription.

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hearing aids

Drought cased what EUROPEAN RIVER to drop to a level where several German World War II ships are now exposed near a port in Serbia? The ships are both a navigation hazard and a danger due to stores of ammunition and explosives.

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Danube

Scientists at Northwestern University announced a process using sodium hydroxide that can destroy what CLASS OF COMPOUNDS known as "forever chemicals," whose water and oil repelling properties make them popular but which can be harmful to humans?

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PFAS (poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances)

The European Union announced that what SOUTHERN EUROPEAN COUNTRY was no longer required to undergo quarterly review of its public finances, which it had been for the last 12 years? The oversight was a condition of a nearly 300 million Euro bailout in 2009.

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Greece

Three men were indicted in the 2018 killing of what BOSTON MOB BOSS in a West Virginia federal prison? The killing happened less than 12 hours after the mob boss was transferred to West Virginia from a prison in Florida.

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James "Whitey" Bulger

Militants from al-Shabab laid siege to a hotel in what AFRICAN CAPITAL CITY, during which 21 people died? It took government forces 30 hours to end the siege.

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Mogadishu

A jury in Georgia awarded $1.7 billion in damages in a case against what AUTOMAKER? The case alleges that the roofs on the company's pickup trucks are defective, which led to the deaths of the plaintiffs' parents in a 2014 crash?

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Ford

A federal judge ordered what US CABINET DEPARTMENT to unseal the probable cause warrant used in the FBI search of Mar a Lago? The department has one week to provide the affidavit for review, which is expected to be highly redacted

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Department of Justice