The Week of August 21, 2022 by CoenM

Champion(s):

eternally5th


Runner(s)-Up:

KonkelT
Kai gwa!


Quiz Description

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 00 25 13 07 25 44 00 50 00 00 69 82
1 eternally5th 334 96 15
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69
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2 KonkelT 326 90 15
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44
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82
3 gaufqwi 269 84 15
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69
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4 SokolM 267 78 15
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50
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82
5 Timm 245 71 15
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07
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6 LynchT 207 62 15
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6 KashyapN 207 62 15
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8 KCrest 204 53 15
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44
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9 Tarn 189 46 15
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10 ecpekkle 186 40 15
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44
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11 AbdalianA 185 34 15
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12 ChrisRosenberg 183 25 15
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12 alamble 183 25 15
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14 JCEurovision 152 15 15
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15 DFisher 150 9 15
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16 DouglasLovesVixey 97 3 15
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Questions:

What GOVERNMENT FIGURE, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he would retire in December, after nearly 40 years in government service?

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Anthony Fauci

A jury convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap what US STATE GOVERNOR? A previous trial resulted in a hung jury for the two men who were retried and acquittals for two other men.

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Gretchen Whitmer

What PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY sued Pfizer and its Covid-19 vaccine partner BioNTEch, saying the companies infringed its patents on the mRNA technology used to create its own Covid-19 vaccine?

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Moderna

What CAPITAL CITY OF LIBYA saw at least 32 people die in clashes of rival militias? The militias back rival governments, one seated in the capital, the other in the eastern part of the country.

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Tripoli

President Biden announced student loan forgiveness of $10,000 for people making less than $125,000 a year, with an additional $10,000 in forgiveness for those who participated in what FEDERAL STUDENT AID PROGRAM named for the US senator from Rhode Island who played a key role in their creation?

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Pell Grants

Over 1000 people have died in what COUNTRY due to flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains? Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif compared it to flooding in 2010 that killed 1985 people.

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Pakistan

Primary voters in what US STATE chose former governor Charlie Crist - a Republican turned Democrat - to square off against incumbent Republican Ron DeSantis in the November general election for governor?

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Florida

Among the items not redacted in the released affidavit that supported the August 8 FBI search of Mar a Lago was that there were nearly 200 classified documents in the 15 boxes recovered from Mar a Lago in January by what FEDERAL AGENCY?

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National Archive and Records Administration

The Air Resources Board in what US STATE finalized regulations that would phase out the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035? The rules would require new cars to run on either electricity or hydrogen.

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California

Your HallR mini-theme of the week (tm): Island Hopping in Asia. What COUNTRY saw nearly half of its 27 million public school students return to classrooms after a two-plus year closure due to Covid-19, only to have to shut after one day due to Severe Tropical Storm Florita hit Isabella province and northern Luzon?

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Philippines

What COUNTRY announced it would repeal its colonial-era law criminalizing sex between men, while it will also strengthen constitutional language defining marriage as being between a man and a woman?

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Singapore

An unexpected upside to the severe drought in what US STATE was the discovery of 113 million year-old dinosaur footprints in the bed of the Paluxy River? Appropriately, the footprints are in Dinosaur Valley State Park.

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Texas