The Week of March 26, 2023 by CoenM

Champion(s):

GoodmanDL
A genius is someone like Norman Einstein...


Runner(s)-Up:

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


Quiz Description

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 13 07 32 25 44 13 00 82 69 57 00 32
1 GoodmanDL 380 96 15
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32
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25
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69
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57
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32
2 ChrisRosenberg 355 90 15
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07
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44
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00
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32
3 KPope 342 84 15
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32
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44
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69
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32
4 KonkelT 321 78 15
13
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32
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25
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69
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32
5 alamble 269 71 15
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32
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57
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6 HortonR 215 65 15
13
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7 BoulierJ 209 56 15
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32
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7 LynchT 209 56 15
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32
9 JCEurovision 197 46 15
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07
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10 ecpekkle 196 40 15
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11 KCrest 191 34 00
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12 DFisher 184 28 00
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13 SokolM 182 21 15
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14 DouglasLovesVixey 135 9 15
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14 Tarn 135 9 15
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14 Timm 135 9 15
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Questions:

Protests in what COUNTRY, sparked by the firing of defense minister Yoav Gallant, led to a pause in the plan to give the legislature more power to overturn judicial rulings?

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Israel

Donald Trump was indicted by a New York court over his payment of hush money to keep what ADULT FILM ACTRESS from talking publicly about their affair? While the indicment is still sealed, it is believed to contain as many as 30 counts related to alleged business fraud.

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Stormy Daniels

The US Food and Drug Administration approved the over the counter sale of naloxone, better known in nasal spray form by what TRADE NAME? The drug combats opiod overdose by blocking the effects opioids have on the nervous system.

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Narcan

An intentionally-set fire at a migrant detention center in what MEXICAN CITY, located across the border from El Paso, killed at least 39 people? Six people have been criminally charged over the fire.

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Ciudad Juarez

Turkey approved the NATO membership of what COUNTRY, the last to do so? The country will be formally invited to join the alliance, and may become a full member as early as next week.

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Finland

The US Senate voted to forward a bill that would rescind the 1991 and 2002 authorizations of war powers agains what COUNTRY? The White House has singnaled that it would approve the measure.

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Iraq

What CITY saw a shooting at a private Christian school by a former student, killing six? A motive was not revealed, though the shooter did leave "a manifesto."

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Nashville

A storm system that spawned more than 50 tornadoes killed at least 32 people from Arkansas to what EAST COAST STATE where a man died in the Sussex County town of Bridgeville?

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Delaware

A federal judge ordered the resumption of gas and oil leasing on federal lands in what US STATE? The state saw oil production boom thanks to fracking in the Bakken Formation.

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North Dakota

Your HallR mini-theme of the week (TM): Bonnie King Charlie. With protests ongoing in France, King Charles III instead made his first state visit to what EUROPEAN COUNTRY?

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Germany

The outgoing Reedy Creek Improvement District board of supervisors implemented a new development pact and a set of restrictive covenants that would significantly hinder the new board, hand-picked by governor Ron DeSantis, to manage the district including theme parks owned by what COMPANY? The agreements do not expire until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendents of King Charles III.

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Disney

What CONVICTED MURDERER and former Olympian and Paralympian was denied parole by a South African court as he has not yet served enough time to be eligible for parole? He was convicted of killing his partner, Reeva Steenkamp, in 2014.

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Oscar Pistorius