The Week of April 15, 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

Same as last week, the quiz will close at the end of the week.

Full Results:

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1 GoodmanDL 322 95 15
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2 ChrisRosenberg 271 87 15
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3 KonkelT 197 79 15
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4 KPope 190 70 15
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5 KCrest 164 58 15
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5 SokolM 164 58 15
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7 JCEurovision 159 45 15
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8 LynchT 148 37 15
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9 DouglasLovesVixey 133 29 15
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10 Timm 131 20 15
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11 Tarn 99 12 15
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12 DFisher 92 4 15
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Questions:

Fox News reached a settlement agreement with what VOTING MACHINE MANUFACTURER, which had sued Fox for defamation in its reporting on the machines during the 2020 US presidential election?

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Dominion Voting Systems

What SPACE VEHICLE experienced what SpaceX called a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” four minutes into its inaugural test launch?

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Starship

What COUNTRY said it would ban imports of honey and some meat products from Ukraine, adding to a grain import ban? As with the grain bans in Poland, Slovakia, and Bulgaria, the goal is to protect local agricultural producers.

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Hungary

In what US STATE did governor John Carney state he would not veto bills decriminalizing marijuana, which will allow them to become law?

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Delaware

What EUROPEAN COUNTRY facing severe drought saw the formerly submerged city of Sant Roma de Sau re-emerge? Reservoirs off the Ter-Llobregat river system are below 30 percent capacity.

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Spain

Belgian officials destroyed more than 2000 cans of Miller High Life due to their use of what SLOGAN, which contains a protected French wine term?

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Champagne of Beers

What US AIRLINE asked the Federal Aviation Administration to put a ground hold on all its flights due to an internal technical issue. The hold lasted for about an hour, but led to more than 2200 flight delays.

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Southwest

Name EITHER the conservative radio host who announced he was seeking the Republican nomination for President of the IS, or the anti-vax offspring of an assassinated presidential candidate who announced he would seek the Democratic nomination.

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Larry Elder or Robert Kennedy Jr.

President Biden announced a $500 million program to reverse deforestation in what RIVER’s rainforest?

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Amazon

The US Supreme Court voted to keep the abortion medication mifepristone available while conflicting lower court rulings are hashed out, with Clarence Thomas and what JUSTICE who authored the Dobbs decision publicly dissenting?

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Samuel Alito

A Russian plane accidentally bombed what RUSSIAN CITY on the Donbas? One bomb exploded, injuring two, while a second bomb was found unexploded.

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Belgorod

At least 78 people in Yemen were killed in a stampede during a charity giveaway held as part of the celebrations of what ISLAMIC MONTH?

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Ramadan