The Week of March 3, 2024 by CoenM

Champion(s):

HortonR
Excelsior!


Runner(s)-Up:

gaufqwi


Quiz Description

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1 HortonR 345 95 15
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2 gaufqwi 305 85 15
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3 TimL 285 75 15
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4 DouglasLovesVixey 260 65 15
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5 ChrisRosenberg 250 55 15
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6 LynchT 230 45 00
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7 JCEurovision 210 35 15
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8 DFisher 185 25 00
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9 KPope 160 15 15
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10 Timm 85 5 00
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Questions:

What RELIGIOUS LEADER came under fire for suggesting that Ukraine should have the "courage of the white flag" and negotiate peace terms with Russia?

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Pope Francis

What TECH GIANT was hit with a nearly $2 billion fine from the EU for antitrust violations? The charges were related to restrictions placed on app developers to include information about cheaper music streaming services

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Apple

What EXAM went fully digital, with test takers allowed to take it either on their own device or one one provided by the testing site? The exam also now adapts to give harder or easier questions based on previously given answers.

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SAT

What SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY saw a global outage of many of its platforms due to an unspecified "technical issue?" The outage did not appear to affect WhatApp, but did hit the company's other apps.

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Meta

Joe Biden gave his State of the Union address, while what ALABAMA SENATOR gave a largely panned response from her kitchen?

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Katie Britt

What CITY saw National Guard troops deployed to provide extra security for its public transit system? The governor who ordered the deployment cited "psychologically significant" criminal activity, while noting crime had not actually risen in a statistically significant manner.

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New York City

Several acne treatments, including ProActiv, Clinique, and Clearasil, were cited as potentially having up to 800 times the allowable level of what CARCINOGEN? The active ingredient in the products can convert to the carcinogen over time and when exposed to heat.

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benzene

What EUROPEAN COUNTRY became the first in the world to write protections for abortion into its constitution? Its Senate and National Assembly passed the amendement in time for a formal celebration on International Women's Day.

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France

What AUTHOR's final book, En Agosto Nos Vemos, was published nearly 10 years after his death? He had asked his sons to destroy it, but they concluded that his objections to the book were actually symptoms of dementia.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Your HallR mini-theme of the week (TM): GOTV. The US Supreme Court unanimously found that individual states could not bar Donald Trump from appearing on Republican primary ballots using what AMENDEMENT TO THE US CONSTITUTION?

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14th Amendement

The day after that ruling, Donald Trump won all but one of the Super Tuesday Republican primaries, losing only what NEW ENGLAND STATE? Nikki Haley, that state's winner, ended her campaign the following day.

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Vermont

What AFRICAN COUNTRY saw two mass kidnappings of hundreds of people, mostly women and children? The kidnappings echoed the 2014 abduction of nearly 300 girls from a school in Chibok.

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Nigeria