The Week of January 5, 2025 by CoenM

Champion(s):

SokolM


Runner(s)-Up:

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

helene
I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.


Quiz Description

Full Results:

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2 helene 238 71 15
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2 ChrisRosenberg 238 71 15
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4 JCEurovision 208 50 15
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5 DouglasLovesVixey 180 35 15
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6 LynchT 165 14 15
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6 DFisher 165 14 15
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Questions:

What PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA resigned as leader of the Liberal Party, but said he would stay on as prime minister until a new party leader is chosen?

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Justin Trudeau

The US Supreme Court voted 5-4 to allow sentencing in Donald Trump's hush money conviction, with John Roberts and what TRUMP-APPOINTED JUSTICE voting in favor? Trump's sentence was unconditionally discharged, meaning no jail time or fines.

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Amy Coney Barrett

A person in Louisiana became the first in the US to die from what ILLNESS? The person was exposed to the illness through contact with wild and non-commercial flocks.

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bird flu (H5N1)

What SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY announced it would do away with third-party fact checking and rely on community notes (similar to what X does now) to review content on all of its platforms?

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Meta

Several wildfires ripped through southern California, stoked by what WINDS, which reached speeds of up to 80 miles per hour?

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Santa Ana

All five living US Presidents attended the state funeral for Jimmy Carter, with which PRESIDENT delivering the eulogy?

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Joe Biden

King Frederik X of Denmark weighed in on Donald Trump's coveting of Greenland by updating the royal coat of arms to include what ANIMAL to represent that island? He also added a ram for the Faroe Islands.

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polar bear

What FAR RIGHT FRENCH POLITICIAN, founder of the National Front (now National Rally), died at the age of 95?

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Jean-Marie Le Pen

The BepiColombo mission returned new close-up photos of what PLANET, including its north pole, during its sixth and final fly-by? The two probes that make up the spacecraft will separate and enter the planet's orbit in 2026.

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Mercury

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: Busy Times at the DOJo. The US Department of Justice released a report on the 1921 race massacre in what US CITY that the attack by white citizens Black residents “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence?"

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Tulsa

What SPECIAL COUNSEL resigned from the Justice Department, having completed his investigation of two cases against Donald Trump related to classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago?

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Jack Smith

What ORGANIZATION announced that it would retire the S;Mores and Toast-Yay! varieties of its best-known fundraising item after this year?

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Girl Scouts