The Week of January 19, 2025 by CoenM

Champion(s):

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


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): 25 75 00 63 38 00 75 25 50 75 13 13
1 helene 378 93 15
00
15
00
15
63
15
15
15
75
15
25
15
50
15
15
15
2 ChrisRosenberg 360 81 15
15
75
15
00
00
15
00
00
15
25
15
50
15
75
15
15
3 DFisher 271 68 15
25
00
15
00
15
38
15
00
15
25
15
50
00
15
13
15
4 DouglasLovesVixey 228 56 15
00
15
00
15
63
00
15
00
15
75
00
00
00
00
00
15
5 LynchT 205 43 15
25
00
15
00
00
15
15
00
00
15
25
15
50
00
15
00
6 HortonR 191 31 00
15
75
15
00
00
15
15
00
00
00
00
00
15
13
15
13
7 SokolM 183 18 15
25
00
15
00
15
15
15
00
00
15
25
00
00
15
15
13
8 JCEurovision 113 6 00
00
15
00
00
00
15
00
00
00
15
25
00
00
15
13
15

Questions:

Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States, with the ceremony taking place in what LOCATION inside the Capitol due to cold weather?

Click to Reveal Answer
The Rotunda

As one of his last acts as President, Joe Biden commuted the prison sentence of what NATIVE AMERICAN ACTIVIST, convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975?

Click to Reveal Answer
Leonard Peltier

Eighteen state attorneys general filed suit to block one of Donald Trump's first day executive orders that aims to end what LEGAL PRINCIPLE enshrined in section1 of the 14th amendment to the US Constitution?

Click to Reveal Answer
birthright citizenship

A fire at the Grand Kartal Hotel, locaterd at the Kartalkaya ski resort in what EURASIAN COUNTRY's Bolu mountains, killed 79? The hotel's wooden cladding is thought to have accelerated the fire.

Click to Reveal Answer
Turkey

98 percent of shareholders of what MEMBERSHIP-ONLY RETAILER voted against a measure to review the company's DEI policies?

Click to Reveal Answer
Costco

Long-time executive Tim Noel was named the CEO of what INSURANCE COMPANY, two months after former CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead in New York?

Click to Reveal Answer
UnitedHealthcare

M23 rebels in what AFRICAN COUNTRY claimed to have captured Goma, the country's tenth largest city? The country claims that Rwanda, which borders Goma, has sent troops in to support the rebels.

Click to Reveal Answer
Democratic Republic of the Congo

JD Vance became the second vice president to break a Senate confirmation tie when he voted to approve Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. Mike Pence was the first vice president to do so, casting the vote to confirm what SECRETARY OF EDUCATION?

Click to Reveal Answer
Betsy De Vos

The Trump administration fired upwards of 18 people holding what POSITION in various executive agencies, where they independently audit and investigate allegations of waste and fraud? The move is thought to be illegal, as a 2022 law requires Congressional notification and substantive rationale for firing someone in one of these positions.

Click to Reveal Answer
Inspector General

The US Food and Drug Administation approved the nasal spray Spravato as a stand-alone treatment for depression. Spravato's active ingredient is a mirror molecule of what ANESTHETIC, also a popular club drug due to its hallucinogenic properties?

Click to Reveal Answer
ketamine

What SOUTHEAST ASIAN country saw its first legal same sex marriages,120 days after the law legalizing them was approved by King Maha Vajiralongkorn?

Click to Reveal Answer
Thailand

What STREAMING SERVICE, after reporting that they'd added 19 million subscribers to reach 302 million total worldwide, raised the price of all of its subscription tiers in the US? A standard account with ads will now cost $7.99 a month.

Click to Reveal Answer
Netflix