The Week of February 9, 2025 by CoenM

Champion(s):

LoveF
You can do anything once.


Runner(s)-Up:

DouglasLovesVixey
Time Person of the Year


Quiz Description

Full Results:

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1 LoveF 255 95 15
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2 DouglasLovesVixey 250 85 00
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3 ChrisRosenberg 215 70 15
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3 LynchT 215 70 00
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5 SokolM 195 55 00
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6 DFisher 180 45 00
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7 HortonR 160 30 00
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7 JCEurovision 160 30 00
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9 BoulierJ 155 15 15
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10 gaufqwi 150 5 00
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Questions:

Name EITHER METAL on which Donald Trump ordered a 25 percent import tariff. While the tariffs are aimed at Chinese exports, they will apply to imports from all countries.

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steel or aluminum

The widespread firing of US government employees hit the National Nuclear Security Administration, part of what CABINET DEPARTMENT, that the administration apparently forgot was in charge of the safety of nuclear weapons?

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Department of Energy

Donald Trump spent at least part of his short visit to the Super Bowl posting on social media that he was ordering the Secretary of the Treasury to stop producing what DENOMINATION OF COIN? They currently cost nearly four times their face value to produce.

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penny

At least eight people died in flooding in what US STATE, which saw up to six inches of rain in storms over the weekend? Governor Andy Beshear requested a federal disaster declaration, noting the flooding had impacted all of the state's counties.

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Kentucky

Name EITHER JAPANESE CAR COMPANY whose planned merger was called off. Had it gone through, it would have created the fourth largest car company in the world.

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Honda or Nissan

The board of what AI COMPANY behind ChatGPT rejected an unsolicited $97.4 billion purchase bid from Elon Musk?

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OpenAI

The US Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy for secretary of Health and Human Services, with what REPUBLICAN the only one to cross party lines to vote against him?

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Mitch McConnell

At least two people died and another three dozen injured in a car attack in what GERMAN CITY? The attacker was identified as a refugee from Afghanistan.

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Munich

A drone struck the protective shield over a reactor at what UKRANIAN NUCLEAR SITE, causing a fire but not (as of now) any release of radioactive material? Russia denied it was their drone that hit the shield.

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Chernobyl

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: Uncorrupted. Donald Trump pardoned what FORMER ILLINOIS GOVERNOR and Celebrity Apprentice participant? He had been sentenced to 14 years for various corruption, including a plan to sell of the US Senate vacancy opened when Barack Obama became President.

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Rod Blagojevich

The US Department of Justice ordered corruption charges against what MAYOR be dropped, saying the prosecution hindered the mayor's "ability to devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime?"

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Eric Adams

What AUTHOR took the stand in the trial against the person who stabbed him in a 2022 attack at the Chautauqua Institution, blinding him in one eye?

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Salman Rushdie