The Week of March 2, 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.


Quiz Description

Full Results:

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1 SokolM 317 95 15
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2 ChrisRosenberg 305 86 00
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3 loganstarr 278 77 15
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4 gaufqwi 262 68 15
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5 Svoyager-11 260 59 00
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6 DouglasLovesVixey 257 50 00
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7 ElendilPickle 239 40 00
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8 LynchT 232 31 15
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9 JCEurovision 224 22 15
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10 HortonR 210 13 00
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11 DFisher 119 4 15
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Questions:

What COUNTRY's foreign ministry, responding to Donald Trump's tariff moves, said “If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end?"

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China

Ten Democrats joined all House Republicans to pass a censure resolution against what TEXAS REPRESENTATIVE, who was removed from the House chamber during Donald Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress? The Representative repeatedly interrupted the speech to say that Trump had no mandate to cut Medicade.

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Al Green

What DEMOCRAT and likely 2028 presidential candidate, stated in an episode of his new podcast that it was "deeply unfair" for transgender girls and women to compete in girls and women's sports?

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Gavin Newsom

What EUROPEAN COUNTRY said it was sharing intelligence with Ukraine after the US stopped doing so? The country's president also floated the idea that it could protect other European countries with its nuclear weapons.

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France

A death row inmate in what US STATE was executed by firing squad, the fourth to die by that method since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976? All three prior executions took place in Utah.

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South Carolina

A consortium led by BlackRock bought two ports along what WATERWAY from a Hong Kong group for $25 billion? The move comes after Donald Trump accused the Chinese of controlling the waterway.

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Panama Canal

Disney announced layoffs of six percent across ABC News and Disney Entertainment Networks, a move that included shutting down what POLITICAL DATA JOURNALISM website founded by Nate Silver?

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538

Civil rights and faith leaders launched a boycott of what RETAILER in response to its ending of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs? The boycott was launched as a "fast" to coincide with Lent.

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Target

Despite the large body of research suggesting no link, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it was investigating links between vaccination and what NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER?

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Autism

US official confirmed that they had entered direct talks with what ISLAMIC MILITANT ORGANIZATION that the US designates as a terrorist organization over the return of American hostages taken during the October 7 attack on Israel?

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Hamas

The White House cancelled roughly $400 million in grants and contracts with what IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITY, citing its lack of progress in curbing anti-Semetic incidents on campus? Later in the week agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a Palestinian grad student and prominent anti-Israel protestor, stating that his student visa and green card were being revoked.

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Columbia

New Mexico officials announced that Gene Hackman died of natural causes days after his wife, Betty Arakawa, died of an infection of what PATHOGEN, likely through an exposure to deer mouse droppings?

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Hantavirus