The Week of March 23, 2025 by CoenM

Champion(s):

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


Runner(s)-Up:

DouglasLovesVixey
Time Person of the Year


Quiz Description

Full Results:

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1 ChrisRosenberg 253 93 15
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2 DouglasLovesVixey 248 81 15
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3 SokolM 235 68 15
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4 helene 223 56 15
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5 HortonR 173 43 15
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6 LynchT 171 31 15
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7 JCEurovision 156 18 00
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8 DFisher 118 6 15
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Questions:

A group of national security officials came under fire for using what encrypted MESSAGING APP to share information about a strike against the Houthis in Yemen? The group was found out when The Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg was added to the chat.

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Signal

What ASIAN COUNTRY was struck by a major earthquake, killing at least 1700, while neighboring Thailand scoured a collapsed building for several dozen missing construction workers?

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Myanmar

Vice President JD Vance and his wife visited what ISLAND, although their visit was limited to a US military base at Pittufik? Vance took the visit to argue that the island would be better off as part of the US.

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Greenland

Utah became the first US state to ban what ADDITIVE in public water supplies? The ban was based on statements by Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. questioning the additive's health benefits.

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fluoride

Poland suspended the right to asylum for migrants entering the country via its border with what other COUNTRY? Poland accuses it of weaponizing immigration as a way to destabilize the EU.

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Belarus

Donald Trump withdrew the nomination of what CONGRESSWOMAN as US ambassador to the United Nations? Trump cited the narrow Republican majority in the House for the reversal.

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Elise Stefanik

What GENETIC TESTING COMPANY declared bankruptcy, and was allowed to include its personal genetic and medical databases in a potential sale of the business?

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23 and Me

The supreme court of what US STATE rejected attorney general Josh Kaul's efforts to block Elon Musk from giving $1 million to two voters in its upcoming supreme court election?

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Wisconsin

Dr. Peter Marks, the chief vaccine official for what US FEDERAL AGENCY, resigned, stating “It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies?"

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Food and Drug Administration

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: Fire Bad. Wildfires continued to burn in the Carolinas, with the largest fire being the Table Rock fire in South Carolina, burning in a state park on the edge of what MOUNTAIN RANGE that is part of the Appalachians?

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Blue Ridge

A man performing a ritual at a family gravesite is thought to have started the wildfire in what ASIAN COUNTRY that killed at least 30 people? The fire also destroyed the 7th century Goun Temple, a UNESCO world heritage site.

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South Korea

A Swiss court cleared Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini on corruption charges while working for what INTERNATIONAL SPORTS ORGANIZATION? Their charges were part of a larger 2015 corruption investigation.

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FIFA