Lighter Side of the News (May 11, 2018) by HallR

Champion(s):

CoenM
And, it's moist!


Runner(s)-Up:

Timm


Quiz Description

Quiz - #02-30

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 20 50 07 27 27 42 48 53 70 83 59 46
1 CoenM 407 98 15
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2 Timm 389 96 15
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70
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83
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59
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3 DFisher 388 94 15
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48
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53
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4 GoodmanDL 366 92 15
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5 WisniewskiP 360 90 15
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48
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70
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6 Vicun-YAH 357 88 15
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70
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7 ElendilPickle 351 85 00
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27
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48
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83
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8 PipkeR 349 83 15
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59
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9 Nicole 337 81 15
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10 Svoyager-11 325 79 15
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11 gregariouschinchilla 323 77 15
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42
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12 MilesTeg 322 75 15
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53
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13 RauscherM 321 72 15
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14 akambour 304 70 15
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15 Crow-T-Robot 303 68 15
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16 helene 301 66 00
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17 srs 292 64 15
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18 quarterrican 290 61 15
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19 MoyseyC 286 59 15
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20 RalliP 283 57 15
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21 MercureT 280 55 15
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22 ecpekkle 277 53 15
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23 heystephen 270 51 15
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24 BringMoreLegos 269 48 15
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25 Michalle 249 46 15
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26 GarciaD 247 44 15
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27 melvillean 243 42 00
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28 HomerS 236 40 15
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29 SokolM 234 38 15
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30 Vintsanity 232 35 15
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31 Tarn 226 33 00
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32 KPope 224 31 15
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33 Vendy12 218 29 00
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34 mellyjo 217 26 15
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34 IyerM 217 26 15
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36 HoH 210 22 15
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37 RobinJRichards 201 20 15
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38 GingerNinja 194 18 15
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39 McClintockJ 186 16 15
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40 HumbabaORiley 170 14 15
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41 Commodore 167 11 15
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42 JCEurovision 161 9 00
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43 MitchellWA 144 7 15
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44 Ren 125 4 00
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44 ArunH 125 4 00
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46 DouglasLovesVixey 0 1 00
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Questions:

Today, (Fri. May 11) a Canadian man named Brad Marchand celebrates his 30th birthday. Marchand has been in the news lately for what is called his "licking habit". What is Marchand's occupation?

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Hockey Player

What acronym fills-in the blank in this recent headline from USA Today: "Perrette: Fans to need 'boxes of tissues' for her ____ exit"?

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NCIS

Multiple choice. What surprising thing did actor/comedian Ken Jeong do during his stand-up comedy set last weekend: A) Showed up naked like his "Hangover" character; B) When two white audience members got into a fist fight, accused them of cultural appropriation for using Taekwondo moves; C) Provided medical assistance to a woman having a seizure; D) Plagiarized a Carlos Mencia joke?

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C

The drama film "The Seagull" opens nationwide in the U.S. today (Fri. May 11). "The Seagull" is based on a work by what Russian writer?

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Anton Chekhov

The montage seen here alludes to the title of what Netflix television series, which announced this past week that its fourth season will be the last of the series?

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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Rapper Post Malone made news this past week for his impromptu performance at a Nashville bar. One of the songs that Post Malone sang was "Move It On Over", originally written/recorded by Hank Williams, but made famous by what boogie-blues musician who has a backing band known as The Destroyers?

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George Thorogood

This week, Slate.com introduced a new podcast about the plays by William Shakespeare. Taken from a line from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", what is the four-word title of this inviting audio program?

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Lend Me Your Ears

Sure to bring plenty thrills and spills this weekend, what two-digit ordinal number is associated with the specific location seen here?

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17th

Multiple choice. As of the most recent chart (May 7), what song currently tops the Billboard Hot 100 at #1: A) "Sir Francis"; B) "God's Plan"; C) "Golden Hind"; D) "Nice for What"?

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D

The mini-theme for #10 & #11 this week is titled: "Bill Laimbeer: Past & Present". Here we go. Before his 14-season career as an NBA All-Star center, Bill Laimbeer was a child actor who played a Sleestak on the television series "Land of the Lost". At the recent Daytime Emmy Awards, what television producer siblings of "Land of the Lost", received the Lifetime Achievement Award? (first names not required)

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Sid & Marty Krofft

Bill Laimbeer is now a head coach in the WNBA which begins its new season on May 18th. The team that Laimbeer coaches, formerly the San Antonio Stars, has been renamed and relocated to what western U.S. city for the 2018 season?

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Las Vegas

The star-studded 2018 Met Gala was held on Monday night in New York City. What iconic fashion-world figure has been the chair of this event since 1995?

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Anna Wintour