The Week of June 17, 2018 by CoenM

Champion(s):

BarthR
L’enfer, c’est les autres.


Runner(s)-Up:

LorinBurte
Get off my lawn!


Quiz Description

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 07 55 14 16 40 43 22 70 90 73 74 25
1 BarthR 497 99 15
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70
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74
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2 LorinBurte 478 97 15
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70
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90
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3 MoyseyC 432 96 15
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70
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74
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4 akambour 428 95 15
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70
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73
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5 KashyapN 416 93 15
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43
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70
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73
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6 GoodmanDL 401 92 15
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7 TaylorMA 387 91 15
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22
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73
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8 travis 386 89 15
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73
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9 KPope 381 87 15
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73
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9 DreyfusB 381 87 15
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11 TimL 368 85 15
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12 MartinJ2 362 84 15
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13 YuC 360 82 15
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73
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14 srs 359 81 15
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43
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22
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73
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15 AnthonyBianca 346 80 15
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22
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90
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16 Vicun-YAH 343 78 15
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70
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17 BrezinaD 340 77 15
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22
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18 ecpekkle 331 76 15
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73
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19 Svoyager-11 328 74 15
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20 Michalle 327 72 15
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20 Timm 327 72 15
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22
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22 GarciaD 323 69 15
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22 IyerM 323 69 15
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24 tomasnomas 302 67 15
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25 energydelay 298 66 15
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26 RobinJRichards 297 64 15
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26 McClintockJ 297 64 15
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22
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73
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28 BClemens 295 62 15
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22
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29 NullDiggity 283 60 15
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22
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30 Zamikaze 280 59 15
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31 Ren 277 58 15
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32 LiptonM 267 56 15
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33 EggCzar 261 54 15
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33 Nicole 261 54 15
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35 AdelmanM 250 52 15
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36 KingJA 244 51 15
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37 ClouseBrian 242 49 15
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37 ElendilPickle 242 49 15
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39 HessJa 235 47 15
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40 AmmermanA 234 45 15
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41 RauscherM 226 43 15
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41 HoH 226 43 15
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43 jveditz 219 41 15
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44 ADSanchez 206 40 15
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45 gaufqwi 197 39 15
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46 mellyjo 192 37 15
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47 Tarn 191 36 15
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48 helene 189 34 15
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49 JamesDenny 188 33 15
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50 orwant 176 32 15
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51 DFisher 174 30 15
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52 John 169 28 15
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52 Crow-T-Robot 169 28 15
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54 PipkeR 160 26 15
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55 BringMoreLegos 155 25 15
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56 paperclipracket 151 23 00
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56 FauxD 151 23 15
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58 reallydumb4real 145 21 15
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59 Mudrak 142 19 00
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60 NatashaBB 141 18 00
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61 Vendy12 138 17 15
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62 ericddixon 137 15 15
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63 GarstJ 130 14 15
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64 LeungT 128 13 15
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65 Kmanpat 117 11 15
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66 ADeLong 114 9 15
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66 Nicholas 114 9 15
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68 ArunH 108 7 15
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69 DBrick 99 6 15
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70 MitchellWA 82 4 15
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71 JonesRC 68 3 15
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72 JCEurovision 60 2 00
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73 DouglasLovesVixey 0 1 00
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Questions:

Donald Trump announced that he'd ordered the creation of a "separate but equal" branch of the military focused on operations in what ENVIRONMENT?

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space

Biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong purchased what NEWSPAPER from Tronc (the holding company that owns the Chicago Tribune and other papers) for $500 million, and hired news veteran Norman Pearlstine to help rebuild the paper's reputation?

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Los Angeles Times

What FORMER NEW YORK CITY MAYOR wrote an opinion piece for his namesake website saying he would support Democrats in 2018 Congressional races, hoping to improve bipartisanship and a reassertion of Congress' constitutional authority?

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Michael Bloomberg

What COUNTRY voted to legalize marijuana, though due to the need for royal assent and local preparations sales won't start until mid-October?

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Canada

What COMPANY was dropped from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the last of the original 12 companies in the average still operating independently?

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General Electric

The White House announced a plan that would merge the Department of Education with what other CABINET DEPARTMENT?

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Labor

The US withdrew its membership in the UN Human Rights Commission, for reasons including what it sees as a “chronic bias” against what other COUNTRY?

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Israel

Salva Kiir, The president of what AFRICAN NATION, met with opposition leader Riek Machar for the first time since 2016 in hopes of ending a five year old civil war?

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South Sudan

A study of the century-old BCG vaccine for tuberculosis against one type of what other DISEASE found that it nearly reversed the disease with results lasting for years?

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diabetes

Your HallR Mini-Theme(TM) this week: Order in the Court. The US Supreme Court rejected two cases on partisan gerrymandering, one by an unsigned opinion for a case in Maryland and one from what US STATE where the majority opinion ruled that the cases needed to be by district rather than statewide?

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Wisconsin

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of requiring online retailers to collect sales tax on states where they are not physically present, ina case brought by South Dakota against several companies, including what NAMED DEFENDANT, a Massachusetts-based online retailer of home goods?

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Wayfair

The Supremes also bolstered what CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT in finding that police generally need a warrant to obtain location data from a cell phone?

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4th Amendment