The Week of September 16, 2018 by CoenM

Champion(s):

KelsoT
I have to have a motto? NO ONE TOLD ME I HAD TO HAVE A MOTTO!


Runner(s)-Up:

Vicun-YAH


Quiz Description

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 16 56 32 13 45 76 38 75 12 32 20 66
1 KelsoT 464 99 15
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2 Vicun-YAH 445 97 15
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3 TimL 382 96 15
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4 LorinBurte 375 95 15
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5 MirandaM 374 93 15
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6 Michalle 371 92 15
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7 MatthewsP 366 90 15
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8 gregariouschinchilla 350 89 00
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9 akambour 338 87 15
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10 RautY 337 86 15
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11 ChrisRosenberg 332 85 15
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12 ElendilPickle 330 83 15
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13 hypotactic 329 82 00
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14 MartinJ2 326 80 15
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15 tomasnomas 317 79 15
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16 RalliP 313 77 15
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17 MatchenD 311 76 00
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18 KPope 301 75 15
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19 HoH 297 73 15
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20 griffism 291 72 15
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21 RonningD 290 70 00
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22 BClemens 288 69 15
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23 KingJA 287 67 15
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24 Vendy12 282 65 15
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24 casketromance 282 65 15
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26 HightB 278 63 15
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27 McGeeDean 268 62 15
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28 gaufqwi 267 60 15
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29 CutlerA 263 59 15
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30 Timm 261 57 15
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31 DeeKay 259 56 15
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32 orwant 256 55 15
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33 NullDiggity 254 53 15
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34 Nicole 249 52 15
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35 Crow-T-Robot 246 50 15
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36 HessJa 240 49 15
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37 zerocrates 234 47 15
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37 MoyseyC 234 47 15
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39 RobinJRichards 233 45 15
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40 HumbabaORiley 225 43 00
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41 BringMoreLegos 221 42 15
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42 RichmondJ 220 40 00
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43 SizemoreM 219 38 15
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43 YuC 219 38 15
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45 GarciaD 218 36 15
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46 LiptonM 212 35 15
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47 felsenheldd 211 33 15
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48 Ren 210 32 15
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49 MattK 209 30 15
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50 SykesS 202 29 15
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51 ArunH 191 27 00
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52 LynchT 189 25 15
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52 NatashaBB 189 25 15
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54 Tarn 174 23 15
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55 Jecrwin 172 22 15
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56 BednarczukJ 171 20 00
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57 raccoonleaf 167 17 15
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57 Longford 167 17 15
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57 TerrieV 167 17 15
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60 DreyfusB 164 15 15
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61 MitchellWA 155 13 00
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62 GarstJ 154 12 15
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63 DouglasLovesVixey 148 10 00
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64 WinchellV 147 9 15
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65 FauxD 142 7 15
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65 ADSanchez 142 7 15
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67 PipkeR 137 5 00
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68 CourtneyKhaaaaaan 136 3 15
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69 crm 121 2 15
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70 DreierR 120 1 15
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Questions:

What PROFESSOR at Palo Atlo University, publicly identified herself with a sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh stemming from an incident while both were in high school?

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Christine Blasey Ford

The Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project announced it had identified "one or two sites" off the coast of the US that they believe may be the resting place for what SHIP sailed by James Cook to make the first European contact with Australia?

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Endeavour

At least 224 people died when the MV Nyerere, a Tanzanian ferry believed to have been overcrowded, capsized in what LAKE just meters from docking on the island of Ukerewe?

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Lake Victoria

What US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL found himself under fire due to allegations that he suggested secretly recording Donald Trump (which he says was sarcasm) and circulated memos seeking support to use the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office?

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Rod Rosenstein

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reported that Colombia set a new high for the amount of land dedicated to the cultivation of what PLANT, a rise credited to the end of aerial spraying with the suspected carcinogenic pesticide glyphosate?

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Coca

Over 20 people died at a military parade in Iran when gunmen opened fire on members of what MILITARY BRANCH charged with protecting the country’s Islamic republican system?

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Revolutionary Guard

What RAP MOGUL pled no contest to a charge of manslaughter over a 2015 hit and run death, taking a 28 year sentence just days before the trial for this crime was to take place?

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Marion ”Suge” Knight

HUD Secretary Ben Carson weighed in on the Brett Kavanaugh nomination by saying that the accusations against him were part of a plot going back to what BRITISH SOCIALIST GROUP founded in the 19th century?

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Fabian Society

What COUNTRY made history in space by landing mobile rovers on the asteroid Ryugu? The Hayabusa2 spacecraft that brought the rovers will return samples to Earth in 2020.

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Japan

Your HallR mini-theme (TM): This Week in Actual News Involving China. What RETAILER warned of higher prices for goods - just in time for Christmas - in a letter sent to US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer attempting to dissuade the President from levying $200 billion in tariffs against Chinese goods?

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Walmart

Jack Ma, head of what Chinese COMPANY, said he would not be able to create the 1 million jobs pledged after Donald Trump's election due to the current trade war?

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Alibaba

The US also imposed sanctions against China for purchasing military equipment, including jets and missile components, from a blacklisted vendor in what COUNTRY in accord with a 2017 law banning transactions with a number of countries due to hostile behavior?

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Russia