The Week of September 23, 2018 by CoenM

Champion(s):

Snuffleupagus

BarthR
L’enfer, c’est les autres.


Runner(s)-Up:


Quiz Description

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 09 59 14 03 33 62 69 32 33 38 39 12
1 Snuffleupagus 391 98 15
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1 BarthR 391 98 15
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69
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3 LorinBurte 381 96 15
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4 HessJa 370 94 15
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5 srs 367 93 15
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6 Vicun-YAH 350 91 15
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7 MartinJ2 349 90 15
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8 LiptonM 346 88 15
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9 IyerM 341 87 15
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10 RonningD 340 85 15
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11 RichmondJ 334 84 15
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12 EggCzar 328 82 15
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13 gregariouschinchilla 318 81 15
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14 MatthewsP 316 79 15
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15 WinchellV 312 78 15
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16 GoodmanDL 308 76 15
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17 BClemens 305 75 00
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18 Michalle 304 73 15
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19 Tarn 302 72 15
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20 KPope 301 70 00
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21 MattK 297 69 15
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22 ElendilPickle 292 67 15
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23 GarciaD 289 65 15
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23 Vendy12 289 65 15
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25 ChrisRosenberg 287 63 15
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26 TimL 281 61 15
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27 MirandaM 278 60 15
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28 akambour 277 58 15
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29 Crow-T-Robot 275 57 15
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30 DeeKay 273 55 15
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31 Timm 272 54 15
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32 MoyseyC 270 52 15
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33 hypotactic 269 51 15
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34 wouterst 266 50 15
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35 ecpekkle 261 48 15
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36 GarstJ 259 47 15
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37 RobinJRichards 258 45 15
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38 Longford 251 44 15
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39 FauxD 250 42 15
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40 Svoyager-11 249 41 15
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41 Nicole 247 39 15
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42 YuC 244 38 15
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43 DreierR 241 36 15
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44 MitchellWA 240 34 15
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44 Ren 240 34 15
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46 gaufqwi 232 31 15
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46 Commodore 232 31 15
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48 LynchT 224 29 00
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49 petkunm 220 27 15
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50 SykesS 215 26 15
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51 felsenheldd 209 24 15
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52 RautY 200 23 15
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53 jlboldrick 196 21 15
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54 HumbabaORiley 184 18 15
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54 BringMoreLegos 184 18 15
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54 jveditz 184 18 15
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57 DreyfusB 181 15 00
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58 casketromance 180 14 15
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59 JCEurovision 173 12 15
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60 helene 172 11 15
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61 PipkeR 161 9 15
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62 SizemoreM 145 7 15
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62 NatashaBB 145 7 15
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64 DouglasLovesVixey 139 5 00
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65 crm 138 3 15
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66 ShampooCell 113 2 15
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67 ArunH 18 1 00
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Questions:

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of what SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY, announced they would be leaving amid reports of tension with Facebook, which bought their company in 2012?

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Instagram

National Security Advisor John Bolton stated that US trooops would remain in what COUNTRY as long as Iranian troops, including "Iranian proxies and militias," are also present?

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Syria

A study by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the causes of the Earth's wobble while spinning on its axis found that the melting of ice on what ISLAND as a significant contributor based on the mass of the ice melted and added to the world's oceans?

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Greenland

What ACTOR AND COMEDIAN was sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison for the three counts of sexual assault he was found guilty of back in April? The sentencing judge also classified him as a sexually violent predator, requiring lifetime counseling and registry as a sex offender for life.

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Bill Cosby

What COUNTRY claimed at the UN that Iran has a secret warehouse of nuclear material and machinery, to which Iran responded by stating that the country had the region's only undeclared nuclear weapons program?

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Israel

What controversial US FIGHTER PLANE completed its first combat mission, with a Marine variant of the plane participating in a strike against a Taliban target in Afghanistan?

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F-35

A 7.5 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami killed over 800 on what INDONESIAN ISLAND, with rescue efforts centering on the city of Palu?

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Sulawesi

A paper published in Science this week reported that an aerial laser survey uncovered over 60,000 previously unknown Mayan structures in what CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRY?

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Guatemala

Name the TWO LOVEBIRDS referenced in this quote, spoken during a rally in Wheeling, West Virginia: “He wrote me beautiful letters and they’re great letters. We fell in love.’’

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Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un

Your HallR mini-theme (TM) for the week: Exactly What You Think. The Senate Judiciary Committee brought in what ARIZONA PROSECUTOR to ask questions (all for Republican members) of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh, though GOP senators quickly opted to ask their own questions of Kavanaugh rather than let her continue?

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Rachel Mitchell

What DEMOCRATIC SENATOR drew notice - and support from both sides of the aisle - for her handling of an exchange where Kavanaugh angrily questioned if she had ever blacked out from drinking? She had previously noted in her remarks that her father, a well-known journalist in her home state, abused alcohol.

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Amy Klobuchar

What REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE MEMBER announced his intention to vote in support of moving Kavanaugh's nomination to the full Senate, but was moved to force a weeklong delay so the FBI could complete an investigation in part by an elevator confrontation with two women opposed to Kavanaugh's nomination?

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Jeff Flake