The Week of June 23, 2019 by CoenM

Champion(s):

srs
If you want a fancy interface, go to LL. If you want non-recycled questions, come to Alpaca Farm.

felsenheldd
Wherever you go, there you are.

DeeKay


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): 24 23 51 19 28 04 02 24 14 09 04 38
1 felsenheldd 335 97 15
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1 DeeKay 335 97 15
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1 srs 335 97 15
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4 RichmondJ 330 94 15
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5 Michalle 326 92 15
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6 hypotactic 320 90 15
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7 akambour 307 88 15
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7 LorinBurte 307 88 15
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9 DreierR 306 85 15
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10 McGeeDean 300 83 15
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11 TaylorMA 298 82 15
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12 LynchT 296 80 15
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13 TimL 293 78 15
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14 grimesr 289 77 15
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15 Svoyager-11 288 75 15
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16 ElendilPickle 284 73 15
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17 LiptonM 282 72 15
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18 ArunH 281 70 15
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19 Timm 277 67 15
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19 watkinsAF 277 67 15
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21 Ren 274 65 15
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22 onetruepanda 273 63 00
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23 PrestonC 271 60 15
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23 MirandaM 271 60 15
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23 GoodmanDL 271 60 15
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26 lshultz82 266 55 15
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26 DreyfusB 266 55 15
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28 GarciaD 263 53 15
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29 KPope 262 51 15
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30 MoyseyC 259 50 15
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31 YuC 254 48 00
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32 jlboldrick 253 46 15
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33 colleenw 250 44 15
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34 FauxD 246 43 15
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35 orwant 243 41 00
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36 HortonR 240 39 15
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37 Tarn 239 37 15
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37 KreitzerJ 239 37 15
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39 TWright17 235 34 15
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40 jnowell 234 33 15
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41 MattK 230 31 15
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42 HightB 229 28 15
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42 gregariouschinchilla 229 28 15
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44 Vendy12 222 26 00
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45 BIngram 208 24 00
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46 gaufqwi 198 22 00
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47 BringMoreLegos 195 21 15
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48 HumbabaORiley 190 19 15
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49 ShampooCell 185 17 15
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50 twelvefootboy 183 16 00
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51 queenaoife 177 14 00
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52 HeberleC 173 12 15
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53 MitchellWA 168 11 00
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54 PSUrose 153 9 00
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55 BednarczukJ 150 7 00
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56 JCEurovision 134 5 15
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57 JennyV 125 4 00
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58 DouglasLovesVixey 94 2 00
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59 MilesTeg 0 1 00
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Questions:

In a much disputed re-run, Ekrem Imamoglu was once again elected mayor of what CITY, this time by a margin of 775,000 votes?

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Istanbul

What WHITE HOUSE ADVISOR unveiled a $50 billion development plan for areas of the Middle East, focusing on Palestinian territories, at a peace conference in Bahrain?

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Jared Kushner

The US applied fresh sanctions against Iran, freezing assets belonging to high-ranking officials and what SUPREME LEADER?

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Pharmaceutical company AbbVie announced a $63 billion acquisition of Allergan, which is best known for making what COSMETIC SKIN PRODUCT that uses the A type of a protein that causes flaccid paralysis?

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Botox

Workers at the Boston headquarters of what ONLINE RETAILER walked off the job in protest of a contract that saw the company sell beds and other furnishing for use in detention centers housing migrant children along the southern US border?

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Wayfair

At the first Democratic presidential debate, what CANDIDATE questioned Joe Biden's support for school busing by recounting her own history of being bused? She would later be the focus of online controversy over her Jamaican and Indian heritage.

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Kamala Harris

In a final spate of opinions, the US Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that federal courts have no role in limiting the partisan practice of what type of DISTRICTING?

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gerrymandering

What US STATE enacted a law that would require felons to pay all feed and restitution before being able to vote? A referendum in 2018 that restored the franchise to felons without the additional financial requirement passed with just over 64 percent of the vote.

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Florida

After two decades of negotiating, the EU and Mercosur, a trading bloc representing countries from what CONTINENT, agreed to a draft of a free trade agreement?

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South America?

Scientists announced the discovery of 56 previously unknown lakes under the ice sheet on what ISLAND, though they were not able to determine what impact, if any, the lakes would have on ice melting and sea level rise?

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Greenland

For the second year in a row, 19 of the participants at the G20 summit reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris climate accord, with what COUNTRY once again in opposition?

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United States

In what AFRICAN COUNTRY were more than 260 people arrested in connection to an attempted coup in its Amhara state, which saw the assassinations of the Amhara's president and the country's army chief of staff, Seare Mekonnen?

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Ethiopia