The Week of March 21, 2021 by CoenM

Champion(s):

grimesr


Runner(s)-Up:

Commodore
Anchor down


Quiz Description

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 11 06 19 48 14 22 06 66 40 66 95 56
1 grimesr 470 98 00
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2 Commodore 408 96 15
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3 SokolM 340 93 15
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4 UncleTed 335 90 15
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5 RobinJRichards 330 88 15
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6 ecpekkle 329 85 15
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7 SngD 312 82 15
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8 srs 311 80 15
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9 KPope 303 77 15
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10 GoodmanDL 296 75 15
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11 TaylorMA 285 72 15
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12 KonkelT 273 69 15
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13 BClemens 267 67 15
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14 gaufqwi 265 63 15
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14 Vendy12 265 63 15
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16 TWright17 262 59 15
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17 jveditz 255 56 15
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18 GarciaD 248 53 15
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19 JCEurovision 240 51 15
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20 DeeKay 239 48 15
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21 DreyfusB 218 46 15
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22 KlionskyG 212 43 15
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23 shambolic 207 40 00
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24 KCrest 205 38 15
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25 Tarn 204 35 15
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26 alamble 195 32 15
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27 helene 182 28 15
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27 LynchT 182 28 15
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29 JoeM 175 25 15
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30 cummingsj 161 22 15
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31 HortonR 156 19 15
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32 HoodM 154 17 15
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33 MattK 144 14 15
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34 Eponine 139 11 15
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35 Nicola 131 9 15
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36 Atomiccoffey 128 6 00
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37 DouglasLovesVixey 111 3 00
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38 magebeans 109 1 15
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Questions:

What COMPANY announced its own enticement for Americans to get the Covid-19 vaccination by pledging a free doughnut every day for the rest of 2021 to anyone who shows proof of vaccination?

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Krispy Kreme

The container ship Ever Given ran aground and blocked what WATERWAY, where it may tie up global shipping for weeks?

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Suez Canal

For the second time in less than a week. the US saw a mass shooting event, with a supermarket in what COLORADO CITY the site of an attack that killed ten?

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Boulder

What US STATE continued its war on pornography when governor Spencer Cox signed a bill into law that requires cellphones and tablets to have porn-blocking filters?

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Utah

What US STATE became the first that was formerly part of the Confederacy to repeal the death penalty? The state has executed more people than any other, though it had a head start by executing its first person in 1608.

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Virginia

China called for boycotts against products sold by H&M and Nike after both companies voiced concerns that China was using forced Uighur labor in the production of what FABRIC CROP? The comments, made last year, were republished in China after increased sanctions by Western countries.

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cotton

President Biden said that the Justice Department was looking into a recently-enacted election law in what US STATE that increased ID requirements for absentee voting, limited the number of ballot drop-off locations, and criminalized giving food or water to people waiting in line to vote?

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Georgia

What former HEAD OF THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION said in a CNN interview that he believed the Covid-19 virus was accidentally released from a Chinese lab?

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Robert Redfield

What US CAPITAL CITY saw flash flooding that killed four and required over 130 people to be rescued? While the rain that caused the flooding moved on, the Cumberland and Harpeth Rivers were expected to crest on the day after the flooding.

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Nashville

Your HallR mini-theme of the week (TM): Two Art, Please. a 30 million Euro renovation to a cathedral in what BELGIAN CITY created a visitor center and new display case for its famed altarpiece, created by Hubert and Jan Van Eyck in 1432?

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Ghent

Aberdeen University joined Cambridge University and several institutions in Germany and the US to return bronzes looted from what AFRICAN KINGDOM during a 1897 expedition that destroyed the kingdom's capital?

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Benin

Clashes between police and Muslim protesters marked a visit by Indian prime minister Narendra Modi to what NEIGHBORING COUNTRY? The protesters were motivated by what they consider the marginalization of Muslims during Modi's ternure in office.

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Bangladesh