The Week of July 18, 2021 by CoenM

Champion(s):

GoodmanDL
A genius is someone like Norman Einstein...


Runner(s)-Up:

grimesr


Quiz Description

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 86 58 05 05 39 53 34 86 43 53 53 53
1 GoodmanDL 468 97 15
15
58
15
15
15
15
15
15
86
00
15
53
15
53
15
53
2 grimesr 391 92 15
86
15
58
15
05
15
15
39
15
15
00
15
15
15
53
00
3 UncleTed 343 88 15
15
58
15
05
15
15
39
15
53
00
00
15
15
15
53
00
4 GarciaD 313 83 00
15
58
15
05
15
15
39
15
53
15
00
00
00
00
15
53
5 DeeKay 308 78 00
15
58
15
15
15
39
00
00
00
00
00
15
15
53
15
53
6 ecpekkle 304 73 00
00
15
58
15
15
05
15
15
53
15
00
15
15
15
53
00
7 helene 283 69 00
00
15
05
15
15
39
00
00
00
15
43
15
53
00
15
53
8 KPope 275 61 00
15
58
15
05
15
15
39
00
00
15
00
15
15
00
15
53
8 MattK 275 61 00
00
15
05
15
05
15
39
00
15
00
15
15
15
53
15
53
10 JamesDenny 268 54 00
15
58
15
05
15
05
15
39
00
00
15
86
00
00
00
00
11 Tarn 264 50 00
00
15
05
15
05
00
15
53
15
00
15
43
00
15
53
15
12 Timm 239 45 00
00
00
15
15
00
15
53
15
00
00
15
43
00
00
15
53
13 felsenheldd 220 40 00
00
15
05
15
00
00
00
15
34
00
00
15
53
15
53
00
14 randalleng 215 35 00
00
15
05
15
05
00
00
15
34
00
15
43
00
00
15
53
15 HortonR 211 30 00
00
15
05
15
05
15
39
15
53
15
34
00
00
00
00
00
16 JCEurovision 191 26 00
00
15
05
15
05
00
00
15
53
15
00
00
00
15
53
00
17 LynchT 181 21 00
00
00
15
05
15
05
00
15
53
15
00
15
43
00
00
00
18 GovindGrewal 177 16 00
00
15
58
00
00
15
05
15
39
00
00
15
00
00
00
15
19 Vendy12 176 11 00
00
15
05
15
15
00
00
00
00
00
15
43
00
15
53
00
20 SokolM 152 7 00
00
15
05
15
00
00
15
34
00
00
00
15
53
00
00
00
21 DouglasLovesVixey 78 2 00
00
00
15
05
00
00
00
00
00
00
15
43
00
00
00
00

Questions:

OPEC and affiliated non-member countries agreed to increase oil production, ending a long-running spat between Saudi Arabia and WHAT OTHER OPEC MEMBER, which wanted an increase in its own production quota? The country is still third in overall production by OPEC nations, behind Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

Click to Reveal Answer
United Arab Emirates

An investigation by Amnesty International confirmed and added detail to the use of what SPYWARE developed by Israel's NSO Group against a wide-ranging group of journalists, activists, and dissidents? A NSO co-founder said the spyware got its classically-inspired name due to its ability to "fly through the air" and infect phones.

Click to Reveal Answer
Pegasus

Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who passed away at age 86, was likely best known for his drawing of Muhammed that appeared on the cover of what FRENCH MAGAZINE in 2015, leading to an attack on the publication that killed 12?

Click to Reveal Answer
Charlie Hebdo

What ICE CREAM BRAND announced that it would no longer sell its products in Israeli-held areas in the West Bank and in east Jerusalem? Israeli prime minister Nafthali Bennet informed Unilever CEO Alan Jope that the boycott would have “serious consequences, legal and otherwise?"

Click to Reveal Answer
Ben & Jerry

UNESCO removed World Heritage status from what ENGLISH CITY, saying that its historic waterfront was in danger due to completed and planned redevelopment, including a new planned stadium for Everton?

Click to Reveal Answer
Liverpool

Name EITHER OF THE REPUBLICANS nominated by US House minority leader Kevin McCarthy to the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot at the Capitol that were rejected by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, prompting McCarthy to pull all five of his nominees off of the committee entirely.

Click to Reveal Answer
Jim Jordan or Jim Banks

Pacific Gas & Electric announced it will bury over 10000 miles of electric cable in what STATE in response to power lines causing several wildfires?

Click to Reveal Answer
California

Name either the CHINESE CITY that saw nearly a year's worth of rain in four days, which led to evacuations and flooding of subway tunnels, or the PROVINCE of which it's the capital, where at least 63 have died and over a million people have been displaced.

Click to Reveal Answer
Zhengzhou, Henan

Three reports written using data from the Mars InSight lander gave us the first detailed information on the planet's interior, revealing that what LAYER of the planet is much thinner than Earth's, making less helpful in insulating the planet's core, which may have contributed to Mars losing both its atmosphere and its magnetic field?

Click to Reveal Answer
mantle

What FOOTWEAR COMPANY filed suit against 21 companies, including Walmart and Hobby Lobby, for copyright infringement, accusing the companies of copying their products "distinctively quirky design?”

Click to Reveal Answer
Crocs

What REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA stated that “[i]t’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down” when publicly discussing the state’s rise in Covid-19 cases?

Click to Reveal Answer
Kay Ivey

What CELEBRITY CHEF, along with business partner Joe Bastianich, settled in a court case with 20 former employees who claimed there was rampant sexual harassment in their New York restaurants?

Click to Reveal Answer
Mario Batali