The Week of January 30, 2022 by CoenM

Champion(s):

TWright17
There are sewers aplenty yet to dig


Runner(s)-Up:

ChrisRosenberg
The odds of me winning a quiz are sufficiently low to not compel me to have something witty here.


Quiz Description

Full Results:

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1 TWright17 360 97 15
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2 ChrisRosenberg 340 92 00
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3 ecpekkle 330 87 00
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4 KingJA 270 80 00
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4 JCEurovision 270 80 00
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6 Tarn 265 72 00
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7 LynchT 260 67 00
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8 GoodmanDL 255 62 00
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9 SokolM 250 57 00
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10 Svoyager-11 240 50 00
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10 KPope 240 50 00
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12 HortonR 210 40 00
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12 KlionskyG 210 40 00
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14 ODellM 205 32 00
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15 Vendy12 185 27 00
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16 GovindGrewal 180 22 00
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17 MasonC 175 17 00
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18 BoulierJ 170 12 00
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19 KCrest 125 7 00
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20 DouglasLovesVixey 85 2 00
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Questions:

What NORTH CAROLINA CITY saw the evacuation of thousands of residents due to a fire at a fertilizer plant, due to the possibility of an explosion? While the fire is still burning, residents were allowed to return home over the weekend.

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Winston-Salem

The Biden administration announced it would send roughly 2000 troops to Germany and what FORMER WARSAW PACT NATION to support eastern NATO allies in the face of Russia's military buildup on the Ukraine border? The plan also shifts 1000 troops from Germany to Romania.

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Poland

Ben Ray Lujan, a Senator from what US STATE, announced that he had suffered a stroke last week? While he is expected to fully recover, he may be absent from the chamber for up to a month.

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New Mexico

NASA announced that what ORBITING LABORATORY will be directed to crash into a remote section of the Pacific Ocean when its missing ends in 2031?

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International Space Station

What FORMER VICE PRESIDENT said to a meeting of the Federalist Society in Florida that Donald Trump was wrong in asserting that he had the power to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential election?

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Mike Pence

What PARENT COMPANY OF FACEBOOK saw its stock lose 23 percent of its value in one day after it announced that Facebook lost users in the previous quarter, the first time that had ever happened?

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Meta

In what US STATE did a bill to create the country's first government funded single-payer healthcare system fail after its sponsor, Assemblyman Ash Kalra, refused to bring it to a vote believing it would fail? Opposition from business interests and threats of Democrats losing endorsements if they didn't vote for the bill contributed to its lack of support.

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California

What THREE WORDS complete this quote from a Republican National Committee resolution censuring Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for serving on the January 6 committee: "Representatives Chaney and Kinzinger are participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in (BLANK)?"

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Legitimate political discourse

President Biden announced a resumption in the "moonshot" program aimed at what FAMILY OF DISEASES, with a goal of reducing mortality by 50 percent over the next 25 years? The plan is an update of the program Biden started in 2016 while Vice President.

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Cancer

What EUROPEAN COUNTRY announced it would phase out whaling over the next two years, noting that the market for whale meat became glutted after Japan resumed commercial whaling?

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Iceland

Xiomara Castro was sworn in as the first female president of what CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRY? She entered politics after her husband, former president Manuel Zelaya, was ousted in a military coup in 2009.

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Honduras

In an address given at the start of the Platinum Jubilee marking 70 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II stated that it was her wish that what ROYAL would be allowed to use the title "Queen" once Prince Charles ascends to the throne?

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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall