The Week of March 6, 2022 by CoenM

Champion(s):

ecpekkle


Runner(s)-Up:

GoodmanDL
A genius is someone like Norman Einstein...


Quiz Description

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 10 39 24 81 05 10 00 05 39 10 72 29
1 ecpekkle 349 97 15
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2 GoodmanDL 348 92 15
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3 KingJA 332 88 15
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81
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72
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4 alamble 309 83 15
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39
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5 MasonC 284 78 15
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6 UncleTed 281 73 15
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7 ChrisRosenberg 262 69 15
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39
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8 KPope 256 64 15
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9 RobinJRichards 238 59 15
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10 HortonR 223 54 15
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11 groug 218 47 15
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11 BoulierJ 218 47 15
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13 LynchT 213 40 15
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14 gaufqwi 193 35 00
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15 KonkelT 188 30 15
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16 JCEurovision 184 26 15
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17 helene 169 21 15
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18 randalleng 144 16 15
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19 Stevo600 139 11 00
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20 DouglasLovesVixey 109 7 15
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21 Timm 105 2 15
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Questions:

Yoon Suk Yeol, a former Prosecutor General and candidate of the People Power Party, narrowly won the election to become president of what ASIAN COUNTRY? His platform calls for improving ties with the US and taking a harder line with neighboring authoritarian countries.

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South Korea

The US Supreme Court passed on hearing cases about new electoral maps in Pennsylvania and what SOUTHERN STATE, whose case forwarded an argument that the US Constitution's Electors Clause prevents state courts from hearing cases about federal elections.

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North Carolina

Researchers found the wreck of the Endurance, the ship used by what ANTARCTIC EXPLORER in his storied 1914-15 expedition?

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Ernest Shackleton

What FILE SHARING PLATFORM, a favorite for downloading music files that shut down in 2010 in the face of a lawsuit by the Recording Industry Association of America, announced it would be returning as a marketplace for NFTs?

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LimeWire

The US called "untenable" a plan by what NATO COUNTRY to transfer its MiG-29 fighter jets to a US air base in Germany so they could be handed over to Ukraine? The US feared that the move would be seen by the Russians as an escalation by NATO and lead to a wider conflict.

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Poland

Major League baseball owners and players reached an agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement, which includes the adoption of what "POSITION" in the National League?

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designated hitter

What SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY released two jailed Americans after a US delegation visited to discuss the easing of oil sanctions?

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Venezuela

The US Environmental Protection Agency approved the release of 2.4 million genetically modified males of what type of INSECT as part of a strategy to reduce the spread of diseases like Zika and dengue fever?

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mosquito

The trial of four men charged with conspiring to kidnap what US GOVERNOR started in a federal courtroom in Michigan?

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Gretchen Whitmer

Your HallR mini-theme of the week (TM): Backsliding. The legislature in what US STATE passed the "Don't Say Gay" bill, which would prevent teachers from talking about sexual orientation in primary schools? The governor is expected to sign.

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Florida

WHAT US STATE saw its house of representatives pass a bill that would criminalize taking a trandgender youth out state for gender-affirming medical care?

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Idaho

What COUNTRY executed 81 prisoners in one day, its largest mass execution in modern history? The total surpassed the 63 executed in 1980 for a militant attack against the Grand Mosque.

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Saudi Arabia