The Week of December 11, 2022 by CoenM

Champion(s):

KonkelT
Kai gwa!


Runner(s)-Up:

TWright17
There are sewers aplenty yet to dig


Quiz Description

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 00 08 39 62 54 00 00 16 08 24 77 16
1 KonkelT 336 96 15
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54
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24
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77
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2 TWright17 298 88 15
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39
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54
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08
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3 loganstarr 252 80 15
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08
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39
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54
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4 Tarn 230 73 15
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08
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39
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08
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24
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5 ChrisRosenberg 221 65 15
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54
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6 helene 206 57 15
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54
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08
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24
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7 KPope 205 46 15
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08
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39
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08
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7 JCEurovision 205 46 15
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39
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9 SokolM 198 34 15
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24
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10 LynchT 183 26 15
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39
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08
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11 DouglasLovesVixey 168 19 15
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24
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12 KCrest 160 11 15
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39
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08
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13 DFisher 121 3 15
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Questions:

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of what CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGE, was arrested in the Bahamas?

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FTX

The US announced that it now had in custody the man who made the bomb that caused the 1985 crash of Pan Am flight 103, killing 270, including 11 people living in what SCOTTISH TOWN whose name is now associated with the bombing?

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Lockerbie

Kate Brown, the outgoing governor of what US STATE commuted the sentences of all 17 of the state's death row inmates to life without parole? She said she did this as the death penalty “cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.”

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Oregon

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility announced they had created the first nuclear fusion reaction to give off more energy than what was used to create it, when 192 lasers created a fusion reaction out of target fuel made of what ELEMENT?

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hydrogen

The US announced it would supply Ukraine with what SURFACE TO AIR MISSILE SYSTEM to help fend off Russian drone and missile strikes? Russian officials warned of "possible consequences" should the missile system be deployed in Ukraine.

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Patriot

The US Senate passed a bill that would ban what VIDEO APP from government-owned devices over concern that China could access user data?

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TikTok

The continuing political unrest in Peru had the unexpected effect of stranding about 300 tourists at what HISTORICAL SITE after the trains that are the only way in or out of the site were shut down?

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Machu Picchu

Donald Trump asked his supporters in the US House of Representatives to end their opposition to what CALIFORNIAN becoming the next Speaker of the House?

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Kevin McCarthy

President Biden signed the Resepect for WHAT Act, passed by Congress in the face of Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in the Dobbs case that argued for using that case to repeal others that supported various rights?

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Marriage

Oscar Leeser, the mayor of what TEXAS CITY, declared a state of emergency over the number of migrants entering the city from Mexico and a potential swelling of those numbers? That growth may come if a Trump-era order using a public health law to expel migrants is overturned.

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El Paso

What AFRICAN COUNTRY saw less than 9 percent of eligible voters case ballots in its parliamentary elections? Opposition parties called for a boycott,saying the election would only give credibility to president Kais Saied, who dissolved courts and the previous parliament in a bid to consolodate power.

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Tunisia

Pope Francis announced that the Vatican would return three marbles taken from what GREEK TEMPLE to the Greek Orthodox Church as a "donation?"

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Parthenon