The Week of December 18, 2022 by CoenM

Champion(s):

jveditz
You'll Have to Speak Up, I'm Wearing a Towel


Runner(s)-Up:

KonkelT
Kai gwa!


Quiz Description

Ignore the due date, the site doesn’t let me enter the usual end date when I’m on my phone.

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 28 00 34 00 50 34 28 67 84 89 34 23
1 jveditz 364 97 15
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2 KonkelT 315 91 15
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3 Timm 301 86 15
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4 helene 296 80 15
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5 DarthPace 295 75 15
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6 Squidpickles 283 69 15
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7 ChrisRosenberg 281 63 15
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8 Matto 252 58 00
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9 JCEurovision 251 52 15
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10 alamble 249 47 15
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11 ElendilPickle 227 41 15
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12 KPope 202 36 00
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13 SokolM 191 30 15
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14 Tarn 182 25 15
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15 LynchT 180 19 15
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16 KCrest 166 13 00
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17 DFisher 117 8 00
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18 DouglasLovesVixey 112 2 00
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Questions:

The US House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol referred Donald Trump for tour criminal charges, including "conspiracy to defraud the U.S. by assisting, aiding or comforting those involved in an" WHAT, a violent and organized attack against an established governmental body?

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insurrection

What WORLD LEADER made a surprise visit to the US, meeting with President Biden and addressing a joint session of Congress to thank the US for its support and to ask for it to continue in its war with Russia?

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Volodymyr Zelensky

What ASIAN NATION banned women from its universities and from working for non-governmental organizations within the country?

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Afganistan

What US STATE saw it’s outgoing governor Doug Ducey agree to dismantle a makeshift border wall made of shipping containers, while a judge ruled against losing gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake in her lawsuit alleging election fraud?

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Arizona

Archaeologists announced the discovery of 168 new geoglyphs in what PERUVIAN TOWN whose 190 previously known glyphs are a UNESCO World Heritage Site?

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Nazca

Officials in Roanoke, Virginia voted to replace the city’s monument to Robert E. Lee with a statue of what WOMAN, whose cervical cancer cells (harvested without her consent) were developed into a cell line integral to biological research?

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Henrietta Lacks

Three bus loads of migrants were dropped off at the residence of what GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL on Christmas Eve? The official, who serves as the Biden administration’s point person for migration, has previously has migrants dropped off at her residence.

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Kamala Harris

What US STATE CAPITAL, whose water system has been unstable for years, saw fluctuating water pressure levels before record cold damaged pipes, leading to boil order?

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Jackson

Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of what CRYPTOCURRENCY TRADING FIRM, testified that her company used billions in FTX funds - including customer funds - in its trading and investing? Ellison plead guilty to seven counts whose sentences could total 110 years, though she is expected to serve a much shorter sentence.

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Alameda Research

What WEST AFRICAN COUNTRY saw a military coup fail to oust second-term president Adama Barrow? While popularly elected, Barrow’s popularity has waned due to personal political maneuvering and his reliance on military from Senegal, Ghana, and Nigeria for protection jobs.

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Gambia

What SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION of China said it would reopen its border with the rest of the country in January, even as Covid-19 cases surged in China?

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Hong Kong

A Canadian government report stated that the population of what ANIMAL in the western Hudson Bay had dropped 27 percent over the last five years? The report noted that adult females and cubs are especially vulnerable to the shorter hunting seasons brought on by climate change.

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polar bears