The Week of January 29, 2023 by CoenM

Champion(s):

GoodmanDL
A genius is someone like Norman Einstein...


Runner(s)-Up:

DouglasLovesVixey
Time Person of the Year


Quiz Description

Full Results:

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1 GoodmanDL 316 95 15
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2 DouglasLovesVixey 296 86 00
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3 helene 278 77 00
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4 KonkelT 265 68 15
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5 JCEurovision 251 59 15
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6 ChrisRosenberg 230 50 15
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7 gaufqwi 223 40 15
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8 LynchT 215 31 15
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9 SokolM 175 22 15
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10 DFisher 127 13 00
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11 Tarn 95 4 00
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Questions:

Donald Trump filed suit against what JOURNALIST, whose new audiobook includes recordings of interviews with Trump, which Trump claims are being used without his consent? The journalist used the interviews for his 2020 book Rage.

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Bob Woodward

Boeing delivered the last of what MODEL OF JET to Atlas Air? Boeing built more than 1500 of them since its introduction in 1967.

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747

What ASIAN COUNTRY agreed to give the US greater access to its military bases, a move seen as countering China's increased presence in the Pacific? The US had two bases in this country, Clark Air Force Base and Subic Bay Naval Base, until the 1990s.

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The Philippines

The weather observation station on what NEW HAMPSHIRE MOUNTAIN set a record for lowest recorded wind chill in the continental US at -108 degrees Fahrenheit?

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Mount Washington

California and six other states that draw water from what RIVER filed dueling plans to cut nearly 3 million acre feed from their allocations, as requested to prevent the river from drying up?

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Colorado

The comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was visible from Earth for the first time in 50000 years, notable for its green color caused by light reflected by a diatomic version of what ELEMENT?

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carbon

After weeks of ongoing concern that it could be used for cheating, OpenAI released a tool to detect if text has been written by what PROGRAM that generates text based on user prompts?

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ChatGPT

What US REPRESENTATIVE FROM MINNESOTA was voted off of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, officially due to her public statements against Israel that members of both parties found anti-Semetic?

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Ilhan Omar

What COUNTRY caused a royal kerfuffle when it announced it would not include a picture of the UK monarch on its $5 bill? The bill, currently the only one to still feature the monarch, will instead have an indigenous design.

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Australia

Your HallR mini-theme of the week (TM): Packing it In. Over 100 were killed in a bombing in what PAKISTANI CITY near the Afghan border, targeting a mosque used primarily by security forces and police?

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Peshawar

Pakistan's telecommunications authority blocked what ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA for not removing "blasphemous content?" They did not elaborate on what content was found blasphemous.

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Wikipedia

What STATE saw a train derailmentand fire in the town of East Palestine, which led to the evacuation of all residents within a mile radius of the derailment due to toxic fumes from the fire?

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Ohio