The Week of February 26, 2023 by CoenM

Champion(s):

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


Runner(s)-Up:

KonkelT
Kai gwa!


Quiz Description

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 34 07 60 27 34 54 27 34 34 00 40 07
1 jveditz 355 96 15
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60
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34
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40
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07
2 KonkelT 345 90 15
34
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60
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54
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40
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07
3 ecpekkle 319 83 15
34
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60
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34
00
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34
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00
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07
4 loganstarr 315 76 15
34
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60
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07
5 HortonR 274 70 15
34
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6 LynchT 256 63 15
34
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27
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7 ChrisRosenberg 250 56 15
34
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34
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8 KPope 246 50 00
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07
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9 Timm 244 43 15
34
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07
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27
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07
10 JamesDenny 240 36 00
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60
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34
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07
11 gaufqwi 237 30 15
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12 Tarn 230 23 00
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27
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13 DouglasLovesVixey 156 16 15
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14 DFisher 122 10 00
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15 JCEurovision 108 3 00
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Questions:

What US CABINET DEPARTMENT released a report staing that they believed that the Covid-19 virus was accidentally released from a lab in Wuhan? FBI director Christopher Wray gave an interivew later in the week voicing a similar opinion.

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Department of Energy

Lori Lightfoot lost her bid for a second term as the mayor of what US CITY? Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson advanced from a nine person field to a run-off.

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Chicago

What COUNTRY announced it would investigate a spate of poisonings in girls schools? Since November over 700 girls in more than 50 schools were sickened by what is throught to be toxic gas.

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Iran

What COMPANY announced it was halting construction on its second headquarters in Virginia due to recent layoffs and changing work patterns post-Covid?

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Amazon

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak and EU president Ursual van der Layen announced an updated agreement over how Brexit will operate in what CONSTITUENT COUNTRY OF THE UK? The previous agreement led that country's major Unionist party to collapse its devolved government.

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Northern Ireland

What AUTOMAKER is recalling over 700,000 Rogue and Rogue Sport compact SUVs due to a problem with its key which can cause the car to shut off during driving?

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Nissan

What EXPECTED 2024 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL released the memoir Courage to be Free, which New York Times book critic Jennifer Szalai said "reads like a politician's memoir churned out by ChatGPT?"

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Ron DeSantis

What COUNTRY sentenced Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski to ten years for allegedly trying to overthrow the government? An opponent of the government, Bialiatski won a share of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in democratic reforms.

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Belarus

What PHARMACY CHAIN said it would not sell the abortion drug mifepristone in 20 states where Republican attorneys general threatened legal action against the chain?

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Walgreens

Your HallR mini-theme of the week (TM): Off the Rails. A crash involving a passenger and a freight train killed at least 57 in what COUNTRY? The crash prompted transport minister Kostas Karamanlis to resign.

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Greece

What TRAIN COMPANY had a second train derail in Ohio in less than a month when 28 cars jumped the track in Springfield? Officials stated that there were no hazardous materials in those cars.

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Norfolk Southern

What CANDY BAR will no longer sport the Matterhorn on its packaging, as its manufacture outside of Switzerland may break laws requiring products bearing certain Swiss symbols to be made in the country?

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Toblerone