The Week of March 5, 2023 by CoenM

Champion(s):

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


Runner(s)-Up:

HortonR
Excelsior!


Quiz Description

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 32 13 13 63 57 32 75 00 38 44 38 19
1 jveditz 426 96 15
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2 HortonR 344 90 15
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3 GoodmanDL 334 84 15
32
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57
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4 KonkelT 318 78 15
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5 gaufqwi 314 71 15
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6 helene 313 65 15
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7 JamesDenny 279 59 15
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8 DouglasLovesVixey 275 53 15
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9 KPope 264 46 15
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10 LynchT 247 40 00
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11 KCrest 213 34 00
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12 JCEurovision 192 28 15
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13 Timm 191 21 00
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14 SokolM 160 15 15
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15 Tarn 139 9 00
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16 DFisher 58 3 00
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Questions:

Kaja Kallas's Reform party led parliamentary elections in what BALTIC NATION, likely giving her a second term as prime minister? Her party is expected to form a coalition that will maintain the country's pro-EU, pro-NATO, pro-Ukraine pollicies.

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Estonia

US federal regulators took over what CALIFORNIA BASED FINANCIAL INSTITUTION after its sale of bonds sparked a run on its deposits? It was a popular source of funding for venture capitalists and tech startups.

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Silicon Valley Bank

The Biden administration neared approval of the $8 billion Willow project to drill for oil in the National Petroleum Reserve in what US STATE? The administration also blocked drilling in 16 million acres in other parts of the state.

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Alaska

What DRUG becaome the focus of concerns over shortages when one of its two US manufacturers, Akorn Pharmaceuticals, filed for bankruptcy? The potential shortage is for the liquid form of the drug, not the form used in handheld inhalers to treat asthma and other respiratory ailments.

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albuterol

What EURASIAN COUNTRY scuttled a bill that would have required media companies with at least 20 percent international ownership to register as a "foreign agent?" Protestors opposed the bill due to its similarity to a Russian law that stifled free speech, and were concerned the law would block its EU candidacy.

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Georgia

What US STATE said it would not renew its contract with Walgreens - mostly to provide medication to its prison system - over the pharmacy chain's decision to not sell mifepristone in 20 states?

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California

A gunman killed seven in what GERMAN CITY when he attacked a Jehovah's Witness meeting hall?

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Hamburg

Prosecutors in New York invited Donald Trump to testify in front of the grand jury investigating his alleged payment to what ADULT FILM ACTRESS to buy her silence over their alleged affair?

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Stormy Daniels

In a deal brokered by China, what two MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES resumed diplomatic relations, pledging to re-open embassies within two months? Relations were severed in 2016 when one country (a kingdom) executed 47 dissidents, including a Shia cleric.

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Iran and Saudi Arabia

Your HallR mini-theme of the week (TM): They Fought the Law. Dozens were arrested for protesting the building of "Cop CIty," a police training site in what US CITY? Those arrested were charged with domestic terrorism, as they used bricks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks against police and construction vehicles.

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Atlanta

A bipartisan effort in Congress scuttled an attempt at judicial reform in what US CITY? The city council overrode the veto of mayor Muriel Bowser, but Senate Democrats approved a Republican-led resolution that would overrule the city council.

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Washington, D.C.

Scientists announced that they had mapped the connectome of what INSECT, showing 3016 neurons connected by 548,000 synapses? The insect is already popular among researchers studying genetics.

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fruit fly