The Week of March 19, 2023 by CoenM

Champion(s):

ecpekkle


Runner(s)-Up:

KPope


Quiz Description

Full Results:

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1 ecpekkle 319 97 00
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2 KPope 309 91 15
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3 ChrisRosenberg 294 86 15
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4 KonkelT 276 80 00
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5 helene 261 75 15
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6 LeungT 259 69 15
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7 Timm 253 63 15
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8 HortonR 235 58 00
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9 KCrest 229 52 15
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10 BoulierJ 227 47 15
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11 LynchT 214 41 00
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12 JCEurovision 208 36 15
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13 JamesDenny 186 30 15
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14 DouglasLovesVixey 184 25 15
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15 alamble 160 19 00
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16 Tarn 154 13 00
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17 SokolM 128 8 00
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18 DFisher 111 2 00
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Questions:

What US STATE became the first to enact laws requiring parental consent for children to create and use social media accounts? The laws also give parents access to their kids' accounts and sets a curfew for app use.

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Utah

US military officials announced that Ukrainian soldiers had nearly finished training on what ANTI-MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM, a recent addition to the munitions the US is providing to Ukraine? Troops trained in Europe and at Fort Sill in Oklahoma.

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Patriot

Workers in what US CITY's school district struck a deal for a 30 percent pay hike after a three day strike? Teachers honored their picket line, closing schools for more than 420,000 students in the district?

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Los Angeles

What FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF THE UK denied that he intentionally lied to lawmakers about parties held in 10 Downing Street that broke Covid-19 rules? If the committee investigating the matter finds that he did lie, he could lose his seat in the House of Commons.

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Boris Johnson

While Xi Jinping met with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Ukraine saw a visit from Fumio Kishida, the prime minister of what ASIAN COUNTRY? Kishida had been the only G-7 leader to have not visited Ukraine.

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Japan

Shou Zi Chew, the CEO of what SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM, testified before Congress on issues of data security and user safety? He also made the case for not banning the platform in the US.

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TikTok

What AFRICAN COUNTRY passed one of the most restrictive anti-LGBTQ laws in the world, criminalizing LGBTQ identity or "promotion?" A similar law saw struck down by its highest court in 2014 on procedural grounds, same-sex acts have been illegal since colonial times.

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Uganda

The US military struck Iranian-affiliated targets in what MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY after a drone attack on the Al Tanf military base killed a contrator and wounded five others?

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Syria

The Uffizi gallery in Florence invited students from a Florida charter school to visit after their principal was fired over a lesson for sixth graders that included visuals of what STATUE, whose nudity offended some parents?

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David

At least 26 people died due to a string of tornadoes in Alabama and what OTHER US STATE? Half of those killed were from its town of Rolling Fork..

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Mississippi

Vladimir Putin announced he would be stationing tactical nuclear weapons in what other COUNTRY? His plan has the weapons being based there by July 1, but experts note that the country hasn't started building facilities that could store the weapons.

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Belarus

Scientists reported that DNA analysis from the hair of what COMPOSER did not definitively show a genetic cause for his deafness or GI issues, but did show a genetic base for his liver disease, which likely killed him?

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Ludwig van Beethoven