The Week of April 2, 2023 by CoenM

Champion(s):

GoodmanDL
A genius is someone like Norman Einstein...


Runner(s)-Up:

KPope


Quiz Description

NOTE: I am going to be on vacation for the next couple of weeks, and while I intend to post quizzes there may be some hinkiness with due dates and such.

Full Results:

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1 GoodmanDL 341 95 15
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2 KPope 283 87 15
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3 DeeKay 259 79 15
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4 DouglasLovesVixey 255 70 00
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5 ChrisRosenberg 243 62 15
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6 SokolM 234 54 15
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7 helene 213 45 15
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8 Tarn 194 37 15
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9 quarterrican 185 29 15
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10 JCEurovision 154 16 00
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10 DFisher 154 16 15
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12 LynchT 146 4 15
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Questions:

The OPEC+ block of oil producing states announced a production cut of over 1 million barrels a day, led by what MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY, which will cut its production by 500,000 barrels a day?

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Saudi Arabia

What US SUPREME COURT JUSTICE stated that he advised that he did not have to disclose that a number of his vacations were paid for by a Republican donor?

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Clarence Thomas

A report this week detailed the abuse of over 600 children by more than 150 priests going back to the 1940s in the Catholic archdiocese centered on what US CITY? The archdiocese was the first founded in the US, in 1789.

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Baltimore

What US STATE's house of representatives expelled two members for participating in protests over gun control that distrupted the chamber's proceedings? Opponents claimed a racial motive, as both expelled legislators are Black, and a third legislator who was not expelled is white.

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Tennessee

The debate over crime in what US CITY took on renewed vigor after the stabbing death of Bob Lee, the tech executive who created Cash App?

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San Francisco

More than 5000 people crossed into Thailand from what COUNTRY, due to renewed attacks by the country's Karen minority and People's Defense Force? A 2021 military coup spurred ethnic minorities and pro-democracy to fight together against the government.

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Myanmar

While Donald Trump was arraigned in a New York City courtroom on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, he did win a court case in California against Stormy Daniels, who must now pay Trump's legal fees in a case where she claimed Trump defamed her in posts on what SOCIAL MEDIA SITE?

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Twitter

Federal judges in Texas and Washington issued conflicting decisions over the abortion drug mifepristone and whether or not what US FEDERAL AGENCY violated rules in approving it?

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Food and Drug Administration

The Chinese military held exercises practicing the encirclement of Taiwan, prompted by the meeting between Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen and what US SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE?

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Kevin McCarthy

Your HallR mini-theme of the week (tm): Got Out the Vote. Two center-right parties led voting in Finland's parlimentary elections, meaning that what PRIME MINISTER and leader of the Social Democrats will not get a second term?

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Sanna Marin

Janet Protasiewicz won election to what US STATE's supreme court in the costliest judicial election in US history? Her win gives Democrats a majority on the bench for the first time in 15 years.

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Wisconsin

The salad chain Sweetgreen agreed to change the name of a newly-introduced chicken burrito bowl as it included the name of what OTHER RESTAURANT CHAIN, which brought the lawsuit?

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Chipotle