The Week of August 20, 2023 by CoenM

Champion(s):

helene
I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.


Runner(s)-Up:

KPope


Quiz Description

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 25 00 00 34 59 34 17 75 42 17 34 17
1 helene 375 95 15
25
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59
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75
00
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17
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34
15
2 KPope 269 87 00
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34
00
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34
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17
15
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17
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17
3 JCEurovision 243 79 15
25
15
00
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00
15
34
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34
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00
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15
15
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4 Timm 230 70 00
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15
00
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34
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17
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42
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15
17
5 DouglasLovesVixey 228 62 15
25
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34
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17
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17
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6 LynchT 221 54 15
25
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42
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17
7 HortonR 213 45 15
25
15
00
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15
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15
34
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00
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15
17
00
15
17
8 KonkelT 211 37 15
15
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15
15
00
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17
00
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42
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17
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15
9 gaufqwi 206 29 15
25
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59
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17
15
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10 SokolM 196 20 15
25
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34
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17
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15
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11 GoodmanDL 181 12 00
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42
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12 DFisher 147 4 15
25
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17
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15
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Questions:

Southern California saw torrential rainfall from what TROPICAL STORM, which became the first to cross into the state from Mexico since Nora in 1997?

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Hilary

What COUNTRY became the fourth to land a spacecraft on the Moon, and the first to do so on its south pole? It also successfully released a rover on the lunar surface.

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India

What GAME SHOW HOST and advocate for animal population control died at the age of 99?

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Bob Barker

Donald Trump and the other 18 co-defendants turned themselves in at the jail in what GEORGIA COUNTY, where they were booked on a variety of charges related to that state's 2020 presidential election?

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Fulton County

Roark Capital, an investment firm with stakes in restaurants including Arby's, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Sonic, bought what FAST FOOD GIANT for nearly $9 billion?

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Subway

A plane crash in Russia killed 10, including Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, shortly after his plane left what CITY for Moscow? Prigozhin was born in this city and often traveled between it and Wagner groups in Africa.

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St. Petersburg

Japan made its first release of treated wasterwater from what NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, a process that is expected to continue for the next 30 years? While many consider the water safe, China announced it would ban the import of Japanese seafood in response to the release.

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Fukushima

Nearly 20 years after sequencing the human genome, scientists announced that they had fully sequenced what CHROMOSOME? Long stings of repetitive DNA in the chromosome made sequencing it especially difficult.

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Y

What INTERNATIONAL BLOC voted to invite six countries - Argentina, Ethiopia, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE - to become members?

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BRICS

Emmerson Mnangagwa won a second term as president of what AFRICAN COUNTRY, which he has led since a 2017 coup against Robert Mugabe?

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Zimbabwe

Hartwig Fischer stepped down as the director of what MUSEUM, after more than 2000 artifacts were identified as missing or stolen? He noted that he did not take warnings made in 2021 seriously enough.

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British Museum

FIFA handed down a 90 suspension for Luis Rubiales, the president of what COUNTRY's soccer federation, over a growing scandal involving his kiss of player Jennifer Hermoso after the end of the Women's World Cup? Several coaches and players have stepped down from national team duty in protest of Rubiales.

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Spain