The Week of October 29, 2023 by CoenM

Champion(s):

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


Runner(s)-Up:

LynchT
Teacher's Motto: I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.


Quiz Description

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 46 91 82 10 00 00 64 73 37 82 37 64
1 helene 452 95 15
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2 LynchT 319 86 15
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3 loganstarr 282 77 15
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4 FrostL 238 68 00
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5 KPope 203 59 15
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6 DouglasLovesVixey 195 50 00
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7 SokolM 137 36 15
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7 KCrest 137 36 00
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9 Timm 70 18 00
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9 JCEurovision 70 18 15
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11 DFisher 60 4 00
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Questions:

The US House of Representatives released a bill that would provide aid to Israel in their fight against Hamas by taking money away from what FEDERAL AGENCY?

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Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Thousands of staff in particular positions at CVS, Walgreens, and related retailers participated in a three day walkout given what NAME? Participants said the walkout was in protest of deteriorating working conditions that make it difficult to safely dispense medication.

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Pharmageddon

Israel expanded its war in Gaza against Hamas, reportedly attacking Jabalia and Al-Maghazi, two of eight of what type of FACILITY operated by the UN? Israel has stated that Hamas is using facilities such as these as cover for its operations.

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refugee camp

What US REPRESENTATIVE FROM NEW YORK survived an expulsion vote 179-213? The representative is facing 23 counts of fraud and corruption, mostly around his fundraising and campaign spending.

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George Santos

A Michigan Supreme Court decision not to hear appeals in the dismissal of charges against former governor Rick Snyder and other former state employees ended the criminal prosecutions linked to the water quality crisis in what MICHIGAN CITY?

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Flint

Disney announced it would buy the remaining 33 percent of what STREAMING SERVICE from Comcast for $8.6 billion? The plan would be to merge the service, and its original programming like Only Murders in the Building into Disney+ as a brand within that service.

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Hulu

California's Highland fire forced the evacuation of thousands around Temecula after the blaze expanded quickly due to the hot, dry winds named for what MOUNTAIN RANGE that they flow over when going from the desert to the coast?

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Santa Ana

In what ASIAN COUNTRY did 157 people die in a 5.6 magnitude earthquake that struke the Jarjikot and Rukum districts? The country saw 9000 die in a 2015 quake with a 7.8 magnitude.

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Nepal

The American society for what type of ANIMAL said it would rename species named after people, or that included words that are offensive or exclusionary? Upwards of 80 species may be renamed.

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birds

Elon Musk's xAI company announced the launch of what AI CHATBOT, which it said is based on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy even though the name comes from Stranger in a Strange Land?

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Grok

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime stated that farmers in Afghanistan lost $1 billion in after the Taliban formally banned the cultivation of what PLANT?

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poppy

A report in Nature suggested that two areas of high density material in what LAYER of the Earth may be remnants of the collision between Earth and another planet that created the moon?

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mantle