The Week of February 4, 2024 by CoenM

Champion(s):

groug


Runner(s)-Up:

gaufqwi


Quiz Description

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 17 34 17 00 00 42 34 00 00 50 59 25
1 groug 317 95 15
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2 gaufqwi 293 87 15
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3 jveditz 285 79 15
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4 Timm 270 70 15
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5 SokolM 228 62 15
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6 DouglasLovesVixey 221 54 00
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7 JCEurovision 220 45 00
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8 loganstarr 219 37 15
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9 DFisher 218 29 15
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10 KPope 211 20 15
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11 ChrisRosenberg 196 12 15
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12 LynchT 194 4 15
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Questions:

California saw mudslides and flooding from rains fed by an atmospheric river given what NICKNAME, shared with 2008 Seth Rogen movie?

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Pineapple Express

The military junta running what ASIAN COUNTRY announced it would strictly enforce conscription laws, needed to bolster the army that is losing against an insurgency in Shan state and other northern regions?

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Myanmar

Nikki Haley finished a distant second to what OPTION in Nevada's Republican presidential primary? Donald Trump was not on the ballot, opting to only run in the delegate-granting state caucus.

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None of these candiates/none of the above

Donald Trump came under fire for comments that suggested that the US would not defend members of what ALLIANCE who don't meet its minimum defense spending requirements?

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NATO

A report by special prosecutor Robert Hur found that what PERSON knowingly kept classified documents after his term as Vice President, but did not recommend criminal charges? The report also re-raised questions as to the person's mental dompetency.

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Joe Biden

Israel planned military action against Rafah, the site of a border crossing with what OTHER COUNTRY? Concerns were raised about plans due to the large number of refugees in Rafah and the potential for disruption of humanitarian aid supplies.

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Egypt

Nayib Bukele cruised to re-election as president in what CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRY? Bukele has strong popular support for his crackdown on gangs, which have given the country one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world.

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El Salvador

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding what STATE's decision to keep Donald Trump off of the Republican primary ballot claiming he violated the 14th Amendment?

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Colorado

What FORMER FOX PERSONALITY became the first Western jounarlist to interview Vladimir Putin since the start of the war in Ukraine? The two hour interview was posted to the interviewer's website and X account.

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Tucker Carlson

Jennifer Crumbley was found guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter, related to her son's killing of four students at Oxford High School in what US STATE?

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Michigan

What EUROPEAN COUNTRY saw president Katalin Novak and leading Fidesz party parliamentarian Judit Varga resign from their posts in the face of protests over their approval of a pardon for a man convicted of covering up crimes by a sexual predator in a children's home?

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Hungary

The JET reactor set a new record for creation of energy using what METHOD, with a 5.2 second reaction that created 69 megajoules of energy?

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fusion