The Week of February 25, 2024 by CoenM

Champion(s):

ChrisRosenberg
The odds of me winning a quiz are sufficiently low to not compel me to have something witty here.


Runner(s)-Up:

Timm


Quiz Description

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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1 ChrisRosenberg 335 95 15
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2 Timm 307 86 15
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3 helene 266 77 15
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4 DFisher 251 68 15
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5 SokolM 250 59 15
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6 DouglasLovesVixey 232 50 15
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7 LynchT 227 40 00
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8 GoodmanDL 213 31 15
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9 KonkelT 172 22 00
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10 JCEurovision 157 13 15
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11 gaufqwi 108 4 00
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Questions:

At least 117 people died in what PALESTINIAN MUNICIPALITY when Israeli soldiers fired on a crowd waiting for food? The US and Jordan began airdropping food to provide additional aid in multiple locations.

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Gaza City

Joe Biden won the Michigan Democratic presidential primary, despite nearly 100,000 people voting what ONE WORD STATUS in protest of the war in Gaza? Donald Trump won the Republican primary, with Nikki Haley taking about a quarter of the vote.

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uncommitted

Parliamentary elections in what MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY appeared to have the lowest turnout since its 1979 revolution? A second poll chose members of the Assembly of Experts, which chooses the country's supreme leader.

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Iran

In what CARIBBEAN COUNTRY did a jailbreak free up to 4000 prisoners, part of a larger surge of violence encouraged by a gang leader known as Barbecue? He also called for gangs to overthrow prime minister Ariel Henry while he is out of the country.

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Haiti

What US SENATE MINORITY LEADER announced he would relinquish his leadership role in November? He also stated that he would serve out the remainder of his term.

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Mitch McConnell

What RETAILER announced it would close 150 stores by 2026, but open new stores for its Bloomingdales and Bluemercury brands?

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Macy's

A US medical school named for what SCIENTIST announced that it would no longer charge tuition after a $1 billion gift from a former faculty member?

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Albert Einstein

What ASIAN COUNTRY saw its record low bith rate slide further in 2023, dropping to an expected .72 births? It is the only country in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with a birth rate below 1.

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South Korea

What COMPANY, which operated the train involved in the East Palestine, Ohio crash last year, saw three of its trains crash in Pennsylvania? Cars wound up alongside and in a river, leading officials to monitor the water for fuel spills.

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Norfolk Southern

Your HallR mini-theme of the week (TM): It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature. The Smokehouse Creek fire merged with other blazes to become the largest wildifre in the history of what US STATE? The fire killed thousands of cattle, and briefly closed the main plant that disassembles US nuclear weapons.

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Texas

What MOUNTAIN RANGE in the western US saw as much as 10 feet of snow fall in a multiday blizzard? Accumulations of up to 3 inches an hour also saw the closure of a stretch of I-80, stranding drivers for hours.

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Sierra Nevada

What MEDIA FIGURE announced she would step down from the Weight Watchers board, which she joined in 2015 after buying a stake in the company? The move was influenced by her admission to using medication as part of her weight loss program.

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Oprah Winfrey