The Week of May 5, 2024 by CoenM

Champion(s):

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


Runner(s)-Up:

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


Quiz Description

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1 LynchT 300 95 15
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2 helene 285 85 15
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3 KPope 275 75 15
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4 DouglasLovesVixey 265 65 15
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5 ChrisRosenberg 260 55 15
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6 MeyerMM 255 45 15
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7 SokolM 245 30 15
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7 Timm 245 30 15
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9 JCEurovision 155 15 15
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10 DFisher 120 5 15
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Questions:

The Trump "hush money" case in New York saw what ADULT FILM ACTRESS, to whom the money was allegedly paid, take the stand for multiple days of testimony?

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Stormy Daniels

Climeworks opened the world's largest plant to directly capture what GREENHOUSE GAS for underground storage? The plan can scrub 40,000 tons of the gas per year, compared emissions of 37 billion tons per year.

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Carbon dioxide

Auroras were visible at much lower latitudes than normal in the Northern Hemisphere due to severe geomagnetic storms powered by mass ejections from what OUTER LAYER of the sun?

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corona

Jose Raul Mulino. the president-elect of what CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRY, said he would change immigration policy to deport migrants caught crossing the Darien Gap? The route through Darien was used by an estimated 500,000 migrants last year.

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Panama

What BANKRUPT CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGE announced it would be able to repay its non-governmental creditors in full? The company sold assets to raise the needed money, as much of its cryptocurrency holdings are still missing.

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FTX

What PULITZER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR of The Underground Railroad withdrew as commencement speaker at UMass-Amherst over that school's use of force to disband its pro-Palestine protest encampment?

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Colson Whitehead

What beleaguered AEROSPACE GIANT saw further delays in the first manned spaceflight of its Starliner capsule, though this time due to a balky rocket valve rather than issues with the capsule itself?

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Boeing

Researchers announced that what SPECIES OF WHALE - the largest of the toothed whales - uses a language with a complex internal structure and a "phonetic alphabet?" The whales communicate through clicking sounds called codas.

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sperm whale

The campaign of what US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE said he was in "robust health" in response to a New York Times report that he had previously stated in a divorce deposition that a worm "got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died?"

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Your HallR mini-theme of the week (TM): Life During Wartime. Israel banned what NEWS NETWORK from operating within its borders, raiding its East Jerusalem offices? The network called the claim that it's a threat to Israeli security a "dangerous and ridiculous lie."

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Al Jazeera

Israel increased operations in what southern GAZA CITY, taking control of its border crossing with Egypt while prepping for a full-scale assault? The US paused delivery of some armaments to Israel over its plans for the city.

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Rafah

What RESTAURANT CHAIN announced it would phase out its caffeinated Charged Sips beverages, which are at the center of at least two wrongful death lawsuits?

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Panera