The Week of June 30, 2024 by CoenM

Champion(s):

Timm


Runner(s)-Up:

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


Quiz Description

Full Results:

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1 Timm 428 93 15
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2 ChrisRosenberg 319 81 15
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3 ArminTamzarian 238 68 00
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4 HortonR 234 56 15
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5 DouglasLovesVixey 231 43 00
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6 LynchT 229 31 15
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7 JCEurovision 141 18 00
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8 DFisher 114 6 15
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Questions:

The US Supreme Court found that presidents enjoy widespread immunity when committing "official" or core Constitutional acts, in a 6-3 verdict that did see what TRUMP APOINTEE author a partial concurrence, as she did not agree with the part of the opinion involving what information juries could get in cases where the President does not have immunity?

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Amy Coney Barrett

What HURRICANE set a record as the earliest in known history to reach category 5 status? After hitting Caribbean islands including Grenada and Jamaica, it is expected to reach south Texas as a category 1 storm.

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Beryl

What FORMER PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL was indicted on money laundering charges stemming from not reporting over $3 million in diamonds and other jewelry gifted to him by Saudi Arabia? He is also facing charges that he falsified his Covid-19 vaccination records.

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Jair Bolsanaro

The US government awarded a $176 million contract to Moderna to develop a mRNA vaccine against what VIRUS? Despite its popular name, it is currently infecting dairy cattle and workers, with at least 135 herds and 4 workers infected

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Bird flu (H5N1)

What EUROPEAN LEADER went on a "peace mission," visiting both Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian president Vladimir Putin? The EU stressed that the visits were unofficial, and did not fall under the leader's role as president of the Council of the European Union.

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Viktor Orban

Over 1000 in South Korea were sickened by what POPULAR VEGETABLE DISH, when a school served batches contaminated with norovirus?

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Kimchi

What NATIVE AMERICAN activist, convicted nearly 50 years ago in the killings of two FBI agents, was denied parole? Supporters have long questioned the case against him, noting the lack of eyewitnesses and a ballistics report finding the bullets that killed the agents did not come from his gun.

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Leonard Peltier

Saks Fifth Avenue and Amazon partnered to buy the holding group named for what UPSCALE DEPARTMENT STORE, founded in Dallas in 1907? The combined company will include the namesake company and Bergdorf Goodman.

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Neiman Marcus

The supreme court in what US STATE struck down two anti-abortion laws, based on protections inherent in the state constitution? The decisions come roughly two years after the state's voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have sharply limited abortion access.

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Kansas

Your HallR mini-theme of the week (TM): GOTV Europe. In the first round of parliamentary voting in France, what FAR RIGHT PARTY pulled in nearly a third of the vote? Should they win a majority of seats after the second round, 28 year old Jordan Bardella - a protege of Marine Le Pen - would likely become prime minister.

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National Rally

What LEADER OF THE LABOUR PARTY became the new prime minister of the UK after Labour won 412 seats in the 650 seat House of Commons?

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Kier Starmer

What FORMER WHITE HOUSE STRATEGIST FOR DONALD TRUMP reported to the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, to serve a four month sentence for contempt of Congress? He refused to comply with a subpoena related to the House investigation into the January 6 Capitol riot.

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Steve Bannon