The Week of August 11, 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:

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


Quiz Description

Answer these questions about athletes who gained prominence - but not always gold, silver, or bronze - at this year's Summer Games in Paris.

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2 helene 239 81 15
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3 LynchT 201 68 15
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4 flutist319 186 56 00
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5 DouglasLovesVixey 176 43 00
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7 JCEurovision 143 18 00
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8 DFisher 131 6 00
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Questions:

The Biden administration announced that ten of the most popular and costliest drugs for people using what GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE PLAN will see prices reduced under an agreement made with drug companies? The new pricing goes into effect in 2026.

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Medicare

What US SECRETARY OF STATE set out on his ninth trip to the Middle East, continuing his attempt to broker a cease fire between Israel and Hamas?

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Antony Blinken

After a glitch-filled interview of Donald Trump by Elon Musk on X, both men were named in charges to the NLRB by what LABOR UNION, asserting that comments they made in the interview "interfered, restrained, or coerced" workers exercising their right to organize? Union head Shawn Fain has previously called Trump a "scab" and is targeting one of Musk's companies for unionizing.

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United Auto Workers (UAW)

The US Supreme Court voted 5-4 to temporarily suspend a rule that would include gender identity in the definition of "on the basis of sex" in what TITLE OF THE EDUCATION AMENDMENTS OF 1972 that protects students from discrimination?

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Title IX

The World Health Organization called an outbreak of what VIRUS a global health emergency, as over 17000 cases and 500 deaths have been reported in central Africa? The current outbreak is of a deadlier strain that caused a global outbreak (and a renaming of the disease) in 2022.

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mpox (ne monkeypox)

What COUNTRY saw president Joko Widodo celebrate its independence day in its new planned capital of Nusantara? The city on the island of Borneo is not yet completed.

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Indonesia

What US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE was disqualified from appearing on the New York state general election ballot when a court found that he filed using a false address?

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The Congressional hearings on campus protests over the war in Gaza took another president, as Minouche Shafik stepped down at what IVY LEAGUE INSTITUTION?

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Columbia

What EUROPEAN CAPITAL saw thousands evacuate from its near suburbs as a wildfire swept through its northern suburbs? Starting in Varnavas, over 20000 acres burned, but only one death was recorded.

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Athens

After improving earnings at both Taco Bell and Chipotle, what COFFEE CHAIN hired Brian Niccol to be its new CEO? The chain has seen sales decline due to high prices, slow mobile ordering, and lackluster food options.

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Starbucks

A paper published in the journal Nature posited that the altar stone at what WORLD HERITAGE SITE was not quarried in Wales, but rather in an area of Scotland over 700 km away?

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Stonehenge

Five people, including two doctors and a live-in assistant, were charged in relation to the drug-related death of what ACTOR in 2023? The five are accused of supplying and administering ketamine, a high level of which was found in the actor's blood in postmortem testing.

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Matthew Perry