The Week of August 4, 2024 by CoenM

Champion(s):

HortonR
Excelsior!


Runner(s)-Up:

DouglasLovesVixey
Time Person of the Year


Quiz Description

Full Results:

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1 HortonR 354 93 15
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2 DouglasLovesVixey 324 81 15
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3 SokolM 261 68 15
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4 LynchT 229 56 15
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5 helene 223 37 15
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5 ChrisRosenberg 223 37 15
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7 JCEurovision 206 18 15
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8 DFisher 183 6 15
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Questions:

Kamala Harris chose what GOVERNOR OF MINNESOTA as her vice presidential running mate for the 2024 US presidential election?

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Tim Walz

What NOBEL LAUREATE and champion of microfinance and microlending became the interim leader of Bangladesh after its long time prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, resigned and fled to India in the face of ongoing protests?

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Muhammed Yunus

A US federal district court ruled that what TECH GIANT is a monopoly with regards to its search engine, whose roughly 90 percent share of general search services stifle innovation and prevents competition?

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Google

Ukraine took a new approach in countering Russia's invasion by invading what RUSSIAN OBLAST, which shares its name with a World War II tank battle considered by some the largest single battle in the history of warfare?

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Kursk

A global stock market drop, fueled by concerns over a US recession, was paced by what JAPANESE STOCK MARKET losing over 12 percent of its value in one day, its largest single day loss since 1987? Markets largely rebounded over the course of the week

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Nikkei 225

What MUSICIAN had to cancel three shows in Vienna after a terror plot to attack one of the shows was uncovered? Three teens were arrested for allegedly plotting a bomb and bladed weapon attack.

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Taylor Swift

The constitutional court of what ASIAN COUNTRY banned the Move Forward party for its proposal to amend the law that criminalizes defaming the royal family? Move Forward won the most votes in the country's 2023 election, but leader Pita Limjaroenrat was blocked from taking power by the military-dominated Senate.

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Thailand

Nicolas Maduro ordered a ten day suspension of what SOCIAL MEDIA SERVICE in Venezuela, both for its use in arranging protests and its owner's posts about the legitimacy of the recent presidential election? Maduro also went after WhatsApp, trying to get Venezuelans to move to Telegram.

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X

Carles Puigdemont, a leader in what REGION OF SPAIN's independence movement, made a surprise appearance in Barcelona to denounce the government's suppression of the independence movement? He has been living in Belgium since fleeing Spain to avoid embezzlement charges.

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Catalunya

The Trump campaign accused what COUNTRY of hacking it campaign computers and releasing emails and other documents to media outlets? The leaked files included vetting documents on JD Vance.

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Iran

A paper published in the journal PNAS used fossil evidence to suggest that what ISLAND once lived up to its current name, with a plant-rich tundra that covered its land mass less than a million years ago?

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Greenland

The remnants of what HURRICANE caused widespread flooding and power outages across the eastern US? At least 9 people died from the storm, which left 100,000 homes without power from Ohio to Vermont on its way out of the US.

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Debby