The Week of August 18, 2024 by CoenM

Champion(s):

griffism


Runner(s)-Up:

Svoyager-11
Doubt anyone will ever see this, since I didn't join in until after the Phillies quiz (oh, my!)


Quiz Description

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 09 50 75 42 09 50 67 17 25 59 34 59
1 griffism 473 95 15
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2 Svoyager-11 402 87 15
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3 LynchT 355 79 15
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4 HortonR 329 70 15
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5 helene 298 62 15
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6 gaufqwi 274 50 15
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6 SokolM 274 50 15
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8 DFisher 234 37 15
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9 H0H0H0 226 29 00
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10 ChrisRosenberg 210 20 15
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11 JCEurovision 170 12 15
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12 DouglasLovesVixey 143 4 15
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Questions:

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz officially became the presidential and vice-presidential candidate of the Democratic party during the party's convention in what US CITY?

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Chicago

What CHAIR OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE said it was time to start cutting interest rates, but did not give specifics as to when or by how much?

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Jerome Powell

What WORLD LEADER visited Ukraine, six weeks after president Volodymyr Zelensky chided him for hugging Vladimir Putin during a visit to Russia? The leader told Zelensky that he was willing to play a personal role to end the war.

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Nahendra Modi

Pavel Durov, the co-founder and CEO of what MESSAGING APP, favored by Russians fighting against Ukraine, was arrested in France? While charges weren't made public, the app is being probed for its use in illegal activity, from online fraud to drug trafficking.

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Telegram

What INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE FOR US PRESIDENT suspended his campaign and endorsed Donald Trump?

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

What ASIAN COUNTRY promulgated new "vice and virtue" laws which ban the sound of women's voices and the depiction of bare women's faces in public?

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Afghanistan

What INVESTOR AND CORPORATE RAIDER, perhaps best known for dismantling TWA, was charged with not disclosing that he used shares in his investment company as collateral for personal loans?

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Carl Icahn

NASA announced they would not use the Boeing Starliner capsule to return Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to Earth, but rather have it fly home unmanned and then being the astronauts home next February on a ship made by what OTHER COMPANY?

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SpaceX

The US Food and Drug Administration approved new vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna for what DISEASE, currently seeing a summer surge? The vaccines target the KP.2 subtype, which is more closely related to the currently-spreading variant than the one targeted in last year's vaccine.

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Covid 19

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: Oh Canada! The Canadian government forced the two major companies in what INDUSTRY into arbitration with the labor unions representing their workers in order to avoid a general strike? The industry is responsible for moving nearly $1 billion in goods per day, much of it crossing over into the US.

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rail

The Canadian owner of the Circle K convenience stores made a $38 billion offer to buy the Japanese parent company of what CONVENIENCE STORE with 85000 locations worldwide?

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7-11

What RETAILER recalled its Great Value apple juice in at least 25 states due to elevated levels of arsenic? The US Food and Drug Administration said the levels could cause short term health problems but were unlikely to cause serious or permanent injury.

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Walmart