The Week of July 19, 2026 by CoenM

Champion(s):

griffism


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:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 40 20 40 20 80 20 40 00 80 40 80 20
1 griffism 290 90 15
40
15
15
40
15
00
15
20
15
15
00
00
15
40
15
15
2 ChrisRosenberg 275 70 15
40
15
15
40
15
00
15
20
15
15
00
00
15
40
00
15
3 LynchT 225 50 15
40
15
20
15
15
00
15
20
00
15
00
00
15
40
00
00
4 JCEurovision 215 30 00
00
00
00
00
15
80
00
15
40
15
00
15
00
00
15
20
5 DFisher 155 10 00
15
20
00
15
20
00
15
20
00
15
00
00
00
00
15
20

Questions:

As expected, who became the NEW PRIME MINISTER OF THE UK, about a week after replacing Kier Starmer as head of the Labour Party?

Click to Reveal Answer
Andy Burnham

Donald Trump announced a 50 percent tariff against a range of goods from what COUNTRY, for reasons ranging from their opposition to previous tariffs to wildfire smoke entering the US?

Click to Reveal Answer
Canada

What COMPANY announced it would delay its merger with Warner Brothers Discovery until legal actions brought by a number of state attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America are settled? The announcement said the merger would now take place in 2027 or five days after the cases are settled, whichever comes first.

Click to Reveal Answer
Paramount

The Trump administration acknowledged in court documents that it canceled over $7 billion in clean energy grants for states won by what DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE?

Click to Reveal Answer
Kamala Harris

Aleksander Vucic, president of what EUROPEAN COUNTRY, announced an early general election in the next three to four months, and that he would resign prior to the election? Vucic is term-limited, and is through to be eyeing a return to the prime minister's office.

Click to Reveal Answer
Serbia

Troy Jackson won a quick, party-based nomination process to replace Graham Platner as the Democratic opponent of Susan Collins in the US Senate race in what STATE?

Click to Reveal Answer
Maine

Police in what GERMAN CITY killed the suspect in a car ramming attack on attendees of the city's Pride festival? The attack killed one and injured 29.

Click to Reveal Answer
Berlin

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani called on the US to arrest what WORLD LEADER if he attends the UN General Assembly meeting in September? The leader is the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for "crimes against humanity" committed in Gaza.

Click to Reveal Answer
Benjamin Netanyahu

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the president of what FORMER SOVIET REPUBLIC, said during a public appearance with Vladimir Putin, that the war with Ukraine should be "frozen" and that Russia should return to negotiations to end the war?

Click to Reveal Answer
Kazakhstan

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: No Way This Turns out Badly. The US struck a deal with what MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY to help them develop nuclear energy? The deal may require the country to join the Abraham Accords recognizing Israel.

Click to Reveal Answer
Saudi Arabia

What ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPANY announced that two of its models broke out of a testing environment and launch a cyberattack against the AI startup Hugging Face?

Click to Reveal Answer
OpenAI

What LANGUAGE created a new word - kokushobi, which translates to "cruelly hot day" in English - to describe days with a high temperature of 40 Celcius (104 Fahrenheit) or higher?

Click to Reveal Answer
Japanese