The Week of September 20, 2026 by CoenM

Champion(s):

HortonR
Excelsior!


Runner(s)-Up:

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

griffism


Quiz Description

Full Results:

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2 ChrisRosenberg 200 60 15
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2 griffism 200 60 15
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4 JCEurovision 165 30 15
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5 LynchT 130 10 15
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Questions:

A number of world leaders appeared at the United Nations, including Benjamin Netanyahu, who used his speech to deny charges of genocide and strike back at critics, including what MAYOR OF NEW YORK, whom he called antisemetic?

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Zohran Mamdani

Flights were delayed in the northeast corridor after a failure at what AIRPORT's Terminal Radar Approach Control, which handles traffic for itself, Newark, and Teterboro airports? The failure was compounded by a cut of a backup cable due to construction in New Jersey.

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Philadelphia

What COUNTRY announced it had struck against the Tigray People's Liberation Front, against whom it fought a two year war from 2020 to 2022?

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Ethiopia

A federal judge in North Carolina said that the trial against what FORMER FBI DIRECTOR for allegedly threatening to kill Donald Trump won't start until next year? The charges stem from a picture of seashells arranged to show "8647," which was interpreted as a threat.

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James Comey

What MEDIA COMPANY reached a settlement with a number of state attorneys general, opening the way for its merger with Warner Brothers Discovery?

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Paramount

The Pentagon said it was investigating how replacement parts for the F-35 fighter wound up in what SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION of China? The Pentagon did state that the parts were not "sensitive equipment."

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Hong Kong

A paper by Stanford researchers published in Nature Neuroscience stated that what ORGAN is actually two separate organs? The paper noted that the two organs develop from different progenitor cells.

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brain

A jury in New Mexico found what MULTI-PLATFORM SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY committed 43 million violations of the state's Unfair Practices Act when it did not tell the truth about how it handles personal data and tries to prevent misinformation online? If assessed the maximum fine for each violation, the company would face a $219 billion judgement.

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Meta

For the third time in as many weeks, the US Supreme Court ruled that what STATE had to use its 2022 Congressional map for November's general election? The unsigned opinion noted that voting had already begun, and noted that lower courts should not approve the use of the more recently-approved map.

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Missouri

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: Ai Ai AI! A federal appeals court sided with the Pentagon in its decision to blacklist what AI COMPANY as a "supply chain risk?" The ban does not prevent other federal agencies from using Claude or any other of the company's products.

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Anthropic

Chinese president Xi Jinping met with Donald Trump after attending the UN, and while the details of their discussions are private, the Trump administration suggested that Xi agreed with Trump that the term "artificial intelligence" should be replaced with WHAT SORT of "intelligence?"

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super

Approximately 800,000 people jammed Paris to attend an open air Mass celebrated by Pope Leo in what SQUARE, which is best known as the execution site of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette?

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Place de la Concorde