2023 Current Events Study Guide
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Old Babes in the Wood - new short story collection from MARGARET ATWOOD.
Victory City - new novel by SALMAN RUSHDIE.
Victory City - new novel by SALMAN RUSHDIE.
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Comedian Andy Kaufman is being inducted into the WWE Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Mental Floss has a good article about his history with wrestling:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/andy- ... ll-of-fame
Actual wrestlers being inducted this year include Rey Mysterio and The Great Muta. Other inductees may be announced before the March 31st ceremony.
Mental Floss has a good article about his history with wrestling:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/andy- ... ll-of-fame
Actual wrestlers being inducted this year include Rey Mysterio and The Great Muta. Other inductees may be announced before the March 31st ceremony.
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Chevy is discontinuing the Camero early next year.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/23/11655891 ... e-in-works
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Donald Trump becomes the first former president indicted for a crime.
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Starry is the new lemon-lime soda from PepsiCo, replacing Sierra Mist in their lineup.
(Credit Jeopardy champ Yogesh Raut's blog for prompting this post.)
(Credit Jeopardy champ Yogesh Raut's blog for prompting this post.)
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Brandon Johnson has been elected mayor of Chicago.
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Jon Rahm, a Spanish-American golfer born in Basque Country, has won the 2023 Masters. It is his 2nd PGA Major Championship, his other being the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines in 2021.
He has yet to appear as a clue on Jeopardy!, but I fully expect some sort of BEFORE & AFTER clue in the near future about him and former WH Chief of Staff and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, who has 12 hits in the archives.
He has yet to appear as a clue on Jeopardy!, but I fully expect some sort of BEFORE & AFTER clue in the near future about him and former WH Chief of Staff and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, who has 12 hits in the archives.
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In a minor league baseball game played on April 8, the Chattanooga Lookouts defeated the Rocket City Trash Pandas 7-5 despite not doing this the entire game.
Spoiler
What is record a base hit?
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Spoiler
walk
walk
popup
walk
strikeout
walk (forced a run)
3-base error (3 runs)
----new pitcher------
hit by pitch
hit by pitch
hit by pitch (another run)
walk (another run)
wild pitch (another run--7 total)
hit by pitch
strikeout (finally)
walk
popup
walk
strikeout
walk (forced a run)
3-base error (3 runs)
----new pitcher------
hit by pitch
hit by pitch
hit by pitch (another run)
walk (another run)
wild pitch (another run--7 total)
hit by pitch
strikeout (finally)
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Last week FINLAND became the newest member of NATO.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/fi ... 023-04-04/
Sweden also applied to join last year, but their application has been held up by Turkey and Hungary.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/fi ... 023-04-04/
Sweden also applied to join last year, but their application has been held up by Turkey and Hungary.
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Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News have agreed on a settlement in Dominion's lawsuit against the broadcaster alleging defamation. The settlement amount is being reported as $787 million, believed to be the second-largest libel payout in US history (behind only the $965 million verdict against Alex Jones).
Not many people can say they've lost four times on Jeopardy!.
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Maybe #83 on the Hot 100 is news, maybe it ain't, but either way PEACHES is Jack Black's first Billboard charting song as a solo artist. A love ballad to Princess Peach sung by Bowser in "The Super Mario Bros. Movie", its trivia-worthiness comes from sharing a title with a 2021 Justin Bieber #1 and a 1996 Top 40 hit by The Presidents of the United States of America.
(In case you didn't know, Black voices Bowser in the movie; Princess Peach is voiced by Anya Taylor-Joy.)
https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-b ... 235304748/
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India has passed China to become the world’s most populous country.
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Depending on what source you use, it may have happened as early as 2006, and the propaganda campaign that China has been using to inflate their population numbers finally wore out.
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Fallout from the settlement: Tucker Carlson abruptly departs Fox News.teapot37 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 18, 2023 4:55 pm Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News have agreed on a settlement in Dominion's lawsuit against the broadcaster alleging defamation. The settlement amount is being reported as $787 million, believed to be the second-largest libel payout in US history (behind only the $965 million verdict against Alex Jones).
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And Don Lemon is out at CNN:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/24/cnn-anc ... twork.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/24/cnn-anc ... twork.html
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But former J! host Aaron Rodgers is in at the New York Jets!squarekara wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 5:13 pm And Don Lemon is out at CNN:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/24/cnn-anc ... twork.html
https://deadspin.com/packers-qb-aaron-r ... 1850370493
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