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Tracer Bullet

Awesome, thanks. You take Monopoly money, right?

JasonF

In your face, lo ... wait. Reverse sheep!?

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Uniques: Palaver (GA), Venusian (NY), The Bus (NC)

Wrongs (8): belboz (WA), wisconsinfan (WI), Birrman (MD)

Rockmjd23

I was going for the bonus points, which will be negated by the fact that everyone else was too.

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Standings

Pharoh : -112
missflores : -101
Tracer Bullet : -96
Palaver : -90
Rockmjd23 : -90
maxfisher : -85
JasonF : -82
jdodd : -80
wmansir : -80
orangecrush18 : -79
Venusian : -76
Birrman54 : -69
Nick Danger : -67
wendersfan : -65
wishbone : -65
Jason : -60
DSC4 : -57
frenchy : -53
The Bus : -53
CRM114 : -50
achau9598 : -42
arminius : -37
feenst : -29
belboz : -26
Thor Simpson : -26

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Question 13. Name a country that is known to have nuclear weapons. "Known" means that the country is recognized as having weapons by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or has conducted a test of a nuclear weapon.

The Bus

If your country is a color that's not gray or green, you're probably OK.

orangecrush

Thanks Bus. You always deliver.

orangecrush

South Africa has nukes?

Rockmjd23

South Africa had nukes in the 80s but they don't anymore.

wendersfan

Yeah, but it's OK because by policy they keep the Plutonium and Uranium segregated.

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France (8): belboz, Birrman54, feenst, Jason, jdodd, Pharoh, Thor Simpson, wendersfan

India (3): frenchy, JasonF, Nick Danger

Pakistan (2): Rockmjd23, Venusian

USA! USA! USA! (7): achau9598, CRM114, DSC4, missflores, orangecrush18,
Palaver, wishbone

Uniques: wmansir (China), arminius (England), Tracer Bullet (Israel), The Bus (Russia)

Wrong (10): maxfisher (Canada)

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5/5

wendersfan

Technically, England isn't a country, just a football team.

Jeremy517

I don't think Israel counts. They almost assuredly do have nuclear weapons, but they don't fit the question's requirements.

Edit: Depends on whether you count Vela as an Israeli test or not.

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Standings

Pharoh : -104
Tracer Bullet : -96
missflores : -94
Rockmjd23 : -88
Palaver : -83
wmansir : -80
JasonF : -79
maxfisher : -75
Venusian : -74
jdodd : -72
orangecrush18 : -72
Nick Danger : -64
Birrman54 : -61
wishbone : -58
wendersfan : -57
The Bus : -53
Jason : -52
DSC4 : -50
frenchy : -50
CRM114 : -43
arminius : -37
achau9598 : -35
feenst : -21
belboz : -18
Thor Simpson : -18

Venusian

Stupid recession question. I thought if i got the month unique, i'd get points, didn't realize i'd be grouped up with the rest of the montsh of the recession

The Bus

You didn't play.

Rockmjd23

They aren't a member of NNPT and have never been confirmed to have tested a nuke.

Jeremy517

Yeah, in filling out my answers, I realized that I saw way too many possible answers when I was coming up with questions. I had to disqualify myself.

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Business nerds, here's your chance to overtake the polisci / liberal arts dodos!

Question 14. Name a stock exchange with a market value of at least 400 billion dollars. You can name it by its name (NYSE) or main stock market index (DJIA). There's at least fifteen.

The Bus

JasonF, defend your client!

JasonF

I know Tracer is my client and all, and I should be sticking up for him, but since he paid me in monopoly money, I have to say that I agree with Jeremy (and I don't think Vela counts).

The Bus

Here are some stock exchanges which qualify:

New York Stock Exchange
Tokyo Stock Exchange
NASDAQ
Euronext
London Stock Exchange
Shanghai Stock Exchange
Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Toronto Stock Exchange
Frankfurt Stock Exchange*(Deutsche Bφrse)
Madrid Stock Exchange*(Bolsas y Mercados Espaρoles)
Swiss Exchange
Bombay Stock Exchange
Sγo Paulo Stock Exchange
Australian Securities Exchange
National Stock Exchange of India
Nordic Stock Exchange Group*OMX1
Korea Exchange
Milan Stock Exchange*(Borsa Italiana)
Johannesburg Securities Exchange

Some people answered with indices, which is OK, since I just converted it to what the exchange was. One exception was orangecrush18, who answered Wilshire 5000, a cross-market index.