2023 Current Events Study Guide

This is where all of the games are discussed.

Moderators: alietr, trainman, econgator, dhkendall

Post Reply
User avatar
MinnesotaMyron
JBOARDIE OF THE MONTH!
Posts: 3427
Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:53 pm

Re: 2023 Current Events Study Guide

Post by MinnesotaMyron »

Old Babes in the Wood - new short story collection from MARGARET ATWOOD.

Victory City - new novel by SALMAN RUSHDIE.
User avatar
MinnesotaMyron
JBOARDIE OF THE MONTH!
Posts: 3427
Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:53 pm

Re: 2023 Current Events Study Guide

Post by MinnesotaMyron »

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.
User avatar
MinnesotaMyron
JBOARDIE OF THE MONTH!
Posts: 3427
Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:53 pm

Re: 2023 Current Events Study Guide

Post by MinnesotaMyron »

Chevy is discontinuing the Camero early next year.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/23/11655891 ... e-in-works
User avatar
alietr
Site Admin
Posts: 8978
Joined: Thu Jun 30, 2011 1:20 pm
Location: Bethesda, MD

Re: 2023 Current Events Study Guide

Post by alietr »

Donald Trump becomes the first former president indicted for a crime.
User avatar
MinnesotaMyron
JBOARDIE OF THE MONTH!
Posts: 3427
Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:53 pm

Re: 2023 Current Events Study Guide

Post by MinnesotaMyron »

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.)
User avatar
MinnesotaMyron
JBOARDIE OF THE MONTH!
Posts: 3427
Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:53 pm

Re: 2023 Current Events Study Guide

Post by MinnesotaMyron »

Brandon Johnson has been elected mayor of Chicago.
User avatar
BrigadierSolo13
Double Double Machine
Posts: 646
Joined: Sat Dec 14, 2019 1:40 am

Re: 2023 Current Events Study Guide

Post by BrigadierSolo13 »

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.
Bamaman
Also Receiving Votes
Posts: 12895
Joined: Sat Jul 02, 2011 1:39 pm

Re: 2023 Current Events Study Guide

Post by Bamaman »

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?
User avatar
DBear
Denier of Pop Culture
Posts: 2548
Joined: Sat Sep 03, 2011 1:57 pm

Re: 2023 Current Events Study Guide

Post by DBear »

Bamaman wrote: Mon Apr 10, 2023 10:06 am 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?
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)
User avatar
alietr
Site Admin
Posts: 8978
Joined: Thu Jun 30, 2011 1:20 pm
Location: Bethesda, MD

Re: 2023 Current Events Study Guide

Post by alietr »

Bamaman wrote: Mon Apr 10, 2023 10:06 am 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?
I guess that's why they're in the minors.
User avatar
MinnesotaMyron
JBOARDIE OF THE MONTH!
Posts: 3427
Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:53 pm

Re: 2023 Current Events Study Guide

Post by MinnesotaMyron »

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.
teapot37
Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
Posts: 2054
Joined: Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:02 pm
Location: Louisville KY

Re: 2023 Current Events Study Guide

Post by teapot37 »

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!.
User avatar
MinnesotaMyron
JBOARDIE OF THE MONTH!
Posts: 3427
Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:53 pm

Re: 2023 Current Events Study Guide

Post by MinnesotaMyron »

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.
Video behind the spoiler tag
(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/
Bamaman
Also Receiving Votes
Posts: 12895
Joined: Sat Jul 02, 2011 1:39 pm

Re: 2023 Current Events Study Guide

Post by Bamaman »

India has passed China to become the world’s most populous country.
User avatar
DBear
Denier of Pop Culture
Posts: 2548
Joined: Sat Sep 03, 2011 1:57 pm

Re: 2023 Current Events Study Guide

Post by DBear »

Bamaman wrote: Sat Apr 22, 2023 5:28 pm India has passed China to become the world’s most populous country.
Thought they did that several years ago.
User avatar
Cat Hammarskjold
Feline Secretary-General
Posts: 1013
Joined: Thu Nov 12, 2015 12:35 am

Re: 2023 Current Events Study Guide

Post by Cat Hammarskjold »

DBear wrote: Sat Apr 22, 2023 6:55 pm
Bamaman wrote: Sat Apr 22, 2023 5:28 pm India has passed China to become the world’s most populous country.
Thought they did that several years ago.
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.
User avatar
mfc248
Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
Posts: 505
Joined: Sat Mar 14, 2015 8:08 pm
Location: Royersford, PA
Contact:

Re: 2023 Current Events Study Guide

Post by mfc248 »

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).
Fallout from the settlement: Tucker Carlson abruptly departs Fox News.
User avatar
squarekara
J! Reactionary
Posts: 1552
Joined: Wed Feb 08, 2017 12:49 am
Location: USDA Zone 5

Re: 2023 Current Events Study Guide

Post by squarekara »

User avatar
Volante
Harbinger of the Doomed Lemur
Posts: 9254
Joined: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:42 pm

Re: 2023 Current Events Study Guide

Post by Volante »

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
But former J! host Aaron Rodgers is in at the New York Jets!
https://deadspin.com/packers-qb-aaron-r ... 1850370493
The best thing that Neil Armstrong ever did, was to let us all imagine we were him.
Latest movies (1-10): Everything Everywhere All at Once (10), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (6), Black Sunday /1960/ (6), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (7)
Post Reply