Alpaca Farm (beta)

The Week of January 31, 2021 by CoenM

Champion(s):

grimesr

Runner(s)-Up:

SacredSam
David, stop acting like a disgruntled pelican!

Quiz Description

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 11 05 61 07 16 09 31 14 11 59 44 81
1 grimesr 424 98 15
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81
2 SacredSam 396 96 15
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81
3 SchiefelbeinM 365 94 15
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59 		15
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81
4 KonkelT 339 92 15
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44 		00
5 ecpekkle 320 90 15
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81
6 GoodmanDL 318 88 15
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81
7 DreyfusB 317 85 15
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59 		15
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8 petkunm 304 83 15
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59 		00
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9 RobinJRichards 294 81 15
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81
10 mwg 288 79 15
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44 		00
11 griffism 287 77 15
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12 srs 286 75 15
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81
13 TaylorMA 285 72 15
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14 BClemens 282 70 15
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15 imogen 278 68 00
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16 UncleTed 259 65 15
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16 Svoyager-11 259 65 15
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18 GarciaD 251 61 15
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19 DrSteveC 246 58 15
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19 KPope 246 58 15
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21 jveditz 240 55 15
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59 		00
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22 LynchT 231 53 15
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23 MattK 221 51 15
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24 helene 211 48 15
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25 Tarn 202 46 15
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26 ElendilPickle 199 44 15
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27 HortonR 196 42 15
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28 groug 194 40 15
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29 DeeKay 193 38 15
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30 RautY 192 35 15
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31 KlionskyG 188 33 15
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32 JoeM 187 31 15
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33 FauxD 173 28 15
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33 alamble 173 28 15
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35 DavidA 159 25 15
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36 JCEurovision 153 21 15
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36 McGeeDean 153 21 15
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38 Vendy12 151 17 15
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38 shambolic 151 17 00
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40 SokolM 140 14 15
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41 Eponine 133 11 15
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42 JamesDenny 131 9 15
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43 DFisher 122 7 00
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44 MeyerMM 111 5 15
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45 DouglasLovesVixey 84 3 00
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46 Atomiccoffey 37 1 00
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Questions:

Question 1

What ASIAN COUNTRY saw a military coup replace its democratically-elected government, asserting irregularities in November 2020 elections? The military ruled here from 1962 to 2011, when it implemented a transition to democratic rule.

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Myanmar

Question 2

The Canadian government named what WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUP as a terrorist organization? The Southern Poverty Law Center labeled it a hate group in 2019, prompting a lawsuit by founder Gavin McInnis.

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Proud Boys

Question 3

Jeff Bezos announced that he would step down as CEO of Amazon, and will be replaced by Andrew Jassy, who has led what DIVISION of Amazon since its inception 15 years ago?

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Question 4

Republicans in the US House of Representatives voted to keep what REPRESENTATIVE FROM WYOMING as the House Republican Conference Chair, the third-highest ranking party member in the chamber? Her support for Donald Trump's second impeachment led some in the party to seek her ouster.

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Liz Cheney

Question 5

The Fox Business Channel cancelled the show of what HOST - the most watched personality on the channel - a day after voting technology company Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit that included the host as a named defendant? Similar to the Dominion lawsuit, the Smartmatic suit claims that Fox and various individual defamed the company through its claims of election fraud in the 2020 US Presidential election.

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Lou Dobbs

Question 6

What COUNTRY saw former European Central Bank head Mario Draghi tapped to form a new government, after former prime minister Matteo Renzi pulled his party out of the governing coalition, toppling the government of Giuseppe Conte?

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Italy

Question 7

PayPal announced that the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is investigating what PAYMENT APP over claims of unauthorized transfers?

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Venmo

Question 8

President Biden announced the US would no longer support Saudi Arabia’s involvement in a war with what NEIGHBORING COUNTRY, saying that the six year-old war needs to end?

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Yemen

Question 9

The US House of Representatives stripped what GEORGIA REPUBLICAN of her committee assignments based on past statements supporting violence against Democrats?

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Marjorie Taylor Greene

Question 10

What CONSULTING FIRM agreed to pay at least $573 million to a consortium of states over its role advising Purdue Pharma in the manufacture and sales of OxyContin?

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McKinsey & Co.

Question 11

What SECRETARY OF STATE under Ronald Reagan, who also served as Secretary of Labor and Secretary of the Treasury under Nixon, passed away at age 100?

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George Schultz

Question 12

The US withdrew its support for a rival candidate, making Nigeria’s former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala the next head of what INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION? She will be the first woman and first African to lead the organization.

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World Trade Organization (WTO)