The Week of February 2, 2025 by CoenM

Champion(s):

SokolM


Runner(s)-Up:

DouglasLovesVixey
Time Person of the Year


Quiz Description

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1 SokolM 364 94 15
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2 DouglasLovesVixey 334 83 15
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3 ChrisRosenberg 327 72 15
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4 Svoyager-11 315 61 15
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5 JCEurovision 240 50 00
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6 HortonR 239 38 15
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7 LynchT 158 22 15
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7 MichaelD801 158 22 00
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9 DFisher 143 5 00
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Questions:

While Donald Trump's tariffs against Canada and Mexico were paused for 30 days, those against China went into effect, with China announcing retaliatory tariffs, export restrictions on certain metals, and an anti-trust investigation into what COMPANY, likely to focus on its mobile operating system rather than its search engine, which is blocked in China.

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Google

Among his attempts to shut down USAID and the Department of Education, Donald Trump said he was firing several board members of what NATIONAL CULTURAL CENTER and naming himself as its new chair?

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Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

What EUROPEAN COUNTRY saw its worst mass shooting ever, with 10 deaths at a school in Orebro? Police have not yet identified the victims or given a motive for the shootings.

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Sweden

Donald Trump said that the US would use what BASE ON CUBA to house up to 30,000 people being deported from the US?

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Guantanamo Bay

Who was the first WORLD LEADER to visit Donald Trump at the White House for his second term? At a joint press conference, Trump announced a plan to turn a neighboring territory into the "Riviera of the Middle East.”

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Benjamin Netanyahu

Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping aid to what COUNTRY citing a land expropriation law, while offering refugee status to its white residents?

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South Africa

A 7.6 magnitude earthquake shook the Caribbean Sea, with a center 129 miles southwest of George Town, the capital of what BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORY? While a tsunami warning was issued for several countries, none were reported.

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Cayman Islands

Lebanon formed its first government since 2022, with what ISLAMIST PARTY AND PARAMILITARY GROUP excluded from appointing ministers after a threat from the US? Their ally, the Amal Movement, named ministers in its place.

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Hezbullah

Russell Vought, the main author of what HERITAGE FOUNDATION PLAN FOR GOVERNMENT, was confirmed by the US Senate to head the Office of Management and Budget?

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Project 2025

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: Goin' South. while on a trip to Central and South America, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was offered the use of a maximum security prison in what COUNTRY by its president, Nayib Bukele? The offer also floated the idea of sending American prisoners as well as deportees.

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El Salvador

Rubio's visit to Panama led to that country not renewing a deal with China over infrastructure maintenance at the Panama Canal, part of what INITIATIVE that China launched to improve relations with other countries through infrastructure and other development programs?

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Belt and Road

What RESTAURANT CHAIN covered its egg costs by smothering customers with a 50 cent surcharge on egg dishes?

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Waffle House