Answer the questions below to the best of your ability without using outside resources. Outside references include (but certainly are not limited to) searching for an answer on the internet, looking at maps, using a calculator, or asking a friend (or foe) if they know the answer. Basically, you are relying on your brain (and maybe a pencil and paper).
For each correct answer, you will receive 15 points. You must also mark 5 questions as "money" questions. For each money question that you answer correctly, you will receive bonus points equal to the percent of players who answered incorrectly. (That is, if 25% of players got a question right, its money bonus would be worth 75 points.) You still don't get any points for a wrong answer, though, so try to select the hardest questions you think you have answered correctly. (Note: You can't use outside resources to help pick your money questions either.)
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A group of national security officials came under fire for using what encrypted MESSAGING APP to share information about a strike against the Houthis in Yemen? The group was found out when The Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg was added to the chat.
What ASIAN COUNTRY was struck by a major earthquake, killing at least 1700, while neighboring Thailand scoured a collapsed building for several dozen missing construction workers?
Vice President JD Vance and his wife visited what ISLAND, although their visit was limited to a US military base at Pittufik? Vance took the visit to argue that the island would be better off as part of the US.
Utah became the first US state to ban what ADDITIVE in public water supplies? The ban was based on statements by Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. questioning the additive's health benefits.
Poland suspended the right to asylum for migrants entering the country via its border with what other COUNTRY? Poland accuses it of weaponizing immigration as a way to destabilize the EU.
Donald Trump withdrew the nomination of what CONGRESSWOMAN as US ambassador to the United Nations? Trump cited the narrow Republican majority in the House for the reversal.
What GENETIC TESTING COMPANY declared bankruptcy, and was allowed to include its personal genetic and medical databases in a potential sale of the business?
The supreme court of what US STATE rejected attorney general Josh Kaul's efforts to block Elon Musk from giving $1 million to two voters in its upcoming supreme court election?
Dr. Peter Marks, the chief vaccine official for what US FEDERAL AGENCY, resigned, stating “It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies?"
Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: Fire Bad. Wildfires continued to burn in the Carolinas, with the largest fire being the Table Rock fire in South Carolina, burning in a state park on the edge of what MOUNTAIN RANGE that is part of the Appalachians?
A man performing a ritual at a family gravesite is thought to have started the wildfire in what ASIAN COUNTRY that killed at least 30 people? The fire also destroyed the 7th century Goun Temple, a UNESCO world heritage site.
A Swiss court cleared Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini on corruption charges while working for what INTERNATIONAL SPORTS ORGANIZATION? Their charges were part of a larger 2015 corruption investigation.