Alpaca Farm (beta)

The Week of April 27, 2025 by CoenM

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Instructions

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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Questions

Question 1

Tens of millions of people in Europe lost power when unexplained grid instability in what COUNTRY led to an outage?


Question 2

Mike Waltz was relieved of his position as US national security advisor, but rather than being fired he is now the nominee to be the ambassador to what ORGANIZATION? New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik was the original nominee, but was withdrawn due to the narrow Republican majority in the House.


Question 3

The US signed an investment deal with what EUROPEAN COUNTRY, which gives the US access to rare earth and other minerals? The agreement also counts future military aid as investment.


Question 4

What CEO OF BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY announced he would retire by the end of the year, when he will be 95?


Question 5

Ongoing technical and staffing issues, exacerbated by a walkout by air traffic controllers and a runway closed until mid-June all contributed to hundreds of delays and dozens of flight cancellations at what US EAST COAST AIRPORT? United Airlines announced it was cutting up to 35 flights a day due to these issues.


Question 6

A federal judge in Texas ruled that the Trump administration's use of what 1798 LAW to expedite deportations was illegal?


Question 7

The Trump administration agreed to settle a lawsuit between the Department of Agriculture and what STATE, which sued the department after it froze funding for school meals in retaliation for the state's policies on transgender athletes?


Question 8

The US House of Representatives passed measures to roll back what STATE's ability to set stricter limits on vehicle emissions? This included the revocation of an EPA waiver allowing the state to ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035.


Question 9

Ashley Buchanan was fired as CEO of what RETAILER just five months after taking the position? While sales at the department store dropped by more than 4 percent during his tenure, he was fired for unethical behavior involving a vendor.


Question 10

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: GOTV. Mark Carney got to retain his position as prime minister of when what PARTY bested the Conservatives in Canada's federal election? As with its last term under Justin Trudeau, the party will run the country without holding a majority of seats in the House.


Question 11

Voters in what COUNTRY gave its Labor party a larger majority over the conservative Liberal-National coalition? It also meant that prime minister Anthony Albanese would be the first PM in two decades elected to a second consecutive term.


Question 12

Voters in what ASIAN COUNTRY once again returned the People's Action Party to power, winning 87 of the 97 seats in its unicameral legislature? The PAP has run the country since 1959, when it was a largely self-governing state within the British Empire.


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