Alpaca Farm (beta)

The Week of May 18, 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

Former president Joe Biden announced that he had a particularly aggressive form of what CANCER?


Question 2

While voters in Romania rejected its far-right candidate for president, voters in what other EUROPEAN COUNTRY will see a runoff for its presidency, with Rafal Trzaskowski facing off against conservative historian Karol Nawrocki? Trzaskowski won the first round of voting, but by a narrower margin than expected.


Question 3

The US House of Representatives narrowly passed a wide-ranging bill whose provisions include work requirements and other changes that may lead to as many as 8.6 million people losing health care coverage under what PROGRAM?


Question 4

The US Supreme Court approved an emergency order that removes temporary protected status for over 300,000 migrants from what SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY? The court ruled just days previously that the administration could not use the Alien Enemies Act to deport a different group of migrants from the same country.


Question 5

The US Mint placed its final order for blanks to make what COIN? There are currently 114 billion of these coins in circulation, so they aren't expected to remain in use for a few years.


Question 6

A federal judge in Boston temporarily blocked attempts to dismantle what EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, saying funding and staffing reductions illegally delays provision of legally required services?


Question 7

Donald Trump announced a number of new tariffs, including one specifically aimed at what SMARTPHONE, saying that any made outside of the US would be subject to a 25 percent tariff?


Question 8

Donald Trump announced his plan for a $175 billion missile defense system known by what NAME? He said he expects it to be operational by the time his term ends in 2029.


Question 9

What NATO MEMBER NATION undertook its first long-term military deployment since World War II, sending a brigade to Lithuania? The move follows a plan to sharply increase defense spending, favored by its recently-elected chancellor.


Question 10

Donald Trump engaged in another ambush of a world leader in the Oval Office, taking Cyril Ramphosa of what COUNTRY to task over a "white genocide" for which there is no credible evidence?


Question 11

A study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition stated that what VITAMIN - in addition to aiding bone health and reducing inflammation - may also help slow biological aging by protecting telomeres, the ends of chromosomes that shorten as humans age?


Question 12

With the federal government's funding cuts and Warner Brother Discovery not renewing its partnership, the way to get to Sesame Street now goes through what STREAMING SERVICE? The service will show a new season and 90 hours of previous programming, while the show will also continue to air on PBS.


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