The Week of June 1, 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

An Egyptian national was arrested for a Molotov cocktail attack against a march in support of Israeli hostages in what COLORADO CITY? He faces 118 state charges - including 28 counts of attempted first degree murder - and a federal hate crime charge.


Question 2

What US CITY saw a growing protest against ICE raids, kicked off in particular by a raid at a Home Depot in the suburb of Paramount? The protestors were met by local and county law enforcement, as well as 2000 National Guard troops federalized by the Trump administration.


Question 3

Ukraine stepped up its offense against Russia with a large drone strike launched from within Russian territory and a new attack on the Kerch Strait bridge that connects Russia to what contested PENINSULA?


Question 4

Lawers for victims spoke out against a deal struck by the US Justice Department and what AEROSPACE COMPANY, which will pay $1.1 billion in compensation to families and to improve safety while avoiding prosecutions over two crashes.


Question 5

The Trump administration announced a travel ban against 12 countries, including what WESTERN HEMISPHERE COUNTRY already reeling over gang violence and Trump administration plans to remove temporary protected status for people from the country already in the US?


Question 6

What FORMER TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FIGURE surprised many by taking to social media to say of Trump's spending and tax cut bill, “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination?"


Question 7

Prices may be down, but cases of salmonella are up from contamination of what FOOD ITEM? Over 70 people in 7 states were made ill by products by a California distribution, who recalled cage free and organic types of its product for potential contamination.


Question 8

While Donald Trump continued to put pressure on Harvard over visas for international students, he also requested that the accrediting body of what OTHER IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITY review its accreditation over the school's handling of anti-Semitic incidents?


Question 9

A combination of radiocarbon dating and AI-powered handwriting analysis found that many of what ANCIENT TEXTS may be older than originally believed, dating back to the 4th century BC?


Question 10

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: Jump to the Left, Step to the Right. What ASIAN COUNTRY ended several months of political turmoil - including a declaration of martial law and a presidential impeachment - by electing Lee Jae-myung of the left wing Democratic Party as its new president?


Question 11

What EUROPEAN COUNTRY took the step back to the right by electing far-right candidate Karol Nawrocki as president? The result overcame exit polling which showed a narrow win for the Donald Tusk-backed candidate, Rafal Trzaskowski.


Question 12

What US AIRPORT saw one of the causes of its chronic delays and cancellations solved, as its runway 4L-22R reopened for flight operations nearly two weeks early?