Alpaca Farm (beta)

The Week of August 17, 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

While Israel called up reservists for planned new push into Gaza City, the government approved a settlement plan in what PALESTINIAN TERRITORY that would effectively cut it in half?


Question 2

Twenty years of leftist governance ended in what SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY with two center-right candidates - Rodrigo Paz and Jorge Quiroga - heading to a runoff election for President? The MAS party had held the presidency since the 2006 election of Evo Morales.


Question 3

The FBI executed a search warrant at the house and office of what FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR to Donald Trump, searching for classified documents?


Question 4

With more troops and federal agents patrolling Washington, Donald Trump said he was considering a similar takeover of what CITY? The city's mayor, Brandon Johnson, called Trump's approach "uncoordinated, uncalled for, and unsound."


Question 5

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said that current economic conditions may shift a policy stance towards a cut in the prime rate at the annual economic symposium held at what SKI RESORT TOWN in Wyoming?


Question 6

PostNord announced it was ending physical mail deliver in what EUROPEAN COUNTRY, citing a 90 percent drop in mail volume since 2000 and recent postage rate hikes? The company traces its roots to a 1624 decree by King Christian IV that regulated mail delivery.


Question 7

The US government took a 10 percent stake in what CHIP MAKER, just weeks after Donald Trump suggested the company fire its CEO? The move came after Nvidia and AMD agreed to pay the government a 15 percent commission on chips sold in China.navy


Question 8

The US sent three guided missile destroyers to patrol the coast of what SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY, saying it was looking to disrupt drug trafficking? In response, president Nicolas Maduro mobilized the 4.5 million militia.


Question 9

Donald Trump continued to press for a review of the content of several Smithsonian museums, complaining that the museums are "where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad" what PECULIAR INSTITUTION "was?"


Question 10

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: Annoying Side Battles in the Culture War. Brian Cornell stepped down as the CEO of what RETAILER, whose in-store sales continue to slump in the wake of boycotts over the company's ending of DEI programs?


Question 11

What RESTAURANT CHAIN sparked criticism with a redesign of its logo, removing a man sitting near a namesake item and updating the design of the restaurant's name?


Question 12

Walmart expanded its recall of products containing what frozen SHELLFISH, due to possible radioactive contamination with cesium-137 during shipping?


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