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The Week of October 5, 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

Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease fire, leading to a summit in what AFRICAN CAPITAL CITY for discussions on a long-term peace and rebuilding of Gaza?


Question 2

The Department of Justice went with bank fraud in indicting what ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NEW YORK, who successfully prosecuted Donald Trump and his company for fraud?


Question 3

Sébastien Lecornu resigned, and then was reappointed, as prime minister of what EUROPEAN COUNTRY? He will continue to put together a government while trying to get out a budget by next Monday.


Question 4

Hundreds of climbers, guides, and yak herders had to be rescued off the slopes of what MOUNTAIN when an unexpected blizzard hit its eastern side?


Question 5

A 29 year old man was arrested for allegedly setting the fire that became what January WILDFIRE that destroyed large swaths of greater Los Angeles and killed 12?


Question 6

The price of what PRECIOUS METAL topped $4000 per ounce for the first time? The price has risen 53 percent in 2025, thought to be fueled by concerns over the economy and increased demand by central banks.


Question 7

An appeals court found that National Guard troops sent to what US CITY could stay, but could not be deployed? The status of troops in Portland is still being considered by the Ninth Circuit.


Question 8

The National Highway Transportation Safety Board announced an investigation into what CAR MAKER over incidents involving its full self driving mode? Earlier this year the company lost a lawsuit involving its Autopilot driver assist technology.


Question 9

A blast at an explosives plant in what US STATE leveled a building at Accurate Energetic Systems, killing 16?


Question 10

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: How Noble. María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work as an opposition politician in what SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY? Machado went into hiding after a widely disputed presidential election last year where the government disqualified her as a candidate.


Question 11

The Nobel Prize in Medicine went to three researchers whose discovery of regulatory T cells and the FOXP3 gene help explain why what BODILY SYSTEM does not attack organs or other normal tissue?


Question 12

What ACTRESS, an Oscar winner for Annie Hall who appeared in films from the Godfather trilogy to The First Wives Club, passed away at 79?


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