Alpaca Farm (beta)

The Week of October 12, 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

Flooding in the western part of what US STATE by Typhoon Halong forced the displacement of over 2000 people, with governor Mike Dunleavy saying that many of them would not be able to return to their villages for at least 18 months?


Question 2

The Donald Trump revenge tour continued with the indictment of what FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY AsDVISOR on a charge of mishandling classified information?


Question 3

Fighting between Afghanistan and what NEIGHBOR resumed after a cease fire ended nearly a week of cross-border attacks? The neighbor claims it is responding to increased militant attacks after the Taliban's 2021 takeover.


Question 4

US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson continues to push off swearing in Adelita Grijalva, who is succeeding her father in representing what STATE? While Johnson tied the swearing in to the government shutdown, many see it as a ploy to prevent the release of the Epstein files, which Grijalva supports.


Question 5

As many as seven million people participated in what PROTESTS against the Trump administration, held in 2600 locations worldwide?


Question 6

A judge approved a temporary injunction against the giveaway of land in what US CITY for a future Trump presidential library? The injunction claims that the land, currently belonging to a community college, was given away without prior notice required under public disclosure laws.


Question 7

Donald Trump commuted the prison sentence of what FORMER NEW YORK CONGRESSMAN, who had served four of the 87 month sentence for wire fraud and identity theft?


Question 8

Donald Trump announced a potential second summit with Vladimir Putin to be held in what EUROPEAN CAPITAL, in a country whose authoritarian leader is seen as the most pro-Putin figure in the EU?


Question 9

What BRITISH ROYAL said he would give up his titles, including Duke of York, over his association with Jeffrey Epstein? He's also being investigated for allegedly asking a police officer to dig up dirt on Virginia Giuffre, who accused the royal of sexual abuse.


Question 10

Your HallR Mini-Theme of the Week: Not So Sweet. What SWISS FOOD CONGLOMERATE announced it would cut 16000 jobs as part of a cost-cutting effort? Tariffs and increased cocoa prices due to bad weather were blamed for the company's financial difficulties.


Question 11

Trader Joe's was sued over its premade PB&J sandwiches, which were said to too closely resemble what SMUCKERS PRODUCT? Smuckers cited similarities in packaging and crimping in its suit.


Question 12

The British Library reissued a library card for what AUTHOR AND PLAYWRIGHT, 130 years after they rescinded it for the author's conviction on charges of "gross indecency?"


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