The Week of October 26, 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

What HURRICANE pounded the Caribbean, making landfall in Jamaica as a category 5 storm before hitting Cuba and the Bahamas? Over 60 deaths have been attributed to the storm.


Question 2

At least 460 people at a maternity hospital in El Fashir were reportedly killed by Rapid Support Force rebels engaged in a civil war in what COUNTRY?


Question 3

What COMPANY cut 14,000 corporate jobs, and may cut as many as 30,000 in order to "remove layers, increase ownership, and realize efficiency gains?" CEO Andy Jassey added that the cuts were about "culture," rather than saving money or adoption of AI.


Question 4

The center-left D66 party narrowly outpolled Geert Wilders' far-right Freedom Party in parliamentary elections in what EUROPEAN COUNTRY? D66, led by 38 year old Rob Jetten, will likely need three other parties to form a ruling coalition.


Question 5

At a meeting in South Korea, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping announced various economic agreements, which will see a cut on US tariffs on Chinese goods and China pledging to resume importing what AGRICULTURAL CROP...


Question 6

A contract dispute with what COMPANY saw over 20 channels, including ESPN and ABC, removed from YouTube TV?


Question 7

Donald Trump took to social media to suggest that the US military may go "guns-a-blazing" into what AFRICAN COUNTRY, citing the alleged "mass slaughter" of Christians? President Bola TInubu disputed the claim, noting that the country continues to work to protect religious freedom for all citizens.


Question 8

An operation against the Comando Vermelho in two favelas located in what SOUTH AMERICAN CITY saw at least 120 killed?


Question 9

What CHIPMAKER became the first company to top $5 trillion in market valuation? It recently announced an expected half trillion dollars in AI chip sales, and took at $1 billion stake in Nokia to help develop G6 technology.


Question 10

Your HallR Memorial Mini Theme of the Week: See You in Court. Two federal judges ruled that the Trump administration must use contingency funds to keep what FOOD ASSISTANT PROGRAM running? The program serves roughly 1 in 8 Americans.


Question 11

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue, the former and current makers of what PAIN RELIEVER, citing its highly contested link to austim?


Question 12

The Grand Egyptian Museum opened near the Great Pyramids at Giza, with exhibits including all of the artifacts found in the 1922 rediscovery of what PHAROAH's tomb?