Alpaca Farm (beta)

The Week of December 21, 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 TV NEWS MAGAZINE SHOW spiked a story about CECOT, the El Salvadoran prison that held hundreds of deportees from the US, in what reporter Sharyn Alfonsi called a political rather than an editorial decision?


Question 2

What SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY declared an economic emergency, which will allow president Gustavo Petro to levy taxes by decree to help close a $4 billion budget gap?


Question 3

The US Supreme Court refused a Trump administration request to pause a lower court ruling that prevented them from sending National Guard troops to what CITY without the governor's consent?


Question 4

Donald Trump named Louisiana governor Jeff Landry as a special envoy to what TERRITORY? Its prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, rebuffed the appointment, reiterating the importance of territorial sovereignty.


Question 5

The US recalled nearly 30 people of what DIPLOMATIC RANK? While the White House described the mass recall as "a standard process in any administration," the move is widely seen as aimed at putting Trump loyalists in the positions.


Question 6

The muddled state of the US economy - such as increased growth and consumer spending in the face of increased unemployment and a lack of consumer confidence - led to a description of the economy using what LETTER, where the upper part represents increased earnings for the wealthy and the lower part represents lower income earners struggling?


Question 7

A power outage in San Francisco led to the fleet of robotaxis run by what Alphabet-owned COMPANY shutting down, blocking intersections and disrupting traffic?


Question 8

The Trump Administration gave ISIS in what AFRICAN COUNTRY a Christmas present in the form of bombing its facilities in the country's northwest? Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar confirmed the country provided intelligence for the US strike.


Question 9

The US Food and Drug Administration approved a daily pill version of what Novo Nordisk WEIGHT LOSS DRUG? Novo has not yet submitted a pill version of related diabetes drug Ozempic for approval.


Question 10

Israel became the first country to recognize the independence of what TERRITORY on the Horn of Africa? Israel cited the Abraham Accords as part of the reason for the recognition that was widely rejected by other countries.


Question 11

Kash Patel announced a plan that would finally close the Federal Bureau of Investigations building named for what FORMER FBI DIRECTOR? Agents will move into space formerly occupied by USAID.


Question 12

China levied symbolic tariffs against 20 defense companies and 10 executives in retaliation for an announced $10 billion arms deal between the US and what ISLAND?


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