The Week of December 28, 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

US forces entered Venezuela and removed what PRESIDENT, along with his wife Cilia Flores, to face various drug and weapons charges in a New York federal court?


Question 2

The Trump administration cut off federal childcare aid to what STATE after a conservative activist released a video alleging that the daycare centers in the video, run by Somali immigrants, had no children and were committing fraud?


Question 3

What NEW MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY took his oath of office in a disused subway station and was driven to his official inauguration in a parade of taxis?


Question 4

The government of what COUNTRY announced a relaunched search for flight 370, a Boeing 777 that disappeared during a 2014 flight to Beijing?


Question 5

After Congress was unable to pass an extension, subsidies for what INSURANCE PROGRAM expired in the new year? Monthly premiums for the 24 million who use the program's exchange to purchase coverage are expected to climb by 26 percent.


Question 6

Donald Trump vetoed a bill for a $1 billion project that would bring clean water to the rural part of what STATE? The veto was seen by many as retaliation against sponsor Lauren Bobert, a Republican who supported the release of the Epstein files.


Question 7

Economic conditions, notably the collapse in the value of the rial, sparked protests that have spread to all corners of what MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY? These are the largest protests since security forces killed Mahsa Amini while she was in custody for improperly wearing a hijab.


Question 8

The continued drop in sales during 2025 saw Tesla lose its standing as the world's largest electric car maker to what CHINESE COMPANY? It sold over 4 million of models like the Song, Dolphin, and Sealion while not yet in the US market.


Question 9

Euros rolled out of ATMs in what COUNTRY for the first time, as it became the newest member of the Eurozone? Some locals were concerned about taking the lev out of circulation, due to fears of inflation and recent political instability.


Question 10

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: Not So Happy New Year. The US House Judiciary Committee used its New Year's Eve to release the transcript of its hearing with what FORMER SPECIAL COUNSEL, in which he defended his investigation into Donald Trump's alleged attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election?


Question 11

Forty people, including several teens, were killed at a New Year's party in what COUNTRYs Crans-Montana ski resort city when the bar hosting the party caught fire? Sparklers placed in champagne bottles are thought to have started the fire.


Question 12

Riders of the Eurostar were stranded for hours when what RAIL CORRIDOR linking Folkstone to Coquelles suffered a power outage?