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The Week of October 25, 2026 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

At least 69 people died when a high speed train crashed into a stationary train near Urda in what EUROPEAN COUNTRY? A computer failure followed by a controller's decision to allow the high speed train to resume travel at speed is thought to be the cause of the crash.


Question 2

What PARENT COMPANY of Google shed over a half a trillion dollars in market capitalization after it missed expected earnings for the last quarter? Markets fell on the news, along with misses by Amazon and Intel.


Question 3

What ISRAELI POLITICAL PARTY claimed that Arab parties "stole" the parliamentary election, in which it tallied the most seats but did not win a majority? Its leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, later suggested that any party entering into coalition with the Arab parties was committing treason.


Question 4

North Korean hackers were linked to a $6 billion heist from what CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGE? While the exchange reported that it recovered about 95 percent of affected assets, over $3 billion was withdrawn by investors after the exchange reopened.


Question 5

The Student List, a protest-led political movement in what EUROPEAN COUNTRY, won an upset victory in parliamentary elections that ended the rule of right-wing president Aleksandar Vučić?


Question 6

What FORMER FBI DIRECTOR became the subject of a third Trump administration criminal investigation, this time over a 2016 leak? Two separate investigations at the time led to no charges.


Question 7

The Trump administration announted it would end the Biden-era Super Emitter Program, aimed at limiting the release of what GREENHOUSE GAS, the main component of natural gas? The gas, released during oil and gas drilling, is thought to account for a third of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.


Question 8

What LEADER intensified purges of the Chinese Communist Party as part of an anti-corruption drive to remove "sick trees" from the party? Over a quarter of the members of the central committee have been removed since 2022.


Question 9

What RESTAURANT DELIVERY SERVICE bought grocery delivery service Instacart in a $17 billion stock deal?


Question 10

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: Allegedly Highly Irregular. What DEFEATED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE fled Brazil rather than face charges of financial impropriety, which were held in abeyance while he ran against incumbent (and re-elected) president Lula da Silva? He is currently in south Florida.


Question 11

The governor of what US STATE ordered an investigation into the involvement of Democratic US Senate candidate Mary Peltola's campaign in recruiting another candidate named Dan Sullivan in hopes of voters confusing him with the incumbent Republican, Dan Sullivan?


Question 12

What ACTOR, known for roles ranging from Shakespeare to Star Trek's Jean-Luc Picard to the X-Men movies, died at 86?


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