The Week of December 12, 2021 by CoenM

The third independence vote in what OVERSEAS TERRITORY OF FRANCE was marked by nearly two thirds of eligible voters not going to the polls or returning null ballots? The indigenous Kanak people called for a boycott of the election after French officials refused to postpone it in the wake of a Covid-19 surge in the fall.

Hundreds of current and former athletes in what SPORT reached an agreement with the US Olympic Committee and the national body governing the sport that will pay out $380 million to the victims of serial sexual abuser Larry Nasser?

The US National Archives released 1500 documents from the Congressional investigation into the assassination of JFK, many of which dealt with Lee Harvey Oswald's time in what OTHER COUNTRY, where me met with a KGB agent and tried to get a visa to travel to the Soviet Union or Cuba?

What MUSICIAN reportedly sold his master recordings and song publishing rights to Sony for $500 million? He has recorded for Columbia Records, owned by Sony, for his entire career.

Schools across the United States increased security due to an unspecified threat of violence on what SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM?

The UK signed its first post-Brexit trade deal with another country, inking a deal with what COMMONWEALTH NATION? The deal is expected to bring in over 10 billion pounds of trade and bolster the UK's bid to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The final 12 of the 17 missionaries kidnapped in what CARRIBEAN NATION were released unharmed? It is unclear if any ransom, which started at $1 million per person, was paid.

A US district court rejected the bankruptcy settlement of what PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY due to a provision that would protect members of the Sackler family from additional litigation over OxyContin's role in the opioid crisis?

The World Meteorological Organization confirmed what NEW RECORD TEMPERATURE for the Arctic, recorded in the Siberian town of Verkhoyansk this past June? Please give your answer in Fahrenheit, all answers within 2 degrees will be counted as correct.

The US House of Representatives voted to hold what FORMER TRUMP CHIEF OF STAFF in contempt of Congress for his refusal to cooperate with the committee investigating the January 6 riot at the Capitol?

Steve Easterbrook, the former CEO of what FAST FOOD RESTAURANT CHAIN, agreed to return $105 million given as part of his 2019 severance package after he admitted to sexual relationships with employees?

Francis Collins retired as the director of what US FEDERAL AGENCY, primarily responsible for biomedical and public health research, but not before saying in an interview that the US could see as many as a million new Covid-19 cases a day if current mitigation strategies aren't followed?