Alpaca Farm (beta)

The Week of October 6, 2024 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

The one year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel was marked with continued fighting in Gaza and Lebanon, with Israel accused of attacking outposts manned by peacekeepers from what ORGANIZATION?


Question 2

Hurricane Milton struck Florida, but in addition to heavy rain and gusty winds it powered a one day Florida record in warnings for what OTHER TYPE OF WEATHER PHENOMENON, with 126 issued? One of these killed five when it tore through a retirement community in St. Lucie County


Question 3

Attorneys general from 14 US states filed suit against what SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM, alleging that it damages the mental health of young users while collecting their data without consent?


Question 4

What AFRICAN COUNTRY, once seen as the most likely to support multiparty democracy after the Arab Spring protests, saw president Kais Saied reelected with over 90 percent of the vote? The main opposition parties boycotted the vote, as Saied had jailed many of his most formidable opponents.


Question 5

Nobel Prizes were awarded this week, with the peace prize going to Nihon Hidankyo, an anti-nuclear proliferation organization whose members are survivors from ONE of what two cities?


Question 6

What CANADIAN FINANCIAL INSTITUTION pled guilty to charges of money laundering, and was sentenced to pay a record $3 billion in fines and penalties? Its two US divisions will also have their assets capped and reviewed by the US Comptroller of the Currency.


Question 7

What COMPANY issued a recall for all versions of its Snuga Swing, due to suffocation risks from the headrest and body support insert? Five deaths were reported between 2012 and 2022, all related to the use of the swing for sleeping.


Question 8

President Biden announced a rule that would require the replacement of all water pipes made with what METAL within the next 10 years?


Question 9

Scientists in Spain announced results of a DNA study, which suggests that what EXPLORER was Spanish rather than Italian - possibly born near Valencia - and was likely from a Jewish family that converted to Catholicism to avoid persecution?


Question 10

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: Coincidence? What WORD is shared in the names of the casino that was imploded in Las Vegas on the same day that Hurricane Milton shredded the roof of the stadium that's home to the Tampa Bay Rays?


Question 11

Grazer, a female, got revenge over Chunk, a male who had killed one of Grazer's cubs, by winning what URSINE CONTEST run by the Katmai National Park and Preserve? Grazer also defeated Chunk to win the 2023 contest.


Question 12

What HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATE, wife of a slain presidential candidate and mother of a former presidential candidate, died at 96?


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