Happy New Year, everyone!
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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What FORMER US PRESIDENT AND NOBEL LAUREATE died at the age of 100 at his home in Georgia?
Mike Johnson was narrowly re-elected as US Speaker of the House, though Kentucky representative Thomas Massie voted for Tom Emmer, who holds what LEADERSHIP POSITION among House Republicans?
President Biden blocked the $15 billion sale of what COMPANY to Nippon Steel? Biden cited potential national security concerns, and the importance of US ownership of US manufacturing, in quashing the deal.
What US COMMONWEALTH saw a power outage on New Year's Eve day that left almost all of its residents without electricity? Power was largely restored by New Year's day, after the failure of an underground cable was identified as the source of the outage.
An advisory calling for warning labels on alcohol to include the risk of cancer was released by Vivek Murthy, who currently holds what FEDERAL OFFICE?
What DISCOUNT RETAILER, which had previously announced it was going out of business, struck a deal where it will keep roughly 400 stores open under new ownership?
The US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Federal Communications Commission did not have the authority to regulate internet providers like public utilities, putting an end to rules supporting what CONCEPT that requires ISPs to treat all legal traffic equally? The ruling could allow ISPs to give preference to their own traffic while throttling data from competitors.
Another central European country, another collapsed government. What COUNTRY saw chancellor Karl Nehammer say he would resign after talks for form a coalition government failed a second time? The country's president may now ask the leader of the far-right Freedom Party to try to form a government.
The fund created to reimburse victims of what PONZI SCHEMER made its final payment, three years after the schemer died in prison? The fund said that victims were able to reclaim 94 percent of their losses.
Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: Car Trouble. A US Army veteran and ISIS sympathizer drove into a crowd of New Year's revelers in what US CITY, killing 14?
In Las Vegas, an active member of the US Army apparently detonated an explosive device in what TESLA MODEL outside the front door of the Trump hotel? The alleged bomber was the only fatality, having shot himself before the explosion.
What US AIRLINE was fined $2 million by the Department of Transportation for chronic delays, citing routes to and from JFK and Fort Lauderdale? The government blamed unrealistic scheduling for the delays, while the airline blamed the government's lack of investment in the air traffic control system.