The Week of January 19, 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

Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States, with the ceremony taking place in what LOCATION inside the Capitol due to cold weather?


Question 2

As one of his last acts as President, Joe Biden commuted the prison sentence of what NATIVE AMERICAN ACTIVIST, convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975?


Question 3

Eighteen state attorneys general filed suit to block one of Donald Trump's first day executive orders that aims to end what LEGAL PRINCIPLE enshrined in section1 of the 14th amendment to the US Constitution?


Question 4

A fire at the Grand Kartal Hotel, locaterd at the Kartalkaya ski resort in what EURASIAN COUNTRY's Bolu mountains, killed 79? The hotel's wooden cladding is thought to have accelerated the fire.


Question 5

98 percent of shareholders of what MEMBERSHIP-ONLY RETAILER voted against a measure to review the company's DEI policies?


Question 6

Long-time executive Tim Noel was named the CEO of what INSURANCE COMPANY, two months after former CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead in New York?


Question 7

M23 rebels in what AFRICAN COUNTRY claimed to have captured Goma, the country's tenth largest city? The country claims that Rwanda, which borders Goma, has sent troops in to support the rebels.


Question 8

JD Vance became the second vice president to break a Senate confirmation tie when he voted to approve Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. Mike Pence was the first vice president to do so, casting the vote to confirm what SECRETARY OF EDUCATION?


Question 9

The Trump administration fired upwards of 18 people holding what POSITION in various executive agencies, where they independently audit and investigate allegations of waste and fraud? The move is thought to be illegal, as a 2022 law requires Congressional notification and substantive rationale for firing someone in one of these positions.


Question 10

The US Food and Drug Administation approved the nasal spray Spravato as a stand-alone treatment for depression. Spravato's active ingredient is a mirror molecule of what ANESTHETIC, also a popular club drug due to its hallucinogenic properties?


Question 11

What SOUTHEAST ASIAN country saw its first legal same sex marriages,120 days after the law legalizing them was approved by King Maha Vajiralongkorn?


Question 12

What STREAMING SERVICE, after reporting that they'd added 19 million subscribers to reach 302 million total worldwide, raised the price of all of its subscription tiers in the US? A standard account with ads will now cost $7.99 a month.