Alpaca Farm (beta)

The Week of January 26, 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

An American Airlines flight landing at what US AIRPORT was struck by a US Army helicopter, killing all aboard both aircraft? The accident investigation and recovery of the victims was hampered by both aircraft ending up in a nearby river.


Question 2

The values of companies such as Nvidia and Microsoft took a nose dive after the unveiling of what CHINESE AI PLATFORM that cost less to develop and uses les computing power than platforms like OpenAI?


Question 3

Emails to federal employees offering buyouts if they resigned were said to resemble similar offers made to employees at what SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY in 2022, including the same email subject, 'A Fork in the Road?'


Question 4

To the surprise of no one, Alexander Lukashenko won a seventh term as president of what EUROPEAN COUNTRY? He received over 87 percent of the vote in what was almost universally seen as a sham election.


Question 5

What COMPANY recalled its edible Sooth N Chew teething sticks, citing concerns over choking?


Question 6

In what US STATE did the legislature reject a special session called by its governor, convened its own special session, and passed the TRUMP Act on immigration? The governor, a former Republican presidential candidate, called the bill weak and vowed to veto it.


Question 7

Students reinvigorated protests in what EUROPEAN COUNTRY, which saw prime minister Milos Vucevic in hopes of reducing tension? The protests, focused on endemic corruption, started after a deadly roof collapse at a train station last November.


Question 8

The Trump administration announced that airstrikes in what HORN OF AFRICAN COUNTRY had killed a "senior ISIS attack planner" and several others, while not harming any civilians? The White House did not give a number of ISIS members killed or the name of the planner.


Question 9

In what COUNTRY was Mount Taranaki given personhood rights? The mountain and its surroundings will now be managed by the local government and indigenous iwi, following the example of rights previously granted to a forest and a river.


Question 10

Your HallR mini-theme of the week: Tariff Time. Donald Trump levied a 25 percent tariff against good from what SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY after it refused to take a military flight of deportees? The country later relented, avoiding the tariff.


Question 11

Doug Ford, the premier of what CANADIAN PROVINCE, called a snap election in hopes of getting a majority that would allow him to fight the tariffs levied by the US on Canada? The tariffs are expected to target the province's auto industry, what had been carved out of previous trade deals.


Question 12

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists changed its countdown to doomsday clock for the first time in two years, setting it to HOW MANY SECONDS until midnight? Answers within 5 seconds will be accepted.


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