Alpaca Farm (beta)

The Week of February 9, 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

Name EITHER METAL on which Donald Trump ordered a 25 percent import tariff. While the tariffs are aimed at Chinese exports, they will apply to imports from all countries.


Question 2

The widespread firing of US government employees hit the National Nuclear Security Administration, part of what CABINET DEPARTMENT, that the administration apparently forgot was in charge of the safety of nuclear weapons?


Question 3

Donald Trump spent at least part of his short visit to the Super Bowl posting on social media that he was ordering the Secretary of the Treasury to stop producing what DENOMINATION OF COIN? They currently cost nearly four times their face value to produce.


Question 4

At least eight people died in flooding in what US STATE, which saw up to six inches of rain in storms over the weekend? Governor Andy Beshear requested a federal disaster declaration, noting the flooding had impacted all of the state's counties.


Question 5

Name EITHER JAPANESE CAR COMPANY whose planned merger was called off. Had it gone through, it would have created the fourth largest car company in the world.


Question 6

The board of what AI COMPANY behind ChatGPT rejected an unsolicited $97.4 billion purchase bid from Elon Musk?


Question 7

The US Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy for secretary of Health and Human Services, with what REPUBLICAN the only one to cross party lines to vote against him?


Question 8

At least two people died and another three dozen injured in a car attack in what GERMAN CITY? The attacker was identified as a refugee from Afghanistan.


Question 9

A drone struck the protective shield over a reactor at what UKRANIAN NUCLEAR SITE, causing a fire but not (as of now) any release of radioactive material? Russia denied it was their drone that hit the shield.


Question 10

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: Uncorrupted. Donald Trump pardoned what FORMER ILLINOIS GOVERNOR and Celebrity Apprentice participant? He had been sentenced to 14 years for various corruption, including a plan to sell of the US Senate vacancy opened when Barack Obama became President.


Question 11

The US Department of Justice ordered corruption charges against what MAYOR be dropped, saying the prosecution hindered the mayor's "ability to devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime?"


Question 12

What AUTHOR took the stand in the trial against the person who stabbed him in a 2022 attack at the Chautauqua Institution, blinding him in one eye?


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