Alpaca Farm (beta)

The Week of May 11, 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

The US and China agreed to scale back tariffs on each others' goods, with the US dropping its 145 percent rate to what LOWER PERCENTAGE (answers with 5 will be counted as correct)? China's matching reduction lowered its tariff rate against US goods to 10 percent.


Question 2

Moody's lowered its US credit rating one notch, from what HIGHEST RATING to Aa1, citing the burden of financing the budget deficit and increased costs of rolling over existing debt


Question 3

Air traffic control problems moved to the mountains when pilots flying into what CITY's international airport couldn't use the standard frequency to talk to its tower? Controllers used an emergency frequency to instruct planes to use a backup radio channel.


Question 4

Florida became the second US state to ban the addition of what MINERAL to public water systems? Included in a larger farm bill, the mineral isn't specifically named, but falls under the ban of "certain additives."


Question 5

The United Nations' civil aviation organization released a report blaming Russia for the 2014 downing of a jet belonging to the flag carrier of what ASIAN COUNTRY? Nearly 300 people were killed when the jet was shot down by a Russian-made missile over eastern Ukraine.


Question 6

Donald Trump took to social media to tell what RETAILER to "EAT THE TARIFFS" after the company said publicly that they may need to raise prices due to the tariffs with China?


Question 7

A Mexican tall ship collided with what piece of NEW YORK CITY INFRASTRUCTURE, snapping masts and killing two? It is believed that the ship lost power, and was carried into the structure by river currents.


Question 8

What FORMER FBI DIRECTOR came under fire from Trump supporters after posing a picture of seashells making the number '8647,' a reference to removing Donald Trump from office?


Question 9

What FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES was re-elected as mayor of Davao City, even though he is being held in The Hague pending a trial in front of the International Criminal Court? If he does serve he'll replace his son, Sebastian, while daughter Sara (the current Philippines vice president) prepares for an impeachment trial.


Question 10

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the week: Dealing in the Desert. Donald Trump's official visit to the Middle East was held in the shadow of what COUNTRY's offer of a free Boeing 787 for use as the new Air Force One? The plane would transfer to Trump's presidential library after he leaves office.


Question 11

Trump surprised even his own administration when he said sanctions would be lifted against what COUNTRY, due to its change in regime? The World Bank also announced that some of the country's neighbors had paid off its outstanding debt, allowing it to take out new loans for reconstruction.


Question 12

What AI CHATBOT started including information on the "white genocide" in South Africa to answers on pretty much any question asked of it? It also dabbled in Holocaust denial, saying it was "skeptical" about the number of people killed.


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