Alpaca Farm (beta)

The Week of May 25, 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 called it a "nasty question" when asked about what ACRONYM (spelled the same as an unrelated food item) created on Wall Street to describe his tendency to announce tariffs but then delay or rescind them?


Question 2

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced plans to "aggressively revoke" student visas for students from what COUNTRY who are studying in the US? The plan specifically targets students with connections to the country's ruling political party and those studying in yet to be defined "critical fields?"


Question 3

Donald Trump stepped up his pardons for convicted fraudsters, but also said he was considering pardons for those convicted for planning to kidnap what DEMOCRATIC STATE GOVERNOR?


Question 4

What IOWA SENATOR came under fire for her statement during a town hall that "we are all going to die" in response to questions over Medicaid cuts in the domestic spending and tax cut bill recently passed by the House?


Question 5

The Trump administration did a U-turn over plans for a Japanese company to enter a "partnership" with what AMERICAN COMPANY, saying that the new plan would keep the company headquartered in Pittsburgh? Trump would later announce plans to raise the tariff on imports of the company's main product to 50 percent.


Question 6

The International Atomic Energy Agency announced that what COUNTRY had increased its stockpile of enriched uranium by over 2000 pounds since its last report in February?


Question 7

Wildfires continued to burn across Canada, with what PROVINCE seeing over 17,000 people evacuated? Smaller numbers of people were evacuated in Alberta and Saskatchewan.


Question 8

While Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said it was based on "gold standard science' a HHS report whose titular aim is to Make American WHAT Again was found to contain a number of citations for studies that do not exist? Appearances of the term "oaicite" in the paper suggests that OpenAI was used in some fashion to write the report.


Question 9

Mondelez International, owner of brands including Oreo, Ritz, and Chips Ahoy, brought suit against what LOW COST GROCERY CHAIN, alleging that its private label products use packaging that is too similar to its products?


Question 10

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: I May or May Not Love a Parade. A 53 year old man was arrested for driving into a crowd in what ENGLISH CITY, where a victory parade was being held for its EPL champion football team? At least 65 people were injured, but there were no fatalities.


Question 11

What EUROPEAN CAPITAL saw violence during the celebration of one of its teams winning the UEFA Champions League, with two deaths and over 200 injuries? The actual parade went off without incident.


Question 12

In what COUNTRY was the village of Blatten obliterated by slide of rock and ice after the Birch Glacier collapsed? While the village had been evacuated weeks earlier, one person was killed in the collapse.


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