Alpaca Farm (beta)

The Week of October 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

A three judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals allowed, and the full court put a hold, on the federal government's plan to deploy troops to what WEST COAST CITY to protect ICE facilities?


Question 2

Sanae Takaichi became the first female prime minister of what COUNTRY? She pledged to increase defense spending while preparing to meet Donald Trump after the ASEAN summit.


Question 3

Two suspects were arrested in connection with a robbery at what MUSEUM that saw over $100 million in historic jewelry taken in just seven minutes?


Question 4

The Pentagon announced it would send a strike group with an aircraft carrier named for what US PRESIDENT to the Caribbean, ostensibly to support attacks on drug cartels?


Question 5

A problem with a centralized database service was cited as causing an outage of what CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORM, which disrupted service to a host of websites and apps, from Snapchat to McDonald's to Roblox and Fortnite?


Question 6

Donald Trump's continued to support law and order by pardoning Changpeng Zhao, co-founder of what CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGE, the world's largest? Zhao was convicted of money laundering in 2023.


Question 7

While the US Senate was unable to pass a spending bill in hopes of ending the government shutdown, what OREGON SENATOR took to the floor for 22 hours to urge Republicans to end the shutdown and warn against threats to democracy?


Question 8

New Delhi recorded a level of particulates in its air that were 40 times the maximum level set by the World Health Organization, spurred by the winter burning of field stubble by farmers and the celebration of what HOLIDAY, where the widespread lighting of firecrackers leads to high levels of sulfur and nitrogen oxides?


Question 9

King Charles III and Pope Leo XIV prayed together at an ecumenical service at the Vatican, the first time an English king and a pope worshiped together since what KING formed the Church of England in 1534?


Question 10

A man only identified as Soldier F was acquitted in a murder trial in connection to what 1972 MASSACRE where British troops killed 14 unarmed protestors in Derry?


Question 11

The Trump administration angered US ranchers by announcing a plan to quadruple imports of what MEAT from Argentina?


Question 12

DNA examination found that typhoid and relapsing fever were largely responsible for the illnesses that decimated what GENERAL's army in Russia in 1812?


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