The Week of October 19, 2025 by CoenM

Champion(s):

DFisher

ChrisRosenberg
The odds of me winning a quiz are sufficiently low to not compel me to have something witty here.


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1 DFisher 236 83 15
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3 JCEurovision 219 58 15
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4 LynchT 204 41 15
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6 flutist319 169 8 15
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Questions:

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?

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Portland

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.

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Japan

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?

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Louvre

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?

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Gerald R. Ford

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?

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Amazon Web Services

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.

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Binance

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?

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Jeff Merkley

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?

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Diwali

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?

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Henry VIII

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?

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Bloody Sunday

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

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Beef

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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Napoleon