The Week of October 26, 2025 by CoenM

Champion(s):

HortonR
Excelsior!


Runner(s)-Up:

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


Quiz Description

Full Results:

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1 HortonR 345 90 15
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2 ChrisRosenberg 290 70 15
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3 DFisher 280 50 15
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4 LynchT 150 30 00
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5 JCEurovision 130 10 00
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Questions:

What HURRICANE pounded the Caribbean, making landfall in Jamaica as a category 5 storm before hitting Cuba and the Bahamas? Over 60 deaths have been attributed to the storm.

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Melissa

At least 460 people at a maternity hospital in El Fashir were reportedly killed by Rapid Support Force rebels engaged in a civil war in what COUNTRY?

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Sudan

What COMPANY cut 14,000 corporate jobs, and may cut as many as 30,000 in order to "remove layers, increase ownership, and realize efficiency gains?" CEO Andy Jassey added that the cuts were about "culture," rather than saving money or adoption of AI.

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Amazon

The center-left D66 party narrowly outpolled Geert Wilders' far-right Freedom Party in parliamentary elections in what EUROPEAN COUNTRY? D66, led by 38 year old Rob Jetten, will likely need three other parties to form a ruling coalition.

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Netherlands

At a meeting in South Korea, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping announced various economic agreements, which will see a cut on US tariffs on Chinese goods and China pledging to resume importing what AGRICULTURAL CROP...

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soybeans

A contract dispute with what COMPANY saw over 20 channels, including ESPN and ABC, removed from YouTube TV?

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Disney

Donald Trump took to social media to suggest that the US military may go "guns-a-blazing" into what AFRICAN COUNTRY, citing the alleged "mass slaughter" of Christians? President Bola TInubu disputed the claim, noting that the country continues to work to protect religious freedom for all citizens.

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Nigeria

An operation against the Comando Vermelho in two favelas located in what SOUTH AMERICAN CITY saw at least 120 killed?

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Rio de Janeiro

What CHIPMAKER became the first company to top $5 trillion in market valuation? It recently announced an expected half trillion dollars in AI chip sales, and took at $1 billion stake in Nokia to help develop G6 technology.

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Nvidia

Your HallR Memorial Mini Theme of the Week: See You in Court. Two federal judges ruled that the Trump administration must use contingency funds to keep what FOOD ASSISTANT PROGRAM running? The program serves roughly 1 in 8 Americans.

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SNAP

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue, the former and current makers of what PAIN RELIEVER, citing its highly contested link to austim?

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Tylenol

The Grand Egyptian Museum opened near the Great Pyramids at Giza, with exhibits including all of the artifacts found in the 1922 rediscovery of what PHAROAH's tomb?

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Tutankhamun