The Week of December 7, 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 person of interest was detained in the shooting at what IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITY, which left 2 dead and 9 injured? It was unknown what connection, if any, the person had to the school.


Question 2

What EUROPEAN COUNTRY released Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski among 123 political prisoners freed as part of a deal where the US lifted sanctions against potash exports?


Question 3

What MEDIA COMPANY launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Brothers Discovery, offering $30 a share in an all-cash tender? Company CEO David Ellison said the offer was not its "best and final" offer, suggesting it could raise the offer price.


Question 4

What ASIAN COUNTRY saw its cease fire with Cambodia end - and then be reinstated - while prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul got royal assent to dissolve parliament?


Question 5

What COUNTRY's social media ban for children under the age of 16 went into effect? Reddit filed suit in the country's High Court asking for the ban to be overturned on free speech grounds.


Question 6

Eileen Higgins became the first woman, and the first Democrat in 28 years, to be elected mayor of what US CITY? The future home of Donald Trump's presidential library, Higgins defeated Trump-endorsed Republican Emilio González.


Question 7

What AFRICAN COUNTRY saw a coup fail when president Patrice Talon requested assistance from Nigeria to put it down? Nigeria has also provided troops to an ECOWAS peacekeeping force sent to provide stability post-coup attempt.


Question 8

What PRECIOUS METAL broached a market value of $60 per ounce for the first time in public trading? A weakening dollar, an expected interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve, and a shortage of available metal all contributed to the price jump.


Question 9

The 2026 Texas US Senate race was upended when what US REPRESENTATIVE from the 30th district entered the Democratic primary? Previously announced candidate Colin Allred announced he was dropping out, and would run for the House.


Question 10

Two earthquakes - one 7.5 magnitude, the other 6.9 - struck off the coast of Aomori prefecture in what COUNTRY? Both triggered tsunami warnings, but neither generated significant waves.


Question 11

For the second time in two weeks, a grand jury in Virginia refused to indict what NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL on charges of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution?


Question 12

A team in Britain cited an area of baked earth, two hand axes shattered by heat, and the presence of iron pyrite in determining that man had created WHAT 350,000 years earlier than previously thought?