Alpaca Farm (beta)

The Week of January 11, 2026 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

The US Justice Department announced an investigation into what CHAIR OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE, apparently over his testimony to Congress regarding renovations to Fed headquarters?


Question 2

New York City saw over 15000 workers in what HEALTH CARE POSITION go on strike? The action, involving three of the largest unions in the city, does not affect city-run hospitals.


Question 3

What recent NOBEL LAUREATE gifted her Nobel medal to Donald Trump, apparently hoping he would then back her to become president of Venezuela? The Nobel Foundation released a statement noting that prizes cannot be "passed on or further distributed."


Question 4

What US AGENCY announced a change to its cost-benefit analysis of rules around fine particle and ozone emissions, saying it would no longer consider the economic impact on human health?


Question 5

The holding company of what LUXURY RETAILER, which also owns Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy?


Question 6

In the same week that China announced a $1.2 trillion trade surplus for 2025, it struck a trade deal with what NORTH AMERICAN COUNTRY which will see the country reduce tariffs on Chinese EVs and China reduce tariffs on agricultural products?


Question 7

President Gabriel Boric declared a state of emergency in what SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY as fires tore through the Biobio and Nuble regions, burning over 20,000 acres and killing 18?


Question 8

Users of what MOBILE SERVICE couldn't hear each other now when a software error caused a widespread outage leaving thousands of customers without cellular service for most of a day? The company said it would issue $20 credits to anyone affected.


Question 9

What ASIAN COUNTRY saw crane accidents that caused fatalities on consecutive days? A crane collapsed on a moving train, killing 32, and the next day a crane collapsed onto a highway, killing two.


Question 10

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: Homeland Insecurity. The first ten days of the year saw four deaths of people in ICE custody, including Geraldo Lunas Campos, a Cuban migrant whose death at a tent camp in what TEXAS MILITARY BASE was ruled a homicide by the local medical examiner?


Question 11

Over 80 Democratic members of the US House of Representatives signed on to articles of impeachment filed against what SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY? The articles charge her with obstructing Congress, violating the public trust, and self dealing.


Question 12

NASA rolled out the rocket that will launch the second mission in what PROGRAM, which will send astronauts around the Moon in preparation for the following mission's lunar landing?


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