The Week of January 18, 2026 by CoenM

Champion(s):

LynchT
Teacher's Motto: I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.


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

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1 LynchT 305 90 15
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2 ChrisRosenberg 250 70 15
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3 HortonR 160 50 15
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4 DFisher 145 20 15
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4 JCEurovision 145 20 15
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Questions:

The killing of VA nurse Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis led several Senate Democrats to threaten a partial government shutdown by not voting to approve an appropriations bill that includes funding for what CABINET DEPARTMENT?

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Homeland Security

A whistleblower revealed details of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo approving the forceable entry of homes with an administrative warrant, which is not signed by a judge. This was argued by Constitutional scholars to be a violation of what CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT that bans unlawful search and seizures?

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4th Amendment

Over 600,000 people were displaced or otherwise affected by flooding in what AFRICAN COUNTRY, where the Gaza and Maputo provinces were inundated when the Limpopo and other rivers rose over their banks?

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Mozambique

The US completed its withdrawal from what INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION, one year after Donald Trump announced it? The US cited organizational failures during the Covid-19 pandemic and that no American had ever led the organization as reasons for the withdrawal.

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World Health Organization

Donald Trump found time this week to file a $5 billion lawsuit against what LARGEST BANK IN THE US for allegedly dropping him as a client in the wake of the January 6 riots? The suit also names bank CEO Jamie Dimon as a defendant.

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JP Morgan Chase

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called for a snap parliamentary election in what COUNTRY, where she hopes the public will return her Liberal Democratic Party to power so she can institute planned economic reforms?

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Japan

TikTok finalized the deal that sold a majority of its US operations to a group of investors, including what COMPANY owned by Larry Ellison that has been storing TikTok's US data since 2022?

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Oracle

What MOVIE earned a record 16 nominations for the 98th Academy Awards? Ryan Coogler may win three of them for writing, directing, and producing the film.

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Sinners

Your MaxiMini-Theme of the Week: Snow Go. Donald Trump used the World Economic Forum at Davos to announce that 59 countries have signed on to what BODY originally created to oversee the cease fire in Gaza but now being positioned for a broader conflict resolution role?

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Board of Peace

What WORLD LEADER rebutted Donald Trump's long and meandering speech at Davos by noting that the current rules-based international order is being replaced by "great powers," and that middle powers need to work together? The speech led Trump to disinvite Canada from joining the organization from the previous question.

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Mark Carney

Leaders in several NATO-member nations strongly rebuked comments made by Trump in an interview from Davos where he suggested that non-US troops "stayed a little back" during post-9/11 fighting in what ASIAN COUNTRY?

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Afghanistan

Trump also announced a "framework for a future deal" on Greenland, negotiated not with Danish leadership but with what NATO SECRETARY GENERAL and former prime minister of the Netherlands?

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Mark Rutte