Alpaca Farm (beta)

The Week of January 3, 2016 by CoenM

Champion(s):

Ethan
I'm just a boy with a new haircut, and it's a pretty nice haircut

Runner(s)-Up:

srs
If you want a fancy interface, go to LL. If you want non-recycled questions, come to Alpaca Farm.

Quiz Description

New year, same old hastily written news quiz!

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 21 38 42 03 13 32 10 64 35 03 25 61
1 Ethan 414 99 15
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2 srs 395 98 15
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3 zerocrates 380 96 00
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3 BarkerC 380 96 15
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5 HightB 359 94 15
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6 UllspergerA 353 93 15
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7 MarcotteM 349 92 15
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8 grimesr 348 91 15
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9 TaylorMA 345 90 15
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10 ElendilPickle 344 88 15
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10 MurphyN 344 88 15
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12 RobinJRichards 338 86 15
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13 JordanG 337 85 15
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14 SchwartzD 334 84 15
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15 MillerC37 331 83 15
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16 gregariouschinchilla 330 82 15
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17 CarterBurke 328 81 15
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18 MorrisK 322 79 15
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19 helitzur 316 78 15
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20 PruettC 314 77 15
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21 KingJA 313 76 15
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22 HessJa 310 75 15
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23 CarterB2 308 73 15
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23 ChrisRosenberg 308 73 15
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25 AmmermanA 305 71 15
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26 RichmondJ 304 70 15
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27 KinastN 303 69 15
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28 LackC 302 67 15
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28 OlewnickB 302 67 15
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30 PolinskyL 297 66 15
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31 GambinoG 294 64 15
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31 AllyScully 294 64 00
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33 SorensonG 293 62 15
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33 Makdeezy 293 62 15
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35 FrostL 286 59 15
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35 RonningD 286 59 00
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37 MissDith 284 58 15
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38 KreitzerJ 283 56 15
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38 ReeseC 283 56 15
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40 StahlhutJ 280 54 15
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40 KelsoT 280 54 15
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42 jefe 275 52 15
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43 Vintsanity 272 51 15
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44 peeksr 267 49 15
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44 MeyerS 267 49 15
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46 SpencerJ2 261 47 00
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47 GuptaAMajor 260 46 15
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48 PrestonC 252 45 00
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49 HoH 250 44 15
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50 StaleyO 247 43 15
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51 shesinsane 246 41 15
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52 KashyapN 239 40 15
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52 GrubbC 239 40 15
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54 jveditz 238 38 15
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55 GrahamJ 233 37 15
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56 ConnorA 230 36 15
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57 DoyleE 228 35 15
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58 LairdM 227 33 15
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59 AdamK 221 32 15
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60 DuffyM 219 31 00
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61 HallR 218 30 15
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62 GoldsteinB 214 29 15
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63 randalleng 209 28 15
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64 Commodore 205 26 15
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64 WattsR 205 26 15
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66 GibbsS 203 24 15
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67 IrwinK 193 23 00
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68 MoyseyC 192 22 15
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69 usuiw 191 21 15
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70 JPO 189 20 00
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71 FarleyS 187 18 15
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72 BarnesMRaff 180 17 15
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73 MatherV 177 16 15
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74 BurgerM 176 14 15
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74 WangA 176 14 00
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76 RaiaB 175 13 00
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77 ClarksonB 169 12 00
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78 KELIADEE 163 10 00
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79 JJA 161 9 15
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80 WeaverL 156 8 15
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81 quarterrican 155 7 15
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82 Falkor23 153 6 00
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83 BeningoS 143 5 00
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84 MangaserA 141 4 00
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Questions:

Question 1

Roy Moore, the chief justice of what STATE's supreme court, issued an order barring state judges from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples?

Click to Reveal Answer
Alabama

Question 2

What COUNTRY faced an institutional crisis due to a conflict between its National Assembly and its Supreme Court over the seating of legislators from the opposition coalition led by president Nicolas Maduro?

Click to Reveal Answer
Venezuela

Question 3

Donald Trump aired his first TV ad for his presidential campaign, which included footage of what was intimated as people running across the US-Mexico border, but is actually footage shot in what AFRICAN COUNTRY whose name also begins with 'M'?

Click to Reveal Answer
Morocco

Question 4

What COUNTRY claimed to have tested a hydrogen bomb, though seismic measurements suggest it was a test of a conventional nuclear weapon?

Click to Reveal Answer
North Korea

Question 5

What RETIRED BASEBALL PLAYER was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame with a record 99.3 percent of the vote?

Click to Reveal Answer
Ken Griffey, Jr.

Question 6

The mayor of what EUROPEAN CITY responded to New Year's attacks against women by suggesting a code of conduct for women that includes staying at least an arm's length away from strangers?

Click to Reveal Answer
Cologne

Question 7

A "circuit breaker" provision was set off when the CSI 300 fell more than 7 percent - for the second time this week - ending trading at what COUNTRY's benchmark stock exchange?

Click to Reveal Answer
China

Question 8

Illinois was given a two year extension to make their driver's licenses compliant with WHAT LAW passed in 2005 which requires state-issued ID cards to meet certain standard to be acceptable for "official purposes" as defined by the Department of Homeland Security?

Click to Reveal Answer
REAL ID

Question 9

A class action lawsuit was filed against what COMPANY, led by three plaintiffs who claim that the company's devices do not accurately monitor heart rate, leading to potential harm?

Click to Reveal Answer
Fitbit

Question 10

The capture of fugitive Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was overshadowed by a Rolling Stone report that what TWO TIME OSCAR WINNER met with Guzman during his time as a fugitive?

Click to Reveal Answer
Sean Penn

Question 11

On online petition circulated to name element 118 after what LEAD SINGER of Motorhead, whose funeral occurred in Los Angeles two weeks after his death?

Click to Reveal Answer
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister

Question 12

A working group published a report in Science magazine discussing the idea that Earth has entered what new EPOCH, which they think started in the 1950s?

Click to Reveal Answer
Anthropocene