Alpaca Farm (beta)

The Week of April 19, 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

What EVENT was cancelled after a gunman tried to gain entry to the Washington Hilton ballroom where it was being held? A Secret Service agent was injured and the gunman was taken into custody.


Question 2

Twenty people were killed and 36 injured when a bomb detonated on a bus in what SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY? Two splinter groups from the now-defunct FARC rebel group are thought to be behind the bombing.


Question 3

The Trump administration rescheduled medical versions of what DRUG from Schedule I to Schedule III, moving it from the same group as heroin to one that includes Tylenol with coedine?


Question 4

What EUROPEAN COUNTRY passed the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, which will continually increase the minimum age to purchase tobacco products so that anyone born in 2009 or later will never be able to buy them? A similar law was passed in New Zealand in 2022 but later repealed.


Question 5

What US STATE passed a mid-decade Congressional redistricting plan which could see Democrats favored to win 10 of its 11 House seats?


Question 6

What ASIAN COUNTRY scrapped its post-World War II law banning export of lethal weapons? The change could see the country sell missiles, destroyers, and fighter jets to regional allies.


Question 7

US-Iran ceasefire talks continued to falter after Donald Trump cancelled the negotiating trip to Pakistan led by Steve Witkoff and what TRUMP SON IN LAW?


Question 8

Rumen Radev, the Eurosceptic and Moscow friendly former president of what COUNTRY led his Progressive party to a majority of seats in the lower house of its National Assembly? It was the seventh snap election in the country since 2021.


Question 9

John Ternus, the senior VP of hardware engineering was named as the next CEO of what TECH COMPANY? He will replace the 15 year incumbent on September 1.


Question 10

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: Exit, Stage Right. Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned as secretary of what CABINET DEPARTMENT, where she was under investigation for misusing travel funds and steering grants to politically connected individuals?


Question 11

John Phelan was fired as secretary of what BRANCH OF THE US MILITARY due to poor relationships with other military leaders and what was considered a slow pace of reform in the branch? His deputy Hung Cao is now acting secretary.


Question 12

Two fires in what SOUTHERN US STATE continue to burn, with the Highway 82 fire and the fire in Clinch and Echols counties burning a combined 75 square miles?


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