The Week of May 17, 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

Donald Trump settled his lawsuit with what FEDERAL AGENCY, with an agreement that created a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people allegedly falsely investigated by the federal government and bars prosecution of Trump, his family, and the Trump Organization over existing tax filings?


Question 2

What TECH COMPANY laid off nearly 10 percent of its workforce - roughly 8000 people across all of its platforms - while changing the roles of another 7000 employees to teams focused on AI projects?


Question 3

The US indicted what FORMER PRESIDENT OF CUBA on several counts, including four murder charges, for the 1996 downing of two planes looking for Cuban migrants fleeing to the US on boats?


Question 4

At least 82 people died in an explosion in China due to a buildup of gasses in a mine for what SUBSTANCE? The province produced 1.3 billion tons of the substance last year, a third of China's total production.


Question 5

What US DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE tendered her resignation? While her stated reason for stepping down is her husband's recent cancer diagnosis, administration sources noted that she and Trump clashed over her resistance to US interventions abroad.


Question 6

Premier Danielle Smith announced that what CANADIAN PROVINCE would hold a referendum in October to see if it should secede? Supporters feel the federal government is holding the province back through environmental legislation that hampers its oil industry.


Question 7

A federal judge dismissed human trafficking charges against what SALVADORAN MIGRANT, calling it vindictive? The ruling found that the case was only brought to punish the defendant for successfully challenging his 2025 deportation?


Question 8

Acting US Navy secretary Hung Cao said before Congress that a $14 billion arms deal with what ISLAND was on pause to ensure the availability of munitions for operations against Iran? A spokesman for the island's president said they had no information about a pause.


Question 9

Two days after the Pentagon said the US was reducing its number of US Army brigade combat teams from four to three, Donald Trump announced that the US would send 5000 more troops to what EUROPEAN COUNTRY? Trump cited his relationship with new nationalist president Karol Nawrocki in his announcement.


Question 10

What TECH MOGUL lost his lawsuit against OpenAI due to the suit being filed after a statutory deadline? He noted on the social media platform that he owns that he will appeal the "calendar technicality" decision.


Question 11

The Donald Trump revenge tour continued in Kentucky, as Trump-backed Ed Gallrein defeated what INCUMBENT REPRESENTATIVE and Trump critic in the Republican primary for his seat? The incumbent supported the release of the Epstein files and voted against the "one big beautiful bill."


Question 12

The Wisconsin Brewing Company and Pabst Brewing Company announced that they were ending production of what BEER THAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS? First brewed in 1849, it was revived by Pabst in 2008 and brewed in Texas until this last batch.