Alpaca Farm (beta)

The Week of July 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

As expected, who became the NEW PRIME MINISTER OF THE UK, about a week after replacing Kier Starmer as head of the Labour Party?


Question 2

Donald Trump announced a 50 percent tariff against a range of goods from what COUNTRY, for reasons ranging from their opposition to previous tariffs to wildfire smoke entering the US?


Question 3

What COMPANY announced it would delay its merger with Warner Brothers Discovery until legal actions brought by a number of state attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America are settled? The announcement said the merger would now take place in 2027 or five days after the cases are settled, whichever comes first.


Question 4

The Trump administration acknowledged in court documents that it canceled over $7 billion in clean energy grants for states won by what DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE?


Question 5

Aleksander Vucic, president of what EUROPEAN COUNTRY, announced an early general election in the next three to four months, and that he would resign prior to the election? Vucic is term-limited, and is through to be eyeing a return to the prime minister's office.


Question 6

Troy Jackson won a quick, party-based nomination process to replace Graham Platner as the Democratic opponent of Susan Collins in the US Senate race in what STATE?


Question 7

Police in what GERMAN CITY killed the suspect in a car ramming attack on attendees of the city's Pride festival? The attack killed one and injured 29.


Question 8

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani called on the US to arrest what WORLD LEADER if he attends the UN General Assembly meeting in September? The leader is the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for "crimes against humanity" committed in Gaza.


Question 9

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the president of what FORMER SOVIET REPUBLIC, said during a public appearance with Vladimir Putin, that the war with Ukraine should be "frozen" and that Russia should return to negotiations to end the war?


Question 10

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: No Way This Turns out Badly. The US struck a deal with what MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY to help them develop nuclear energy? The deal may require the country to join the Abraham Accords recognizing Israel.


Question 11

What ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPANY announced that two of its models broke out of a testing environment and launch a cyberattack against the AI startup Hugging Face?


Question 12

What LANGUAGE created a new word - kokushobi, which translates to "cruelly hot day" in English - to describe days with a high temperature of 40 Celcius (104 Fahrenheit) or higher?


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