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The Week of September 27, 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 EUROPEAN COUNTRY announced that up to 500 schools would start the next school week closed, as student protests over a lack of teachers and poor classroom environments turned violent, with at least two dozen schools set on fire?


Question 2

A US Senate committee voted along party lines to forward the nomination of Dr. Nicole Saphier to what POSITION? A radiologist, she has contributed to Fox News and was notably critical about the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.


Question 3

What EUROPEAN COUNTRY voted 70-30 to reject a proposed update to its neutrality policy? The proposal was brought by a right wing party that said the country was too closely aligned with the EU and NATO.


Question 4

Passengers and crew subdued the copilot of a Flydubai flight heading to what ISRAELI CITY, who had attacked his captain and was planning to crash the plane?


Question 5

What IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITY came under fire for its handling of a 2024 gang rape allegation against several members of a campus fraternity? The case came back to live due to a recently-filed civil suit against seven alleged rapists and the school.


Question 6

The head of what US STATE's prison system resigned in the wake of the botched execution of Christa Pike, who survived two doses of the drug phenobarbitol? The second failed execution this year led governor Bill Lee to pause further executions for 2026.


Question 7

What COMPANY got its Starship into orbit, but cut its planned flight short after it delivered several satellites to orbit? The ship exploded upon splashdown.


Question 8

OpenAI cancelled the release of the 6.1 Astra version of what CHATBOT after it found the version had a high disposition to both lie to users about what it was doing and go beyond the instructions given?


Question 9

Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Oregon senator Jeff Merkley released text of a bill that would ban the use of several types of license plate reading cameras, including those from what GEORGIA-BASED COMPANY, used in several documented cases of law enforcement using the cameras to surveil former significant others?


Question 10

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: Pulling Out. The US withdrew its remaining 2500 troops and equipment from what MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY, ending more than two decades of supporting the country's military? The US moved operations to neighboring Jordan.


Question 11

The US pulled all of what BOMBER, nicknamed Lancer, out of the RAF Fairford air base after British police foiled an alleged terror plot against the planes and their crews? The bombers were reassigned to bases in the US.


Question 12

Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt's attempt to show that former special prosecutor Jack Smith committed perjury during a Congressional hearing backfired as Schmitt apparently couldn't tell the difference between the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and what COLLEGE BASKETBALL TEAM? Smith noted he saw the team, then featuring Caitlin Clark, when it played at Maryland.


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