Alpaca Farm (beta)

The Week of October 4, 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

In what COUNTRY did the first round of elections see Flavio Bolsonaro, son of a former president, top current president Lula da Silva? A run-off election is scheduled for later in the month.


Question 2

Hundreds of thousands of people across the southern US were left without power after what HURRICANE made landfall in Florida? There were two reported fatalities, one each in Florida and Alabama.


Question 3

A Houthi attack against King Khalid International Airport in what SAUDI ARABIAN CITY killed 12 and injured more than 300? The Houthis killed another three people in an attack the day before.


Question 4

Donald Trump formed a committee of inquiry to investigate what FEDERAL RESERVE GOVERNOR? He had previously tried - and failed - to have her removed from the board over allegations of mortgage fraud.


Question 5

Donald Trump said he secured a deal with what COUNTRY to allow them to export diesel, even with sanctions remaining in place? The plan was decried by Ukraine for its potential to extend its ongoing war.


Question 6

The Pentagon came under fire for its plan to livestream the execution of the former Army officer who killed 13 in a shooting at what TEXAS MILITARY BASE?


Question 7

Ethiopia stated it was acting in self-defense when it stepped up action in Tigray near the border with what NEIGHBORING COUNTRY, saying the country was providing support to Tigrayan rebels?


Question 8

Russian public health officials denied that a lab worker died from a pneumonic form of what DISEASE, saying that she had died of a pneumonia of unknown origin? The victim worked at a lab that studies the disease, and reportedly was infected after breaking a test tube.


Question 9

What AIRCRAFT CARRIER docked in its home port of Coronado, California after a nearly year-long deployment that saw it spend 265 consecutive days at sea? It bested deployment records set by the USS Gerald R. Ford, also during the war with Iran.


Question 10

Your HallR Memorial Mini-Theme of the Week: Prize Time. Francis Halzen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work creating an observatory on the South Pole for detecting what hard to find ELEMENTARY PARTICLE?


Question 11

Hours after South African jurist Navi Pillay was named the newest Nobel Peace Prize winner, the Trump administration levied sanctions against what MULTINATIONAL TRIBUNAL, which Pillay served on from 2003 to 2008?


Question 12

What SCANDAL-PLAGUED televangelist, whose PTL ministry was overshadowed by his affair with Jessica Hahn and a conviction for fraud, died at the age of 86?


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