From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 9 (2025-11-17), Round 1 - Current Events   
   >   
   > 1. The US government shutdown ended this week, after several   
   >    Democratic and independent senators voted for a Republican-backed   
   >    spending package?  How many Democrats and independents voted   
   >    for the package?   
      
   7   
      
   > 6. Citing rising costs, the US Mint stopped making *what* last week?   
      
   One-cent coins   
      
   > * Game 10 (2025-11-17), Round 1 - Current Events   
   >   
   > 3. Which Caribbean island, home to 185,000 people, became the   
   >    smallest nation (according to FIFA's terminology) to ever   
   >    qualify for a World Cup?   
      
   Curação   
      
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