This is the time of year when The SandPaper goes dark for two weeks, but before the long winter’s nap there is the annual brainteaser meant to keep you awake until January and the paper’s return. This, of course, is the annual 200 Plus year-end challenge covering the 49 articles printed in 2017. The challenge will have 25 questions and one bonus, and the answers will appear in the Jan. 10 issue.

Before you begin, a few hints: 2017 concentrated mainly on Prohibition and the wartime events of 1917, along with the…