That’s News to you answers

Here are the answers to this week’s newspaper quiz:

1. D. Folkinception is a local band that raised $7,000 through the Kickstarter program to record an album that will be released early next year.

2. A. Patty Murray, chairwoman of the Senate Budget Committee, led negotiations with Rep. Paul Ryan, the House budget leader.

3. C. Police have responded to about 50 calls in the past two years of people threatening to jump from the bridge, including one last week. That person was talked down from the railing after about 90 minutes.

4. B. The Spokane City Council voted 4-3 to expand the “sit-lie” law, making it illegal to sit or lie on sidewalks or planters downtown during that period.

5. D. Center Mamadou Ndiaye is listed as 7 feet, 6 inches tall.

On the Web: Now that you’ve warmed up your news sense, try your hand at our online quiz at www.spokesman.com/newsquiz/, where top entries go into a weekly drawing for a $50 gift card to the Davenport Hotel and all entries this week go into a drawing for movie tickets. To give our newspaper readers a boost, some of the questions in this quiz also appear online.

Last week’s winners are William R. Green, of Spokane, who won the Davenport gift card, and Karen Buffington, who won the movie tickets.