The Slice: Here’s hoping nobody answers ‘C’

OK, it’s time for a summer school pop quiz.

No more talking. Books under your desks, please.

Answer the following true-or-false questions. Then check your results and find the grade-yourself guide. Good luck.

1. The Campbell House, next to the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, originally was a bordello.

2. Ken Spiering and David Govedare were a Spokane songwriting team who had several hits during the heyday of folk, including “It Takes a Worried Man.”

3. Someone once complained to the circulation department of The Spokesman-Review because a young newsboy named Bing Crosby made too much noise whistling and such while doing his route.

4. It is thought that a meteor started the Great Fire of Aug. 4, 1889.

5. During the height of the Cold War, the Clock Tower in what would become Riverfront Park housed a nuclear warhead-carrying Atlas ICBM.

6. Spokane’s current City Hall used to be a Montgomery Ward store.

7. Spokane has had a black mayor.

8. Rose Hill in Manito Park was the site of an inconsequential Civil War skirmish.

9. There used to be a toll for crossing the Maple Street Bridge.

10. Peaceful Valley was given its name in the late ‘60s by an itinerant preacher named Milt “Wavy Gravy” Priggee.

11. If the Spokane Canaries had won more games, the World War I-era hockey team would have been eligible to compete for the Stanley Cup.

12. The first railroad to connect with Spokane was called the St. Paul and Seattle.

13. Spokane’s Stoddard King once went seven rounds with Joe Louis in a nontitle bout.

14. The Lilac City would have fluoridated water today if not for the actions of a woman named Maureen O’Boyle.

15. It used to be commonplace here to look up and see a B-52 in flight.

Bonus: As of next week, The Slice has been around for 15 years.

Answers: 1-F, 2-F (they are artists), 3-T, 4-F, 5-F, 6-T, 7-T (Mayor Jim Chase), 8-F, 9-T, 10-F, 11-T, 12-F, 13-F (he was a writer), 14-F (she was a news anchor), 15-T, Bonus-T.

Grade yourself: 14 or better correct – You have skills.

13-10 correct – Room for improvement.

Less than 10 correct – “D’oh!”

“Today’s Slice question: What do you usually say to political candidates when they show up at the front door?