That’s NEWS to you

Sun., May 13, 2012

By Jim Camden jimc@spokesman.com (509) 879-7461

Here’s your chance to find out how well you followed the news with this week’s print version of our quiz. Once you’ve had a chance to practice here, go online to www.spokesman. com/newsquiz to take our interactive quiz and try for a chance to win a $50 gift card to the Davenport Hotel or tickets to a Spokane Shock game.

1. Nearly 48,000 people finished Bloomsday last week. What color T-shirt did they get for finishing the race?

A. Black

B. Blue

C. Red

D. Yellow

E. Green

2. Nevada recently gave licenses to an experimental car that:

A. Needs no human driver

B. Doubles as an airplane

C. Has no metal parts

D. Runs on solar power

E. Gets more than 100 miles to the gallon

3. Forrest B. Rodgers is in the news recently because he’s:

A. The husband of U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers

B. Running for an open state Senate seat

C. The former mayor of Spokane

D. The former executive director of the MAC

E. The winner of Bloomsday 2012

4. A Kootenai County Republican group is accusing a rival organization of “identity theft” over the use of whose name?

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. Barry Goldwater

C. Ronald Reagan

D. George W. Bush

E. Can’t fool me. North Idaho Republican groups would never fight over something like that.

5. Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers did something last week that only 16 players in Major League Baseball have done before. What was it?

A. He pitched a perfect game.

B. He stole second, third and home in one game.

C. He made an unassisted triple play.

D. He was the winning pitcher in both games of a doubleheader.

E. He hit four home runs in one game.

Check

your work

See the answers on Page B7.

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