That’s NEWS to you
If you followed the news last week, you could be a winner in our weekly news quiz. Warm up by taking the newspaper version, then go to spokesman.com/ newsquiz, where top online entries go into a drawing for a $50 gift card to the Davenport Hotel, and all entries go into a drawing for movie tickets.
1. The Carlton Complex fire cut a swath of destruction through Central Washington. Something that escaped relatively unscathed was
A. Electrical service
B. Phone service
C. Homes
D. Orchards
E. Forests
2. Workers removed a fountain that had stood for decades at
A. INB Performing Arts Center
B. Parkade Plaza
C . Riverfront Park
D. Gonzaga University
E. Manito Park
3. The city of Spokane is installing 225 parking meters to
A. Upgrade mechanical meters to digital models
B. Increase the metered parking on the south side of downtown
C. Increase the metered parking on the north side of downtown
D. Extend metered parking to Browne’s Addition
E. All of the above
4. What longtime Spokane business just sold?
A. Red Lion Hotels
B. Cyrus O’Leary’s Pies
C. Avista
D. Spokandy
E. White’s Boots
5. Idaho Gov. Butch Otter announced
A. Idaho will try to stop further implementation of the Affordable Care Act
B. Idaho is off-limits to plans to ease the humanitarian crisis at the Mexican border
C. Idaho will begin to manage federal lands in the state
D. He opposes the Export-Import Bank
E. He will assume leadership of the state’s troubled Republican Party
Check your work
Find answers and winners on page B7.