That’s News to you answers

Sun., March 23, 2014

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

1. C. The team will wear jerseys emblazoned with its team name written in the Spokane Salish language.

2. C. The Federal Emergency Management Agency would be asked to help foot the bill for firefighting.

3. A. The Diamond Cup will return this year even though the organization is still paying off bills from last year’s event.

4. B. Baristas are working armed with guns.

5. E. Sinclair will forfeit $20,000 and pay restitution for misusing a government credit card.

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 questions in this quiz also appear online.

Last week’s winners are Matt Bergam, of Veradale, who won a $50 gift card, and Linda Petersen, of Spokane, who won movie tickets.

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