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If you followed the news last week, you could be a winner in our weekly quiz. Warm up with the newspaper version, and then go to www.spokesman.com/newsquiz, where top entries go into a drawing for a $50 gift card to the Davenport Hotel, and all entries are eligible to win movie tickets.

1. Supporters of what Spokane golf course made an impassioned request to the Spokane Park Board to return the course to its standing as one of the nation’s finest public facilities?

A. Esmeralda

B. Downriver

C. Qualchan

D. Indian Canyon

E. Manito

2. Spokane City Councilman Mike Fagan declared that there was “no way” he would resign from the county health board amid criticism of his statements questioning the safety of what?

A. Spokane’s streets

B. Vaccines

C. Airport body scanners

D. Bikini coffee businesses

E. City Hall bathrooms

3. Avista Utilities has begun the process of asking Washington regulators for what?

A. To become a deregulated private company

B. To be allowed to sell gasoline for autos

C. To build a new dam on the Spokane River

D. To award multimillion-dollar bonuses

E. To increase gas and electric rates

4. The governor of what state resigned Friday?

A. Hawaii

B. Washington

C. New York

D. Alabama

E. Oregon

5. NBC announced it is suspending Brian Williams as “Nightly News” anchor and managing editor for six months without pay for misleading the public about what?

A. His views on global warming

B. His political affiliation

C. His college degree

D. His coverage of the Iraq War

E. His work with another network

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