That’s NEWS to you

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. Recommendations from a government advisory committee call for an environmentally friendly diet lower in red and processed meats. What are its suggestions regarding coffee?

A. Buy it from bikini baristas.

B. A couple of cups a day is OK.

C. Drink two cups with every meal.

D. Be sure to add chocolate.

E. Avoid having coffee with your eggs.

2. What NASCAR driver earned the coveted pole position during the frenetic knockout qualifying format for this year’s Daytona 500?

A. Jimmie Johnson

B. Kyle Busch

C. Jeff Gordon

D. Tony Steward

E. Danica Patrick

3. A recently discovered manuscript is coming to summer reading lists, this time in the form of a new Dr. Seuss book. The manuscript by the late author Theodor Geisel, known to readers as Dr. Seuss, is coming out in July. What is the name of the new book?

A. “What Pet Should I Get?”

B. “Brown Eggs And Spam”

C. “Twitter Tweets, Birdie Treats”

D. “Here’s Horton’s Who”

E. “Brown Fish, Dead Fish”

4. A train carrying more than 100 tankers of crude oil derailed during a snowstorm, sending at least one tanker into a river, igniting at least 14 in all and sending a fireball hundreds of feet into the sky. Where was the derailment?

A. Washington

B. North Dakota

C. West Virginia

D. Montana

E. Georgia

5. What retailer has decided to raise the minimum wage for its U.S. employees to at least $9 an hour beginning in April?

A. Target

B. Sears

C. General Store

D. Wal-Mart

E. Nordstrom

Check your work

Find answers and last week’s winners on page  B10.