That’s News to you answers
Here are the answers to this week’s newspaper quiz:
1. C. After nearly two years and 15 conference away games without a road win over a Pac-12 school, the Cougs were victorious, beating California.
2. D. Finch, named after one of Spokane’s greatest philanthropists, John Aylard Finch, was built in 1923.
3. D. A new statewide poll shows that two-thirds of Idahoans believe the state should prohibit discriminating against gays, lesbians and transgender people in housing, employment and business. The poll, by Utah pollster Jones & Associates, queried 520 Idaho adults in late December and found that 67 percent thought such discrimination should be illegal, while 27 percent didn’t and 6 percent didn’t know.
4. C. “Antiques Roadshow,” the popular PBS television series, will return to Spokane in June to film three episodes. It last visited Spokane in 2007, attracting about 6,000 people to the filming.
5. B. Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio were elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame on Tuesday, the first time since 1955 writers selected four players in one year. The Big Unit, Martinez and Smoltz earned induction on their first tries, and Biggio made it on the third attempt after falling two votes shy last year.
On the Web: Try your hand at our interactive quiz at www. spokesman.com/newsquiz, where all entrants are eligible to win movie tickets and our overall champ wins a $50 gift card to the Davenport Hotel.
Last week’s winners are George Waldref, of Spokane, who won a $50 gift card, and LeeAnn Reed, of Spokane, who won the movie tickets.