Know your current events? Find out on the news quiz

Yakima Herald-Republic weekly news quiz

1. What was sold in Yakima last week?

A) movie rights for the City Council e-mail scandal

B) the top of the SunDome for billboard space

C) a winning Lotto ticket worth $3.4 million

D) the Vineyards Resort, in a foreclosure sale

2. Local radio personality Dave Ettl decided to run for the Yakima City Council seat currently held by Sonia Rodriguez because

A) he regards her as the council member most vulnerable in an election

B) the council needs a guy with his folksy charm

C) listening to KIT's daily broadcasts of Rush Limbaugh
and Sean Hannity makes him well-informed

D) he was wildly cheered as emcee of the recent Tea Party events

3. Traveler Bernice Ende is

A) long-winded

B) a long rider

C) filled with longing

D) elongated

4. Unmanned surveillance aircraft known as drones are manufactured by what company in Bingen, Wash.?

A) Insitu B) Jujitsu

C) Shiatsu D) Boeing

5. Which local elected official was hospitalized for a couple days last week?

A) Dave Edler B) Mike Leita

C) Norm Johnson D) "Cefus"

6. To mark National Historic Preservation Month, local historians gave free tours of

A) Rosedell Manor

B) the A.E. Larson building

C) the H.M. Gilbert Homeplace

D) the Zillah Teapot Gas Station

7. Whose resignation was front-page news last week?

A) Selah Mayor Bob Jones

B) Yakima City Councilman Rick Ensey

C) Yakima City Councilman Bruce Smith

D) Selah School District Supertintendent Debra Howard

8. Hundreds of students and staff at Sunnyside's Pioneer Elementary School arranged themselves on a field to form an image that from high above looked like

A) Barack Obama's head

B) a wine bottle

C) a tree

D) a Rorschach blot

9. Census figures show that as of 2008, 41.4 percent of Yakima County's population was

A) Latino

B) unemployed

C) Republican

D) unemployed Latino Republicans

10. What benefit event for CrimeStoppers is being held today?

A) Sam Granato dunk tank at Millennium Plaza

B) Pink Passionistas Fashion Show at 'Ohana

C) Tip-A-Cop at Red Robin restaurant

D) Your Canyon for a Day bike ride in Yakima River Canyon

11. What exhibition was held Friday and Saturday at State Fair Park?

A) a quilt show

B) a dog show

C) a home and garden show

D) a monster truck show

12. A tour this weekend offered a look inside the homes of

A) Yakima City Council members

B) people holding yard sales

C) local artists

D) area gang members

13. The Yakima's Got Talent show is a fundraiser for

A) La Casa Hogar

B) The Seasons

C) Allied Arts

D) local Chrysler and GM dealerships

14. East Valley Intermediate School students who met their goal in a jog-a-thon fundraiser got to do what to two teachers as a reward?

A) cover them with ice cream and sundae toppings

B) waterboard them

C) shave their heads

D) give them tattoos

15. Students can register during the current school year for the state's new College Bound Scholarship program if they

A) maintain a grade-point average of at least 2.0

B) have a family income not exceeding $30,550

C) are in seventh, eighth or ninth grade

D) have passed the WASL

* Answers in Monday's Home Front section.

* Compiled by Tim Kelly, who can be reached at 577-7752 or tkelly@yakimaherald.com.