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Yakima Herald-Republic weekly news quiz answers

 

1. What was sold in Yakima last week?

C) a winning Lotto ticket worth $3.4 million

 

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

 

3. Traveler Bernice Ende is

B) a long rider

 

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

A) Insitu

 

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

C) Norm Johnson

 

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

B) the A.E. Larson building

 

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

D) Selah School District Superintendent 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

C) a tree

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

A) Latino

 

10. What benefit event for CrimeStoppers was held Sunday?

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

 

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

C) local artists

 

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

B) The Seasons

 

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

 

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

C) are in seventh, eighth or ninth grade


* The weekly news quiz is compiled by copy editor Tim Kelly, who can be reached at tkelly@yakimaherald.com.

 



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