02/08/10 News quiz answers

1. The building materials outlet operated by Yakima Valley Partners Habitat for Humanity is called

C) ReStore

2. When it comes to filing federal income tax returns, consumer advocates recommend against

C) refund anticipation loans

3. What does the Husky Promise guarantee?

B) payment of tuition at the University of Washington for eligible lower-income students

4. Students at YVCC, Central Washington University and other colleges staged demonstrations Friday protesting

D) state budget cuts and higher tuition

5. Who was the speaker and what was the setting where this remark was made: "What I tell people is there comes a point where you have to take a stand and stop living in fear"?

B) Yakima police Officer Jaime Gonzalez at a neighborhood Block Watch meeting

6. The goal of an event Saturday at the Yakima Convention Center was to teach up to 1,000 people how to

A) perform CPR

7. At the Winter X Games, Joe Parsons of Yakima won a bronze medal for jumping 147 feet, 9 inches on

D) a snowmobile

8. Dairy farmer Dan DeRuyter has an anaerobic digester that produces

D) electricity

9. A performance by Latin jazz band Sonando began a music series at The Seasons called

A) ¡Sabor!

10. Motorbreath is a tribute band to what rock group?

B) Metallica

11. Possible state budget cuts to make up a $2.6 billion shortfall could leave more than 8,000 people in Yakima County without

D) coverage under the Basic Health plan

12. Cottonwood Elementary School students and the Seattle Opera Young Artists performed 'Siegfried and the Ring of Fire,' which is an adaptation of

C) an opera by Wagner

13. Too much human intrusion In Boulder Cave has affected the population of

B) bats

* Compiled by Tim Kelly, who can be reached at 509-577-7752 or tkelly@yakimaherald.com.