That’s News to you answers

Here are the answers to this week’s quiz:

1. D. A four-year letterman and three-year starter at Gonzaga Prep, Laura Stockton will continue her playing career at Gonzaga University, the same school where her father was a star point guard prior to playing for the NBA’s Utah Jazz.

2. A. To allow a shipment of spent nuclear fuel into Idaho. Gov. Butch Otter has maintained that it’s a small amount of spent nuclear fuel for use in research. But the two former governors said regardless of the amount, the move violates the public notice requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act.

3. B. The circus will no longer include elephants. “It was a decision 145 years in the making,” said Juliette Feld, referring to P.T. Barnum’s introduction of animals to his “traveling menagerie” in 1870. Elephants have symbolized this circus since Barnum brought an Asian elephant named Jumbo to America in 1882. The circus says the last 13 performing elephants will retire by 2018, joining 29 other pachyderms at the company’s 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in central Florida.

4. A. The last time the Nasdaq was this high, Bill Clinton was president. Fifteen years later the Nasdaq has again closed above 5,000. The Nasdaq had a much heavier tech focus in 2000. At its peak, tech stocks made up 65 percent of the index, compared with 43 percent today. Telecommunication companies were also a big component, accounting for 12 percent of the index’s market value versus 0.8 percent now.

5. A. When roadways are reduced from four lanes to two with a center turn lane, the term used is “road diets.” The state of Washington recently announced that Spokane, Spokane Valley and Spokane County will get grant funding to reduce lane configurations on several streets – North Monroe, North Crestline, West Mission and Maxwell, North Market and McDonald. Brandon Blankenagel, civil engineer for Spokane, said the three-lane configuration works well when traffic volumes are below 20,000 vehicles a day.

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