That’s News to you answers
Here are the answers to this week’s quiz:
1. B. The protesters planned to throw volleyballs in front of the police vehicles.
Knezovich sent notice Wednesday to activist Scott Maclay, president of the Rattlesnakes Motorcycle Club, advising that state law prohibits intentional obstruction of vehicular traffic.
The group says it plans to target only law enforcement vehicles it sees speeding without emergency lights or sirens activated, which Maclay described as common along Sprague Avenue and other arterials at night. It also plans to videotape the encounters.
Maclay contends the teen cyclist, Ryan Holyk, was hit by a speeding police car driven by Deputy Joe Bodman, who was traveling about 70 mph along Sprague Avenue in the Valley without emergency lights or sirens while responding to assist another officer the night of May 23, 2014. An investigation concluded that the deputy didn’t hit the teenager, however, but rather that Holyk fell off his bike and hit his head.
2. D. The firefighters, who all died in the line of duty, were included in the Spokane Firefighters Memorial Project, funded by donations from regional fire departments and local firefighters. The effort was driven by Lt. Greg Borg and his family, who researched each death and located family members to attend the ceremonies.
3. A. Australia, the land poet Dorothea Mackellar dubbed “a sunburnt country,” suffered a torturous drought from the late 1990s through 2012. Now Californians are facing their own “Big Dry” and looking Down Under to see how they coped.
4. C. The Liquor Control Board’s name on July 24 will be changed to the Liquor and Cannabis Board.
5. C. Ireland is the first country to approve gay marriage in a popular national vote. Nineteen other countries have legalized the practice through their legislatures and courts.
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• Last week’s winners are Sharon Hamilton, of Veradale, who won the gift card, and Amy Lutz, of Spokane, who won the movie tickets.