“For some of the questions, when he...

“For some of the questions, when he pushed the buzzer, I thought,

‘What are you doing?’ I didn’t think he knew that and he did it and

it blew me away.”

-- Frank Curiel, whose son Wil competed on Kids Week of

“Jeopardy!,” which will run in early May.

“We may have had female suspects in such cases in the past, but

that’s been very rare. Especially a female suspect involved with a

female victim is quite rare.”

-- Steve Shulman, Newport Beach Police sergeant, on a case

involving a woman charged with inappropriately touching a teenage

girl.

“People are deconstructing meals and splitting a lot of stuff, so

people are getting a lot of different tastes.”

-- Rich Mead, co-owner of the restaurant Sage, who is opening a

new restaurant this summer in the Crystal Cove Promenade.

“It’s not over. We have to be vigilant and keep our fight up. This

is a never-ending struggle to maintain our quality of life.”

-- Rick Taylor, the Airport Working Group’s vice president, on the

continuing El Toro airport fight, during the group’s annual meeting.

“There are about 20,000 runners in Orange County and about 5,000

in Newport Beach. If you go to the Back Bay, you see people running.

They’re everywhere.”

-- Bill Sumner, director of the newly planned Orange County

Marathon, during the announcement saying that the marathon will take

place in December.

“Just the fact that we spent the last two-and-a-half hours [on

this], it’s a very sad day. For the city to get involved with this

... if it’s not broke, don’t fix it.”

-- Gary Monahan, Costa Mesa mayor, on a debate about hanging

banners at Costa Mesa athletic fields.