1. The city of Newport Beach has...

1. The city of Newport Beach has updated its website and in doing so,

the webmaster noted that a website in another city looked similar to

city’s old site. That city was?

A. Newport, Rhode Island

B. Newport News, Virginia

C. Newport, Kentucky

D. Newport, Oregon

2. The Newport Beach City Council has agreed to go forward with

the $7 million Newport Coast community center, but without this

formerly planned feature?

A. Dance hall

B. Community hot tub

C. Skating rink

D. Library

3. The Newport-Mesa Unified School District officials instituted

an interim policy on the showing of films with R, PG-13 or PG-rated

content after a seventh-grade history teacher showed what film to his

class?

A. Titanic

B. The Godfather

C. Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

D. Groundhog Day

4. Merry Grasska, a 16-year Newport-Mesa School District employee

and nurse at Hope Healthy Start Clinic in Costa Mesa, was recently

named the National School Nurse of the Year. Prior to that, Grasska

was honored for what?

A. State School Nurse of the Year

B. Being a nurse to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

C. Nurse of the Millennium

D. Playing Nurse Ratchet in a school play

5. He may be in a wheelchair, but that doesn’t stop Lincoln

Elementary pupil Dusty Brandom from playing the villain Mr. Bumble in

the school’s production of the musical “Oliver!” Dusty, who suffers

from muscular dystrophy and wants to be a rock star some day, plays

what musical instrument?

A. Guitar

B. Drums

C. Maracas

D. Harmonica

Answers: 1C, 2D, 3C, 4A, 5A