NEWS QUIZ

1. The Costa Mesa-Newport Harbor Lions Club Fish Fry has raised how much money over its decades in existence?

A. $500,000

B. $1 million

C. $2 million

D. $2.5 million

2. Dubai-based real estate developer Emaar, which announced this month that it had bought Newport Beach-based John Laing Homes for $1 million, is also building what?

A. The world’s largest swimming pool

B. The world’s tallest building and biggest shopping mall

C. The world’s deepest hole, which will serve as a hotel and shopping center

D. The world’s most expensive private home on an island in the South Pacific

3. Why did a professional animator from Pixar speak to students at Newport Heights Elementary School?

A. To promote the studio’s latest animated feature

B. Because he is the uncle of a student at the school

C. He is a former student at the school, which is where he first created an animated “cartoon” in flip-book form

D. The students won prizes which included a day with a Pixar animator

4. David Gelbaum, who was revealed this week as an anonymous donor to Save Our Youth, established which program of giving back in 1994?

A. He would donate $1 for every hour the students studied at the center

B. He would award students money every two weeks, and when they graduated high school, he would total the amount up into college scholarships

C. He paid for all the organization’s utility bills

D. He has been paying back the loan used to get Save Our Youth started

5. UC Irvine’s baseball team got knocked out of the NCAA Regionals in what fashion?

A. The team lost two one-run games

B. The team lost one game in a last at-bat and one one-run game

C. It lost a pair of shutouts while only allowing three runs

D. It lost to a pitcher who threw his first no-hitter