NEWS QUIZ

1. The nonprofit National Outdoor Leadership School rolled through town this week with an eco-friendly bus that runs on what sort of oil?

A. Olive

B. Soy

C. Motor

D. Vegetable

2. The great-great-grandson of a famous Revolutionary War figure addressed students at Orange Coast College this week to mark the 65th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Who was his great-great-grandfather?

A. Benjamin Franklin

B. Thomas Jefferson

C. Francis Scott Key

D. Paul Revere

3. Professional Stamp Experts, a Newport Beach company that authenticates stamps, concluded that a stamp used to send in an absentee ballot in Florida was not a rare 1918 stamp worth up to $500,000. If the stamp was authentic, why would it be considered so valuable?

A. Because it portrays an inverted Jenny

B. It features an upside-down George Washington

C. There’s a typographical error in it

D. Only 10 of them were made

4. Trevor Slavick is on a mission. To promote goodwill, he has sent the same item to soldiers in Iraq and orphans all over the world. What is it?

A. American flags

B. Soccer balls

C. Footballs

D. Candy

5. Orange Coast College took home the state title in what sport this week?

A. Football

B. Women’s soccer

C. Coed tiddlywinks

D. Women’s volleyball

ANSWERS: 1. D; 2. C; 3. A;

4. B; 5. D