1. What is Newport Beach’s sister city?...

1. What is Newport Beach’s sister city?

a. Moscow

b. Costa Mesa

c. San Jose del Cabo, Mexico

d. Okazaki, Japan

2. A skate park is a place for

a. eating

b. skateboarding

c. swimming

d. writing news quizzes

3. Newport Beach City Councilman John Heffernan said he

a. wouldn’t accept campaign endorsements but earlier said he would

from one group

b. officially endorsed the police and fire departments

c. a and b

d. none of the above

4. Costa Mesa’s Planning Commission denied a Habitat for Humanity

housing project but

a. zoned the project’s site for residential use

b. zoned the project’s site for commercial use

c. was in the “No-Spin Zone”

d. approved calzones

5. Whom of the following did the Daily Pilot endorse for Costa

Mesa City Council?

a. Donald Duck

b. Bill O’Reilly

c. John Kerry

d. Linda Dixon

6. The proposed Marinapark resort development for Newport Beach

will have

a.110 rooms

b. five rooms

c. 1 million rooms

d. no rooms

7. The San Joaquin Reservoir

a. will remain empty

b. can hold about five gallons of water

c. has good fishing

d. could be refilled as soon as this month

8. Measure L is what?

a. a really bad 1970s band

b. a new, hip way of saying something is large

c. a Nov. 2 ballot measure that asks voters if they want to change

the city’s general plan to allow a hotel on harbor-side property on

Balboa Peninsula

d. A new magazine on measuring tools

9. The Army Corps of Engineers will pump sand from a dredging

project

a. into local gardens

b. onto local yards

c. onto local beaches

d. into water offshore

10. One of two dolphins that had been swimming for several days in

the Back Bay was found

a. dead

b. alive

c. swam back to the open sea

d. none of the above

11. True or false: A nuclear reactor exists on the UC Irvine

campus.

12. Olympic gold medalist Aaron Peirsol

a. never misplaced his medals

b. is a former student at Ensign Middle School

c. is a wrestler

d. is a track-and-field star

ANSWERS: 1:d; 2:b; 3:a; 4:a; 5:d; 6:a; 7:d; 8:c ; 9:d ; 10:a ;

11:true; 12:b