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Quiz Answers
1. a. Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post, on Eight Belles, the filly who broke both front ankles after finishing second at the Kentucky Derby on May 3. Eight Belles was euthanized immediately; b. United Kingdom ambassador to Myanmar Mark Canning, on the devastation caused by a cyclone that hit that country on May 3; c. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey, on the three men who shot and killed Police Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski on May 3; d. State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo (D., Phila.), April 29, during an Appropriations Committee hearing in Harrisburg on a bill that would define marriage as between a man and a woman - a measure Fumo opposes.
2. b.
3. c.
4. c. and d. Olivia de Havilland is 91. Joan Fontaine, her little sister, is 90. They are said not to have spoken to each other since 1975.
5. a.: 2.; b.: 1.; c.: 3.; d.: 5.; e.: 4.
6. The best-selling U.S. vehicle of 2007, with, according to Forbes, 588,952 sold.
7. Men released from prison after consideration of DNA evidence. Woodard was released after 27 years. This especially poor record is spurring a review of the rather enthusiastic Dallas County procedures for trial and conviction.
8. They were arrested in a giant drug sting after the overdose death of a student. Evidence is said to include four pounds of cocaine, 50 pounds of marijuana, and 350 Ecstasy pills.
9. These are all redundancies. They also repeat themselves and say the same thing over again, not once but twice.
