Answers to Friday's news quiz
Here are the answers to Friday’s news quiz, which asked you to identify the New York politician who said this when asked about the possibility of negotiating changes to bail reform legislation during the ongoing state budget negotiations: “I just don’t know if that can be figured out in two days.”
The first letters of each clued word spell out: CARL HEASTIE (the State Assembly speaker).
CARNIVAL: A car plowed in a group of revelers in Belgium, killing six people celebrating this holiday.
ARIZONA: State that became the first to let people store their official driver’s license or ID on their iPhone.
RUSSIA: President Joe Biden said he supports expelling this country from the Group of 20 as punishment for its bad behavior.
LOUISIANA: Hurricane-ravaged state that this week was ravaged by tornadoes.
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: Nonprofit recipient of a $436 million gift from MacKenzie Scott, former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
EIGHT: Number of non-white male Supreme Court justices in the nation’s history, if Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed.
ABEL PRIZE: Dennis Sullivan of Stony Brook University was named co-winner of this award, the equivalent of a Nobel in mathematics.
SAG HARBOR: An East End transportation company is proposing a seasonal ferry service between this community and Greenport.
TESLA: Automaker that opened a Gigafactory outside Berlin, the company’s first facility in Europe.
IDAHO: This state’s governor signed a bill based on a Texas law that bans abortion after six weeks and allows citizens to sue providers of abortions beyond that window.
EPCAL: Controversial Calverton property that Riverhead officials voted to transfer to the town’s Industrial Development Agency.
Michael Dobie is a member of the Newsday editorial board.
