Answers to Friday's news quiz
Here are the answers to Friday’s news quiz, which asked you to identify a nationally known politician who was attacked by the opposing political party when her latest filings showed a big increase in her net worth from four years ago, prompting her to say, “It is remarkable to me that success is now being demonized by the Republicans.”
The first letters of each clued word spell out: STACEY ABRAMS, who is running in the Georgia governor’s race.
SHANGHAI: The convention center in this Chinese city is being turned into a temporary hospital with more than 40,000 beds for COVID-19 patients.
THREE: Number of Republican senators who voted for the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
ASBESTOS: The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule that finally will ban all uses of this carcinogen.
COACHELLA: Kanye West pulled out as a headliner of this California music festival, and was replaced by Swedish House Mafia and The Weeknd.
EIGHT: Number of Long Island towns suing the state over control of settlement money from opioid manufacturers.
YAPHANK: Location of Long Island’s first anaerobic digester to process food waste, on which construction is expected to begin this month.
AUSTRALIA: The United States, United Kingdom and this country announced they will work together to develop hypersonic missiles.
BUCHA: Ukrainian city where signs of Russian atrocities and war crimes were found.
REFINANCE: Applications from homeowners to do this slid to a three-year low because of rising mortgage rates.
ALZHEIMER’S: Medicare officials said that a controversial expensive new drug for this disease will be covered only for those receiving it in a clinical trial.
MACBETH: Broadway production temporarily halted because of a positive COVID-19 test for star Daniel Craig.
SPIRIT: JetBlue made a $3.6 billion bid for this airline, breaking up a potential merger between this airline and Frontier Airlines.
Michael Dobie is a retired member of the Newsday editorial board.
