Answers to Friday's news quiz
Here are the answers to Friday’s news quiz, which asked you to identify the U.S. senator who when asked about Congress delivering significant climate finance for developing nations said, “It’s very important to our credibility.” If the U.S. comes up short, the senator said, “then we’d look like jerks.”
The first letters of each clued word spell out: SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, Democratic senator from Rhode Island.
SOUTHAMPTON: Long Island town that approved a ban on gas-powered leaf blowers between May 20 and September 20.
HUBBLE: Telescope that detected the most distant star ever seen, 50 to 100 times larger than our sun and 12.9 billion light-years away.
EAT: Ukraine warned its negotiators not to do this at peace talks with Russia, because of concerns about poisoning attempts.
LYNCHING: President Joe Biden signed a bill making this a federal hate crime, more than 100 years after such legislation was first proposed.
DONALD TRUMP: Politician who recently posted in a news release that he had gotten a hole-in-one golfing with professional Ernie Els.
OVERTIME: A ransomware attack on the LIRR’s timekeeping system has left some employees waiting up to 10 months to receive this kind of pay.
NYU: College that announced that singer Taylor Swift will address its commencement next month at Yankee Stadium and receive an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree.
WALMART: National retail chain that announced that some of its stores will no longer sell cigarettes.
HEINEKEN: Dutch brewery group that announced it was pulling out of Russia.
ISTANBUL: City hosting the peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
TESLA: Automaker that announced a second stock split in less than two years.
EUROPE: Geographic bloc that faced a Friday deadline for having Russian natural gas cut off if it didn’t start paying for the gas in rubles.
HUNTINGTON: LI town whose board of appeals delayed a vote on a variance for a retaining wall because of its proximity to a bald eagle nest.
OPIOID: CVS and pharmaceutical companies will pay Florida $860 million to settle a case dealing with this epidemic.
UBER: Gig drivers led a caravan over the Brooklyn Bridge to this company’s Manhattan headquarters demanding it add a fuel surcharge to customers’ fares to cover drivers’ rising costs.
SUSAN COLLINS: The first GOP senator to confirm an upcoming yes vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson.
EIGHT: The number of members of Suffolk County’s new bipartisan redistricting commission; also, the number of teams left in college basketball tournaments.
Michael Dobie is a member of the Newsday editorial board.
