Answers to Friday's news quiz

Here are the answers to Friday’s news quiz, which asked you to identify the name of the iconic singer/activist who said this after making a surprise concert appearance: “No, I’ve never been nervous about being in front of an audience. But I want it to be good, y’know, and I wasn’t sure that I could be. But I didn’t sound too bad tonight …”

The first letters of each clued word spell out: JONI MITCHELL, who returned from a near-fatal brain aneurysm to make a surprise appearance at the Newport Folk Festival, her first performance at Newport in 53 years.

JACKIE ROBINSON: A new museum dedicated to this pioneering baseball great was unveiled in Manhattan, with memorabilia from his playing days in New York, among other places.

OVERRIDE: The Suffolk County Legislature voted to do this to County Executive Steve Bellone’s veto of a bill to kill public campaign financing.

NORMAN LEAR: TV legend and sitcom trailblazer who turned 100 years old this week.

IVANKA TRUMP: Jared Kushner alleges in an upcoming memoir that former White House chief of staff John Kelly was a bully who shoved this person after a volatile White House meeting.

MONKEYS: Dozens of people in the Japanese city of Yamaguchi have been attacked in July by these animals, who are targeting children and the elderly.

INFLATION: The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of a point in its latest attempt to slow this.

TEXAS: A U.S. district court heard arguments in a case in which this state is challenging Obamacare’s requirement that HIV preventative medication be fully covered by insurance.

CAT: Beloved animal that was controversially classified as an “invasive alien species” by the Polish Academy of Sciences.

HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT: Rock singer Pat Benatar said she would no longer perform this famous song because of its gun-referencing lyrics.

EUROPEAN UNION: Political alliance that agreed to reduce consumption of natural gas this winter to protect itself against further supply cuts by Russia.

LUFTHANSA: Ground staff of this European airline staged a one-day strike that resulted in more than 1,000 canceled flights as part of a pay dispute.

LYNX: A big spotted cat seen in Islip Town and finally captured, originally thought to be a bobcat, is instead most likely the Eurasian species of this animal.

— Michael Dobie @mwdobie