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 said about the status of gun safety negotiations after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas: “I’m sober-minded about our chances. I have had the football pulled out from under me enough times to be realistic.”

The first letters of each clued word spell out: CHRIS MURPHY, the Democratic senator from Connecticut.

COLORADO: State that became the first in the nation to ban anonymous sperm and egg donations.

HOSPITAL: A man with a rifle and a handgun killed four people and himself at this kind of facility in Tulsa, in the nation’s 233rd mass shooting this year.

RONALD REAGAN: A judge announced that John Hinckley will be freed of all restrictions 41 years after attempting to assassinate this politician.

IPAD: Apple announced software changes that will make this device operate more like a laptop and less like a phone.

SEVENTY: Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating her Platinum Jubilee, marking this many years on the throne.

MONA LISA: A man disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at this famed painting hanging in the Louvre.

UVALDE: Funerals for 21 school shooting victims began in this small Texas city.

REPARATIONS: A report detailing California’s role in perpetuating discrimination against African Americans laid the groundwork for paying these to descendants of enslaved people.

PLAINVIEW: Long Island community in which about 1,000 high school students walked out of class Wednesday to call for an end to gun violence.

HOWARD JOHNSON’S: Once-iconic national chain that saw its last restaurant close, in the upstate village of Lake George.

YELLEN: Last name of the Biden cabinet member who acknowledged that it was a mistake to downplay the risk of inflation.

— Michael Dobie @mwdobie