Answers to Friday's news quiz
Here are the answers to Friday’s news quiz, which asked you to identify the Midwestern state lawmaker whose now-viral response to a colleague’s personal attack included this passage: “I am a straight, white, Christian, married, suburban mom who knows that the very notion that learning about slavery or redlining or systemic racism somehow means that children are being taught to feel bad or hate themselves because they are white is absolute nonsense.”
The first letters of each clued word spell out: MALLORY MCMORROW, a state senator from Michigan.
MARIJUANA: Sales of this formerly illicit substance became legal in New Jersey this week.
ATLANTA: An Apple store in this city became the first company store to file to try to form a union.
LUCKY CHARMS: The Food and Drug Administration announced it would begin an investigation of reports that eating this cereal had made some people sick.
LONG BEACH: Long Island municipality that approved a $75 million settlement with a developer over its plans to build a waterfront apartment complex.
OBAMA: Last name of the political power couple ending their podcast deal with Spotify and looking to sign a multimillion-dollar deal with another audio platform.
ROBERT MORSE: Tony Award-winner from “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” and “Tru” and later star in TV’s “Mad Men,” who died this week at age 90.
YAPHANK: Location of Long Island’s first anaerobic digester to turn food waste into biogas, which broke ground this week.
MARIUPOL: Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a blockade of the last stronghold in this Ukrainian city so tight that “a fly cannot pass through.”
CANNABIS: Three Long Island farms received state licenses to start growing this plant this spring.
MEXICO: Three Long Island animal shelters are part of a group of East Coast rescue organizations that saved 20 dogs marked for death by gangs in this country.
OREGON: One of three states visited this week by President Joe Biden to tout the bipartisan infrastructure law.
RUSSIA: The Wimbledon tennis tournament that announced it will ban players from this country this year.
REEDY CREEK: Name of the special taxing district governing Walt Disney World that will be dissolved per a new law passed by Florida’s legislature in response to Disney’s criticism of that state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law.
ONE: Number of months CNN+ was on the air before Warner Brothers Discovery pulled the plug.
WALMART: Giant retailer that agreed to buy green hydrogen to power the thousands of forklifts in its facilities and distribution centers.
— Michael Dobie @mwdobie
