1. A passenger bus, on its way from New York to Charlotte and Atlanta, was consumed by fire last Tuesday morning while it was stopped along a shoulder of Interstate 85 in Rowan County. What led to the fire?

A. A tossed cigarette

B. A flat tire

C. An overheated engine

D. A terrorist attack

2. A Rowan Museum exhibit winding up this week focuses on what?

A. Things brought out of the museum’s storage and items from people’s various collections

B. World War I

C. The history of volunteer fire departments

D. Life back home during the Civil War

3. Granite Quarry Mayor Bill Feather will make history in this November’s municipal election. How?

A. He will be the first Native American ever elected mayor in the town

B. Unopposed, he will be the first person elected mayor in a separate election for the position.

C. He will be the youngest person ever to be elected mayor

D. He will be the first person to win the mayor’s seat based on a write-in campaign

4. Ruzica Sadowski, who lives in France, recently made a trip to Kannapolis to visit Kay Baker. What led Sadowski to stop at Baker’s home?

A. Sadowski and Baker are sisters who were separated as youngsters and hadn’t seen each other in 50 years

B. Sadowski works with the State Department in France, and she was delivering a watch that had belonged to Baker’s soldier father in World War II

C. Baker had lived with Sadowski’s family when she was a foreign exchange student from A.L. Brown in 1974

D. Baker and Sadowski were pen pals who had never met in person for 40 years

5. According to local law enforcement, the use of what drug or drugs has increased above all others in recent years?

A. Methamphetamine

B. Cocaine

C. Prescription pain killers

D. Heroin

6. Among North Carolina’s 100 counties, where did Rowan County rank in tourism in 2014?

A. First

B. 11th

C. 29th

D. 51st

7. Lindsay Cooney, Teacher of the Year for Kannapolis Schools, and Cassie Thompson, Teacher of the Year for Rowan-Salisbury, traveled together this summer to see schools in what country?

A. Vietnam

B. Singapore

C. India

D. South Africa

8. Because the N.C. General Assembly has yet to pass a budget, Rowan-Salisbury Schools has suspended what program heading into the new school year?

A. Free breakfast

B. Free lunch

C. Driver’s education

D. Title I reading

9. The Rowan Little League girls softball team, winners of the Southeast Region, are playing in the Little League World Series in what city?

A. Williamsport, Pa.

B. San Jose, Calif.

C. Portland, Ore.

D. Madison, Wisc.

10. Ralph Kitley, a 6-10 former basketball player at North Rowan High School and Wake Forest University, was inducted into the Rowan County Sports Hall of Fame. What’s Kitley doing now?

A. He’s a high school principal

B. He’s a NASCAR crew chief

C. He’s a vice president for Bank of America

D. He’s chairman of the N.C. Zoo’s board of trustees

ANSWERS

1. B. A flat tire — or the efforts to fix it — apparently created some kind of spark which led to the I-85 fire of the passenger bus belonging to YEP Tour Inc.

2. A. The eclectic exhibit of items from the museum’s storage rooms and people’s home collections is called “Off the Shelf.” The exhibit’s last day will be Aug. 23.

3. B. Barring any kind of upset from a write-in candidate, Feather will be elected mayor in November. It’s the first time in the modern era the town has elected a mayor separately from seats on the Board of Aldermen. In the past, aldermen chose a mayor from among themselves.

4. D. Sadowski and Baker first wrote to each other as pen pals during Baker’s senior year at A.L. Brown in 1975-76.

5. D. Authorities say heroin use has reached epidemic proportions in Rowan during the past six to seven years.

6. C. Rowan ranked 29th in tourism in 2014, with those activities bringing in $153.8 million.

7. B. Cooney and Thompson were selected to go on the trip to Singapore (and Malaysia) through the University of North Carolina’s Center for International Understanding.

8. C. The school system has suspended driver’s education until the General Assembly passes a budget.

9. C. Playing in Portland, the Rowan softball team is made up of 13 girls, ages 11 and 12.

10. A. Kitley is principal at Northwest Guilford High.