1. Employees of Schneider Electric combined a team-building retreat Wednesday with a community service project for Rowan County’s One Church, One Child program. What did the Schneider employees do for the program?
A. Bought new prescription glasses and repaired old ones for children in the program
B. Packed backpacks full of food for distribution to needy children
C. Made leather jackets for new, easy-to-read Bibles
D. Built and donated several bicycles with help of The Pedal Factory

2. Salisbury artist and sculptor Robert Toth recently received an award for his bust of a famous inventor. Who was the inventor?
A. Nikola Tesla
B. Thomas Edison
C. Galileo
D. Ben Franklin

3. Austin Young, a 2015 graduate of Carson High School in Rowan County, has recently started an internship in Germany doing what?
A. Growing hops in Bavaria
B. Designing instrument panels for Volkswagen cars
C. Learning how to make pretzels
D. Touring with a theater group

4. The Rowan 40 & 8 has donated its 1939 “train,” often seen in local parades, to the N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer. What is the meaning behind “40 & 8”?
A. “40” stands for the number of pies a club member must bake each year, and “8” is the number of cakes
B. U.S. soldiers being transported to the battlefront in World War I would ride in French railcars that could carry 40 men and eight horses
C. “40” represents the number of countries in which the club was originally established, and “8” corresponds to the number of regions
D. 40 divided by 8 equals 5, which is considered the luckiest number among Masons

5. Cindy Fink has been named the new executive director of what organization?
A. Meals on Wheels
B. Downtown Salisbury Inc.
C. Sole Hope
D. Rowan Arts Council

6. Danny Safriet, a football standout for the China Grove High Red Devils during their undefeated season in 1951, died Feb. 17 in Columbia, Md., at the age of 81. What was Safriet’s nickname during that magical season?
A. Bulldog
B. Welder
C. Solder
D. Hydrant

7. As part of Black History Month, a Post story recently noted that Audrey Cunningham had the distinction of what?
A. Being the first black surgeon in Rowan County
B. Being the first black mayor in Rowan County
C. Being the first black female police officer in Salisbury
D. Being the first woman from Rowan County to be named a sports All-American

8. ForceTEC plans to convert the former R.A. Clement School (and West Rowan Junior High) in Cleveland into what?
A. A plant that makes solar panels
B. A tactical training facility for law enforcement and civilians
C. A high-pressure sandblasting facility for cleaning car parts
D. A barber school

9. A man from Faith was arrested last Wednesday for something he did in the intensive care unit at Novant Health Rowan Medical Center. What was he accused of doing?
A. Carrying three guns into ICU
B. Using heroin
C. Assaulting a physician
D. Smoking pot

10. Novant Health Rowan and Carolinas Healthcare System NorthEast medical centers both announced restrictions this past Thursday on visitors 12 and younger. What caused the medical centers to prohibit children from visiting?
A. A continuing flu outbreak
B. Reports of head lice at both locations
C. Both medical centers were using high-powered cleansers in their lab areas this past week that could harm the breathing of younger children.
D. It’s the start of new policies at both medical centers in which visitors have to be 13 or older.

 

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