Week in review: Test your nose for local news

Published 12:00 am Sunday, September 10, 2017

1. As part of its 100th anniversary celebration this year, Cheerwine has announced it will match donations to the Rowan United Way campaign dollar-for-dollar up to what amount?
A. $50,000
B. $75,000
C. $100,000
D. $300,000

2. Rowan County commissioners have shelved plans for renovations at West End Plaza (the former Salisbury Mall), which could have cost as much as $1.6 million. Most of the renovation dollars would have gone into what former store?
A. J.C. Penney
B. Belk
C. Roses
D. Hallmark

3. The China Grove Council met this past week with representatives of the N.C. Department of Transportation, mainly to express town officials’ frustrations about what?
A. Closed railroad crossings
B. The condition of state-maintained U.S. 29
C. The traffic pattern around a new Bojangles’ restaurant
D. The ongoing widening of Interstate 85

4. Jordan Feaster, a 12-year-old student at North Rowan Middle School, wrote an essay for a Daughters of the American Revolution competition, and it has led to her class organizing trips and handling all the details. Where will her class be going?
A. State and national parks
B. Washington, D.C., and New York City
C. Mount Rushmore and Dollywood
D. Boston Harbor and the Statue of Liberty

5. What school was the first ever among Rowan-Salisbury Schools to earn an “A” letter grade, according to student test scores released this past week?
A. Henderson Independent
B. Rowan County Early College
C. Faith Elementary
D. Carson High School

6. Three Rowan-Salisbury Schools registered an “F” letter grade in the recently released student test scores. Which three schools?
A. Elizabeth Hanford Dole Elementary, West Rowan High and Corriher-Lipe Middle
B. Koontz Elementary, Knox Middle School and North Rowan Elementary
C. South Rowan High, Woodleaf Elementary and Millbridge Elementary
D. Hurley Elementary, Morgan Elementary and Southeast Middle

7. Larissa Harper will become the new downtown development director for Downtown Salisbury Inc. effective Oct. 9. She currently is a downtown business specialist in what N.C. city?
A. Laurinburg
B. Wilson
C. New Bern
D. Sylva

8. Salisbury Mayor Karen Alexander apologized this past Tuesday for what?
A. For telling a speaker during a public comment period Aug. 15 that she was out of order and later directing that same person to leave the council chambers
B. Not removing her name as a bidding architect on an expansion project at City Hall
C. Missing an important meeting of the Salisbury Human Relations Council
D. Failing to fill vacancies in a more timely manner on the Planning Board

9. This duo won the 64th Annual Crowder/Dorsett Memorial Labor Day 4-Ball golf tournament at the Country Club of Salisbury:
A. Tyler Mulkey and Jordan Taylor
B. Ryan Honeycutt and Keith Dorsett
C. Lee Frick and Blake Wray
D. Michael Childress and Charlie Barr

10. Trinity Oaks, a senior living development in Salisbury, held its first campus “crawl” this past Wednesday. What kind of crawl was it?
A. A beer- and wine-tasting crawl
B. A music crawl
C. An art crawl
D. A bridge crawl

 

Answers below:

 

1. C.
2. A.
3. D.
4. A.
5. B.
6. B.
7. B.
8. A.
9. C.
10. C.