Monday, Oct. 30, 2000

News Quiz

By Ann Marie Bonardi, Val Castronovo, Daren Fonda, Benjamin Nugent, Michele Orecklin, Victoria Rainert, Julie Rawe, Eric Roston, Josh Tyrangiel

1. Which Bill Clinton adviser resigned last week?

a) Drug czar Barry McCaffrey b) Pit boss Bruce Babbitt c) Chili commissar Tom Stuckey d) Divorce lawyer Raoul Felder

2. Vice President Al Gore is:

a) Desperate b) Lucky guest No. 354 c) Pretending to hypnotize a chicken d) The sun, and Regis Philbin is Copernicus

3. Over 100 dead sharks washed up in Panama City, Fla., because:

a) Truce between hammerheads and sharpnoseds is over b) Alcohol level in Panama City urine is abnormally high c) Of Pol Pot shark d) No one knows

4. Massachusetts educators will soon require public-university students to own:

a) Bob Marley's Legend and a Blues Brothers poster b) A vomit smock c) A laptop computer d) A J. Crew barn jacket

5. Fidel Castro was honored with:

a) Most Eligible Bachelor (Third World) nomination b) The Gaddafi Human Rights Prize c) The Fidel Castro Prize

ANSWERS: 1-a, 2-d, 3-d, 4-c, 5-b