News Quizzical, late April 2014

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Time again to find out if you've been paying attention -- to the @Meyerson Twitter feed, the Meyerson Facebook page, the Meyerson Strategy blog, the Meyerson LinkedIn page and whatever else I've been working on lately ... including Rivet, a reimagining of radio news built from the ground up for the smartphone era.

Take this latest in a series of news quizzes. If your score falls below 60 percent, you'll want to pay more attention to the people and things I pay attention to.

-- Charlie Meyerson, Charlie@MeyersonStrategy.com

Q.1

The ex-klansman accused of killing three people at two Kansas Jewish centers was once accused by police of having sex with ...

A Jewish male prostitute.
A black male prostitute dressed as a woman.
A black female prostitute.

Q.2

Fill in the blank in this erroneous subject line on email sent by Slate: "_______ Professor Sues Colleague For Deformation Over Claim of Murder Plot."

Oberlin
Carleton
Northwestern

Q.3

A journalism student who doesn’t graduate from Roosevelt University until May 2 is already working as a weekend news anchor in ...

Lima, Ohio.
Rockford, Ill.
Detroit, Mich.

Q.4

Which way does a helium balloon anchored to the floor of a minivan seem to move when the car accelerates forward?

Closer to the back.
Closer to the front.

Q.5

Which comic book hero, celebrated in story and song, is known as "The Element Man"?

Transuranio.
Nucleo.
Metamorpho.

Q.6

The Chicago Transit Authority's Chicago Card and ChicagoCard Plus can't be reloaded with fare money as of ...

May 1.
June 1.
July 1.

Q.7

The person whose complaint about US Airways triggered an obscene response from the company's Twitter account was flagging a flight delayed from ...

CLT.
ORD.
LAX.

Q.8

The noun to which a pronoun refers is called ...

an antecedent.
a subject.
a precedent.

Q.9

Complete this phrase from a '60s song lyric: "New thoughts, ready and waiting to ________."

Explode.
Explore.
Expire.

Q.10

Which WBEZ-FM program appears daily on Rivet Radio?

"Worldview."
"The Morning Shift."
"The Afternoon Shift."