Answers to Friday's news quiz
Here are the answers to Friday’s news quiz, which asked you to identify the world leader who while visiting Kyiv and several outlying towns destroyed in the war in Ukraine, said, “When I see those destroyed buildings, I must say what I feel. I imagined my family in one of those houses that is now destroyed and black. I see my granddaughters running away in panic, part of the family eventually killed. The war is an absurdity in the 21st century. The war is evil.”
The first letters of each clued word spell out: ANTONIO GUTERRES, Secretary-General of the United Nations.
ASYLUM: The Supreme Court heard arguments regarding the Biden administration’s attempt to end a controversial immigration program for people seeking this.
NINETEEN: Number of Long Island high schools among the top 1,000 schools in the U.S. News & World Report annual ranking.
TEN: Number in thousands of dollars former President Donald Trump was fined per day for defying a subpoena from New York’s attorney general.
OLIGARCHS: President Biden proposed to liquidate assets seized from this group of Russians and donate them to Ukraine to assist in the war.
NEW JERSEY: State facing a recall of more than 120,000 pounds of ground beef over concerns they contain E. coli.
INCANDESCENT: The Biden administration is finalizing rules that will outlaw these kinds of light bulbs.
OYSTER BAY: Long Island town that commenced legal action to seize by eminent domain a privately owned parking lot at a major LIRR station.
GASOLINE: A state legislative proposal would give California residents a $200 cash rebate to compensate them for high prices of this.
UNITED: Airline that announced plans to offer more flights this summer across the Atlantic Ocean than in 2019, betting that international travel will bounce back strongly.
TWO: Number of power plants in Nassau for which the county reached a settlement on property taxes paid by LIPA.
ELON MUSK: Billionaire who bought a major social media platform and delivered four astronauts to the International Space Station.
ROTH POND: In an annual tradition returning to Stony Brook University, students attempt to cross this water body in homemade cardboard boats.
REDISTRICTING: Once-a-decade political practice upended in New York when the Court of Appeals rejected this year’s process and ordered that it be redone.
EUROPEAN UNION: Officials from this alliance of countries said Russia shutting off natural gas from Poland and Bulgaria was “blackmail.”
SLAUGHTERHOUSE: The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Kansas to revive a law struck down by lower courts that would ban filming at this kind of livestock facility.
— Michael Dobie @mwdobie
