Answers to Friday's news quiz
Here are the answers to Friday’s news quiz, which asked you to identify the woman who became the first Black person to have a state-commissioned statue in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall. Her statue, unveiled this week, is one of the two representing Florida.
The first letters of each clued word spell out: MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE, a trailblazing educator and civil rights leader.
MONTAUKETT: Leaders of this LI Indian nation met with Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office to ask her to sign legislation restoring the tribe’s state recognition.
ATLANTIC CITY: Workers at five casinos in this city ratified new contracts that give them significant raises.
RESIGN: Janet DiFiore, the state’s top judge, announced this week that she would do this at the end of August.
YOSEMITE: Famed national park in which a wildfire threatened its largest grove of giant sequoia trees.
MACARTHUR: An open house was held for a $2.8 billion development in Ronkonkoma that includes a new terminal for this airport.
CITIZENSHIP: Russian President Vladimir Putin offered this to all residents of Ukraine to try to strengthen Moscow’s influence over Ukraine.
LLOYD HARBOR: The Suffolk County Legislature approved $20,000 to appraise 160 acres of a seminary in this North Shore community for open space preservation.
EGGS: The price of this ovoid food staple rose 33.1% from June 2021 to June 2022, according to Consumer Price Index statistics released this week.
OCEANSIDE: The first Amazon Fresh store in New York State opened in this Long Island community.
DENVER BRONCOS: Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was added to the new ownership group of this NFL team.
BIRTH CONTROL: A pharmaceutical company is seeking FDA approval to sell this kind of pill over the counter for the first time in the U.S.
EURO: The value of this declining currency fell to rough parity with the U.S. dollar for the first time in nearly 20 years.
TICKS: North Hempstead Town released 100 quails into parkland to help control the growing population of these pests.
HEATHROW: Major European airport that apologized to passengers whose travels were disrupted by staff shortages, then capped its daily number of passengers to minimize further chaos.
UBER: Ride-hail company being sued by more than 500 women across the U.S. who say they were assaulted by drivers on the platform.
NASA: Federal agency that revealed stunning photographs of outer space taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
EDWARD MANGANO: Former Long Island politician who was ordered by a judge to pay $10.6 million in restitution in connection with his corruption conviction.
— Michael Dobie @mwdobie
