Answers to Friday's news quiz
Here are the answers to Friday’s news quiz, which asked you to identify the U.S. senator who, after the failure of a Democratic bill to codify Roe v. Wade as federal law, said, “It’s hard, we have the responsibility of being in the majority, without being able to count on all of the votes in our column. And that’s tough.”
The first letters of each clued word spell out: ELIZABETH WARREN, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts.
EVICTION: The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development is doubling the size of a program meant to protect renters from this.
LOS ALAMOS: National laboratory at which the atomic bomb was created, now in danger of being evacuated because of a threatening wildfire in New Mexico.
IPOD: Apple discontinued its last model of this once-revolutionary music-playing product.
ZERO: Number of Republican senators who voted in favor of codifying Roe v. Wade into federal law.
AMAZON: Company that fired two workers who had ties to the grassroots union that led the first successful U.S. organizing attempt in company history.
BLACK HOLE: Astronomers captured the first image of this deep-space phenomenon at the center of the Milky Way.
EVERSOURCE: Energy company that is considering selling its interest in two planned offshore wind farms off the coast of Long Island.
TWO: Number of Democratic primary debates Gov. Kathy Hochul agreed to participate in.
HIGH: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moved Nassau and Suffolk counties up to this risk level for transmission of COVID-19.
WHITE: Surname of both the Alabama inmate and the correction officer who went on the lam and were captured in Indiana.
ANDY WARHOL: A silk screen of Marilyn Monroe by this artist sold for $195 million, the most for a U.S. artist ever sold at auction.
RED PAINT: Protesters in Warsaw doused Russia’s ambassador to Poland with this at an event to honor Soviet soldiers who fought in World War II.
RON DESANTIS: A judge blocked new state election district maps drawn by this Southern governor, saying they would hurt Black voters.
EIGHT: Percentage of Manhattan office workers who are back in the office full time, as per a survey by the Partnership for New York City.
NORTH KOREA: Reclusive nation that ordered a nationwide lockdown after confronting its first admitted coronavirus outbreak of the pandemic.
— Michael Dobie @mwdobie
