2024 Year-End Newz Quiz

Note: Answers appear at the bottom of this story along with links to relevant news stories from the past year.

1. Where did the city clear homeless encampments this year? (Choose all that apply.)
A. New Haven Green
B. The woods off I‑91 Exit 6
C. Ella Grasso Boulevard
D. Edgewood Park
E. Rosette Street
F. Outside Union Station
G. Below the Lamberton Street Bridge

2. Which union went on strike this year in New Haven?
A. Ocean tenants
B. Yale blue-collar workers
C. Cops
D. Board of ed paraeducators
E. Omni hotel workers

3. Which city union won a new contract after two years without one?
A. Ocean tenants
B. Yale blue-collar workers
C. Cops
D. Board of ed paraeducators
E. Omni hotel workers

4. How many marriages did Justice of the Peace (and accused absentee-ballot lawbreaker) Wanda Geter-Pataky handle at New Haven City Hall during a one-month period this year, primarily involving couples with one non-citizen (often from India)?
A. 4
B. 34
C. 84
D. 114
E. 134

5 What caused Ron Hurt to lose his job at a drug rehab facility, then his Hill alder seat?
A. Missing funds
B. A sexual relationship with a patient
C. Absences
D. Tardiness
E. Insufficient loyalty to UNITE HERE

6. New Haven started reconstruction of State Street’s downtown stretch this year by …
A. Undoing how it reconstructed it in the 1980s to attract/retain suburban employers and drivers
B. Adding extra turn lanes
C. Painting sharrows
D. Clearing lanes for suburban-style corporate offices, big-box retail and parking load
E. Turning Granite Square into Brick Square

7. The Church of Scientology began paying taxes on a crumbling former furniture store building and Masonic lodge in Westville Village after how long?
A. It just bought the building
B. Eight months
C. Two years
D. Two decades
E. Two multiverse planetary time expanses

8. A for-profit drug rehab center abruptly closed, stranding workers and patients while two top corporate officers were found dead within days. What was the name of the center?
A. Lifespring
B. Wellspring
C. Springlife
D. Advance
E. Retreat

9. Which former political opponent did Justin Elicker hire to shake up his Livable City Initiative (LCI) anti-blight agency?
A. Karen DuBois-Walton
B. Liam Brennan
C. John Carlson
D. Kash Patel
E. Toni Harp

10. How much did the city agree to pay the estates of two men killed in an illegal rooming house fire in the Hill?
A. $0; a jury found the city not liable
B. $2.3 million
C. $7.25 million
D. $14.5 million
E. $17 million
F. $25.6 million

11. What are the above-pictured lamp shades made of, and in what new New Haven housing complex do they hang?
A. Plaster; The Archive
B. Concrete; Rosette Village
C. Mushrooms; The Anthem at Square 10
D. LSD; 201 Munson
E. Papier mache; Corsair
F. Styrofoam; Teachers Village
G. Steel; Winchester Green
H. Corrugated cardboard; New Haven Towers
I. Sculpey; Curtis Cofield II Estates

Answers to the puzzle, along with links to the relevant news stories, appear after the following video of more year-end headline talk amid musical interludes in a Thursday episode of WNHH FM’s ​“Dateline New Haven” program. (Click here to subscribe or here to listen to other episodes of Dateline New Haven.)

Answers

1. A, D Mini-Encampment Dismantled; City Clears Encampment, Trashes ​“Trash”

2. E Omni Hotel Workers Go On Strike

3. C New Police Union Contract Approved

4. D Arrested Pol Builds Marriage Biz

5. B Alder Fired From Drug Rehab Job After Sexual Relationship With Patient

6. A City Starts Making The New Old On State

7. D Blighted Scientology Building Returned To Tax Rolls

8. E 2nd Drug Rehab Exec Dies; Employees, Patients Left Scrambling For Answers

9. B Elicker Taps Former Foe Brennan To Refocus LCI

10. D City Reaches $14.5M Fatal-Fire Settlement

11. C At Long Last, Ex-Coliseum Apartments Open