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Note: Answers appear at the bottom of this story, along with links to relevant news stories from the past week.
1. Why does Jim Blau drive every day from Milford to a Trinity Lutheran Church-owned property on New Haven’s Orange Street?
A. To pray at the vespers service
B. To make repairs on tenants’ flooded apartments
C. To feed his cat left behind in an unrepaired flooded church-owned apartment for 35 days while Blau lives in a pet-free Milford hotel
D. To inspect work on repairs of flooded apartments
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2. Who drove the above-pictured ’57 Thunderbird where this week?
A. Drummer Jerry Nolan en route to a reunion show of Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers at Toad’s
B. Performance artist Wilson Racket at “Glamfest on the Green“
C. Ann Warner of Hamden in the St. Patrick’s Parade
D. Eli Whitney instructor Dan Flanders to display a student-repaired vehicle at a student gathering in the Edgewood neighborhood
E. It wasn’t driven; it was being impounded by the city for the owner owing back taxes
3. Who bought the Union League building (and restaurant) from Yale?
A. Joel Schiavone
B. Alexander Clark
C. Miles Lasater
D. Yoko Ono
E. Lynn Fusco
4. Who submitted a personal letter to state legislators with the following quote to urge them not to pass new tenant protections: “Without the ability to terminate a tenancy at the end of a lease I would not be able to take on a new opportunity to make necessary renovations to an existing building that I might otherwise consider purchasing”?
A. Menahem Edelkopf
B. Julian Cardona
C. Abraham Meer
D. Alejandro Soriano
E. Shmuel Aizenberg
F. None of the above
G. All of the above
5. Vincent Mauro Jr. was reelected New Haven Democratic town chair this week. Who is the only person since at least the Eisenhower Administration to have served in the position longer?
A. Jacqueline James
B. John Golden
C. Bill Jones
D. “The Mustache“
E. “The Plumber“
F. Susan Voigt
G. Vincent’s father Vincent
6. Why did the value of used cars plummet so fast this past year in New Haven, helping to lead to a proposed property tax increase?
A. Prices had shot up so high in price during the height of Covid pandemic, due to (now-eased) supply chain snags that made new cars scarce
B. So many people (and the local government) are buying new Chevy Bolts and Teslas
C. The rash of catalytic converter thefts
D. They didn’t plummet; City Hall’s pretending they did to make excuses for raising taxes
7. The men in 80 percent of the marriage license-seeking couples whom New Haven’s registrar of vital statistics reported to federal immigration originally came from where?
A. East Haven
B. Rahway, N.J.
C. Ukraine
D. Brownsville, Texas
E. India
F. Mexico
8. What is the name of the CEO of New Haven’s Technolutions company, who has donated millions of dollars to the local arts?
A. Miles Lasater
B. “The Plumber“
C. Sheryl Sandberg
D. Alexander Clark
E. John Houston
9. How many vertebrae has the 150 million-year-old brontosaurus obtained in the four years since the Peabody Museum, which reopens March 26, closed?
A. 0
B. 13
C. 27
D. 99
E. 114
10. What do the below-pictured signs mean, and where were they photographed?
A. “Abandon all hope ye who enter here,” Connecticut Death Fest held at Beeracks
B. “Please tip your server,” the under-new-management Union League Cafe
C. “I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first,” at St. Thomas More Chapel
D. “Be all you can be,” U.S. Army Recruiting Center on Church Street
E. “May peace prevail in the world,” newly opened Lea’s Falafelhaus on Whalley Avenue
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Answers
1. C WWJD II: Tenants Tell Tenants, “Start Work“
2 C The Streets Were Lined With Green
3. B Tech Philanthropist Buys Union League Building
4. G Local Landlords Unite! vs. Eviction Bill
5. D Mauro Reelected Democratic Town Chair
6. A $40M In Car Values Disappears
7. E Flagged-Marriage Report Sounded Familiar
8. D Tech Philanthropist Buys Union League Building
9. C Dinosaur World Evolves
10. E Ever-Expanding Pita Pocket Stuffed