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Daily Current Events Quiz
  1. In his budget proposal Tuesday night, Governor Beshear proposed a slight tax increase to fund various construction projects.
    1. True
    2. False
  1. State officials have said this year’s budget is the first since 1995 that didn’t include what as related to school funding?
    1. After school tutoring funds
    2. Teacher training funds
    3. Mandated teacher raises
    4. Health insurance funds for teachers/staff
  1. Upon inspecting the Nicholasville-New Circle bridge, officials determined that what caused the flaking of the concrete that fell onto New Circle below Tuesday afternoon?
    1. Poor infrastructure
    2. Aging
    3. Melting ice and salt used on the roads over time
    4. A car accident on the bridge
  1. Which of the following is NOT something that crazed fan Andrea Campbell had sent to public radio host Garrison Keillor?
    1. Dead beetles
    2. Poems
    3. Petrified alligator foot
    4. A box of spiders
  1. Which of the following is NOT one of the ingredients in the “mud cookies” that many Haitians are forced to eat because of the rising cost of food?
    1. Mud
    2. Salt
    3. Shortening
    4. Sugar
  1. What is “bucks for brains”?
    1. The state’s budget to attract top university researchers
    2. A system which rewards students for good grades
    3. A new math program which teaches students to integrate math and finances
    4. A special tax which will go to University funding
  1. What is the topic of the Herald-Leader editorial on Wednesday’s Opinions page?
    1. State of the Union
    2. The gun law
    3. K-12 spending
    4. Mayor Jim Newberry and sewer fees
  1. True or False: (Get your calculator!) This year’s average price for a 30 second advertisement in the Superbowl is $2.7 million, over 64 times the average price the first year of the Superbowl in 1967.
    1. True
    2. False
  1. Jason Kidd created a distraction by talking about possibly being traded, which probably led to the New Jersey Nets losing to the Milwaukee Bucks Tuesday night.
    1. True
    2. False

Answers:
1. B; 2. C; 3. C; 4. D; 5. D; 6. A; 7. D; 8. A; 9. B

Quiz written by
Taryn Mynear, UK student


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