CBC Ottawa news quiz for the week of April 3

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How closely did you follow the past week in local news?
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Questão 1

Questão
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau officially announced they had signed a five-year, $10.2 billion deal Monday designed to do what?
Responda
  • Cut child-care fees and provide parents with rebates.
  • Offer free dental care to low-income Ontarians.
  • Expand and enhance 400-series highways across the province.
  • Turn the province into a leader in electric vehicle technology.

Questão 2

Questão
According to Robin Browne with local advocacy group 613-819 Black Hub, which of the following policing decisions was not the best way to "build trust" among the communities his group represents?
Responda
  • Resuming in-person police board meetings.
  • Slashing the size of Ottawa police's hate crime unit.
  • Hiring a new chief from a non-racialized background.
  • Closing a community police station in the Vanier area.

Questão 3

Questão
Eastern Ontario MPP Randy Hillier surrendered to Ottawa police Monday and now faces a number of charges in connection with the convoy occupation, including assault. What did the Crown later allege that he did during the occupation?
Responda
  • Hip- and shoulder-checked a Parliamentary Protective Service officer.
  • Pulled off a counter-protester's mask.
  • Threw a parking ticket at a City of Ottawa bylaw officer.
  • Slapped a police horse.

Questão 4

Questão
Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk died this week at 62 after an illness. Who said they'd remember Melnyk for his efforts to keep the NHL club in Ottawa, even if "we didn't always see eye to eye on some issues"?
Responda
  • Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson.
  • Team founder Bruce Firestone.
  • National Capital Commission CEO and former councillor Toby Nussbaum.
  • NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.

Questão 5

Questão
Which species did Chris Myles, a conservation officer with the National Capital Commission, describe this week as extremely territorial, occasionally aggressive, willing to eat almost anything and "basically a polygamist"?
Responda
  • The wild boar.
  • The wild turkey.
  • The beaver.
  • The river otter.

Questão 6

Questão
Ottawa police said Thursday they were on the lookout for a pair of suspects who allegedly committed more than $12,000 in damage by vandalizing what?
Responda
  • A movie screen.
  • An early 20th-century painting.
  • An LRT train.
  • A television reporter's camera.

Questão 7

Questão
Why did Ontario Provincial Police release this image of an "evil eye" pendant Thursday?
Responda
  • The victim in a 1989 cold case was wearing it at the time of his death.
  • It had been used to secretly carry fentanyl across international borders.
  • Fraudsters had passed it off as authentic 19th-century Turkish jewelry.
  • It was found next to several damaged gravestones in Lanark County.

Questão 8

Questão
Amy Ferguson told CBC News this week about how she came down with COVID-19 and then had problems accessing the anti-viral drug Paxlovid. What disease does Ferguson have that puts her at higher risk?
Responda
  • Rheumatoid arthritis.
  • Cystic fibrosis.
  • Cerebral palsy.
  • Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Questão 9

Questão
For $1,000, you could buy what historic Ottawa item that's purportedly been used — at different times — by hockey great Frank Mahovlich, astronaut Marc Garneau, and former prime minister Paul Martin?
Responda
  • A chrome-and-leather barber chair.
  • A feathered ballpoint pen.
  • A set of wooden cross-country skis.
  • A shawarma spit.

Questão 10

Questão
Jenny Nguyen says she'll choose a new name for her downtown flower shop and trademark it after a fellow local florist sent her a cease and desist letter. What is the name of that other florist's store?
Responda
  • House of Plants.
  • The Stalk Market.
  • Petal to the Metal.
  • A Bloom of One's Own.

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