1. What tests do would-be junior lifeguards...

1. What tests do would-be junior lifeguards have to pass?

A. Swim 100 yards and tread water for three minutes

B. Swim from Newport Pier to Balboa Pier and then run back

C. Be able to run one mile in nine minutes and swim 100 yards

D. Hold breath underwater for 30 seconds and do 15 push-ups

2. Costa Mesa will spend how much less than expected from its

general fund this year?

A. $4 million

B. $2.2 million

C. $200,000

D. $40,000

3. Tests found what in the water of the Rhine Channel?

A. Jimmy Hoffa

B. Heavy metals, PCBs and DDT

C. Missing members of heavy metal band DDT

D. Residents of El Morro Village

4. Realtor John McMonigle sold how much real estate in 2004?

A. $150 billion

B. $201 million

C. 10 homes

D. 1,000 homes

5. The First Team Real Estate Invitational Regatta, a fundraiser

benefiting Hoag Hospital’s Heart and Vascular Institute, will take

place when?

A. May 20 to 22

B. Fourth of July

C. Day before the Newport to Ensenada Race

D. First day of each month

6. What was one reason why UC Irvine swimmer Lara Bjargardottir

left her native Iceland to come to school here?

A. The weather

B. Iceland’s cold weather

C. Southern California’s warm weather

D. We get it, the weather

7. Who won the auction for the closed El Toro Marine Air Base?

A. South County residents

B. Lennar Corp.

C. The government

D. The Irvine Co.

8. Fill in the blank: CenterLine ____

A. Is dead (probably)

B. Is on life-support

C. Is the future salvation of Orange County drivers

D. Is an idea that probably appeared 20 years too late, though 20

years ago no one but the most outlandish would have thought it ever

necessary

9. Work began this week on what construction project?

A. The Mormon Temple planned for Newport Beach

B. The Donna and John Crean Mariners Branch Library

C. Marinapark hotel

D. The Koll Center

10. The rain this week came when?

A. Early

B. Right when forecasters said; how do they know?

C. Late

D. Just after you washed your car

ANSWERS: 1: A; 2: B; 3: B; 4: B; 5: A; 6: A, B, C or D; 7: B, or

half-point for A, but only if you’re affiliated with the Airport

Working Group; 8: A, and lose a point if you picked B, C or D; 9: B;

10: C