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Friday, September 4, 2009

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

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click to enlarge How many pennies will Brad Penny get?
  • How many pennies will Brad Penny get?
6. A man selling parody T-shirts based on San Francisco Muni line logos was surprised to get a cease-and-desist letter from:

A. Willie Brown
B. The New York City subway system
C. Amtrak
D. His own mother

7. SF Weekly's Matt Smith chided locals for their failure to harvest what bountiful crop from a tree in the Panhandle?

A. Giant orange dildos
B. Marijuana -- in a tree. And no one touched it. Amazing.
C. Delicious Fuji apples
D. Someone hid free tickets to Burning Man up there

8. What percentage of Police Chief George Gascon's highly-touted and much-publicized "sweep" of 300-odd drug arrests in the Tenderloin were simple "buy-bust" sales to undercover officers?

A. 10 percent
B. 53 percent
C. 86 percent
D. 97 percent

9. San Francisco Assemblywoman Fiona Ma recently Tweeted about her meeting with Chris Parker, a Democratic candidate for the state Board of Equalization. She noted that he's a tax attorney -- but also mentioned what unusual previous job he held?

A. Manager at Dairy Queen
B. Crime scene cleanup guy
C. Birdseed salesman
D. Used to shovel shit 

10. How many pennies will the Giants pay pitcher Brad Penny this season?

A. 7.5 million
B. 50 million
C. 787 million
D. 1.6 billion

1. C; 2. C; 3. B; 4.B; 5. A; 6.B; 7.A; 8. C. 9. D; 10. A.
 

Cougar photos (of humans)   |   Daniel C. Britt

Brad Penny photo   |   Keith Allison 




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Joe Eskenazi was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley. He never left. "Your humble narrator" was a staff writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015. He resides in the Excelsior with his wife, 4.3 miles from his birthplace and 5,474 from hers.

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