1. What did city police discover at a hardware store?
A. A pipe bomb
B. Great prices.
C. A deer that had jumped in through a window.
D. A homeless man.
2. Why might state inmates housed at Lackawanna County Prison be moved back to state facilities soon?
A. State inmates have filed a lawsuit claiming cruel and unusual punishment.
B. Overcrowding issues at state facilities have eased.
C. The county prison is not secure enough.
D. The county prison is overcrowded.
3. Twenty-nine years after his wife was fatally shot, a Montrose police sergeant is facing charges of ...
A. lying to police.
B. disturbance of a corpse.
C. conspiracy in a murder plot.
D. murder.
4. Scranton officials went to court to ask a judge to ...
A. preside over the wedding of Janet Evans and Christopher Doherty.
B. bar the public from weekly council meetings.
C. approve a plan to begin charging tolls.
D. borrow an additional $9.75 million.
5. Why were members of a Little League team selling bracelets?
A. To help one of their coaches, who was diagnosed with cancer.
B. To donate to Griffin Pond Animal Shelter.
C. To fund a trip to see Game 7 of the World Series.
D. To have a pizza party.
6. What did Clifton, Big Bass Lake and Thornhurst residents plan to do to protest a power line plan?
A. Chain themselves to poles.
B. Turn off their lights from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday.
C. Put signs on their roofs.
D. Picket PPL offices.
7. Officials from across the county were on hand for the unveiling of ...
A. Lackawanna County's new visitors ads.
B. Scranton's 2013 budget.
C. PPL Electric Utilities' Northeast Regional Storm Command Center.
D. a plan to eradicate pigeons by 2020.
8. City council is applying for a $555,000 grant from the state that will be used to ...
A. redevelop the historic Scranton Lace factory.
B. force nonprofits to increase city contributions.
C. open a city-owned cafe.
D. pay for counseling for council and the mayor.
9. The Pittston post office was renamed to honor ...
A. Hurricane Irene victims.
B. a state trooper killed in the line of duty in 2009.
C. Old Forge pizza.
D. the tomato festival founder.
10. Who spoke at the University of Scranton?
A. Mayfield Mayor Al Chelik
B. Author Samuel Clemens
C. CNN analyst Peter Bergen
D. Comedian Kathy Griffin
Answers: 1. C; 2. B; 3. D; 4. D; 5. A; 6. B; 7. C; 8. A; 9. B; 10. C