1. Students from Costa Mesa and Estancia...

1. Students from Costa Mesa and Estancia high schools hit local

parks, community centers and a school last week to clean up what?

A. trash from the Orange County Fair

B. leftover Daily Pilot newspapers

C. graffiti

D. trash from the Fourth of July

2. Costa Mesa and Newport Beach city officials were riled last

week about:

A. the weather

B. the selection of John Edwards for vice presidential candidate

C. the state budget impasse

D. the toll roads

3. Which event started last week in Costa Mesa?

A. the Orange County Fair

B. the Olympics

C. the running of the bulls

D. surfing

4. How many years has the Orange County Fair been around?

A. 500

B. 57

C. 112

D. this is its first year

5. Former Newport Harbor High School athletic standout Aaron

Peirsol will be competing this year in what sport at the Olympics in

Greece?

A. bowling

B. hacky sack

C. swimming

D. marlin fishing

6. Brandon Maxfield, 17, rendered quadriplegic by a handgun

manufactured by Bryco Arms, is trying to put the company out of

business by:

A. rallying people against it

B. boycotting it

C. running television announcements against it

D. buying it, and then shutting it down

7. Some Costa Mesa residents believe legal fireworks should be

outlawed while others feel:

A. they make neat sounds

B. sales of fireworks help raise money for cash-strapped school

teams and clubs

C. they should be free

D. they make good city decorations the day after the Fourth of

July

8. A law enforcement task force busted an alleged drug lab that

produced:

A. cocaine

B. marijuana

C. methamphetamine

D. GHB, commonly used in date rape

9. How long did former Newport Beach Councilwoman Lucille Kuehn

lobby for revamped Newport Beach library facilities?

A. five years

B. 10 years

C. 20 years

D. none of the above

10. Costa Mesa Police Chief John Hensley has made it mandatory for

volunteers to wear:

A. light blue uniforms

B. a holster

C. a badge

D. helmets

11. “Riding Giants,” a documentary that premiered last week at the

Lido Theater, is about:

A. the life and times of Giant Robot

B. surfers 7 feet tall and above

C. jumbo jets

D. American surf culture and big-wave surfing

12. A local swan named Max was injured by:

A. shots from a pellet gun

B. other animals

C. surgery

D. all of the above

1: D; 2: C; 3: A; 4: C; 5: C; 6: D; 7: B; 8: D; 9: C; 10: A; 11:

D; 12: A